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英美文化概况论文

The Differences of Teenagers’ Life Between China and AmericaIt is universally known that teenagers are the expectation of their parents and the hope of a nation, and almost all the countries in the world, including C hina and America of course, pay much attention to the teenagers’ life. However, because of the differences of culture in different countries, teenagers are obviously not living a same life. And in this article, I want to talk about some differences of teenagers’ life between China and America, for life of teenagers in these two countries are both typical.First of all, let’s go into schools and find out how teenagers s pending a day at school.As a Chinese student, I really know the teenagers’ life at school in China. We have to get up early so as not to be late for classes in the weekdays, and there are nearly ten lessons, which contain Chinese, maths, physics, chemistry, English and so on, from moning to night so that many students, especially the highschool students, prefer to spend most of time staying in the classrooms rather than go to play games. As there are too many tasks of learning for us, sometimes we even think that doing things which have nothing to do with studing is just a waste of time. So now you should know that Chinese teenagers’ life at school seems to be alittle monotonous and there are few things to do except listening to the teachers in classes, reading books and doing exercises. And at the end of the day, we are always feeling very tired.Compairde with Chinese teenagers’ life at school, American teenagers’ is easier and more colourful. American teenagers attend classes for an everage of only five hours a day, while Chinese teenagers spend about 10 hours a day. What’s more, although American teenagers should also learn a lot of subjects like mathematics, science, social studies (a subject that includes history, geography, citizenship and economics) and so on, the contents of these courses are much easier than Chinese students’. In result, American teenagers have relatively few tasks of learning, and they have far more free time to do things which they like.After classes over, American teenagers will have more activities. For example, doing a part-time job is universal among the teenagers.There is an interesting fact that a ccording to a survey, it is found that “About 54 percent young students have no pocket money in America, and there are fewer chances to get money from their parents as their ages increase. It is also found that 68 percent American stude nts earn pocket money through doing part-time job in their spare time.”(Tin Jennifer, 2005) By this way, American teenagers not only earn pocket money, but also get many chances to train themselves to have the ability of adapting to environmental variety and the ability of living independently.However, it seems to be hard for Chinese teenagers to do the same things like doing a part-time job as American teenagers. One of the reasons is that Chineseteenagers have less spare time and just within the little spare time, they have to finish much homework. Besides, Chinese parents always protect their children excessively in social activities. Many parents fear that their children will face a lot of difficulties or become bad boys in society; they always reduc e their children’s chances to contact with society or do not let them go to the outside alone. As result, Chinese teenagers live a relatively safe life, with the protection of their parents and teachers, but they may lose a large quantity of chances for themselves to kown the reality of society and develop the aware of independence. And now we should somewhat understand the reason why American teenagers often seems to be more confident and mature.In a word, compared with American teenagers, Chinese teenages live a more tired and simple life. The most important things for them is to finish quite a large number of tasks of studying and they do not need to care about other things too much, because their parents always try to do almost everything for them.But why do these differences above appear? In my opinion, the key reason is that, as we all know, now the only way to select talented person in China is examination. That is to say, we test a person’s level by mark, whith sounds a little cruel. Due to this policy, Chinese teenagers have to undertake the heavy tasks of studyi ng, which is just like Zhengqiang’s(a professer of Zhejiang university) words“In the nowadays, the heavy tasks of studying brings too much pression to our Chinese teenagers but take too much happiness of the teenagers’ life away”. Their parents and teachers also put the children’s mark in an very important place,so they often urge the teenagers to sduty hard and hardly let them to other things. However, owing to the rich resources of education and the relatively variety of ways to select talented person, American teenagers have more choices and they needn’t pay so much attention like Chinese teenagers to study.And secondly, the parents’ conceptions of family education have an great effect on the teenagers’ life too.In China, parents will regard their son or daughter as a child and try to protect their child forever, and the majority of parents feel that their responsibility for their children is to create as good conditions as possible they can so that the children will not worry about anything in the future. What Chinese parents do makes Chinese teenagers live a comfortable life. The teenagers is just like the flowers which are planted in the greenhouses, with no hurt by the wind or snow, beautiful but fragile.However, on the contrary, in America, parents often encourage their children to contact with society. For instance, They let their children do a part-time job by controling the amount of children’s pocket money, which is mentioned in the previous paragraph. What American parents do is to cultivate children’s awareness of frugality and train their children’s ability of independence. Thus, American teenagers may meet more touble in the daily life, but if they overcome the trouble by themselves successfully, they will get a lot of precious social experience that will help them grow up more smoothly.By comparing and contrasting Chinese teenagers’ life with American teenagers’life, we can see that the American mode is better for teenagers to grow up healthily and there are some disadvantages about the Chinese mode. Fortunately, the Chinese government has realized this situation. For example, considering the teenagers’ heavy tasks of studying, the government makes some new education policy such as the policy of quality education to increase ways of talented person selecting to encourage the teenagers to do some other things. Besides, with society developing, Chinese parents also realize that it’s of great importance for children to for a self-supporting will, because it’s the basic quality that help a person succeed in society. Then the parents no longer help their children make all the decisions but they sometimes let their children do same choices. So Chinese teenagers’ life is not so monotonous as before, and I think the teenagers’ life will be more and more colourful, and they can grow up more healthily.参考文本文献以及电子文献：[1] 朱永涛，王立礼。

英美文化概论课程论文

英美文化概论课程论文－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－What I've Learnt in This CourseAuthor name: 杨坤student number : During this course，we have get the knowledge about America and Britain of their history , language , literature , education , politics and so on .United Kingdom covers only a small part area of the earth's surface , but its people share many different origins and cultures including the Scots , the Welsh , the Irish and the English .The English we use today has experienced too many changes . Old English of Anglo-saxon ,although it is the ancestor of modern English ,appears quite different from today's language .During AD 587-1066 , They used both Latin and Germanic scripts but always called their language Englisc .With the Norman invasion led by William the Conqueror in 1066 , norman French became the official language of English .The following phases are Middle English , Modern English ,Standard English .British government system The monarchy is the oldest secular institution in the United Kingdom .The British constitution is consisted of Acts of Parliament , the Prerogative of the Grown , Conventions of the Constitution , Common Law and Parliamentary Privilege . There are three elements in Parliament——the Crown , the House of Lord , the House of Commons . English literature begins around the 8th century in a language called Old English or Anglo-saxon . During this time the master work is Beowulf , a story of a great king who fought against monsters. The middle English period , generally defined as 1100 to 1500 , sees the true beginning of the magnificent heritage of English literature .During t his period many outstanding writers appeared as like Chauccer and the Shakespeare . Chaucer was the first to use English creation of court writer. He lived in London, use natural central England each county English, not dialect in northern or south England . His works made great contribution to the formation of modern English . when he was young , Chaucer translated part of the love poem "rose legend "into English. His first work is "the duchess's book. "Especially Roy Russ and klein west Germany based on boccaccio , show the great poem talent of Chaucer . His last longest and most famous work is the Canterbury tales. His work in Britain has always been treated as the best until Shakespeare's time. Shakespeare wrote tragic (Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, as king Lear) , comedy(The merchant of Venice, a midsummer night's dream, happy, twelfth night) , tragicomedy(Romeo and Juliet) ,historical play(Henry iv, Henry v, Henry vi, Henry viii, king John, Richard ii, Richard iii) and sonnet (Lover's complaint, LuKeLi silk non-virgins remember, Venus and adonis, enthusiasm of pilgrims, phoenix and doves) .Everybody knows that the Britain is Christians . The church of England is one of the many "Protestant" sects which broke away from the more ancient and more orthodox Roman Catholic Church several centuries ago , during the great religious upheaval called the Reformation.Being different from the Britain , the America has a very big land . In its vast area the United States comprehends most of the physical condition known to men : heatand cold , forest and desert , tropical-awamp and Arctic waste , mountains and endlessplain , empty apace and megalopolis , and the world's largest river system .Around the year 1000 , a party of Icelandic Vikings under Leif Ericson sailed to the eastern coast of North America . 500 years later , the need for increased trade and anerror in navigation led to another European encounter with America .Since 1607 , England began build the permanent colonies, in 150 years, after a lot of settlers poured in, settled in coastal regions, including many from Britain, it is partly from France, Germany, the Netherlands and Ireland and other countries. Middle of the 18th century, 13 British colonies had formed. Because of the climate and geographical environment, the 13 colonial area formed the different economic , political system and ideas . On April 19 ,1775 , revolution erupted .In 1782 30 November, Britain and America sign the Paris peace treaty, 1783 September 3rd, Britain formally recognized American independence .Each American is subjected to two governments , that of his state and that of the Union , and each has its own distinct function . In America each state made a constitution of its own and in its own way .That is very different from us . Every state constitution divided political power among three element .Each state entrusted the executive power to a governor . Finally , Each state had a system of courts ,and the judges in the courts were not to be subject to the executive or the legislative authorities .From the beginning of American history to the present today , American literature has recorded the story of quest . At different times the quest taken the different forms . In the 16th century Europeans came to this new world in search of the lost constinent of Atlantis.They came looking for golden " cities of Cibola " that haunted Coronado's imagination . They searched for the fabled northwest Passage to the Orient . Cooper , Poe , Emerson , Melvile , Mark Twain and Henry James were very outstanding in the history of American literature .Most of American belief in Christian and Catholic. America is a multi-ethnic, many religious country. Christian and Catholic, orthodox Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Taoism and other religious also have many followers. Religious belief in the citizens of the population accounted for about 91%.America has many idiomatical festival as like the thanksgiving and Christmas . The thanksgiving day is on the 4th Thursday in November . On this day , Americans give thanks for the blessings they have enjoyed during the year and celebrate with dinners and happy reunions. Christmas season is the most festive time of the year in the United States. Students from grammar school through college have to two weeks' vocation .Many families go away for the holidays ,perhaps to ski in Colorado or to swim and sunbathe in Florida . People also decorate their house with christmas tree and red stars and color lights .They sing Christmas Carols,and sending Christmas cards .When I have learned this course ,I know that there is some reason for the rapid development of the Britain and the United States . The answers maybe are the democratic politics and good education . So ,if our we want our nation to be strong ,we have to built our politics and education .感谢阅读，欢迎大家下载使用！。

