U.S. Presidential Elections

Today many excited club members of the GABFEST speaking club (at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) came for the presentation on U.S. Presidential Elections by PCVs Brandon Platt and Samantha Sachs.
As an introduction to the topic the club-members were offered  a selection of center's books on democracy, elections and voting procedures.
The phenomenon of American  editorial cartoons was introduced to the audience and several  samples were analyzed in detail.
The participants discussed the difference between the Republicans and Democrats parties. It was interesting to see the debates videos and the promo campaigns advertising. We spoke about the history and advertisements of political campaigns.
People spoke, debated and discussed the topic. Everyone was very happy and energetic!

Marina R.: We discussed the difference between advertising and propaganda and lots of different facts from history. The Americans were so open for communication, and inspired us to ask questions, to communicate with them more. We had a great time just to talk to them, discuss lots of  other things not related to the Presidential Elections. They said they’re going to do another session, like we had today, the only problem was for us to choose the next topic for the future discussion. So for now we’re just looking forward to it to have a great time talking to American native speakers to enhance cultural exchange and friendship between Americans and Ukrainians!

We couldn’t have a big photo of all the club members today, because our group was too big, but anyway we’re all happy to gather for today’s discussion.
The number of visitors – 48 persons.
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