Oral presentation topics
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Your presentation should be 3 to 5 minutes long. / A few notes are allowed (dates, a few words, your plan, but no complete sentences. Your notes should not be more than half a page long)
Use different sources (not only Wikipedia). Be selective and analytical. Give structure to your work. You can use a powerpoint, but no sentences on the slides, only pictures and names (+ 0.5/1 pt)
The Media
Creation and history of : The New York Times, The Washington Post and of USA today.
An American press baron : Adolph Ochs.
Have media conglomerates killed free press ?
Foxnews : the voice of America or the voice of hatred ?
The role of the media in American politics.
The role of the American media in the NSA scandal : a guilty silence ?
The role of the media in the Abu Ghraib scandal
The role of the American media in the Bradley Manning case (Iraq airstrikes)
The Pentagon papers scandal.
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
Rupert Murdoch : his empire and ideas.
Hollywood : a political and social force ?
The president of the US/ Scandals
Abraham Lincoln and the 13 th amendment to the Constitution –
George Washington as a founding father-
Ronald Reagan and his « reaganomics »
Reagan and the Contra scandal/the Irangate.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the new Frontier and the Cold War.
Jimmy Carter : a weak and naive president ?
George W Bush and the Downing Street memo.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt and the Spanish-American Wars.
Ulysses Grant : a career filled with sorrow and setbacks.
Wall Street and the rise of Hitler.
Clinton and the Lewinsky scandal.
Andrew Johnson and his impeachment proceeding.
Nixon and the Watergate scandal
Political parties :
The Tea party
Religion in American politics.
Minor political parties in the US and their influence.
The Whig party in the 19th century.
PACS and SUPERPACS : is American Democracy in the hands of Big Capital ?
The Communist party in the US.
Who are the socialists in America and can they come to power ?
The Nazi party in the US : clout and history.
The Native Americans and Manifest Destiny.
The Homestead Act.
The Lewis and Clark expedition.
American Chiefs and their tribes : Tecumseh, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Cochise, Red Cloud. (you can choose one)
The French and Indian War (1675-76)
The Sand Creek Massacre
The Natives’ spirituality.
Treaties and betrayals.
The trail of tears.
The Natives and the struggle for their rights.
Events-institutions- minority groups :
Hollywood and minority groups (Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Asians)
The Federal Bank
The American Constitution or « the Bill of Rights »
The FBI and John E. Hoover.
Women and the struggle for their rights.
The Latinos.
Asians in America.
The 1929 crisis
Prohibition in the US
9/11.
Maccarthyism and the Red Scare
The Palmers raids (1919-1920)
Race relations in the US :
Key Afro-American leaders : their ideas, ideals and legacies.
The Rodney King trial and the Los Angeles riots.
Affirmative Action
The KKK
Race and the death penalty.
The Ferguson events.
The Tuskeegee experiment scandal.
The NAACP and their struggle for equality.
The Jim Crow laws : cause and consequences.
Immigration :
Immigration Acts in the US.
Illegal immigration in the US.
Religion in the US.
Religion in American politics.
Was the US founded as a Christian nation ?
What did the founding fathers believe in ? (focus on the first seven presidents).
The Hamish in America.
Religious minorities in the US.
The Mormons.
Scientology.
Judaism in America.
Buddhism in America.
Islam in America.
Religious tolerance in the US.
Religious diversity in the first colonies.
The Pilgrim Fathers : their creed and accomplishments.
Televangelists, prosperity gospel preachers : their goals and clout in America.
Foreign policy:
The Monroe doctrine and the Roosevelt corollary.
The CIA
The Bay of Pigs
The wars in Iraq (1991/2003)
US policy in South America in the 70’s and 80’s (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama)
The USA and Iran : from Mossadegh to the 2015 agreement.
The Spanish American wars.
Cuba and the USA
US foreign policy in the Middle East
Us foreign policy in Asia
Nato and the US
The US influence in Europe.
The Overthrowing of president Diem and the Vietnam war/ the Pentagon papers scandal
Crime/ criminal law
The Trayvon Martin case and the stand your ground laws
Policing in America (structure and creed)
The Castle doctrine
The war against organized crime in the 30’s.
Private prisons and the US: who benefits from the crime?
Bryan Stevenson and his fight against child imprisonment and racism in the US.
The mafia in the US
The Mob groups in American jails : how powerful are they and why ?
Resistance movements :
The Black Panthers.
Chris Hedges and his revolutionary stance.
The revolutionary Martin Luther King
Occupy Wall Street.
The « Black lives matter » movement.
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