LBravo - Homework 17/01/2019

SEE

1. There is represented a turkey.

2. I think that the two characters on the turkey are persons important for the Puritan community somehow, maybe religious or political representatives.

3. People in the foreground are wearing traditional Puritan clothes and headdresses.

THINK

1. I think the clothes and the turkey, together with all the ceremony, have a historical significance.

2. I think this picture represents the American Thanksgiving Day.

3. I think this scene is from nowadays because of the modern buildings that surround it and the plastic turkey.

WONDER

1. I think these people are celebrating their Puritan origins in order to keep in mind their traditions and reaffirm their strong identity.

2. Yes, it does. It remembers me a yearly festivity of my own town: Saint Elizabeth's fair. Indeed, during the festival's days is celebrated also the turkey's figure: people take their turkeys in front of a jury and the biggest and the most beautiful one wins a prize.

3. I think the most important festivity recognized as a national symbol is Italy's institution of Republic, celebrated on 2 June. However, in the other nations the "symbols" for what we are recognized are “pizza, pasta, mandolino and mafia”.

1.

1-G

2-E

3-A

4-D

5-F

6-C

Extra sentence: B

2.

1. It demonstrated that Puritans, due to their conception of success as connected with salvation, tend to be more hard-working people.

2. Puritanism make them see women as beings that have to be pure: they can't be promiscuous or explicitly sexually attractive.

3. The author wrote “it seems we do”.

4. There is expressed the idea that Puritans, due to their vision of the world, tend to be people who are more pushed in the direction of progress.

5. Being New England a still Puritan land, it is a stronger “nation” than the others.

HEADLINES

1. Does the Protestant ethic still apply today?

2. Some experiments have demonstrated how Puritans are still cling to their traditional way of thinking.

3. Puritan conception of work success as a sign of salvation.

4. An experiment demonstrated how working success is fundamental for Puritans.

5. An experiment showed that Puritan men are very tight to purishness.

6. Puritan attachment regards more a way of thinking than a religious belief.

7. Puritan nations are powerful.

8. New England is no more all Puritan nowadays.

9. Old Puritan world is not so different from nowadays one.