美国文化Unit 2 American Character.ppt

　What are the modern people’s American Dreams? To do what they want To own a home or rise out of poverty. To serve God, country, or community. To want to learn to read or run their own business. To exercise fundamental American rights: to openly practice their religion and to speak what is in their minds and hearts.  所谓的美国梦（American Dream），是一种相信只要在美国经过努力不懈的奋斗便能获致更好生活的理想，亦即人们必须透过自己的工作勤奋、勇气、创意、和决心迈向繁荣，而非依赖于特定的社会阶级和他人的援助。 ?The so-called American Dream , is a belief that as long as the United States after a hard struggle will be able to achieve the ideal of a better life, that is, people have to work through their own hard work, courage, creativity and determination to move towards Prosperity, rather than rely on specific social classes and other assistance.? A self-made man Representatives of American Dream April 4, 1968, he was assassinated.?For freedom, for their American Dream. He said, I have a dream Dream is to the hearts of all regardless of faith, even if the price of life. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. Do not relax, not be lazy, no perseverance, you can not succeed. People wonder why I always like the kids around the side, it is because I find in them something I never had. Hollywood, the American Dream staged repeated here, where the director of the American dream onto the screen in mind, the same as the catalyst(催化剂)for a power to everyone The successful examples of American Dream Benjamin Franklin – the founder of America, the forefather Abraham Lincoln – the 16th President Rock Feller　-- the petrol tycoon Carnage – the steel tycoon They are self-made men (白手起家） The Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger（施瓦新格）, the model of the new American Dream. After years of hard work, he grew from a poor young man from Austria into a movie superstar and then gov