Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for January 14th

Please do an analysis of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "I have a dream" (if you weren't present in class, the full text is available here: https://www.archives.gov/files/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf ) and answer the following questions: How do you know that "I have a dream" is a US speech? How do you know it is a product of its time?
Read the speech along with the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47Y6VHc3Ms and take audiovisual aspects of the speech into account in your analysis (i.e. tone of voice, vocal delivery, clothing, mise-en-scène, etc.). Look up all of the words and references you don't know.

The reason why we're looking at Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech in January is because Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday is a federal holiday in the States. Have a look at what other holidays are federal holidays in the States. How are they products of US culture and where do they fall on Hall's triad?

Registration for the excursion to exhibition "Es war einmal in Amerika" https://www.wallraf.museum/ausstellungen/aktuell/2018-11-13-amerika/exponate/ at the Wallraf Richartz Museum has begun (as of January 7th at 5:32 pm, there are eight spaces left). Please make sure to register in our last session or with me via email if you are interested in one of the eight remaining spots for the English tour from 10:30-11:45 am on January 17th. Those registered for the exam should be present in the lobby of the museum on the 17th at 10:20 am at the latest as the tour will promptly begin at 10:30 am.

In the break (i.e. after the exam period), I'd like to offer an anglophone film club twice a week in which we watch a film in the afternoon and discuss it in English to keep our English levels up. Let me know in person or via email if you have special requests so that I can procure the film in time.

Finally, in our last session I'm going to announce an anglophone novel (I do have a preference in our context for North American titles, but I'm open to anything anglophone) that I'd like to discuss "book club-style" in the spring semester (this is optional and not required for the course). I have some ideas of my own, but if you have special requests, let me know in person or via email before this Sunday at noon.