英美文化概况结课论文

The Differences between the United States and China in Education “Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.” Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher, said. As we all know, education is necessary to ourselves and even our society. But people in different countries receive various educations because of diverse culture. Let us see the differences in education between America and China and the influence of different education on people.First, there is much distinction between those two countries in ideals of education. American asserts equality. She claims that as many people as possible should have access to as much education as they want so that American can produce a society of literacy and local control. She places emphasis on the basic nature of knowledge and learning. Students in America should learn to discover and create new approaches to understand what is already known. American students prefer to practice by themselves instead of listening to the teachers sitting in the classroom. However, students in China are taught to learn not creative thinking but basic skills. Chinese require that students should acquire knowledge as what teachers teach and what teaching materials tell. Chinese always instill into kids’minds a thought that what teachers and teaching materials say are definitely right so that Chinese students lack the critical thought since they are children. Thus, it becomes that American students possess great abilities though get low grades and Chinese students have low abilities while get high scores, as is known to all.Second, the atmospheres in the classroom show the divergence of the two countries’education. Chinese teachers are good at drawing conclusions from a question for students to make them have no question. But American teachers are efficient at enlightening students on a question and enable every student to put forward more new questions. A student in Chinese class has to put up his hand to be allowed to stand up by teachers to answer questions while in American class students are encouraged to speak freely. If a Chinese student disagree what his teacher say, he will suffer some criticisms; nevertheless, an American students will be awarded praise if he does that. We can find out that the Chinese class pays more attention to discipline and the United States focuses on human rights.Three, the ways to further education are entirely different in China and America. There is no annual college entrance examination. Applicants are chosen on the basis of four aspects: high school records, high school teachers’recommendations, the impression they make during interviews at the university, scores on Scholastic Aptitude Test. In an American soap opera called Gossip Girl, an actor called Dan, who wants to study in Yale and passed the SAT, struggles to get three recommendations from his high school teachers or famous writers. But every Chinese student knows that if they want to go to university they must pass the college entrance examination and if they hope to go to key colleges, they have to get higher scores. So the purpose of American education system is to make students find out their shortcomings and straighten them up and Chinese educational system is elimination.Four, students’ extra-curricular life in United States is more colorful than Chinese students’. There are many students’organizations----clubs and activities in the American school helping students become successful when pursuing hobbies. Inaddition, they often do some part-time jobs to make money, which may be for activities or other things. However, Chinese students don’t have so many activities and in their extra-curricular life they will spend most of time attending cram school or doing their homework. So, they are losing their hobbies gradually.In general, I think our government should make reformation on our educational system immediately. Not only should our grades be focused on, but also students’practical ability and creative thinking should be paid more attention. Thus, our country will be more thriving and prospering and we Chinese will be more happiness!。

英美文化毕业论文

英美文化毕业论文英美文化毕业论文随着全球化的发展，英美文化在世界范围内影响深远。

作为英语为母语的国家，英美文化不仅包括语言，还涉及文学、艺术、音乐、电影等方方面面。

本文将从不同角度探讨英美文化的特点和影响。

一、英美文化的多样性英美文化的多样性是其最大的特点之一。

英国和美国都是移民国家，吸引了来自世界各地的人们。

这些移民带来了自己的语言、宗教、风俗和文化，丰富了英美文化的内涵。

在英美文化中，我们可以看到英国的皇家仪式、英式下午茶、英国乐队的摇滚音乐以及美国的独立精神、西部牛仔文化、好莱坞电影等。

这些多样性使得英美文化独具魅力，吸引了全球观众的关注。

二、英美文化的影响英美文化对世界产生了深远的影响。

首先，英美文化对语言的影响不可忽视。

英语作为全球通用语言，其词汇、语法和发音都源自英美文化。

其次，英美文化在文学领域也有着重要的地位。

莎士比亚、狄更斯、奥斯卡·王尔德等英国作家以及马克·吐温、海明威、福克纳等美国作家的作品被翻译成多种语言，影响了全球读者。

此外，英美文化在音乐、电影、时尚等领域也有着广泛的影响力。

披头士乐队、迈克尔·杰克逊、碧昂斯等英美音乐人的音乐风格和影响力跨越了国界。

好莱坞电影更是成为了全球电影产业的中心，许多经典电影和电影明星都来自英美文化。

三、英美文化的传统与现代英美文化既有传统的一面，也有现代的一面。

在传统方面，英美文化保留了许多古老的习俗和仪式。

例如，英国的圣诞节、复活节和美国的感恩节等节日都有着悠久的历史和独特的庆祝方式。

此外，英美文化中的传统艺术形式如戏剧、芭蕾舞和交响乐也一直保持着活力。

然而，英美文化也不断与时俱进，融入了现代元素。

现代英美文化注重个人自由、多元文化和创新。

在音乐领域，英美文化涌现出了流行音乐、摇滚乐、爵士乐和嘻哈音乐等各种风格。

电影工业的发展也使得英美文化更加多元化和现代化。

四、英美文化的挑战和机遇随着全球文化交流的加深，英美文化也面临着一些挑战。

英美国家社会与文化论文

The British Educational SystemAs far as we know, there are pre-primary schools, primary schools, secondary schools and university or college. Pre-school education is available (often on a fee-paying basis) for children aged 2 to 4/5 through playgroups and nursery schools. And many of them are private. The emphasis of pre-primary schools is on group work, creative activity and guided play.Two systems of primary and secondary education in Britain: 1. State Schools: 11-year Compulsory Education (5-16), we can know that there is comprehensive school (84%), grammar school (3%) or secondary modern school (7%) from the state primary school. 2. Public schools/Independent schools: there is an only 7% public (independent) school from prep school.What are the main differences between the two? We can find four points. 1. School Funding. In state schools, state funding from central government; supplemented by local finance. And in public schools, funding from tuition fees; endowments or donations from society (esp. alumni to their ammeters). 2. Attendance. There are 93% in state schools, only 7% in the public schools. 3. Teaching Staff and Facilities. Public schools have better teaching staff & facilities. 4. Graduates. Students from the public schools are more promising, e.g. Eton College has educated 20 Prime Ministers, 6 Chancellors of Exchequers, etc.Compulsory education begins at 5 in England, Wales and Scotland and 4 in Northern Ireland. Pupils mainly attend state sector primary schools (co-educational or mixed schools). Infants schools have equal to the first schools (for 2 years from 5). Junior schools (for 4 years to 11). There’s little or no specialist subject teaching and great emphasis is on literacy and numeracy in early years.Compulsory education ends at age 16. At 16, students in England and Wales take GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) examinations involving a final exam, an assessment of work done during the two-year course, or both of these things. Then they can leave school and find a job. Other pupils who decide not to go to university may choose to take vocational training and get the GNVQ (GeneralNational V ocational Qualification).In my opinion, about the entrance procedures, in the third term of Year 12, students prepare their applications to university. Applications are then made in the first term of the Year 13 through one centralized organization known as UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). Students can apply to a maximum of 6 universities/institutions. Admission-selection on basis of A level results & an interview.In teaching methods, we can see, the UK educational system encourages self-study, discussions and practical work. The students may have time-tabled classes or might be encouraged to do more of independent work for a substantial amount of time depending on the course.Most of the courses would include the following teaching methods: lectures, seminars, tutorials, independent workand coursework.There are two famous universities in Britain. They are the Cambridge and Oxford. Cambridge University was founded in 1209 by students fleeing from Oxford after one of the many episodes of violence between the university and the town of Oxford. Cambridge is one of the world’s great universities, and has the ability to transform lives. If you study here, you will experience that quality at first hand. Day to day, you will work with academic staff who are leaders in their fields, and who are also committed to see you succeed, and to help you develop your ideas, knowledge and understanding.Legend has it that Oxford University was founded by King Alfred in 872 to encourage education and establish schools throughout his territory. Like a grammar school, it was just a place for teaching Latin grammar at that time. The University actually began in the 12th century as gatherings of students around popular masters. The university consisted of people, not buildings. The buildings came later as a recognition of something that already existed. In a way, Oxford was never founded; it grew.Oxford is one of the greatest universities in the world. It has played a distinguished part in the history of our country and our continent, and has much to contribute to our success and our well-being as a civilized community in the future.The Boat Race between Oxford & Cambridge started June 10, 1829.The event is now a British national institution, and is televised live each year. The race has beenwon by Cambridge 79 times and Oxford 73 so far. The race is currently run over a four mile and 374 yard (6.8 km) stretch of the River Thames between Putney and Mortlake in London.Oxford wear dark blue and Cambridge light blue.In Chinese higher education, we can find five dilemmas. There is enrollment expansion, elite education vs mass education, intense competition in the job market, resources are straining and education quality is suffering.There are five defects of Chinese higher education. Defect 1: Blind Enrollment Expansion. Universities seem to have enrolled more than they can accommodate! Limited facilities & space, insufficient resources, shabby dorms (slum)…Expansion means a lot more! Fierce competition in the job market. Defect 2: Awkward Teaching Method. Teachers tend to spoon-feed their students who are in turn spoon-fed and force-fed!More trust, freedom, interactions and responsibilities for the students! Teachers should serve as advisors & assistants!Defect 3: Prescribed / Designated Textbooks. A lack of flexibility (few alternative choices), Outdated contents (keep pace with), The prescribed textbooks can be replaced by …Defect 4: Unreasonable Curriculum. Many outdated courses should be abolished! More utilitarian courses are welcome! (Computer Science, Business, Finance, Accounting and Law)One shouldn’t be confined to one’s specific field.Moral education is in urgent demand! (campus violence, suicide, theft, murder) Defect 5:Unfair Assessment System. Exam-oriented style! (Scores talk!)Students: exams of lottery(memory test / work overtime shortly before the test)How can we improve it? I will show my answer. It’s a time-consuming & systematic project.Never wait for the improvement! Get a move now! You and me are part of Chinese higher education! Try to make the best and most of the current situation! Stop complaining and try to make a difference from now on.。

