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    American Dream

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    11 AP Unit 3:The American Dream 11 AP English Unit Essential Questions: “What is the American Dream?” “What contrast is there between the American dream and American reality?” “To what extent has the American Dream been realized?” Overarching Question: “How do authors use the resources of language to impact an audience?” Essential Question: “How is our understanding of culture and society constructed through and by language?” Culminating

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    American Civilization

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    Summary American Civilization Chapter 1 The American context Several historical features (e.g. war of independence from Britain 1775-83) have created 3 major cultures in the USA: 1. Ethnic culture (centred on Native-American civilizations‚ European colonial settlement‚ African-American slavery and immigration movements) 2. Political-legal culture (based on individualism‚ constitutionalism and respect for the law) 3. Economic & consumer driven culture (driven by corporate and individual

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    The American Cowboy

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    The American Cowboy The cowboys of the frontier have long captured the imagination of the American public. Americans‚ faced with the reality of an increasingly industrialized society‚ love the image of a man living out in the wilderness fending for himself against the dangers of the unknown. By the year 1900 there were few renegade Indians left in the country and the vast expanse of open land to the west of the Mississippi was rapidly filling with settlers. Cowboys represented a major part of the

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    American Citezenship

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    work‚ equality‚ freedom‚ and patriotism. Most Americans live by these values and incorporate them in to how they live every day. In our competitive society‚ personal achievement is based on success. This is measured by accomplishments. Success emphasizes rewards. Failure is often viewed as a character defect in the United States. Americans also value busyness‚ speed‚ and action. The frontier idea of work before play is very important for Americans. A person’s worth is measured by his or her performance

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    American Literature

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    Literature Aaron Study Guide for American Literature Final Exam - each student will be allowed to bring notes to help with your exam. -exam will focus on what we discussed in class‚ should understand basic importance of the author and the work. Also have a good understanding of the basic idea in the essay or what happens in the story. Be familiar with some famous quotes as well. Anne Bradstreet and Puritans‚ “Prologue to The Tenth Muse” American Enlightenment Benjamin Franklin

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    Black Americans

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    Firstly black Americans faced problems in the south because of lynching and the Jim Crow Laws. Lynching meant that racist white Americans would put the law into their own hands and punish black people whenever they please. They would hang the victim from a tree. In 1897 123 black people were lynched in the south‚ 84 in 1903 and 61 in 1921. The police would turn a blind eye and made no effort to stop lynching from happening. Even though slavery ended in 1865 black people faced the threat of violence

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    American Culture

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    Professor English Composition II 30 September 2013 American culture is unlike any other in the world. There are many things that make our culture so unique and diverse. From historic events to the very way the United States was started‚ American culture has changed many times throughout its existence‚ and it keeps changing every day. One of the reasons why our culture is so unique is that it has been influenced by every single other culture in our planet. The United

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    The American Dream

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    | The American Dream | Are we really living the dream | Quintaria Manuel 10/22/2012 | All Americans are affected by today’s economy. I have asked many people do they feel as if they are living the American dream and some have said “yes” and some have said “no”. Many people fight from birth to get the dream. There have been leaders who have had the same dream one

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    American Revolution

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    to tax the colonies unjustly in order to repay war debts‚ I believe revolution could have been avoided. 2) How did the relationship between the colonists and England change from 1754-1775? It is safe to say that the relationship between the American colonists and England steadily declined and worsened in the period 1754-75. Previous to these years British Parliament and royalty practiced the method of "salutary neglect" meaning they would interfere very little with colonial affairs. This all

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    American Realism

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    The European Background to American Literary Realism Three of the great literary movements of nineteenth-century America were romanticism (approximately 1820-1865)‚ realism (1865-1890)‚ and naturalism (1890 into the twentieth century). All three of these movements (also known as historical genres) originated in Europe roughly thirty years before they came to America. Realism began in France‚ in the works of Balzac and‚ later‚ Flaubert‚ as a reaction against the libertarian excesses of romanticism

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