Very short question.
What do you get if you add
this
and this?
Answer:
THIS!
Santa loves his Coca Cola (registered trademark of the Coca Cola company)!
Find out how today.
czwartek, 19 grudnia 2013
czwartek, 12 grudnia 2013
Class materials for December 12, 2013 - American Religion
First some facts and figures
Another take, with Christian divisions.
A map showing where the religious right is located (lots of fun stuff about them today)
Religion has been important in the US from the very beginning which is why George Washington prayed with his horse.
And political parties try to claim religious significance.
There is a history of charismatic religious figures, like Billy Sunday
And the Flying Nun!
Not to mention churches with funny signs
See you in class!
środa, 4 grudnia 2013
Class materials for December 5, 2013 - American cuisine!
Ah, the USA, where food comes in three varieties.
Heaven...
Not sure what it is, but it sure is pretty...
Steak and lobster!
Nice fruit...
Hell...
A bunch of crap layered in tortillas?
A hearty main course of slop no animal would eat....
I bet it tastes as good as it looks....
And the completey insane...
If I told you Hollandaise sauce is made up egg yolk, butter and lemon juice would you eat it?
Calling Dr Freud....
Tell someone how you really feel with a cake.
And here are the notes!
See you in class! (bring your appeite - food will not be served)
czwartek, 28 listopada 2013
Class materials for November 28, 2013 - Thanksgiving!
American Holidays 2 : Thanksgiving!
Was this the first Thanksgiving
Or was it more like this?
Which is more representative, this?
or this?
Why is this lady so important?
Why do people do this?
Or this?
Or this?
Would you eat this?
Or this?
And why are these people acting like zombies?
And as usual, the politically correct want to ruin things for everybody else....
How about a big vegan thanksgiving dinner? Yum!
czwartek, 21 listopada 2013
Class topic for November 21, 2013 Regions!
The orignally planned topic, Indians Native Americans had to be put on hold.
Don't worry, he'll get over it.
Anyhoo, our topic this week is geographic, economic, cultural and poltical regions of the US. Get ready for maps, lots of maps.
First the topology of the US
With some descriptive names added.
Then there's the division into states
The most basic division of the country would be into three very big regions, The North, The South and the West. The traditional psychological dividing line between East and West has been the mighty Mississippi River
East of the river, the dividing line between the North and South was something called the Mason-Dixon line, originally established to solve border disputes between several states.
But now, when people think of it they move it south and extend it further west. In popular imagination it would usually look like this.
There are several similar popular ways of dividing the country into regions (which usually use state borders as regional borders). Here's a simple one.
And here's another (slightly more complex).
Similar divisions are made both by the US government (like this one for the Center for Disease Control)
And private companies, like this one.
For about 30 years, an influential social science model divides all of North America into nine "nations" which mostly don't coincide with state, province or national borders. This map looks like this.
Or this.
There is also an interesting recent attempt to drap a political history and values map of US regions, it looks like this:
The whole article is here.
czwartek, 14 listopada 2013
Class topic for November 14, 2013 - Educaition!
Today's topic is the US education sysem.
The US classroom in the past...
and now.
Which is why some people home school.
Enjoy the class!
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