英美文化概论期末英文论文1

American MusicThe music of the U.S. reflects the country’s multi-ethnic population through a diverse array of styles. Rock’n roll, rhythm, country, blues, jazz, and hip hop are among the country’s most internationally-renowned genres. The U.S. has the world’s largest music industry and also its music is heard around the world. Since the beginning of the 20th century, some types of American popular music have gained a near global audience. Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the U.S. and played its first music. Begining in the 17th century, immigrants from the British, Spain, Isles, and France began arriving in large numbers, bringing with them new styles and instruments. African slaves also brought musical traditions, and each subsequent wave of immigrants contributed to a melting pot.Much of modern popular music can trace back to the emergence in the late 19th century of African American blues and the growth of gospel music in the 1920s. The African American basis for popular music used elements derived from European and indigenous music. The U.S. has also seen documented folk music and recorded popular music produced in the ethnic styles of the Ukrainian, Polish, Hispanic, Irish, Scottish and Jewish communities, among others. Many American cities and towns have vibrant music scenes which, in turn, support a lot of regional musical styles. Aiong with musical centers such as Detroit, Chicago, New Y ork, Nashville and Los Angeles, many smaller cities have produced distinctive styles of music. The Creole and Cajun traditions in Louisiana music, the bluegrass and old time music of the Southeastern states and the folk and popular styles of Hawaiian music are a few examples of diversity in American music.Folk musicFolk music in the U.S. is varied across the country’s numerous ethnic groups. The native American tribes play their own varieties of folk music, most of it spiritual in nature. The native Americans played the first folk music in what is now the U.S., using a wide variety of techniques and styles. Some commonalities are near universal among native American traditional music, however, especially the lack of polyphony and harmony, and the use of vocables and descending melodic figures. Tradional instrumentations uses the flute and many kinds of percussion instruments, like rattles, drums, and shakers. Since African and European contact was established, native American folk music has grown in new directions, into fusions with disparate styles like European folk dances and Tejano music. Modern native American music may be best known for pan-tribal gatherings, powwow gatherings at which traditionally styled music and dances are performed.Blues and SpiritualsSpirituals were primarily expressions of religius faith, sung by slaves on southern plantations. In the mid to late 19th century, spirituals spread out of the United States South. In 1871 Fisk University became home to the Jubilee Singers, a pioneering griup that popularized spirituals across the country. In imitation of this group, gospel quartets arose, followed by increasing diversification with the early 20th century rise of jackleg and singing preachers.Blues is a combination of African field hollers, work songs and shouts. It developed in the rural south in the first decade of the 20th century. The most important features of the blues is its use of the blue scale, with a flatted or indeterminate third, as well as the typically lamenting lyrics;through these elements had existed in African American folk music prior to the 20th century, the codified form of modern blues did not exist until the early 20th century.Classical musicThe European classical music tradition was brought to the U.S. with some of the first colonists.European classical music is rooted in the traditions of European art, concert and ecclesiastical music. The central norms of this tradition developed between 1550 and 1825, centering on what was known as the common practice period. Many American classical composers tried to work entirely within European models until late in 19th century. When Antonin Dvooak, a prominent Czech composer, visited the U.S. from 1892 to 1895, he iterated the idea that American classical music needed its own models instead of imitating European composers. He also helped to inspire subsequent composers to make a distinctly American style. By the beginning of 20th century, many American composers were incorporating disparate elements into their work, ranging from blues and jazz to native American music.Popular musicThe U.S. has produced many popular composers and musicians in the modern world. Beginning with the birth of recorded music. American performers have continued to lead the field of popular music, which out of “all the contributions made by Americans to world culture...has been taken to center by the whole world”. Most histories of popular music start with American Tin Pan Alley or ragtime. Other, however, trace popular music back to the European Renaissance and through ballads and other popular tradions. Other authors typically look at popular sheet music, tracing U.S. popular music to minstrel, spirituals shows and vaudeville, or the patriotic songs of the Civil War.JazzJazz is a tpye of music characterized by swung and blue notes, call and response vocals, improvisation and polyrhythms. Though originally a kind of dance music, jazz has been a major part of popular music, and has also become a major element of Western classical music. Jazz has roots in West African musical and classical expression, and in African music traditions including ragtime and blues, as well as European military band music. Early jazz was closely related to ragtime, with which it could be distinguished by the use of more intricate rhythmic improvisation. The earliest jazz bands adopted many vocabularies of the blues,including bent and blue notes, instrumental “growls” and smears otherwise not used on European instruments. Jazz’ro ots come from the city of New Orleans,Louisiana,populated by black Creoles and Cajuns, who combined the French-Canadian culture of the Cajuns with their own styles of music in the 19th century. Large Creole bands that played for funerals and parades became a major basis for early jazz, which spread from Chicago to New Orleans and other northern urban centers.Country musicCountry music is a combination of popular musical forms originally found in the southern U.S. and the Appalachian Mountians. It has roots in traditional folk music, blues, gospel music, Celtic music, hokum, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s. The term country music began to be used in the 1940s when the early term hillbilly music was deeded to be degrading, and the term was widely embraced in the 1970s, while western and country have declined in use since that time, except in the U.K., where it is still commonly used.While album sales of most musical genres have declined, country music expericed one of its best years in 2006, when, during the first six months of the year, United States sales of country albums increased by 17.7% to 36 million. Furthermore, country music listening nationwide has remained steady for almost a decade, reaching 77.3 million adults every week.The term “country music” is used to describe many genres, styles, or subgenres and so on.。

