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SO? DO YOU THINK THE AMERICAN DREAM IS ALIVE OR DEAD? 

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SO? DO YOU THINK THE AMERICAN DREAM IS ALIVE OR DEAD? 

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http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-the-american-dream-dead

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Michelle Obama's Historic American Dream Speech - 2012 Dem National Convention

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Oprah Winfrey as a symbol for the American Dream

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Oprah Winfrey as a symbol for the American Dream

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/may/20/oprah-winfrey-show-end

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TO GO FURTHER : What happened during the eighties?

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TO GO FURTHER : What happened during the eighties?

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From yuppies to the 🤬 crisis, from mainstream media to NASA, drug abuse and Reagan's foreign policies, computers and environmental disasters, as well as the end of the Cold War, the eighties were wild from start to finish, and considerably shaped the American Dream as we know it.

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Top 10 Defining Moments of 1980s America

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Madness for Money and the American Dream

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The Wolf of Wall Street Official Trailer #2 (2013) - Leonardo DiCaprio Movie HD

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Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Like us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/dHs73 The Wolf of Wall Street Official Trailer #2 (2013) - Leonardo DiCaprio Movie HD The story of a New York stockbroker, played by DiCaprio, who refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, the corporate banking world and mob infiltration.

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The Vietnam War in movies
The Deer Hunter, 1978
Apocalypse Now, 1979
The Trilogy of Oliver Stone, with Platoon, 1986, Born on the Fourth of July, 1989 and Heaven and Earth, 1993
Full Metal Jacket, 1987

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'Reaganomics' (Reagan - Economics) marked a clean break in the political landscape of the US. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal was still greatly considered by politicians and economists alike when Reagan decided to promote liberalism, thus completely cutting his government from what had been put in place since the 1930's.

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TO GO FURTHER : The Causes of the Great Depression

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TO GO FURTHER : The Causes of the Great Depression

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What were the causes of the Great Depression? Could it have been prevented?
In this short video, you will have pieces of information about the economical context of the US just before 1929, and how consumerism and build-on-debt economy led to the Great Depression. Just like in 2008, banks gambled with the money of people and eventually, Black Tuesday occured, collapsing the economy and causing a "run-on-the-bank" panic among the population. The result was a decade-long economic recession with catastrophic consequences on the well-being of the population.
Research tools : Migrant Workers, Dust Bowl, Great Depression Era, F.D. Roosevelt, New Deal
You can watch the video and comment here if you want more details, precisions or pieces of information.

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History Brief: The Causes of the Great Depression

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Try to pinpoint some of these devices in the speeches you have to study in class
Alliteration, to make words like music, playing on the rhythm of english.
Allusion, to share common references with the audience and build emotion up.
Amplification, to put emphasis and insist on a particularly important point of the speech by adding details or pieces of information.
Antithesis, to make a contrast clear by using contrasting language, and bringing light to different ways of seeing the world.
Conduplicatio, or repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of a series or sentence, in order to mark the rhythm and insist on a particular idea.
Litotes, when drawing attention to an element by using understatements or double negatives.
Metaphor, to stir emotions up and make more lyrical comparisons.
Parallelism and parallel phrasing, to carry a message out with memorable rhythm.

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Martin Luther King

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Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have A Dream Speech

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Of Mice and Men, excerpt, John Steinbeck

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Of Mice and Men, excerpt, John Steinbeck

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In what way George and Lennie's dream epitomizes the Great Depression era's common desire for people

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The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, The Great Gatsby

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The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, The Great Gatsby

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Some key dates to understand Westward Expansion

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Photographed by Dorothea Lange

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The American Dream during the Roaring 20's was destroyed by consumerism and relentless industrialization, as we can see in this excerpt about the Valley of Ashes.

About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. This is a valley of ashes — a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight. But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic — their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.

The Great Gatsby, F.S. Fitzgerald

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How did Manifest Destiny shape the American Dream and the american society?

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MYTHS AND HEROES - Painting the west - Manifest destiny

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HOW HAS THE AMERICAN DREAM EVOLVED THROUGHOUT THE FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL CRISES OF THE XXTH CENTURY?

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HOW HAS THE AMERICAN DREAM EVOLVED THROUGHOUT THE FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL CRISES OF THE XXTH CENTURY?

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https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/heres-presidents-done-american-dream-homeownership.html/?a=viewall

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TO WHAT EXTENT HAS THIS MYTH SHAPED THE AMERICAN SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT TODAY?

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TO WHAT EXTENT HAS THIS MYTH SHAPED THE AMERICAN SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT TODAY?