‘Mundos Anglofonos en Perspectiva Historica y Cultural — junio 2016 — Modelo 1 INSTRUCCIONES: Este examen se valora sobre & puntos totales, Numere sus respuestas y redactelas en inglés, cuidando aspectos como vocabulario, gramatica y presentacién, No olvide incluir sus datos en cada hoja que entregue. Ningiin material permitido, 2 hora PART 1: Provide an overview of TWO out of the three topi s proposed below (2.5 marks each). 1. The Political Parties in the USA 2. American Attitudes to Latino America: the Nation’s Largest Immigrant Subculture 3. American Social Services History: an Overview PART 2: Choose ONE out of these two texts proposed below and write a critical comment on its significance (3 marks): Text 1 “When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the govemed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they were accustomed, But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for’ their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this govemment, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.” From: “The Declaration of Sentiments”. Seneca Falls, New York, 1848. Text 2 “In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be eamed Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint- hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things ~some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life. For’ us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West, endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth. For us, they fought and died in places like Concord and Gettysburg, Normandy and Khe Sanh, Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions, greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction. This is the joumey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth, Our: workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions ~that time has surely passed.” From: “Inaugural Address”. Barak H. Obama, 2609,