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==The Wars of the USA in the 20th and 21st century== | ==The Wars of the USA in the 20th and 21st century== | ||
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* Your summaries of the wars: | * Your summaries of the wars: | ||
[[Datei:USA-wars.pdf]] | [[Datei:USA-wars.pdf]] | ||
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===Vocabulary=== | ===Vocabulary=== | ||
[[Datei:USA-wars-vocab.pdf]] | [[Datei:USA-wars-vocab.pdf]] | ||
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+ | ===The Home Front: Exorcising an old Demon=== | ||
+ | * Cf. workshhet, or partly [http://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=p6jg4gV_URcC&q=exorcising#v=snippet&q=exorcising&f=false here] (p. 267/268): | ||
+ | * Comparison '''Vietnam War and Gulf War''': | ||
+ | [[Datei:vietnam-gulf.pdf]] | ||
=Science and Technology= | =Science and Technology= |
Version vom 30. Dezember 2012, 16:09 Uhr
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Homework
If you had the money to buy a useful, efficient robot ...
- what kind of robot would you buy?
- what should it be able to do?
- what would be its most important feature?
Explain your decision!
Recent homework
Basic Skills & Information
- Information on homework and oral grades
- Reading and Marking technique - SQ3R Method A useful method to read, mark and annotate texts.
- Working with Cartoons
- A good speech/speaker ...
- Answering questions on the text
- Starting a paragraph
- Starting an Essay/Comment
- Writing an interview
- Mediation
- Characterization
- Building an Argument
Brave New World
Brave New World is a separate page now! Open here!
US Foreign Policy and Relations to Europe
Typically American? A collection of Stereotypes?
Typical Americans are .... / Typically, in America you find ... / In America "they" believe in ... |
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Cartoons on US Cultural Hgemony / Americanization
- Cartoon on Americanization
- Cartoon of President George W. Bush as Cowboy
- Working with Cartoons
- Notes on Cartoon!
Text on US Cultural Hegemony
1. What reasons for anti American feelings in Europe does the text give?
- American culture ousts European culture
- German or other European languages are being flooded with English terms and expressions
- Sense of national identity severely disturbed
- Europeans are afraid of loosing their cultural autonomy
- European culture replaced by American culture
- Vietnam-war
- Guantanamo Bay and Abu-Ghraib
- Americans ignore and don't know about European culture
- American worldview is centered on America
- Americans expect everyone to think and speak American
- Americanization as cultural imperialism
2. Why has Germany been especially quick at embracing American culture?
- America's help after WWII (→ Marshall Plan) ==> Germans felt grateful
- German culture discredited by Nazis, German from "Dichter und Denker" to "Richter und Henker"
- Germans looked for new cultural model → culture of the victoriuos, democratic and successful USA
- Germans were not allowed to have and learned to feel ashamed of patriotic feelings → easy to take over Western/US mass culture
- US culture meant luxury, affluence, freedom, individualism
The USA and Europe - increasingly difficult relations?
The results of your work on the two texts on the relations between the USA and Europe:
Vocabulary
The Wars of the USA in the 20th and 21st century
- Cf. worksheet on Wars
- Your summaries of the wars:
Vocabulary
The Home Front: Exorcising an old Demon
- Cf. workshhet, or partly here (p. 267/268):
- Comparison Vietnam War and Gulf War: