大学英语Uncle Sam山姆大叔 精品课件.pptVIP

Uncle Sum;For nearly 100 years, this grand old personification of the United States has encouraged young men to go off and get killed in a war for the good of their country. But did you know that the image of Uncle Sam, ;first depicted in a U.S. Army poster in 1917, was based on a similar English recruitment poster created three years earlier? Our greatest American icon is nothing more than a cheap knock-off of some British guys named Lord Kitchener and John Bull. ;Nothing says “American independence” quite like a total rip off of an icon native to the country we fought so hard to dis