1.	Informace o USA

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USA dnes

3.	Díkůvzdání

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Halloween

5.	Den nezávislosti

6.	Den svatého Valentýna

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Vánoce

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Silvestr

9.	Velikonoce

10.	Americký sen

"The USA today:
Today, we can find many black people among the top scientists, lawyers, doctors, professors, politicians... And many of them are rich. On the other hand we can see a lot of poor people, not only black people, they have no chance to improve their lives. The American economy system is based on the principle of free enterprise (podnikavost). There are used rules of classical liberalism, freedom of markets and the majority system in government. There are a lot of money invested in research and development of the most sophisticated technologies, that is why many foreign specialists and scientists came to America. It is still called the land of opportunity, just according to the idea of self-made man.

Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving - 4th Thursday in November (Federal) - national Holiday in the USA, first celebrated in 1621 by the settlers of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, on their first harvest, when the settlers Pilgrims thank the Indians for all of their help during that first year in North America, thank for the food... In November of every year, Americans make plans to visit their loved and enjoy a large meal together while giving thanks for all their blessing. Today typical thanksgiving feast include turkey and dressing, sweet potatoes, cranberries, many desserts including pies. Pilgrims lived near the ocean, their feast mostly consisted of seafood, wild turkey and deer brought by Indians.
The first Thanksgiving was in the fall of 1621. The Pilgrims from England, who had been in North America for only one year, invited their Indian friends to a feast. Almost half of the Pilgrims died during the first hard year in America – only four adult women... The celebration was for the good harvest and to thank the r. It had to have taken place some time in October instead of November. It was harvest celebration and November would have been too late in the year to celebrate a harvest. President Lincoln set the date as the fourth Thursday in November. In 1939 President Roosevelt changed the date to the third Thursday in November, but in 1941 Congress changed it back and made the fourth Thursday in November as a federal holiday.

Halloween
Halloween is celebrated on October the 31st. It is feast of dead. Children in the mask as a ghosts, witches, zombies… go around the village to every house in this village. When the neighbour opens the door, kids say “trick or treat“ and want a sweets. Also the kids play the Halloweens games... bobbing for the apple, when the apples are in the water in the tray. And the kids have to hunt for apples without hands. Or the kids can play Ghost stories, when the kids tell the ghostly stories in dark room with candles and ghostly atmosphere..."

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