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KNOW AMERICA 2010 – ZAGADNIENIA DO ROZMOWY

  1. What was and what is “Americanism/American nationalism”?
  2. What forms does anti-Americanism take and where does it come from?
  3. What role do scandals play in American history? Name major scandals
  4. Discuss the intricacies of the rules of presidential elections
  5. What was the role of minorities in American history
  6. Identify major waves of Immigration
  7. Why do Americans intervene overseas, name major events
  8. How did the US expand territorially
  9. Rate American presidents, what criteria would you use
  10. Name your favorite historical figure from American history
  11. Discuss the input of minorities into American culture
  12. Why do Americans love musicals so much?
  13. Which moment in American history would you like to witness and why?
  14. Name greatest American war commanders/generals
  15. Discuss the causes and consequences of the Civil War
  16. Discuss the output of your favorite American writer
  17. Tell us why would you like to study at an American university and where would it be
  18. How is American English different from the original British English?
  19. Explain the phrase “all politics is local”
  20. What makes American democracy so unique?
  21. Talk about your favorite American piece of art
  22. Name a few political leaders who were not presidents
  23. What is the myth of the “Road 66”
  24. How did America become an industrial empire, who made it possible?
  25. Talk about high arts in America
  26. Name several American museums; take us on a tour in one
  27. What is the reason for American infatuation with JFK?
  28. Identify several great American inventors
  29. What major American newspapers do you know?
  30. Some people believe America is a declining empire, what do you think?
  31. Samuel Huntington expresses anxiety over Hispanics role in US, what is your opinion?
  32. Why would New York be called a “cultural capital of US”?
  33. What are the values of “American Creed”?
  34. What is so unusual about current elections in US?
  35. Identify five major books that defined American culture
  36. What is the position of women in American politics and business?
  37. Why do people say that America is basically a conservative nation?
  38. Is America a “nation” or is it rather a “society”?
  39. How is American economy doing today?
  40. Discuss the recent rise of Christian Right in America
  41. What is the legacy of slavery in America?
  42. Why do some analysts define American foreign policy as “imperialism”?
  43. What was the basic difference between 1950s and 1960s?
  44. Who are the baby boomers?
  45. Talk about major failures in American history
  46. Can we talk about “American cuisine”?
  47. Discuss the significance of cars in American culture
  48. Talk about the significance of guns in American culture
  49. What are the major regions of America? What distinguishes them from one another?
  50. What European influences do you see in contemporary America?
  51. What did Kagan mean when he said that “Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus”?
  52. Who would you like to be in America today?
  53. What are American greatest business leaders today?
  54. Take us on a tour of the Kennedy Center.
  55. Describe the purpose and activity of the National Endowment for the Arts.
  56. The influence of Colonial past on American history since 1776.
  57. Foreign-born American heroes.
  58. Role of the Frontier in American history and culture.
  59. Emigrations from the USA.
  60. Presidential "dynasties" in the US history.
  61. Allies and alliances in the history of American foreign policy.
  62. Role of violence in American political and socio-cultural history.
  63. The USA and world organizations - League of Nations, United Nations.
  64. America as a Colonial Power (past and present).
  65. Place and role of environmental protection in the USA.

KNOW AMERICA 2010 – HASŁA DO WYKORZYSTANIA W ROZMOWIE

1. Affirmative action
2. New Deal
3. Alamo
4. Pilgrims/Pilgrim Fathers
5. Rat Pack
6. “rags to riches”
7. Air Force One
8. Plymouth Rock
9. Illegal Alien
10. Spoils system
11. American Dream
12. The New Yorker
13. Checks and balances
14. Reconstruction
15. Founding Fathers
16. Gilded Age
17. Broadway
18. Progressivism/Progressive Era
19. Peace Corps
20. Three Mile Island
21. Camp David
22. Pledge of Allegiance
23. G.I.
24. Superbowl
25. “Old Glory”
26. Robber Barons
27. Boston Tea Party
28. Roe v. Wade
29. Oval Office
30. Anti-Federalists/Federalists
31. Fireside Chat
32. Pony Express
33. Civil disobedience
34. Washington and cherry tree
35. Gold rush
36. off-Broadway
37. Enola Gay
38. Rough riders
39. Frontier
40. redcoats
41. Brain drain
42. Articles of Confederation
43. Manifest Destiny
44. Soap opera
45. Dixie
46. Nashville
47. Freedom Riders
48. Salem witch trials
49. Beat Generation/Beatnik
50. Warren Commission
51. Impeachment
52. Square Deal
53. Carpetbagger
54. Walk of Fame
55. Truman Doctrine?Containment
56. Washington Mall
57. Harlem Renaissance
58. WASP
59. Census
60. Shay’s rebellion
61. Lost generation
62. Prohibition
63. Groundhog day
64. Watergate
65. Marine One
66. Salvation Army
67. E pluribus unum
68. Woodstock
69. Monroe Doctrine
70. Tin Pan Alley
71. Louisiana Purchase
72. We shall overcome
73. Green Card
74. Uncle Sam
75. Ivy League
76. talk radio
77. Liberty Bell
78. spirituals/gospel
79. Confederate flag
80. yellow ribbon
81. Mason-Dixon Line
82. the Untouchables
83. d-day
84. West Point
85. D.C.
86. Trail of Tears
87. GOP
88. Greenwich Village
89. Independence Hall
90. Busing
91. Montgomery Bus Boycott
92. Levittown
93. McCarthyism
94. Underground Railroad
95. Rosa Parks
96. Tonkin Gulf Resolution
97. Ku Klux Klan
98. Nation of Islam
99. Muckrakers
100. Ellis Island
101. Melting Pot
102. Wall Street
103. Mayflower Compact
104. “Democracy in America”
105. Jim Crow
106. Bible belt
107. Nation of Islam
108. neoconservatism/neocons
109. Babe Ruth
110. Guantanamo
111. American Exceptionalism
112. Main Street
113. Political correctness
114. separate but equal
115. American Dream
116. Great Society


PROPONOWANE LEKTURY pomocne w przygotowaniu do III etapu:

  1. Historia USA dowolnego autora ze szczególnym naciskiem na XX wiek (np. Krzysztof Michałek, Amerykańskie stulecie 1900- 2001)
  2. Lubomir Zyblikiewicz, USA
  3. Andrzej Lubowski, Kontuzjowane Mocarstwo. Siła i słabość Ameryki
  4. Artur Domosławski, Ameryka Zbuntowana
  5. Bernard-Henri Levy, American Vertigo
  6. Longin Pastusiak, Prezydenci
  7. Amitai Etzioni, Demokracja dla nielicznych
  8. Peter Berger, Ameryka, nowy Rzym
  9. Samuel Huntington, Kim jesteśmy?
  10. Tomasz Lis, Jak to się robi w Ameryce
  11. Alexis de Tocqueville, O demokracji w Ameryce
  12. John Spanier, Polityka zagraniczna Stanów Zjednoczonych po II Wojnie Światowej
  13. Tomasz Żyro, Boża plantacja
  14. Zbigniew Brzeziński i Brent Scowcroft, Ameryka i świat, Wydawnictwo Aha, 2008. (- może być trochę trudna, ale jest bardzo aktualna)
  15. Tomasz Płudowski (red.), Ameryka, Społeczeństwo, kultura, polityka (T. I-III), Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2008. (- zbiór ponad 20 rozdziałów autorstwa polskich amerykanistów na wszelkie możliwe tematy od języka przez literaturę i film, po Latynosów, Afroamerykanów, system sądowy i wojnę z terroryzmem. Pisane przystępnie. Dostępne w Internecie)
 
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