英美文化概论论文_2

英美文化概论论文－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－英美文化概论论文英美文化概况跃跃10084626机自08-2班Differences Between China and USAThe discrimination still exist in America. When you come to America, you may be surprised when you see that Blacks and Whites work side by side in offices , factories , and schools across the country . The majority of Blacks in the United States, however, live in and around only a small number of American cities.we, as Chinese, prefer to think in a spiral, casual way, while western people, more often than not, are fond of a linear, business-is-business way.If you are in China, it is not rare to see that a crowd of people throng in the supermarket, trying to get service first. People in China do line up.In contrast, in USA people always line up, no matter in a big bank or a small grocery store. And they take it for granted. Lining up haslong since become part of their life that they scarcely doubt it or grow impatient while doing it.Secondly, first come, first served. Though in words it is a normal principle here in China, it’s m ostly not the case in reality. Take an example of what usually happens in a bank. Here when we are in a middle-sized bank, and suppose we are talking with the cashier, it always tends to have someone butt in, claiming that his or her request takes only one second.And it seems that we have already been accustomed to it. So has the cashier. But in western countries, it never applies. It is always rude that you butt in while the cashier is serving his customer. No matter how little time your request costs, the cashier, more often than not, is likely to turn you down. Only one customer at a time is his principle. Thirdly, change stuff. Suppose I am in a shopping mall and the stuff I purchase cost me 142 RMB. While lining up at the casher’s and happening to check my wallet, I find I have 200 RMB and two one-Yuan coins. What will I do? To give the cashier 200 RMB, or give him 200 RMB and the two one-Yuan coins so that he could return me 60 RMB, which is more convenient for both of us.I think when the Chinese were in this situation, they would mostly choose the latter one. But in America, they won’t do so. If you try it . The cashier did not understand.So the western people are prone to lack of flexibility while doing their work. TheAmerica think that we Chinese have a tendency to make things complicate. What aninteresting contrast!What I try to say is just that we might well be in conformity with the customs and beaware of the culture differences while being abroad. Like the saying goes—while youare i n Rome, do as Romans do. If you don’t want to put yourself in the public, bearingall this in mind is perhaps the best policy. 中和美之跃的差国国异歧国当你来国跃仍然存在于美。

英美文化鉴赏论文范文

The Study of Domestic Violence onAmerican Beauty and Its Action Guidance Abstract:paper presents a new method for the interpretation of American Beauty.In modern society, family violence is the destruction of the traditional family happiness. Family cold violence in the Burnhams and thermal violence in the Fitts are the representatives of the domestic violence. And also, the family violence makes the family life become not only an invisible battlefield, but a nightmare, distorting the couples, the parents, children and family relationships. In this movie, the heroes awaken people with their blood and lives, to re-examine their family life. This paper focuses on the domestic violence in this film and some statistics or backgrounds specifically on the domestic violence in the United States. Then the paper will give some preventions and services act, giving family violence in real concern and action guidance.Key Words:American Beauty; domestic violence; cold violence; thermal violence; action guidance《美国丽人》中家庭暴力的研究及其行动指导摘要：本文提出了电影《美国丽人》的一种新的解读方法。

英美文化概论期末英文论文3

英美文化概论期末英文论文3－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－Art Crimes---Graffiti模具101 205100236 张轶非Graffiti as one kind of street corner art, with the street dance, talkative, DJ compound is four important elements of the street corner culture. Graffiti can be traced back to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.Graffiti refers to a drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface .it is understood as an unusual art form today, but it was originally recognized as a contrary behavior or the release of discontented.Graffiti originates from Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in 1966.At first, graffiti is only the concept of tag. And graffiti writers also write their nickname or house number. However, during 1971 to 1974, more and more writers have lucubration in the font and effect, and the wall is not the only medium for them to show their art enthusiasm. Writers play graffiti in the surface of subway cars or trains, even in the toilets.Graffiti and Hip-pop are come from Bronx, the poorest district in the New York. Since 1960s, this area is occupied with Black and Latino. With the rapid development of city and large wealth gap, in these slum areas, some small anti-culture groups are founded. They usually doing bad things, like stealing, fighting etc. Graffiti originates in the edge of the destruction of the New York society.A group of brave child who dares to fight with the American government plays an important role in this crisis.Firstly, it is common to see the ugly tag everywhere in the city. The Bronx is considered a barbarian aggregation. In common sense, it is a damage to draw any paints in the surface of buildings. So, some gifted person started to redesign their tag, other artists realize the wall is the cheapest materials. As a result, graffiti come to people‟s view as a new kind of art form.Graffiti is not only the rebel to the authority, but also a form of art. Due to this unique action, it can easily catch the whole society‟s attentions. People use this creation against the system, express their dissatisfaction and protest against the society.By 1976, some graffiti artists, such as Lee Quinones, started to use more advanced technology for graffiti, his famous works are political, such as demanding to stop arms race.The real graffiti artists have nothing with the clan. They are the poor man from the bottom of the society. They have some new ideals ,these artists play graffiti only for others can see their creations, they called themselves “writer” instead of “painter”, that‟s quite different with others who doing this for some finical or political purposes.The early graffiti culture is fond of a single color, such as the symbols of smoke bits, and Hello, etc. then, the arrows in characters change into a crown. Later, with bright, marked, outstanding as the goal, start painting in the subway or write their name on a wide street and using comparative color or black around it, in order to make their name apparent. The 1970 s, the film's hero and some cartoon characters are common to see in the creations, they are usually appeared negatively. The background of graffiti become more and more complex, and the painting device are improve red to the extreme. The burning sun, stars and scenery give birth to another interesting pictureAn investigation on graffiti has taken place between aesthetics and sociology. Once talking about graffiti culture, he usually gives a depolarization view. Most people saw it as a bad, defiled, crazy, threatening campaign, but there are also some people argue that graffiti is a real aesthetic creation, they call for the real freedom. For example, John Cage thought that we should cherish every graffiti mark. Instead, Norman Mailer appointed that the phenomenon of the graffiti is the rebel of the evil industry in her published book.All the pronouns of graffiti art have become the fashion and character that young people chasing for now. However, this kind of American punk culture has suffered from strong decay. The mayor of New York City even force-out some designers and the LAPD asked for more funds to handle this phenomenon, they considered to use more heavy crimes to put the graffiti writers into prosecution.During the last few decades, many great masters come into the public‟s views, for example, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, etc.Jean-Michel Basquia t isn‟t a graduate, but his creations are one of the most representative examples about colored races problem in American. He used to use colorful Africa images to show his feelings.The china in today has more access to the foreign culture. In the recent years, graffiti is becoming more and more popular among the teens in china, more and greater writers spring up, like the MIG (professional graffiti team in Guangzhou) and the Blcakhands.Some places where gathered a great deal of perfect works have sprung up in shanghai, Guangzhou, Fuzhou and Zhengzhou. Each of them is a legend.In my opinion, graffiti‟s existence has its own reason.One of these reasons is suffers. The United States is a nation of diversity, culturally and socially, and the major body of its population consists of millions of immigrants and many ethnic groups.America is god‟s crucible. So racial discrimination and differs in the culture became a great problem in the later American society.Later, an economic condition of both continuing inflation and stagnant business activity, together with an increasing unemployment rate, these social problems cause the unfairness and wide wealth gap and they have something to do with the background of the society. Graffiti called ……the Renaissance‟ in the slum‟. People were suffering from unfairness and poorness in New York in the 1960s. Graffiti is the way to release the poor‟s anger.Just as what a graffiti writer said, "When you are writing your graffiti on the wall, you will spend all the time on how to make your signature more cool more attractive. You‟ll find 340 font changes for an “A”; we are in this way to understand the balance and harmony in aesthetics". Many designers who once played the graffiti said that graffiti is their starting point for understanding art and design.In their eyes, graffiti influence the mainstream, and it has a closely relation with street culture. It is derived from the street culture. Many famous designers used to have the impulse writing graffiti in the street, because it is a state of freedom and improvisation with no reference and copy, they just looking for a kind of pure pleasure.感谢阅读，欢迎大家下载使用！。

英美文化赏识论文-英国和美国的文化比较

英美文化赏识论文-英国和美国的文化比较英国和美国的文化比较上了近十多周的“英美文化赏识”我的感触很深，这让我知道了以前从来都不知道的东西，如：教育，政策，习俗……这双方的差异很值得人们去思考，下面就让我简单地说一下英美文化的特点首先是政治：英国的实质就是君主立宪制，君主虽然予以保留，代表国家元首，但只在特定时期是在具有一定实权，并且权利不能超越宪法。

而美国是共和制中的总统责任制，总统拥有党政军大权，集政府首脑、国家元首于一身，但是受三权分立制约。

英国有着悠久的议会民主传统，实行君主立宪制，君主为国家元首，目前是伊莉莎白二世。

英国的立法机关，也就是议会，目前拥有两个议院。

下议院地位较重要，上议院主要是修订法律的机构。

行政机关由首相领导，英国现任首相为工党的托尼〃布莱尔。

通常，首相是在下议院拥有最多席位的政党领袖。

该政党其他主要成员与首相一起组成内阁，即主要的行政机构。

从严格意义上讲，英国并非是一个联邦制的国家，但现任政府最近在苏格兰及威尔士成立了地方分权机构，如设在爱丁堡的苏格兰议会及设在卡地夫的威尔士议会。

英国还试图成立北爱地方分权政府，但是由于各政党之间存在纷争，以至于被暂时搁臵下来。

英格兰和威尔士的立法、司法制度与苏格兰、北爱尔兰大不相同。

同样，苏格兰的法律与英格兰的法律也有不少的差异。

美国是联邦制国家，政权组织形式为总统制，实行三权分立与制衡相结合的政治制度和两党制的政党制度。

由此而进，美国现代自由主义与保守主义关于大、小政府之争的帷幕正式拉开。

美国的国家组织是依据三权分立与联邦制度、二大政治思想而制定，当初在起草宪法时因恐权力过分集中于个人或某一部门将危害人民的自由，因而将立法、司法，行政三种权力分别独立，互相制衡，以避免政府滥权，行政机关是以由人民直接选举的总统为最高行政首长，并以副总统辅之，下设几个行政部门。

