Rêve Américain

ANGLAIS The American Dream. This concept is specific to the United States and is based on different ideas as meritocracy, individual acts... in order to reach prosperity. This dream has bounds with liberalism too. The three texts “Inequality and the American Dream”, “Myths and the middle class” and “Wake up : the American Dream is over” permit to get a complete view of this notion. What is its place in the American Society? What limits, today, come in front this concept? Who are the detractors

THE AMERICAN DREAM Who hasn’t heard about it? “The American dream”. Its creed: nothing is impossible, who wants can! A dream based on people’s hope of a better life, a brighter future; on the faith that anyone who has the willpower and works hard enough can enhance his living-standard. Put in other words: anybody’s life is susceptible to become a tale of rags to riches. This faith is something much anchored to US-American society. It is written in the Declaration of Independence itself: “all men

Today, English and American Universities such as Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Oxford or Cambridge are worldwide recognized because of their prestige associated with a quality education and which have considerable financial meanings. However, these systems are not accessible to all. The university has a very expensive cost and the required level is very high. I- presentation and selection process. A. In the U.S.A. American Universities are independent of government so that the board of directors (board

Extended Essay: Racism The United States used to be deeply divided between what was commonly known as the Deep South, with its vast plantations of cotton and tobacco, and the north, which was much more industrialised. In the south, the plantations required a lot of manual labour, which led the whole economy to depend on slaves. It was therefore understandable for the south to be reticent when the north abolished slavery. After the Civil war though, which lasted from 1860 to 1865, slavery was

New Kids in the Neighhood is a painting by Norman Rockwelle. When the artist painted this work of art , America was experiencing the civil rights movement. Lot of families from different backgrounds , cultures and religion were beginning to live in the same neighborhoods , eat at the same restaurants and sit next to each other on buses. New Kids in the Neighbourhood ( 1967 ), so entitled Negro in the Suburbs is a very famous painting. We can notice at once a symmetry of this picture : the opposition

AMERICA This song « America », whose lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim and whose music was created by Leonard Bernstein, is extracted from West Side Story. It is a 1965 film which is based on Romeo and Juliet (one of Shakespeare’s plays). The scene takes place in NYC, more particularly in the Spanish Harlem. This passage of the film, where the boys and the girls sing the song “America” is extremely famous. The song is a perfect testimony of what Puerto Ricans used to think about America once

On the Threshold of a new world Commentary Introduction Extract from a book by Mark Helprin called Ellis Island and other stories. The passage deals with the arrival of an immigrant in the Usa at Ellis Island. 1st person narrative : “I” The passage can be divided into 3 parts: * Lines 1 to 15 : Physical tests * Lines 16 to 31 : Intellectual tests * Line 32 to the end : The American dream First I’m going to talk about the narrator’s situation, then I’ll show why immigrants

We, the people « We, the people.» - the most often quoted words of the preamble of the US Constitution. - an historic and great symbol of America, which is still meaningfull for most American people, even 200 years after their writing. Last year, president Obama began his race speech with these words : "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these

In one’s life, we dream to live freely and happily and this matches the American Dream. The latter appears in “Of Mice and Men”, adapted from John Steinbeck’s novel and directed in 1992 by Gary Sinise. The American Dream represents "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement” said J. Adams, the first writer who coined this term in his book “The Epic of America”. The American dream is a pillar

OF MICE AND MEN John Steinbeck Fiche de lecture Of Mice and men is a novel by John Steinbeck published in 1937. It’s a tragedy written in the third-person singular and in a past tense. The narrator is omniscient It deals with the American Dream of two friends, George and Lennie, who are migrant workers. Lennie has a mental disability and George looks after him. At the beginning of the book, it is said that they got fired of a ranch because Lennie was accused of a rape. They are walking on