Gatsby’s dream is a typical American Dream.His failure signified the decay of the American post-war spirit.His death belled the alarm for the other disillusioned people from fantasy dreams and set them to reconsider ...
Indians have lived in America for 15,000 or 20,000 years and created their unique civilization.However,since Europeans came,their life was interrupted.The two different cultures conflicted fiercely and influenced each...
Puritanism was entirely English in its origins,yet the movement achieved its greatest influence in America.As a cultural heritage,American Puritanism had become one of the most enduring shaping influences in American ...
In recent years,there have been more and more students going abroad for oversea study,the United States being one of them.For our English major students,studying in America is a good choice,for the language,the free a...
The Call of the Wild has been the most widely read American novel in the world,while the Wolf Totem has made a hit since its publication. This paper attempts to conduct text analysis on these two works about wolves fr...
Being aware of the differences that exist between cultures and knowing how to act when we are faced with puzzling cross-cultural situations are important skills for harmonious intercultural relations.Cross-cultural re...
Influenced by the collectivism and the high-uncertainty-avoidance,Chinese undergraduates tend not to participate much in the class,while the American students who are affected by the individualism and low-uncertainty-...
In simple terms, nonverbal communication is the communication by using our bodies, gestures, and tones of voice, i.e. everything except the actual works we use. It is very common in daily life, but in different cultur...
Puritanism behold great infulence on Americans and their basic thinking. In the 18th centory of Amercia, Franklin represent respectively the two facts of Puritainsim.
With international trades become more and more popular, cultural conflicts and shocks appeared in our life more and more frequently. We have to begin to pay attention to the differences of a lot of aspects and profess...