政府的权力有联邦政府、州政府之分，宪法起草人根据政府必须接近百姓才不致剥夺人民自由的原则，将有关各州自治权保留给州政府，各州政府本身拥有立法、司法、行政诸权限，联邦政府的权力系以一州政府无法单独行使者为限，如课税、财政、国防、外交、货币银行、出入境管理、对外贸易、国民福利、邮政，以及科学艺术的发展援助等。

英美文化论文：英美文化和英美文学评论

英美文化和英美文学评论随着各国之间文化交流的不断开展，英语逐渐成为了世界通用的语言。

在英语的发展过程中，英美文学作品逐渐发展起来。

文学作品与文学评论是同步的，其既表达了作者的真实情感，也体现了国家的文化。

文学评论是对文学作品的思想内容、表达形式等进行解读，理解作出评论，受文化差异的影响，对同一文学作品做出的评论也不近相同。

因此。

英美文化的差异不仅影响着文学作品，也影响着文学评论。

1英美文化差异概述所谓文化，指的是拥有相同社会经验及受过相同教育的许多人共有的心理程序。

就英美两国而言，其文化上的巨大差异，即因其地理环境、历史发展脉络的极大不同，民族个性发展上的巨大差异，造成两国间文化上的巨大差异。

美国历史较短，形成的文化融合了多个民族的特色，其文化具有活力，其向往自由，注重彰显个性，其强调个人价值，崇尚开拓和竞争，有深厚的成就崇拜和英雄崇拜的心理积淀。

相较于美国而言，英国历史相对久远，文化底蕴更加深厚，其特点是祟尚传统、厚重而严肃，其追逐自由、平等。

正因为两国文化的不同，造成了文学评论的差异。

2.英美文化差异对英美文学评论的影响2.1英美语言的差异对英美文学评论的影响文学作品的表达主要通过语言来表达，因此，英美语言的差异对英美文学评论的影响较大。

虽然中美两国的语言都是英语，但是其中英语的表达形式上仍存在较大差异。

对于同一语言，其表达不同，其理解形式也会不同。

英国的英语发展成为英式英语，美国的英语发展成为美式英语，历史的不同，导致两国的习俗、典故不同，从而在语言上有很大的区别。

从语调上来分析，英式英语稳重、严谨，而美式英语更具有创新性，张扬不同的个性。

所以，也是因为两国的差异不同，不能有效的掌握英美文化评论，很難保证对英美两国文化评论的时效性。

2.2文化历史方面的差异对英美文学评论产生的影响英国的文化发展经历了较长的、复杂的演变过程，如文艺复兴阶段、二战阶段等。

文艺复兴时期的欧洲文学在创作方法的发展上达到一个重要阶段，取得了新的成就，在反封建、反教会的斗争中，作家的创作更加丰富，该时期的作家具有时代感与历史感，其强烈的反封建意识已经融入他们的文学作品中，例如在《哈姆雷特》中，将反封建这一思想理念体现的淋漓尽致，通过这一悲剧，作者莎士比亚表达了人们追求平等自由的思想。

英美文化概论论文

英美文化概论论文－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－英美文化概论论文In the past few weeks, we spent 10 lessons on essentials of British & American cultures study. In this course, we learn in brief about the history and government system etc. During the Learning process, what impresses me most is the cowboys.An integral part of the story of America, the cowboy is a national icon, a romantic, rugged metaphor for America’s frontier past, Westward expansion and creation myths. Sensationalizedby Hollywood and by real-life bad boys, the heroic, hard-working, hard-riding, free-thinking cowboy is inseparable from American history itself.America’s first cowboys came from Mexico. Beginning in the 1500s, vaqueros—the Spanish term for “cowboy”—were hired by ranchersto drive and tend to livestockbetween Mexico and what is now New Mexico and Texas. During the early 1800s, and leading up to Texas’s independence from Mexico in 1836, the number of English speaking settlers in the area increased. These American settlers took their cues from the vaquero culture, borrowing clothing styles and vocabulary and learning how to drive their cattle in the same way.The vaquero influence persisted throughout the 1800s. Cowboys came from a variety of backgrounds, and included European immigrants, African Americans, Native Americans and Midwestern and Southern settlers. In the nineteenth century, one out of three American cowboys in the south was Mexican.As America built railroads further and further west, fostering industry, transportation and white settlements in former Indian territories, the cowboy played a crucial part in the nation’s expansion. In the early 1800s, Texas cattleman had herded cows via the Shawnee Trail to cattle markets in St. Louis and Kansas City. During the 1860s and following the Civil War, they began herding via the Chisholm and Western Trails towards the new railroads in Kansas, where livestock was then loaded into freight cars and transported to markets around the country.In less than two decades cowboys herded more than six million cows and steers to the railroads. Most cowboys were young—the average age was 24—and hard-working men in need of quick cash, although the pay was low. The work was exhausting and lonely. Cowboys also helped establish towns, spending their money in the “cowtown” settlements across the wes t during their time off. Townspeople frowned oncowboys as lawless troublemakers who brought nothing but violence and immorality, and some even banned them from town.Ranching, or the raising of cattle or other livestock on range land, also expanded during the late nineteenth century. The forced removal of Native Americans and the clearing of the American frontier resulted in the near extinction of the region’s many buffalo and bison. This land, now dominated by white homesteaders, was used for ranching.Public lands on the Great Plains constituted “open range,” where any white settler could buy and raise cattle for grazing. The invention and distribution of barbed wire in the 1870s revolutionized the concept of privately owned land in the Midwest, fencing off homesteads suitable for farming and ranching—but also limiting the work to be done by cowboys.With the rise of private landholdings in the late 1800s, the cattle driving industry had lost its cachet. Private landowners and “free grazers”—vaqueros and cowboys alike—locked horns over what was appropriate use for land whose ownership was also in question. By the 1890s, the wideopen ranges and cattle trails were gone and privatized, and the days of the long cattle drives tothe railroads were over.Smaller-scale cattle drives continued until the mid-1900s, with livestock herded from Arizona to New Mexico and throughout the southwestern United States. Most cowboys left the open trail and took jobs at one of the myriad of private ranches that were settling across the West. But as the work of actual cowboys declined in the U.S., the cowboy lifestyle continued to be popularized—and stereotyped—by a new Hollywood film genre: the Western movie.The late 1900s were tough times for cowboys, ranchers, farmers and anyone working with the land in the U.S. Changing modes of food distribution and production, widespread urbanization and severe economic difficulties forced many to sell their land, go bankrupt, change professions, or take out large loans. As Vern Sager says in The Last Cowboy, “Don’t seem quite fair. A person works hard to make a little and gives it to the bank.”Cowboys in the 21st century might seem like an anachronism, but as Sager demonstrates, their work still needs to be done. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, cowboys—included in the occupation category “support activities for animal production”—numbered 9,730 workers in 2003, making an average of $19,340 per year, working in ranches, stockyards and rodeos. About one-third of these worke rs were listed in the subcategory of “spectator sports,” making their living primarily at rodeos, circuses and theatrical venues as livestock handlers.As the ranchers and cowboys of Sager’s generation age, who will be left to do their jobs? Despite decade s of socioeconomic change, cowboys still don’t have health insurance—and they don’t retire. Times might be changing, but as a symbol of persistence, self-sufficiency and a hard work ethic, cowboys live on.感谢阅读，欢迎大家下载使用！。

