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| Flashcards | 106 |
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| Language | Deutsch |
| Category | Nature Studies |
| Level | Primary School |
| Created / Updated | 12.09.2014 / 13.09.2014 |
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basketball
now played by more than 250 million people world wide
originated 1891
movies
American contribution to world etertainment
Golden Age: 30/40er Hollywood (Western, slapstick, comedy, film noir)
major studios kept thousants of people an salery
popular music
musicians got their starts in Vaudeville
Stephen Forster: first major composer
Scott Joplin: musician
Jazz
"St.Louis Blues"one of the most frequently recorded songs
Ella Fitzgerakd
Rock´n´Roll
elvis presley
Bob dylan
country music
songs: separation, lost homes etc
critique
french campaign to rid their language of inacadicny english terms
Newspaper: pioneering press freedom
1690: first newspaper; agter 1 day surpressed by the british
New York Tribune
Chicago Sun Times
magazine niche
1893: first mass-circulation magazines
Time: first magazine to offer on online edition
the role of radio
Roosevelt: useful use of communication
1920. first broadcast
1994: 99% of American houseold
television beyond the big three
1994: 97 million television in american household
65% have 2 or more
most popular program: Sesame Street
current issues
violent content warnings to children
law to keep indecent languaage and pictures from being transmitted through cyberspace
Eastter
spring Sunday
celebrates Christion belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ
Christmas Day
25th of December
birth of the Christ Child
New Years Day
January 1
begins a night before
Thanksgiving Day
celebrate on the 4th in November
became a national holiday during civil war
4th of July
Independence day
nations birthday
signing of the Declaration of Independence
Martin Luther King Day
assassination in 1968
national day
clergyman
President´s Day
until mid 1970s
22th of Febrauary, Washington´s B-Day
Memorial Day
4th of May
honors the dead
Memorial Day
4th of May
honors the dead
Labor Day
first Monday of September
honors all nations working people
columbus day
october 12 1492
second monday in october
veterans day
originally valled armistice day
honor americans who had severed in WWI
Valentins Day
february 14 th
named after christian martyr
halloween
october 31
hallows day
national holiday
st patricks day
march 17
