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On 5th of March Ufa AC hosted students from various universities of the city with the program dedicated to the International Women’s Day. A play on famous “Magic Seven-Petal Flower” theme, prepared by the students of Bashkir State Pedagogical University, brought the audience across the world. The Ufa Pedagogical College №1 play was based on famous “Little Red Riding Hood” theme, but the modern days circumstances brought the present and the heroes far away from the native forests to the wild jungles of Brazil. The Happy End could have been unthinkable if not a She Wolf! |
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Discussion club at the American Center is the place where jolly and intellectual people gather to discuss actual problems with Alyson Faller (Fulbright Researcher, USA). The most actual problems as Olympic Games, politics, cinema, music are analyzed. February is called Black History Month in America, so we devoted it to Afro-Americans’ history, music, traditions and customs. March is dedicated to women and spring. Plunge into warm and friendly climate of our club and you will see that foreign language is not that difficult.
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This club is for those who want to read foreign literature in source language. Since October 3, 2009 at the American Center weekly Fiction reading club had started. In October sessions participants read and analyzed a novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" of famous American writer Mark Twain with the participant of the Fulbright Program Alyson Faller. In November we organized poetry reading. This cycle began with T.S.Eliot's poem "The Waste Land". We started the new 2010 year with a novel "The Great Gatsby" of the American author F.Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it was set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922 and was a critique of the American Dream. Then was “The Kite” of Somerset Maugham. This month we read and analyze so called feminine literature. We begin with "Where are you going, where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, which first published in Epoch, fall 1966. Included in Prize Stories: O Henry Award Winners (1968), and The Best American Short Stories (1967). Join us and you'll spend wonderful time reading a book on source language with jolly and pleasant people.
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Meeting on March 3 at the American Corner was devoted to the coming holiday of Women’s Day. Kate Szpila, who hold a post of Pol/Econ Officer of the USA Goverment in her young age, took a presentation “The Evolution of the women’s movement in the U.S.” Firstly she got to know the audience, asked everybody to tell some words about himself. Then she gave the summery of the problem, what involved many questions: “What is the role of a woman in modern society? What are the reasons of the change? What problems does a modern woman have?” Every person had an opportunity to express his own view on this and other raised problems. Of course a question of background of Kate’s of interest in Russia wasn’t forgotten. It came from her childhood, when she dreamt to visit Russia. The audience really enjoyed to have such both young fascinating and professional woman at our Corner. |
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On March 9 2010 an educational advisor with “EducationUS” consulting center Natalia Aulchenko spoke at the American Corner on the American Universities application process and preparing for the tests required by American universities. As a follow-up a Fublright alumna Svetlana Kozlova gave a detailed presentation of the Fulbright exchange programs for 2011-2012. |
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