新视野大学英语PPT课件

Do you like?
Perhaps the most famous name in doll-making history, Barbie has delighted children since 1959, and has become a magnet for doll collectors. The idea for Barbie originated when Ruth Handler, part owner of the Mattel company with her husband Elliot and family friend Harold Mattson, noticed that her daughter, Barbara, enjoyed playing with adult female dolls more than with baby dolls. She decided, therefore, to create a doll that would allow young girls to envision （想象） what they might become as they grew older. Her creation, named in honor of daughter Barbara and backed by Mattel, debuted（首次登台） at the American Toy Fair in New York City in 1959. Although Mattel had been hesitant to risk producing the Barbie doll, Barbie set a new sales record for Mattel after the first year on the market. At a cost of three dollars each, Mattel sold 351,000 dolls during the first year of production, and within ten years, the public had purchased $500 million worth of Barbie products.
Unit 4
Do you know?
One of the most famous symbols of United States
Statue of Liberty
as a symbol of the United States, located in the United States west of New York City, Manhattan, a small island free on the island, holding her torch in New York, Hong Kong stands at the entrance, at the city observe day and night, since the late 19th century ushered in since the to the millions of immigrants to settle in the United States. In 1984, it was inscribed on the World Heritage List.
French Government to commemorate freedom of the logo image, as a celebration of the 100th anniversary of independence of the United States presented to the United States a gift. Since been completed in 1886, it stands in the entrance of New York Harbor. More than a century, standing on the freedom of the Statue of Liberty statue on the island has become a law the people of the United States and the United States national symbol of friendship, the expression of the American people will always fight for democracy, longing for the noble ideals of freedom.
American Gothic
American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood from 1930. Its inspiration came from a cottage designed in the Gothic Revival style with a distinctive upper window and a decision to paint the house along with “the kind of people I fancied should live in that house.” The painting shows a farmer standing beside a woman whose identity remains ambiguous（引起歧义的）; she may either be his spinster（未婚） daughter, as explained by the artist‘s sister, or the farmer’s wife. The figures were modeled by the artist‘s dentist and sister. The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron mimicking 19th century Americana and the couple are in the traditional roles of men and women, the man’s pitchfork（长柄草耙） symbolizing hard labor, and the flowers over the woman‘s right shoulder suggesting domesticity（n.对家庭的挚爱）. It is one of the most familiar images in 20th century American art and one of the most parodied(拙劣的模仿） artworks within American popular culture.
Uncle Sam is a national
personification of
the United States(US),with the first usage of the term dating from the war of 1812 and the first illustration dating from 1852
The Buffalo nickel also known as the Indian Head nickel was a five cent piece struck by the U.S. Mint from 1913 to 1938. The front, or obverse, of the coin features the right profile of an American Indian, and the back, or reverse, of the coin shows an American bison（北美野牛） or buffalo. The buffalo nickel was designed by sculptor（雕刻家） James Earle Fraser, and proved to be subject to wear. The dates below the Indian head easily wore off in circulation. In 1938, after 25 years, the U.S. Mint replaced the Buffalo nickel with the Jefferson nickel.
ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ
This poster shows Uncle Sam arm-in-arm with Britannia, accompanied by a lion and an eagle. It is a dramatic reminder of the long and fruitful alliance between the United States and Great Britain. The poster is titled "Side by side - Britannia! Britain's Day Dec. 7th 1918". The artwork is by James Montgomery Flagg. It was created in 1918 by the American Lithographic Co. N.Y.
Washington Monument
American eagle
Anything else?
Thank you!