5-symbles-in-American-culture

1、Do you know about the American culture Maybe we know some about the American culture.But we can know more things about it from this class.So lets go . What makes someone or something typically American ? This is a very hard question to answer because the United States is made up of people from all a

2、round the world .But , the truth is , if you ask people what qualities define the American people , They will probably say that the two dominating characteristics of Americans are inventiveness and independence , and they may have a story to share about the symbols that exemplify those values . Five

3、 Famous Symbols of American CultureThe Statue of LibertyBarbieAmerican GothicThe Buffalo NickelUncle Sam The world-famous Statue of Liberty stands tall on the freedom of the island in New York harbor, a symbol of the American people, the lofty ideals of freedom. Statue of Liberty inscription on the

4、cornerstone of the Jewish poet of the Sonnets Love Mala Zha Ruth new giants in the poem:The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land； Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch whose flame Is imprisoned li

5、ghtning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome； her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities . Keep ancient lands your storied pomp! cries she with silent lips. Give me your tired your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wre

6、tched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! The Statue of Liberty That same year Bartholdi had assembled the statues right arm and torch, and displayed them in Philadelphia. It is said that he had used his wifes arm as th

7、e model, but felt her face was too beautiful for the statue. He needed someone whose face represented suffering yet strength, someone more severe than beautiful. He chose his mother. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on an island in Upper New York Bay in 1886. It had his mothers face and his wifes

8、 body, but Bartholdi called it my daughter, Liberty. In the mid-1870s, French artist Frederic AugusteBartholdi was working on an enormous project called Liberty Enlightening the World, a monument celebrating US independence and the France-America alliance. At the same time, he was in love with a wom

9、an whom he had met in Canada. His mother couldnot approve of her sons affection for a woman she had never met, but Bartholdi went ahead and married his love in 1876.Barbie in the Nutcracker Barbie as Rapunzel Barbie of Swan Lake Barbie as the Princess and the PauperBarbie and the Magic of PegasusBar

10、bie FairyTopiaMermaidia芭比与胡桃夹 子的梦幻之旅芭比之长发 公主芭比之天 鹅湖芭比之真假 公主芭比与魔幻 飞马之旅芭比彩虹仙子 之人鱼公主 Have you ever seen the movie Barbie ?Here are some of the Barbie movies . Barbie Barbara Handler was the daughter of Elliot and Ruth Handler, co-founders of the Mattel Toy Company. Ruth came up with the idea for Barbie

11、 after watching her daughter play with paper dolls. The three-dimensional model for Barbie was a German dolla joke gift for adults described as having the appearance of a woman who sold sex. Mattel refashioned the doll into a decent, all-Americanalthough with an exaggerated breast sizeversion and na

12、med it after Barbara, who was then a teenager. Before all the different types of Barbie dolls for sale now, there was just a single Barbie. Actually, her name was Barbara. Since her introduction in 1959, Barbie has become the universally recognized Queen of the Dolls. Mattel says the average America

13、n girl owns ten Barbie dolls, and two are sold somewhere in the world every second. Now more than sixty years old, Barbarawho declines interviews but is said to have loved the dollmay be the most famous unknown figure on the planet. Barbies boyfriend, Ken, was introduced in 1961 and named after Barb

14、aras brother. The real Ken, who died in 1994, was disgusted by the doll that made his family famous. I dont want my children to play with it, he said in 1993. Wood spent two months time to complete the painting in time to catch up with the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition. While the referees were

15、 right a the beginning whether or not to accept his painting there are differences, but the painting was finally exhibitors and received the Bronze Award and 300 U.S. dollars reward. At that time the painting has aroused great controversy, an art critic accused the painting is an insult to ordinary

16、rural people of the comic. Some people think that Wood used this painting to satirize the narrow central and western culture, and depression,But Wood, I rejected this argument; some understanding of the painting for the United States praised the quality of rural morality; also expressed that the the

17、me of this work is very ambiguous, both praised the affirmation, but also no shortage of irony. Wood himself was later revealed that his paintings contain satirical elements, but as to what factors he was mollified.American Gothic Grant Wood instantly rose to fame in 1930 with his painting American

18、Gothic, an often-copied Interpretation of the solemn pride of American farmers.The painting shows a serious-looking man and a woman standing in front of a farmhouse. He was strongly influenced by medieval artists and inspired by the Gothic window of an old farmhouse, but the faces in his composition

19、 were what captured the worlds attention. Wood liked to paint faces he knew well. For the grave farmer he used his dentist, a sour-looking man. For the woman standing alongside him, the artist . Nan later remarked that the fame she gained from American Gothic saved Her from a very boring life.chose

20、his sister, Nan. He stretched the models necks a bit, but there was no doubt who posed for the portrait . 1911, by the famous American artist James Earl Fraser began to design , 1913-1938 years into the production of a coin.Buffalo nickel is currently a lot of coin enthusiasts, one of the most want

21、to collect coins.The Buffalo Nickel Today, American coins honor prominent figures of the US governmentmostly famous former presidents. But the Buffalo nickel, produced from 1913 to 1938, honored a pair of connected tragedies from the settlement of the American frontierthe destruction of the buffalo

22、herds and the American Indians. While white people had previously been used as models for most American coins, famed artist James Earle Fraser went against tradition by using three actual American Indians as models for his creation. For the buffalo on the other side, since buffalo no longer wandered

23、 about the great grasslands, Fraser was forced to sketch an aging buffalo from New York Citys Central Park Zoo. Two years later, in 1915, this animal was sold for $100 and killed for meat, a hide, and a wall decoration made from its horns. On behalf of Uncle Sam is used to refer to American or U.S.

24、Government, mainly in the United States, Britain, especially in the media to use more. U.S. newspapers and magazines, literature and comic books, one can often see the Uncle Sams name and its vivid image. Different painters pen, Uncle Sam posture vary, and some vicious hateful, and some amiable. But

25、 the most common image is a tall man, thin face, wearing a high cap decorated star, wearing a tuxedo and striped trousers, although hair Cangran, but hale and hearty with one of them carry themselves with dignity, the image of the popular the American peoples affection.Uncle Sams most memorable port

26、rait is created by artist James Montgomery Flagg, and he painted during the two world wars, a lot of famous recruitment posters.Uncle Sam Fourteen-year-old Sam Wilson ran away from home to join his father and older Brothers in the fight to liberate the American colonies from the British during the A

27、merican Revolution . At age 23, he started a meat-packing business and earned a reputation for being honest and hard-working. During a later war in 1812, Wilson gained a position inspecting meat for US Army forces,working with a man who had signed a contract with the government to provide meat to the army. Barrels of meat supplied to the army were stamped EA-US, identifying the company (EA) and the country of origin (US). According to one story, when a government official visited the plant and asked about the letters, a cr