...everybody dreamed of a better life, a ne society, individual ealth and cheap soil - 1920s - the golden tenties - period here old values faith in God ere destroyed by persuit of ealth dream of fame, money, 3. American Dream in the present - today American Dream has changed hard and has many faces - todays society dreams of material ealth and economic success - most knon is dream of dishasher to president or from rags to riches - often the American Dream is thinking of immigrants - Statue of Liberty symbol of the freedom à first thing European immigrants sa arriving Ne York harbour - most of Hispanics and Asians never sa Statue of Liberty today - Asians arrived at estern ports and airports - most of the Hispanics crossed border from Mexico into California and Texas or from Cuba into Florida - people hope to build up their on business, to have their on house and their on land one day - hope to be able to choose a job freely, express opinions freely and to keep their religion - for them America is country of unlimited opportunities and success - their dream nothing to do ith reality à live in ghettos à caught by police and send back to their home country à most of illegal immigrants live under poverty-line 4. Melting-Pot theory - main idea to describe the mixed American nation à ide spectrum of origins - melting-pot pot in hich different elements are fused together, ith the result that the ingredients are transformed into one different thing à all the different people ith its different origins, culture, tradition and language are mixed up to become one nation à in reality this dream has never become true à people speak the same language get the same national identity à still barriers beteen blacks, Indians and hites à religion also got separate sectors of Protestants, Roman Catholics and Jes à people kept their tradition and culture, slaves and Indians ere very long seperated à melting-pot does not function - another ay to describe this theory as the salat bol or the pizza - it shos the multi-cultural, diverse and pluralistic American civilization - melting-pot as criticized as too idealistic 5. frontier spirit - frontier estard moving boarder beteen the civilization and the ilderness - frontier life as very hard but peaceful - implied independence, a primitive life and the struggle of the individual for survival - at the frontier everyone is equal à only this one ill survive and become ealth ho ork hard à these things had a strong influence on todays American society - Americans still got a geographically and socially mobility - Frontier spirit influenced American Dream à You can everything do hat you ant if you just ork hard for it 6. Lee Iacocca - real name Lido A. Iacocca à changed his name after going to ork for Ford à felt it ould be easier for business associates and contacts to recognize and understand - gre up in Allenton à dutch community, lot of dutch people lived together à Italian as second class compared to dutch - his parents Nicola and Antoinette ere Italian immigrants - Iacoccas parents orked hard to provide their family - father believed in America and he felt in America you had the freedom to become anything you anted to be if you ere illing to ork hard for it - Iacocca orked 16 hours a day in a fruit market after High School - in school Iacocca came face to face ith ethnic intolerance à he as looked don on because he as Italian à also to Jeish friends ere treated bad à realized the importance of recognizing people for their contributions and abilities, not for their race or nationality - after graduating university he got a scholarship from Princeton - started orking for Ford in 1946 - in Iacoccas eyes there is one ord that describes a good manager à decisiveness - Iacocca as made president of Ford in 1970 - by the end of 1975 began having trouble at Ford - most of this seemed to be a personality conflict beteen Henry Ford II. and Iacocca à Iacocca as fired in 1978 - didnt sit around for long - joined forces ith Chrysler in the same year - helped Chrysler in a state of emergency à lack of communication and no team ork - belonged to Chrysler till 1992 orked hard for his destination never rested on his laurels 7. Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone - as born in Bay City near Detroit in 1958 - daughter of Italian immigrants 8 siblings - her father and mother orked as mechanics - lived under modest circumstances - mother died hen she as 5 years old - as very intelligent and honoured on the one hand by extraordinary performance, disciplin and ambition and on the other hand by rebellious behaviour - got a dance-scholarship hen she as 18 years old - stop this for going to Ne York ith only 35 - life as hard there for her à had to ork as auxiliary orker and naked model to survive - danced as minor role in numerous plays - Madonna displaced her activities from dance to music - lived several time in the gutter - due to good friends she got a record contract ith Sire Records - in the folloing years she sang songs like Holiday and Like a virgin hich made her very popular - the longplayer Like a virgin as also a extremely success à Madonna as the first female singer selling 5 billion records à as like a pioneer of the female superstar - as even more successful than Elvis or The Beatles in the USA and in Great Britain - Madonna also tried to be a movie star but not successful - played in approximately 20 movies more flops than success, most popular movie Evita - 1991 negotiated ith Time arner Group the most expensive conduct in this time - got about 60 billion Dollars - used the money to found her on company Maverick à support the ork of young artists - the most popular singer hich as supported as Alanis Morissette - created many music and fashion trends - today has to children and is married ith Guy Ritchie...
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