Bonjour tout le monde ! Je suis en terminale S et je n'ai pas vraiment de méthodo pour rédiger les notions de langues sachant que je dois rédiger une en LV1 LV2 et LV3 ! Si vous pouvez m'aidez et le donner des conseils svp (je ne sais pas vraiment si il faut mettre la date quand les documents sont sortis ma prof de LV2 veut mais celle de LV1 a pas préciser ni quand et où on doit donner son avis) Pour la LV3 il faut parler 10min je suis perdue si certains savent merci d'avance (je fais de l'italien).
Je mets ci joints ma première notion d'anglais corrigée par ma prof pr que vous me dites si c'est bien ce qu'il y a a améliorer et si vous avez des idées d'ouverture je suis preneuse ! :) merci
Spaces and exchanges
Hello ! The notion I'm going to talk about is « Spaces and exchanges ». Frist of all, I'm going to define this notion. We can define spaces as territories virtual or physical where exchanges take place. An exchange is an act of giving and receiving something else in return. It can also be seen as a continuous movement or circulation. There are different kinds of exchanges : media, trade, people...for example immigration. This is what I'm going to talk and more particularly immigration to the US. To do so, I will use several documents that we've seen in class. So I'll try to answer to the following question which is : How have the differents waves of immigration shaped America (and the United States in particular) ?
In the first place, we will focus on the history of the different waves of immigrants and then, on the impact of immigration on the American society.
Fisrt, I would like to talk about the people who have een in search of the Americain Drean. At the beginning of the year, we worked on a song called « Americain land » by Brice Springsteen released in 2012. The narrator wants to go to America because he heard wonderful thing about this country. He defines America as a paradise where there are diamonds, jobs and the resulting treasures for each man working and even candies growing up in the trees. He illustrates the definition of the Americain Drean where everything is possible. The artist has mixed points of view about America in the second part of the song. So people from Europe ; Irish, Italians, Jews (persecuted) came to America to escape poverty, unemployment, the famine and the diseases or because of persecutions. Poeple emigrated to the USA mostly in the 19th century to have better living conditions, to start from start form scratch and climb the social ladder in what they callend a « land of opportunity ».
Furthermore, the high number of immigrants have shaped america because there were a valuable ressource for the country. We can take for example the case of the latinos that we studied in class with the document «The hispanics in the USA : a growing force» published in 2017. It shows that
immigrants from Latin America represent 18% of the population, 1 in every 6 individuals is latino. There are 58.8 million people. They're mostly Mexican but also puertorican and cuban for exemple. The latinos have a really important buyng power, they are indisputably a source of economic and cultural wealth for the USA. Thanks to immigration, America is a multifaceted country but the American Dream is not a 100% reality beacause of homeless people, illegal immirgrants and poverty like in Rihanna's song released in 2015 :« American Oxygen ». Latinos also bring their culture, their language, their religion. But now, they're part of the society and some or even involved in their citycouncil so they're now integrated in the Americain society.
So, to conclude, America was shaped by different waves of immigration particularly the one starting at the end of the 19th century. At that time, many poeple from Europe went to the US to find a better life and climb social ladders, going from rags to richies. And so waves of immigration helped built America as we know it today. Because that made America a young country with its culture and it became a melting pot even thugh today immigration in the United States is different for Mexicans. Since 2005, it's become more difficult for immigrants to find a life in America as a wall was began. But we can say that now, latinos are part of the US society and they're shaping america's future economically, socially and culturaly speaking.
