Some regions of the United States have distinctive food specialties. For information on such foods, see Ha-
All corn does not pop. A seed or kernel of corn must have 14 percent water in it to pop. Other kinds of corn have less water and do not pop. When you put a kernel of corn on a fire, the water inside makes the corn explode. This makes a "pop" noise. That is why we call it popcorn.
The American Indians popped corn a long time ago. The Indians knew there were three kinds of corn. There was sweet corn for eating, corn for animals, and corn for popping. The Indians introduced corn to thefirst settlers, or Pilgrims, when they came toAmerica in 1620. One year after they came, the Pilgrirm had Thanksgiving dinner. They invited the Indians. The Indians brought food with them. One Indian brought popcorn!
Since that time Americans continued to pop corn at home. But 1945 there was a new machine that changed the history of popcorn. This electric machine popped corn outside the home. Soon movie theaters started to sell popcorn to make more money. Popcorn at the movies became more and more popular. Today, Americans still continue the custom of eating popcorn at the movies.
Americans use 500,000 pounds of popcorn every year. Many people like to put salt and melted butter on their popcorn. Some people eat without salt or butter. Either way—Americans love their popcorn!
Americans love to eat peanut butter. But what is peanut butter? It is a thick, creamy paste. You buy it in a jar at the grocery store. Manufacturers roast peanuts and take off the skin. Then they grind them into a thick paste—that's peanut butter!
The peanut is not really a nut, but a pea. It is a strange pea because it grows underground. But peanut plants also have green vines with yellow flowers. These vines or stems grow above the ground and are quite long. Peanuts are very healthy for you. They have more protein than a steak and \ they have many vitamins, too.
The peanut comes from South America, but peanut butter is a food that is truly "American." Peanut butter started in 1890 in St. Louis. A doctor made some peanut butter. He gave it to patients who could not eat regular food. Later, peanut butter was popular as a health food.
Peanut butter is very popular with children in the United States. Perhaps their favorite way to eat it is in a sandwich. Many children add jelly to their peanut butter sandwiches. This makes a favorite snack or lunchtime meal.
II. Features of character of Americans
2.1.Irust and of Americans on God
Religion plays very important role in America. There are a lot of different kinas of religion But most of people believe in God. They think that all depends from God and they must hope, ask for help, pray more.
John F. Kennedy had told that:” The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life and yet the same revolutionary belles for wich our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe – the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead we love asking blessing His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own”.
I understand it that e must believe in God, hope on Him, pray more and more and do not forget about only on God, to achieve the, aim and don’t forget abut God, ask him for help, pray and believe in Him.
Ronald Reagan had told us about God’s help that we can solve our problem only together with God, that he had believed God. «I am – I’m told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day, and for that I am deeply grateful. We are nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good I think if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer. The crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that Martin Treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. It believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform deeds, to believe that together with God’s help we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us».
President Kennedy, who said that «no religious body should seek to impose its will» also urged religious leaders to state their views and give their commitment when the public debate involved ethical issues. In drawing the line between imposed will and essential witness, they keep church and state separate, and at the same time we recognize that city of should speak to the civic duties of men and women.
Religions values can not be excluded from every public issue, but not every public issue involves religious value.
William Jefferson Clinton. Oklahoma bombing memorial prayer service address had said:
“But for so many of you they were also neighbor and friends. You saw them at church or the PTA meetings, at the civic clubs, at the ball park. You know them in ways that all the rest of America could not. And to all members of the families here present who have suffered loss, though we hare your grief, your pain is unimaginable, and we know that. We can not undo it. That is God’s work. To all my fellow Americans beyond this hall, I say, one thing we owe those who have sacrificed is the duty to purge ourselves of the dark forces which gave rise to this evil. They are forces that threaten our common peace, our freedom, our way of life. Let us teach our children that the Cod of comfort is also the God of righteousness: Those who trouble their own house will inherit the wind. Justice will prevail».
I understand it that we must teach our children about God, and I thin k not only children but all who are around us that God of comfort is also the God of honesty, goodness, friendly. And I think that Americans believe God, that they don’t forget about Him as William Jefferson Clinton had said that they had to teach children a bout God, and than they had to teach children a bout God, and than justice will prevail.
I know that most of Americans trust Cod, pray, ask Him for help, go to church. I can prove it Most of American people in this book in their oratory spoke about God and of the end of every article each of them thanked Gad. For example. Ronald Reagan: putting American back to work: «God bless you and thank you».
Mary Fisher: a Whisper of Aids: “God bless the children, and God bless us all” etc.
Robert F. Kennedy had told his favorite poem. This poem is about God.: “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget.
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
Until, in our own despair,
Against our will,
Comes wisdom
Through the awful grace of god”.
2.2. Love of Americans to their native country
Americans love their county very much and they are proud of their country and they can do all to their country to defend it.
I can prove it. Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam – a Time to Break silence in world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death”
People of America love their country so that they had dreams often only about their country, their better life in it and even song which they would sing.
Martin Luther King, JR.: I Have a Dream: - “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”.
- “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will de able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”
- “I have a dream that one day the state of Mississippi? A state sweltering with heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice”
- “With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to trans form the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day».
2.3. “Americans are vitally concerned in their defense of freedom”
And it is really true. They love their country and they also love freedom of their country – America.
I can prove it by words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms” Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: ”We Americans are vitally concerned in your defense of freedom. We are putting forth our energies, our resources, and our organizing powers to give you the strength to regain and maintain a free world. We shall send you in ever – increasing numbers, ships, planes, tanks, guns.
I understand it that Americans are people who love their country, love freedom, love each other and together they can do all to defend freedom, their native country.
Also Franklin Roosevelt said: “ The nation takes great satisfaction and much strength from the things which have been to make its people conscious of their individual stake in the preservation of democratic life in America. Those things have toughened the fiber of our people, have renewed their faith and strengthened their devotion to the institutions we make ready to protect».
As we see, Americans ready to protect their native country in any time. And to protect they country hey must renew their faith that they can it to do.
«No realistic American expect from a dictator’s peace international generosity, or return or true independence, or world disarmament, or freedom of expression, or freedom of religion – or even good business. Such a peace would bring no security for us or for our neighbors. Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty safety”. In times like these it is immature-and, incidentally, untrue – for anybody to brag that an unprepared America, single – handed and with one had tied behind its back can hold off the whole world. This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women, and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom