A lot of people consider the US as a violent country and culture. Indeed, many mass shootings have recently hit the headlines, the death penalty still exists in more than 30 states and US History is plagued with instances of violence inflicted on others. We will here try to understand the reasons why some people criticize the US and reflect on how valid these reasons are.
Doc1a: "America is steeped in violence" (The Guardian)
"America's Culture of Violence" (The New Yorker)
"Do Americans Live in a Culture of Violence?" (IVN)
"Aurora Shooting: We've seen this movie before" (International Herald
Tribune)
"Sandy Hook: America's Culture of Violence" (Le Monde diplomatique)
"Violence: the American Way of Life" (Global Research)
"Death Penalty feeds America's Culture of Violence" (Current
Argus)
Native American History (History.com)
American Indian Wars (History.com)
The Trail of Tears (History.com)
Wounded Knee (History.com)
The Racist Redskins (The Daily Beast)
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Timeline of the worst mass shootings in American History (UScrossfire)
20 Deadliest Mass Shootings in the US (CNN)
US Mass Shootings from 1982 to 2013 (MotherJones)
A Guide to Mass Shootings/Rampage Kills in America(MotherJones)
Doc2c The Ulvade shooting (BBC News)
Doc2d: The NRA: National Rifle Association (NRA.org)
Doc2e: March For Our Lives
Gun Politics (Wikipedia)
The Gun Debate (CNN)
Pros and Cons of Gun Control (BalancedPolitics.org)
Democratic Party on Gun Control (OnTheIssues.org)
Republican Party on Gun Control (OnTheIssues.org)
Capital Punishment in the USA (Wikipedia)
Death Penalty Information Center (doc3a) + --------------------------->
"En finir avec la peine de mort" (Amnesty International)
"US Death Penalty Facts" (Amnesty International)
"Guantanamo prisoner details torture for first time", The Guardian (doc3b)
American exceptionalism (Wikipedia)
"The World would miss the American policeman" (Financial Times)
US Role as the World's Policeman: pros and cons (BalancedPolitics.org)
"Should the US be the Police of the World?" (Debate.org)
Translate from English into French:
"Blotched execution: 2014 is already the worst in year in the history of lethal injection" (New Republic)
Translate from French into English:
-"Un Massacre ordinaire à Washington", Courier international.
-"USA : nouvelle fusillade dans une école", Le Figaro. -"Massacres et violence glorifiée aux Etats-Unis", Huffington Post.
-Reading comprehension:
A short article about guns in the US (Mashable) .
An article about the link the media often make between shootings and video games.
An article about American overcrowded prisons (The Economist)
-Listening comprehension:
Here are is a podcast about gun control from NPR.
Check out this video and find out more about 3-D printed weapons.
"The World is Falling Out of Love
With America" (Time)
"Dead Stop: Students Develop
Lock to Thwart School Shootings" (Time)
"Bullet-resistant White
Boards to Curb School Violence" (Political Surf)
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Elephant (2003)
A History of Violence (2005)
1) Révisez le voc et la civi de Unit19 (cf synthèse+revision mag’)
2) Points à réviser pour la partie "grammaire", en plus du vocabulaire :
-verbes irréguliers (cf AàZ, verbes de S à W compris)
-le PASSIF (cf AàZ + diapo envoyé et cours et poly d'ex) = revoyez le cours, faites les exercices pour voir si vous êtes au point.
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