Hollywood

Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States situated west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used as a metonym of American cinema. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas. 
1920, Hollywood had become world-famous as the center of the United States film industry. In 1918, HJ Whitley commissioned architect A.S. Barnes to design Whitley Heights as a Mediterranean-style village on the steep hillsides above Hollywood Boulevard, and it became the first celebrity community. The neighborhood is roughly bordered on the north and east by Cahuenga Boulevard, on the west by Highland Avenue, and on the south by Franklin Avenue.

The Beatles

Group of British rock and pop music, stably integrated from 1961 by John Lennon (Liverpool,1940-New York, 1980), Paul McCartney (Liverpool, 1942), George Harrison (Liverpool, 1943) and Ringo Starr (Liverpool , 1940). It is difficult to give an exact date of when The Beatles were formed. In the second half of the 1950s, John Winston Lennon and his friend Peter Shotton (which would leave soon after) formed a band called The Quarrymen who, to which was added in 1957 Paul McCartney, followed shortly afterwards by George Harrison.

The Quarrymen started playing at various locations in Liverpool, at which time they were joined by bassist Stuart Sutcliffe. Even then it was evident the need to incorporate a battery. The group's name would suffer new variations, Johnny and the Moondogs from up-to following the fashion of naming animals and musical groups playing under the name of his style of music (Beat) - The Silver Beatles and The Beatles that would ultimately prove final.

Finally joined a drummer, Peter Best, and got to play a concert in Hamburg, in a place of dubious reputation called Kaiserkeller. His first German adventure ended prematurely with the expulsion of Harrison in the country because of their immaturity and the subsequent expulsion of McCartney and Best of hooliganism. In 1961 Germany again to return back to the UK almost unnoticed. Best left the band by deep disagreements with other members and was replaced by Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey). Soon after, Sutcliffe died of a German stroke victim. The formation of The Beatles was finally consolidated with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

United States Culture

The United States is a multicultural nation, home to a wide variety of ethnic groups, traditions, and values. Aside from the now small Native American and Native Hawaiian populations, nearly all Americans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries. Mainstream American culture is a Western culture largely derived from the traditions of European immigrants with influences from many other sources, such as traditions brought by slaves from Africa. More recent immigration from Asia and especially Latin America has added to a cultural mix that has been described as both a homogenizing melting pot, and a heterogeneous salad bowl in which immigrants and their descendants retain distinctive cultural characteristics.

American culture is considered the most individualistic in the world. Though the American Dream, or the perception that Americans enjoy high social mobility, plays a key role in attracting immigrants, other developed nations offer greater social mobility. While the mainstream culture holds that the United States is a classless society, scholars identify significant differences between the country's social classes, affecting socialization, language, and values. The American middle and professional class has initiated many contemporary social trends such as modern feminism, environmentalism, and multiculturalism. Americans' self-images, social viewpoints, and cultural expectations are associated with their occupations to an unusually close degree. While Americans tend greatly to value socioeconomic achievement, being ordinary or average is generally seen as a positive attribute.

Christmas

In December, houses, streets, shop windows...lights to celebrate Christmas. Children write their letter to Santa Claus, because Santa Claus is England who distributes gifts and does so in the eveninf of December 24.
A few weeks before Christmas, famile prepare the traditional Christmas Pudding, the dessert be savored during Christmas dinner. Both young and adults love the Christmas Pudding.


And of course could not celebrate Christimas in England without the famous " Cracker" placed to next to each plate. When you pull on each side, a bom explodes and leaves surprise.