Sujet LLCER — Terminale — Liban — Bac 2022

SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Faire société » Partie 1 – synthèse en anglais (16 pts) Prenez connaissance du dossier proposé, composé des documents A, B et C non hiérarchisés et traitez en anglais le sujet suivant (500 mots environ) : Taking into account their specificities, show how these documents illustrate the persistence of the American Dream and how it challenges those who have chosen to pursue it. Partie 2 – traduction en français (4 pts) Traduisez en français le passage suivant du document C : One of the great myths Americans have about their country is that everyone wants to come here. Advocates and enemies of immigration share this assumption, which dates at least as far back as the turn of the 20th century. As reports of “American fever” circulated in Eastern Europe, one Polish economist, Leopold Caro, claimed that entire villages were becoming ghost towns. “Everyone,” he concluded, “believed that America was the Promised Land, a true paradise.” (l. 1-6) 22-LLCERANMCLR1 Page 2/9 DOCUMENT A Luke Healy is an Irish-born cartoonist. Americana (And the Act of Getting Over It) tells the story of his strong desire to settle in the United States, from his studies in Vermont, to his repeated attempts to gain a long-term visa, to his trek through the Pacific Crest Trail I’d always just considered my American family to be “distantly related”. Not truly part of our lives. When I met them as a child, I couldn't really understand how we were connected. It was only then, looking through that box of photographs that I began to understand the threads of our relationship. 5 My grandfather's sister moved to the United States in the 1950s, the first of her family to emigrate. While working as a nurse in London, she met and married a GI, following him to New York, then bringing her family over after her. First, her sister then her mother, then my grandfather and his brother. A full-scale Irish Exodus. 1950s New York is a much-mythologized time and place for the Irish. It was a time of 10 massive emigration when young people from all over rural Ireland were forced to travel abroad in search of employment. […] My grandfather's family put down roots in the USA. His sisters and brother got married to Americans. They worked service jobs in restaurants and hotels. They had kids, joined unions,