Culture Days

The Culture Days are over and I have to say that I really liked the presentations. 

I watched the following presentations: 

• GAA outside Ireland
• Willie Daly - Matchmaker 
• Gaelic and its use in Northern Ireland 
• Driving habits in the U.S.
• Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse: how a mouse conquered the world)
• Oprah Winfrey: perhaps the most influential woman in America
• Basketball 
• The big four: Sports in the USA
• Why on earth would anyone live in Tornado Alley?!
• Painted America: American culture represented in paintings

In general I really liked them all. I chose to see these 10 because I thought they sounded interesting. And I have to say they were really good. I learned new things about Ireland. Before I saw the presentations for example, I had never heard about the fact that there is a profession called matchmaker. I am not a really big sports fan, nevertheless I also liked them and in addition I know more about sports in the States and Ireland now. 

The five topics I would like to be tested on in the KGP are: 

• Driving habits in the U.S. 
• Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse: how a mouse conquered the world) 
• Oprah Winfrey: perhaps the most influential woman in America
• Why in earth would anyone live in Tornado Alley?!
• Painted America: American culture represented in paintings

I chose these topics for my final exam, because I have heard about them before, but I didn't really know much about them. I always thought, for example that many more people own a car in the States, or that Mickey's original name was Mortimer mouse. As the topics were really appealing and well presented and I wanted to know more about them, I thought it would be a good idea to choose them for my final exam, because it is easier to memorize things you are interested in.