The world wars and the new deal

THE WORLD WARS AND THE NEW DEAL 

At the first the USA did not take part in the First World War but then in 1917 it declared war on Germany. The USA sent a great number of soldiers to help the Allies (Britain, France and Russia), who won in the end.

After the rise of the Nazis in the 1930’s it became clear that Europe was moving towards another war. Americans wanted to avoid it at any cost. This feeling was intensified by the Great Depression in the 1930’s. In the years 1933-1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt promoted a set of economic and social policies to get out of the crisis, which was called the “New Deal”.

In 1939 the Second World War broke out in Europe. The USA remained neutral until 1941, when Japan attacked the American ships at Pearl Harbor. In 1945 the USA dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrendered.

At the end of  the Second World War the USA was considered the leading world super power, and this position was even stronger after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Answer to the questions:

When did USA take part in the First World War?

What did become clear in Europe in 1930’s?

What was the Great Depression?

Who was Roosevelt and what did he do?

When did USA enter in the Second World War?

Where were two atomic bombs dropped?

 

HEALTHY FOOD

            Do you always eat the right food?

You are what you eat
 video by Nicola and Silvia (II F)

Scuola Secondaria I grado
Stabiae-Salvati a.s. 2013/14

Listen to some advices

video by Luigi (II F)

Scuola Secondaria I grado
Stabiae-Salvati a.s. 2013/14

JANE AUSTEN

Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born in 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire. Her family, that she was deeply attached to, belonged to the local gentry. Her mother came from an old family and her father was an educated clergyman; he possessed a rich library where Jane read lots of novels, histories, essays and sermons.

When the Austens moved to Bath, Jane was disappointed because she didn’t like that noisy town: so when her father died, she moved to Southampton together with her sisters. In a cottage at Chawton, she revised and published “Sense and Sensibility” and “Pride and Prejudice”(1813). There she also wrote her last novels.

 

“Sense and Sensibility” was written by Jane when she was 17. She read her novel to  her family that encouraged her to write. The two protagonists of the book, Elinor and Marianne, are two sisters standing for “sense” and “sensibility” respectively. Elinor is a self-controlled woman who waits for the man she loves and is involved in an impulsive engagement. On the contrary, the passionate Marianne learns at her expenses that brilliant young men are not always good husbands. She ends by getting married to an elder man whom she gets to a less passionate but more realistic happiness.

   

  “Pride and Prejudice”  

takes place at the beginning of the XIX century. Jane Austen, as usual, set in a small provincial district in the countryside.The characters belong to the rural gentry of the middle class; industrial towns and natural scenes as well as aristocracy and humble classes are excluded from Jane Austen’s works, as she wanted to deal with what she knew deeply. ‘Pride and Prejudice’  tells us the heart-warming story of getting the man of your dreams – and all the troubles that are connected with it. The Bennett family are living a calm and quiet life in Longbourn.  Mr. Bingley, a young man of good fortune, is going to become their neighbour. What a chance for silly Mrs. Bennett to get one of her five daughters married! With the arrival of Mr. Bingley, Mr. Darcy, and, later in the story, clergyman Mr. Collins and Officer Mr. Wickham, Mrs. Bennett tries her best to get those men’s attention for her daughters. The story is told by a third person narrator, who describes the physical appearance and the thoughts of her characters, and judges them adding a didactic purpose as well.

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