英美文化概论

英美文化概论导言：在全球化的今天，英美文化已成为世界范围内广泛接受和影响深远的文化形式。

英美文化的独特性和多样性使其融入了各个层面的社会生活。

本文将对英美文化进行概述，包括英美文化的起源、主要特征和影响力等方面。

一、起源1. 英美文化的历史背景英美文化源于英国和美国两个国家，两国在历史发展中形成了独特的文化基因。

英国作为美国的殖民地，英国文化是美国文化的重要来源之一。

17世纪至18世纪期间，随着大量移民的涌入，欧洲文化也对美国文化的形成产生了影响。

2. 英美文化的多样性英美文化是一个多元且充满活力的文化体系。

它包括了英国各个地区的本土文化以及美国不同地区和种族背景的文化。

这种多样性使英美文化具备了包容性和创造性。

二、主要特征1. 语言英语是英美文化的基本媒介和表达方式。

英美英语具有许多共同点，但也有一些差异，如发音、词汇和语法等方面。

同时，英语在英美文化中的地位也是相当重要的。

2. 文学英美文学以其独特的风格和世界知名的作家而闻名。

从莎士比亚到丽兹·堤勒，英美文学不仅包括古典作品和传统文学，还涵盖了现代文学和儿童文学等多个领域。

3. 音乐英美文化中的音乐具有广泛的影响力。

从古典音乐到流行音乐，英美的音乐创作和表演都具有独特的风格和特点。

如披头士乐队、迈克尔·杰克逊等，这些音乐人和乐队都成为了英美音乐文化的重要代表。

4. 电影英美电影是全球最具影响力的电影产业之一。

从好莱坞到英国电影，这些电影以其独特的剧情和制作质量广受欢迎。

同时，英美文化对于电影风格、故事情节以及电影产业的发展都起到了重要推动作用。

5. 社交礼仪英美文化中的社交礼仪和行为规范也是其特征之一。

英美人民注重礼节和谦和，在社交场合中会注重礼貌的表达和行为举止。

例如，握手、微笑、道谢等行为是英美社交礼仪中的常见做法。

三、影响力1. 全球影响力由于英美文化的广泛传播和深入影响，其对全球的影响力不言而喻。

无论是英语的普及、英美文学的翻译与传播，还是英美电影和音乐在全球范围内的流行，都体现了英美文化的全球影响力。

英美文化毕业论文范文

英美文化毕业论文范文美国是由英国在北美大陆的殖民地发展而来的，因而美国文化与英国文化在许多方面基本一致。

下文是店铺为大家整理的关于英美文化毕业论文范文的内容，欢迎大家阅读参考!英美文化毕业论文范文篇1浅析英美文化差异对英美文学评论的影响摘要：文化是一个国家存在与发展的灵魂，它对一个国家的文学评论能够产生广泛的影响。

本文在分析英美文学的发展与英美文学评价的基础上，从英美两国文化发展载体的差异、文化内涵的差异、文化历史的差异这三个主要方面分析了文化差异对英美文学评论的影响，以期更深入地为大家学习、欣赏英美文学作品提供一些有益的参考。

关键词：文化差异英美文学文学评论文化伴随着人类历史的产生而产生，广泛而深刻影响着人类社会的历史生活，并在长期的历史发展中表现出了民族文化的差异性，促成了世界文化多元的发展。

在多元文化发展的这一社会大背景下，对于英美文学评论的影响因素很多，其中文化差异的因素对英美文学评论所产生的影响最为广泛和深远。

一、英美文学的发展与英美文学评论英美文学与英美文学评论是相伴产生的，英美文学作品是将英美文化艺术性地展现，而英美文学评论则是通过英美文学这一手段重新审视与剖析英美社会文化生活。

两者之间的联系是紧密的，也是必然的。

因而，探讨文化差异对英美文学的评论影响，有必要对英美文学的发展历史作出梳理。

1 、英美文学发展英美文学作品是英美两国人民智慧的结晶，同时也是英美文化的表现形式。

英美文学不单单是英美语言的艺术性体现，同时也是对英美人民现实生活的艺术性展现，是世界人民认识英美文化的一个窗口。

英语作为一种交流的工具，在英美文学作品中，被用来表达英美人的思想、情感。

英国的文学发展史可谓是源远流长，英国文学先后经历了盎格鲁·撒克逊阶段、文艺复兴阶段、新古典主义阶段、浪漫主义阶段、现实主义阶段以及现代主义阶段。

纵观英国文学的发展阶段，我们不难发现，其每一个阶段在文学成就上都具有独特的文学艺术魅力。

关于英美文化论文(牛仔文化)

Cowboy Culture1、The introductions to American cowboys2、The origins of the word “cowboy”3、The cowboys' spirit4、Introductions to cowboy cultur5、The influences of cowboy culture6、Resent situationCowboys, as a legend ,play a important role in America.The culture they created is quite classic ,which has an far-reaching effect on the whole world especially on America.The word ,"Cowboy", is in origin of the word "Vaquero" in Hispanic cultures .In 1846,a war broke out between America and Mexico . Ridiculously , America ,as a winning , was invaded thoroughly by the cowboy culture of Mexico .There were two groups of cowboy. The earlist group were immigrants from Europe. And another group are Hispanics . As a result of their traditional spirit ,the characters of the latter group were intelligent, gentle ,bold and ambitious while the former group were just avoided the war and natural disasters . In fact ,the cowboys did not be a heroism as movies reflect . According to the reality ,cowboys were farm workers ,being responsible for taking care of cows . Their jobs was the most dangerous and hard ,however , they got the lowest pay . But exactly owing to their pioneering spirit ,it can be spreaded all over the country and have been preserved well until now . And nowadays ,those stubborn cowboys who live in the New Mexico State are Hispanic .The cowboy culture consist of cowboys' spirit ,cowboys' images, cowboys'literature and cowboys' films and clothes in modern society .The one spirit of cowboys is freedom. Freedom is equal to that do everything you want in some degree. Maybe , everyone is long for it ,however, not everyone can reach the goal . Anyway be a perseverance man at pursueing his dreams is foremost, which is the heart of the spirit. Apart from freedom and perseverance, it also involves bravery , independence , rebellion and so on . The spirit cater to popular taste and has been becoming a welcoming gradually.Besides , the influence of the cowboy culture relates to the some aspects in America . Springing up from American culture field , the cowboy culture was absorbed in the essence of diversified culture in order to made itself develop. Through the many facts and legends, cowboy has become a great representative of American culture. Cowboy is generally considered to be the representative of Americans, while "cowboy spirit "the "American spirit". For a period, the foreign policy of Bush government is called the"cowboy policy".The essay states,after a careful study of the word cowboy and American history, that the so-called manliness actually reflects an American spirit full of ferity and sanguinary aggression.The typical point is cowboy industry . The cowboy culture Many people may not even ever heard about it but in fact almost the vast majority of people worldwide are currently living in this industry that has long been built out of the cultural atmosphere. Take Taiwan for example, As long as we turn on the TV , those who sell mobile phones, shoes, jeans, and beverages and other goods advertising are usually a group of young men who wear a baseball cap, wear loose clothing or are wrapped in a largeturban . This is the cowboy style. The so-called "cowboy" has already become a popular fashion. In addition to TV commercials and variety channels that can be seen on the typical "cowboy style", they appears on the streets or the place where is filled with young man and new middle class too. The kind of "cowboy style" is a more common scenery that lots of the young wear cowboy hats and a set of cool wireless mobile device in those place .Further more ,cowboy culture in the clothing field also set off major reform . The styles and fabrics of jeans for workers have been swept all over world. Whatever your identity, career, status, age, height or weight is , the person presents the image of sincere and simplicity after dressing up such clothes. Of course ,it epitomizes among the young group and it is rare to find no pair of jeans in recent days.Referring to some other field, we will not ignore the extension of the cowboy culture such as Rodeo. With Houston been as an example, it is a city with a large amount of cowboy culture . And the most grand-scale celebration is held here on the day of "Stampede and Rodeo". Another part is its literature . There are so many famous works ,for example "Pale Rider " , "Sudden Impact ", " Firefox" and "Honkytonk Man" .By now ,the genuine cowboy culture is put into the museum by modern development. Cowboy culture has been changed in some degree whereas Texas cowboy culture leads to tremendous economic benefits. It is pre-requisite for a tourist who adore the cowboy culture to go to the "Taste of Texas" steak house in Houston. Tourist attractions in Texas promote the local economic development . Meanwhile italso drive other industry step forward .At last ,although cowboys lead a grief life ,many things have been eternal through their perseverance and efforts . They are not touched by exterior world , just as their motto goes "The importance in life is not where we live but how we live ".在美国19世纪的历史舞台上潇洒登场的西部牛仔创造出了魅力无穷的牛仔文化。

有关英美文化英语作文500字

英美文化的魅力与影响The influence of Anglo-American culture on the global stage is immense, with its reach extending far beyond the borders of the United Kingdom and the United States. This culture, shaped by a rich history, diverse traditions, and innovative spirit, has become a significant part of the global cultural landscape.The foundation of Anglo-American culture can be traced back to the ancient civilizations of Britain and America. The Celtic, Roman, and Norman invasions of Britain, as well as the colonization of the Americas by Europeans, all left indelible marks on the development of this culture. The blend of these various influences created a unique cultural identity that has withstood the test of time.One of the most prominent features of Anglo-American culture is its emphasis on individualism and personal freedom. This is reflected in various aspects of life, from the political system to social interactions. The Anglo-American belief in the inherent rights of individuals has given rise to institutions like democracy and a robustlegal framework that protects the freedoms and liberties of its citizens.Moreover, Anglo-American culture is renowned for its contributions to literature, art, music, and science. Authors like Shakespeare, Dickens, and Hemingway, as well as artists like Monet, Picasso, and Jackson Pollock, have left an indelible mark on the world of art and literature. Similarly, musicians like Beethoven, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles have revolutionized music, making it a universal language of expression.The influence of Anglo-American culture is also evident in the global business world. The principles of entrepreneurship, innovation, and competitiveness that are ingrained in this culture have spurred economic growth and development across the globe. The Anglo-American business model, characterized by its focus on efficiency, effectiveness, and continuous improvement, has become a benchmark for businesses worldwide.However, the influence of Anglo-American culture is not without its criticisms. There are concerns about the cultural homogenization that results from the dominance ofthis culture globally. This homogenization can erode the unique cultural identities of other nations and communities, leading to a loss of diversity and richness in the global cultural landscape.Despite these criticisms, the influence of Anglo-American culture remains significant. Its contributions to literature, art, music, science, and business have shaped the world in profound ways. Moreover, the principles of individualism, freedom, and innovation that are at the core of this culture continue to inspire and motivate people across the globe to strive for excellence and progress.**英美文化的魅力与影响**英美文化在全球舞台上的影响力巨大，其影响范围远远超出了英国和美国的国界。

