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Traditional American Food

Americans eat a lot. They have three meals a day: breakfast,

lunch and dinner.Most of Americans don't eat home but prefer to go to restaurants.

They can choose from many kind of restaurants.There is a great number of ethnic restaurants in the United

States. Italian, Chinese and Mexican food is very popular.An American institution is the fast food restaurant, which

is very convenient but not very healthy.However there are some principles of American cuisine

(if we may call it so). Americans drink a lot of juices and

soda, eat a lot of meat, fruits and vegetables, not much bread.In the morning Americans have cereal or scrambled eggs,

milk or orange juice.Chicken or fish, fried potatoes, vegetable salads, and desert: this is the most common menu for lunch.Dinner is probably the most important meal of the day, somepeople have family dinner, when all members of family have to

be there. For dinner Americans usually have meat, fried orbaked potatoes with ketchup or sour cream, corn, peas, sometimes macaroni and cheese or spaghetti; ice-cream, fruit or cake may be for dessert.

 

Turkey, ham and apple pie are traditional for Christmas

and Thanksgiving Day dinners.

The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. These limitations serve to protect the natural rights ofliberty and property. They guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public. While originally the amendments applied only to the federal government, most of their provisions have since been held to apply to the states by way of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The amendments were introduced by James Madison to the 1st United States Congress as a series of legislative articles. They were adopted by the House of Representatives on August 21, 1789,[1][2] formally proposed by joint resolution of Congress on September 25, 1789, and came into effect as Constitutional Amendments on December 15, 1791, through the process of ratification by three-fourths of the States. While twelve amendments were passed by Congress, only ten were originally passed by the states. Of the remaining two, one was adopted as the Twenty-seventh Amendment and the other technically remains pending before the states.

Originally, the Bill of Rights legally protected only land-owning white men,[3] excluding African Americans[4] and women.[5][6]. However, these limitations were not explicit in the Bill of Right's text. It took additional Constitutional Amendments and numerous Supreme Court cases to extend the same rights to all U.S. citizens.

The Bill of Rights plays a key role in American law and government, and remains a vital symbol of the freedoms and culture of the nation. One of the first fourteen copies of the Bill of Rights is on public display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C..

 

Sport in the USA (1)

Americans play tennis, hockey and most other international



sports but they do not play football in the same way as the

rest of the world. The players can run with the ball, touch and

push each other. Players wear special clothes for American

football with helmets on their heads, because the game can be

dangerous. Like international football teams, American teams

have eleven players. The field looks different and even the

ball is a different shape. American football is very different

game.

Americans love winter sports and ice hockey is the most

popular game. This game is very fast and can be dangerous.

Basketball is another popular game in America. Only five

people in each team.

Americans' interest in sports seems excessive to many

foreign visitors. Television networks spend millions of dollars

arranging to telecast sports events. Publications about sports

sell widely. In the US professional athletes can become

national heroes.

Sports are associated with educational institutions in a

way is unique. High schools have coaches as faculty members,

and school teams compete with each other.

Nowhere else in the world are sports associated with colleges

and universities in the way they are in the States. College

sports, especially football, are conducted in an atmosphere

of intense excitement and pageantry. Games between teams

attract nationwide television audiences.

The sport that is most popular in most parts of the

world — soccer — is not well known in the US. The most

popular sports are football and baseball, games that are not

played in large number of countries.

Sports play such an important role in American life that

the sociology of sports, sports medicine, and sports psychology

have become respectable specializations.

Many Americans jog every day, or play tennis or bridge two or three times a week. They go on ski tri/ps and hunting

expeditions that require weeks of planning and organizing.In the Americans' view, all these activities are worth thediscomfort they may cause because they contribute to health

and physical fitness. That is probably why Americans are

known as a healthy nation.

Baseball is the most popular summer sport in America.The first American baseball match was in 1839 in New York.

To play baseball you need two teams of nine players. Americans

start playing baseball young. There are "leagues" which

children of eight can join. The top players become big stars

and earn a lot of money every year.

Our youth is mostly similar to the youth abroad in manyaspects of life. Numerous youth organizations have been formed since the Second World War, uniting young peoplefrom all classes and sections of the population. In the USAexists a Young Republican Federation, Young Christian Association, some religious organizations for Jewish youth.Youth organization Green peace deals with the most urgent ecological problems of today's world. It protests against

nuclear weapon test, sea and soil pollution, etc.Sport clubs are characteristic youth organizations in the US and UK. They unite people, who are interested in baseball,

football, basketball, golf, etc. You can attend any club: fromtheater clubs to bird-watching clubs. Bird-watching clubs are very popular, especially in Great Britain. And at the age of 14 children have regular part-time job to earn some pocket money. Some young people work in their church

organizations. They help elderly people or work in hospital.There are even some groups, where young people help released

prisoners to start their life anew. Youth and youth movemenover decades have become important factors in the life of

both countries.

 

Australia (1).


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