project.USA

USA-Project 2010 by Daniel G. and Jan S.

1. Who we are
2. Our objective
3. The way we will publish our work
4. Our expected residence dates

1. Who we are…

- Daniel, born August 1989 in Tuebingen (Germany)
- Graduated in April 2009 at High School, from October 2009 till June 2010 internship at THRC (Tuebingen Hearing Research Center)
- Going to study Political Sciences.
- Hobbies are Bowling, Golfing, Drumming, discussing about politics, languages, meeting new people

- Jan, born April 1990 in Tuebingen (Germany)
- Graduated in April 2009 at High School, from September 2009 till May 2010 internship at a children´s hospital, currently internship at a business consultancy
- Going to study Psychology.
- Hobbies are Dancing, Golfing, travelling, soccer, meeting new people

2. Our objective

Our main aim is to write a book, which focuses on the opinions about American characteristics, like mentality, history, politics and traditions as well as psychological topics, such as motivation and success. But we don´t want to base these judgements on our own positions only.
Basically we want to do two things:
1) Interviewing Americans from several social classes. Consequently we are going to talk to both normal people on the street and famous, successful people.
2) Comparing the opinions of Germans and Americans about the USA. To do so, we´ve already done a lot of interviews in various German big cities, so that we´ll have the ability to make this comparison.
In order to create an interesting story out of this material, we want to combine the interviews with the description of our own experiences, we will make.
So on the one hand, the reader will have impressions about the cities we´ll visit, the adventures we´ll hurl ourselves into, but on the other hand the reader will also expand his or her horizon by reading the statements of so many different people.
In a nutshell: Our book won´t be just a simple factual report of a US-trip of 2 young men. It is rather going to be an evaluation of the events in this country, an evaluation by all types of people.

3. The way we will publish our work

Firstly, we want to promote our project as much as possible in advance.
We are going to do that by a Youtube-daybook, where we will keep everybody updated about our trip. Furthermore we have already contacted several weblogs, so that high numbers of visitors are guaranteed.
Moreover will use any kind of social network in order to reach as many people as possible.

And secondly, as soon as the book is written, we will get in contact with agents, publishers and the press to ask them for their support.
Fortunately, we already have some contacts, who will help us realizing our concepts.

4. Our expected residence dates

New York City: 12.07.2010 – 21.07.2010 (16.07 + 17.07 Niagara Falls)
Washington, D.C.: 21.07.2010 – 27.07.2010
Chicago: 27.07.2010 – 01.08.2010
Las Vegas: 01.08.2010 – 07.08.2010
Los Angeles: 07.08.2010 – 14.08.2010
San Francisco: 14.08.2010 – 21.08.2010
New York City: 21.08.2010 – 23.08.2010