英美文化差异论文英文版

1)A, the natural environmentIn the eyes of the Chinese people, "summer sorching", "hot summer," summer always linked with intense heat. In Shakespeare a sonnet yet such lines, Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate. (can I take with you? / summer than you ah, than summer came cute and photos.) The poet's compared to summer, lovely and always. "Summer" to the Chinese and British lenovo can be so different. Reason is that in different geographical position, China is located in the Asian continent, belong to a continental climate and four distinct seasons, summer most obvious characteristics is scorching, hot challenging. Britain is located in the north temperate, belong to sea climate, beautiful summer mild, pleasant. And of course many example of this, for example, in the Chinese "dongfeng" to make people think of the warm sunny, the west wind that have seed the bitter taste. And in the west the opposite. Reason is the same, the two are in different geographical position, bring feel different.2)Second, productionIn English and aquaculture, ship the words very much, such as fish in the air (climb a tree to look for fish), an odd fish (weirdo), miss the boat (miss), etc. This kind of words in Chinese is much less. Reason is that British around water, aquatic fishing industry and ring navigation in its economic occupies an important place in the life, so many such words. And in China only coastal areas have fishermen netting fishing, so this relatively few words.To express "with the physical negative things" of the verbs in Chinese language has many, such as "carry, the Netherlands, pick, bear, carry, back, carry, negative, carry, ku" and so on, each word has certain negative luck with the corresponding things (such as soil, water, pick bear, the box), is really a very close. In English, but only a carry to "refers to the-action. The Chinese will this verb fine add distinguish, probably because in the long run, China agricultural society, manual work much more special reason.Chinese, we will encounter "like the same said work", "QiZhuangRuNiu" word, in English, to express the same meaning, will say work like a horse, as strong as a horse, flog a willing horse. Why the Chinese use the "bull" and English with horse? The answer isChinese have always use cows to plow fields, the early English but with the Malay farming. Cows and horses in the production process were divided into two countries do good helper, earned the people with the words can be as above usage.3)Three, and the customs and habits1, appellation and call: learning English, we found that the English name in Chinese appellation than to much less. For example, a cousin of the English words, corresponding Chinese cousin, cousin, cousin and cousin, etc. We see that the Chinese are very strict distinction between Cousins relationship, should say gender, and give size, don't like English general a word settles. The linguistic produce attributed to China two, three thousand years of the rule of feudalism. This kind of feudal society pay high attention to the blood relationship, with particular emphasis on the differences between the level, advocate the youngest, concern and orderly. Kinship relationship and gender, on his face all different, power and obligations appear with distinction, it must strictly distinguish the appellation and close. The English title number not much, except the dad, mum, grandpa, aunt, uncle and so on several appellation often use outside, other almostall need not. In Britain or America, people call each other in Chinese people against reason, and not polite, no corrections. For example: the children do not put grandpa's grandmother called grandpa and grandma, but call him by his first name, this kind of practice is decent, kind, is often buried, young said the old, only his surname in before and Mr And Mrs Or Miss. They these practices embodies the pursuit of westerners equal thought, in their eyes, title itself means not equal. 2, honorific modest words:Like title, the English language and modest words also far less than Chinese. In English, no matter how much each other age, status and how high you is you, I was I, don't like Chinese that way with many such as "you, director, engineers" honorific, etc. Chinese produce the reasons of this phenomenon is one of China's feudal social hierarchy patriarchal clan system. It requires that people with elders or superior, even peers spoke, want to use honorific, otherwise think misnomer and discourteous, even appear proud; It takes about their own modest words, such as not use, also will be considered rude. Another reason, is in the thousands of years of Chinese the influence of traditional ideas, do not wish to highlight your, always think "modest" is a virtue. And in English this kind of word of less for two reasons: one is the westerners love for equality, 2 it is they have long respect personal value, ready to show, emphasize training individual self-confidence. By the mercy of theabove ideas, westerners accept praise, congratulations on the reaction was also have very big distinction. Chinese people listen to such words will be a modest said after the discourse, and westerners will not hesitate to say: "Thank you" from the newspaper I have seen such a joke, at a ball, an American people praise a Chinese woman said: "you look very beautiful today (you today is very beautiful." The Chinese woman quickly modestly said: "Where (Where), Where (Where)." the American people feel very strange and then had to say a sentence: "everywhere (around)." According to western habit, when they praise others, total hope others to accept or the way thanks frank answer, otherwise they will be misinterpreted as the other party to doubt his judgment. And the east is more modest, cautious, even if the mind is very happy, also won't have identity or accept their praise. And as academic journals of literature or the title of the paper. The title of the article in Chinese that the article content, often have said the modest words. Such as "on......", "try to talk about the......" , ", "......Taiwan ", etc., and the English article title often is straightforward, and without any modification, such as Science andLinguistics (the Science and language ").Personal privacy:For most westerners, to strangers or not familiar people put forward How old are you? How much do you make? Are you married? Talk about such as age, income, marital status, religious belief, family problems of the topic of personal privacy category, taboo other people asked about. Greet westerners the most frequent topic is the weather situation or prediction. Such as "It 's fine for' t It?" , "It 's raining hard for' t It?" , "Your dress is do nice!" And so on. They first met or not familiar with the person before and never asked about privacy issues related to other people, in order to show respect for each other. The Chinese greet sometimes also said to the other party's care. Such as "you today look bad, ill?" "long time no see, you and get fat." "You again thin, attention body ah." Such as westerners hear You say: "You are fat" or "You are so thin" etc. Words. Even more familiar with each other, will also feel embarrassed, hard to answer, because it's not polite. But Chinese meet three points familiar, in half an hour, each other's family, personal situation got out neatly. This is both the different cultural background in action. Westerners pay special attention to personal privacy. They believed that personal things don't have to let others know, is less willing to let others intervention. And the Chinese in one thousand to live in a village, leave near, contacts, personal life or personal it is hard not to beknown or intervention. Plus Chinese unity and friendship, care for each other, help each other, believed that personal things that family and to the collective. So they are willing to understand people's sweet and sour Shan spicy, other people are willing to tell the truth. Of course, now in some developed or coastal cities, people began to accept westerners view, do not speak to involve the privacy of others.4)Four religious beliefsChinese-english language about religion a vast number of words, spectacular. For example, "the god", "Yin and Yang," "Buddha", etc. Language is the direct reflection of thought, two very different religious vocabulary is two different national religious values of portraiture. Before the sui and tang dynasties, teach the correspondences in Chinese dominant position, Chinese words about religion and the related, such as "tai chi," "way" and so on, its spirit, such as honour destiny, line filial piety and resigned, etc can be seen in the daily languages. Sui and tang dynasties time, a large number of Buddhism was introduced into, a large number of Buddhism with words, the rebirth of the karma between thought is accepted by the digestive and thought. Such Buddha, Confucianism, Taoism occupiesa dominant position in China. In Britain, the one with the Christian as the main religion. The teaching was introduced into England in 597. Later in a very long time, a lot of related words into ranks in English. Both Old English period here by Latin words, such as English infiltration angel (angels), monk (monks), and a medieval French borrow from the words, such as religion (religion), dean (moderator) and so on, and the modern English period from other loan words borrowed a lot of word in, the result of the words in English about religion than other languages more.感谢下载!欢迎您的下载，资料仅供参考。

英美文化论文

英美文化论文第一篇：英美文化论文American RacismA popular saying is that America is a nation where people, with diligence and perseverance, can realize their dreams regardless of their religious beliefs, colors of skin and political convictions.However, others frown on this idea.This issue has given rise to a heated discussion.For my part,I’m all for the idea of disapproval.The reasons are mainly as follows:It is generally known that the United States of America is a nation of immigrants.People of different skin colors,religions and faiths creat the nation —America.And inevitably,religious conflict,racial discrimination and political struggle come along.The most prominent phenomenon is the racial discrimination.Nowadays,the racial discrimination in America remains quite serious.This social issue has been a long-standing problem.In the first place,there are so many roots of racial discrimination.Looking back in history, it began with the slave trade.Needless to say,it is so miserable and disastrous.Between 1650 and 1900, 10.24 million enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas.The transatlantic slave trade resulted in a vast and as yet still unknown loss of life for African captives both in and outside of America.Approximately 1.2 – 2.4 million Africans died during their transport to the New World.No scholars dispute the harm done to the enslaved people themselves.The African slave trade helped to shape a wide variety of societies from modern Argentina to Canada.These differed in their use of slaves, the harshness of the regime imposed on slaves, and the degree of mixing of the races that custom and law permitted.But none ofthese became as virulently racist--insisting on racial separation and a strict color bar--as the English North American colonies that became the United States.The institution of slavery was abolished through Civil War,a bloody second American revolution that cost at least 600,000 lives.Today,in the United States, although legal racial discrimination was cancelled,institutionalized racism remained intact.In addition, the United States parties which are based on different interests,1 formulate a series of related policies and harmed the interests of black people.The original U.S.Constitution permitted slavery and counted Black slaves as three-fifths of white persons in determining both Congressional representation and taxation, which were deeply rooted the racism in the very foundation of U.S.society.Unfortunately,to blacks,their performance provide discrimination discourse.In the black areas, the excessive crime happen at any moment.Worse still, Black also do the drug trade which undoubtedly violates the nation’s law.Politicians from both the Democratic and Republican Parties got the big calls “tough on crime,” embracing the so-called war on drugs, which tripled the prison population between 1980 and 1995.Two-thirds of those who entered the prison system during that period were Black, Latino or poor, and the vast majority of them were nonviolent drug offenders.Today, with the prison population swollen to more than 2 million, African Americans make up just 12 percent of the U.S.population and only 13 percent of drug users, yet account for 35 percent of drug arrests and 53 percent of drug convictions.Blacks are also 43 percent of those on death st year, the U.S.Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that 30 percent of 12 year-old Black boys will spend time in jail in their lifetimes--far more than will attend college.And because manystates have laws denying present and former inmates the right to vote, an estimated 13 percent of all Black men--including one in every three in Alabama and Florida--have been disenfranchised.In light of racial discrimination,black people conducted a series of racial fights which was called the Civil Rights Movement.The most illustrious march is probably the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.It is best remembered for the glorious speech Martin Luther King, Jr.gave, in which the “I have a dream” part t urned into a national text and eclipsed the troubles the organizers had to bring to march forward.The process was long and tenuous,and many of these movements did not fully achieve their goals although,the efforts of these movements did lead to improvements in the legal rights of previously oppressed groups of people.The current status of racism in America are still in poor condition.While discrimination has decreased and old forms of segregation have been recalled,subtlepatterns of informal discrimination in housing,employment,education and virtually every social sphere still persists.Indeed,for many African Americans,discrimination,as of now,remains a central part of their experience in the United States.According to a report of American, the black’s inco me only accounted for the three-fourths of the white,and African-American family’s income was just one-tenth of the white family’s.Half of all black men in New York can’t find a job,while Black teenage unemployment stands at 37 percent nationwide.As Mr.Bus h said,”And this poverty has roots in generations of segregation and discrimination that has closed many doors of opportunity“.These statistics show a crisis among Black Americans that should be setting of alarm.Racism, notcriminal records, explains the high unemployment rate for Black men today.A recent Wall Street Journal report showed that in the city of Milwaukee, a white job applicant with a criminal record has a better chance of being called for an interview than a Black man with no criminal record.”The disadvantage carried by a young Black man applying for a job as a dishwasher or a driver is equivalent to forcing a white man to carry an 18-month prison record on his back,“ concluded reporter David Wessel.And only racism can explain these statistics: Segregation in public schools, which decreased continuously from the 1950s to the late 1980s, has now returned to levels not seen in three decades.Black infants are almost two-and-a-half times more likely than white infants to die before the age of one, a wider gap than in 1970.More than 200 years since slavery was written into the U.S.constitution, its racist legacy remains--and the words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass remain true: ”Without struggle, there can be no progress."In general,only a struggle that shakes the foundation of U.S.society can end racism.As is the always the case,the darkest hour comes before the dawn.A mixed-race man is president says much about the peaceful progress on race relations in America.I believe that the black people can have equal rights and are free to live, study and work as they wish in the future,and people can truly realize their dreams regardless of their religious beliefs, colors of skin and political convictions.第二篇：英美文化(二)带来交际中的尴尬一位50来岁的美国妇女在中国任教,有一位年的中国同事请她到自己家里来吃饭,一进门,女主人就把4岁的女儿介绍给客人。

英美文化毕业论文

英美文化毕业论文英美文化素养是大学生综合文化素养中不可或缺的一部分,英美影视是大学生了解英美文化的重要途径。

下面是店铺为大家整理的英美文化毕业论文，供大家参考。

英美文化毕业论文范文一：大学生英美文学素养研究一、英美文学教育与大学生智力素质培养文学教育是激发大学生阅读文学作品兴趣、培养大学生鉴赏文学作品能力、促进大学生道德品质提升的重要途径之一。

文学教育是不分国界的，无论古今中外，只要是能够给大学生带来智力拓展、审美提升、道德促进的优秀文学作品，都应该成为大学生素质培养中的良好素材。

其中，英美文学教育在大学生的智力素质培养中占有极为重要的分量，有助于提高大学生英语语言运用的能力，拓宽大学生日常生活观察的视野，以及训练大学生独立思维观念的形成。

首先，大学生通过接受英美文学教育，可以提高其英语语言运用的能力。

在掌握了英语语言基础之后，要提高大学生具有较强的英语听、说、读、写、译等多种英语语言运用能力，使其掌握丰富的英语文化背景知识，在英语语言学习上获得质的飞跃，那么，包含英美文学作品阅读与欣赏在内的英美文学教育无疑是促使大学生提高外语水平和技能的一个有效途径和必要阶段，其可以增进大学生对西方文化的充分了解，达到既能够通过英语语言(无论是口语还是文字的形式)与国外人士进行沟通交流的目的，也能够通过文学作品的生活描述感受异域的风土人情，进而开阔自己的视野，增强自己的见识，启迪自身的心智。

在课堂内外，大学生通过广泛阅读英美文学名著和其他文学作品，或者通过积极参与英美文学诗歌的朗诵、戏剧的表演，或者通过潜心编写英美文学故事等形式，能够有效突破和摆脱大学生英语课程教学时数的极大限制，促进大学生英语语言能力和综合人文素质的提高。

比如，按照教师的教学安排，大学生选读了英国小说《简•爱》，在阅读该篇小说的基础上，大学生可以通过分析和理解小说的主题要旨、主角的性格品质、人物的心理刻画、情节的演化设计、叙述的展开角度、特定的风情描写、独特的语言风格等等，驾驭和运用自己的英语语言能力，用心灵去感受小说《简•爱》所具有的经典神韵和无穷魅力。

英美文化异同

大学生英美文化赏析论文——英美文化的异同摘要人们都说，美国人开朗、自信、勇敢、活泼；而传统的英国人内向、淡漠、彬彬有礼、诚实可靠、有民族优越感。

英国人和美国人互不服气，英国人说美国人没有历史，美国人说英国人不懂未来。

长期生活在美国和英国的中国留学生在那里呆的时间长了，不知不觉中言和行也都折射出了英美文化的差异。

政体、教育、宗教和法律体系等几个方面讨论英美之间的文化差异。

一、英美政党制度方面的差异英国是现代政党政治的发源地，是实行两党制的典型国家。

主宰英国政坛100多年以本上是两个重要政党，先是托利党和辉格党，继而是保守党和自由党，后来为保守党和工党。

英国政党制度具有以下特点：⑴同议会内阁制相结合，执政党和反对党在形式上界限分明。

英国实行的是议会内阁制，有上下两议院。

上议院议员不由选举产生，而是由贵族世袭或国王任命，与政党无关。

下议院由选举产生。

两大政党靠竞选争夺下议院议席，有获得多数席位的政党组阁，该党的领袖担任内阁首相，掌握政府权力。

组阁的政党便是执政党。

执政党既掌握内阁的实权，又掌握下议院的实权。

选举中未获得多数的政党便是在野党或反对党。

反对党负有监督政府的责任，可以组成有各部大臣的“影子内阁”。

执政党和反对党在形式上界限分明。

⑵两大政党均采取集中制。

主要表现在：无论中央或地方，每个政党都有健全的组织；有严格的组织纪律；特别是党内对议会投票有严格的规定。

在议会的重要投票中，各政党都要求其党员作为一个集团，按照领导人的意图投票。

否则，会受到严厉处罚。

美国也是实行两党制的典型国家，美国政党制度具有以下特点：⑴同民主共和体相联系，党的主要活动是进行总统竞选。

美国是总统制国家。

美国政党的主要活动是进行总统竞选。

竞选获胜的政党为执政党，失败者为反对党。

美国国会议员虽然也是有选举产生，但两大政党在议会中席位的多少与执政地位无关。

在美国，一个政党只要在总统竞选中获胜，即使它在国会选举中失败，也不会影响它的执政地位。

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