...“America--- Home of the Brave, Land of the Free” Have you ever sat down, and really thought about all of the people who have died for our freedom, and all of our rights? I know that I haven’t really thought much about it at all, until today... Many people all around the world take our freedom for granted. Imagine if the amazing, brave, and thoughtful people who fought for our freedom and rights hadn’t fought. Our lives would be nothing like they are today. We would probably still be under Britain's control, and be abused, or demanded on what are every move would be. I know i’m glad that we are a free country who elects are leaders. “I’m proud to be an American where at least I know i’m free, and I won’t forget the men who died who gave that...
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...granted and think a lot should be handed to them without a price. I once read that America use to be the land of the free, homeland to patriotism, but suddenly it has become different in many ways. I will explain through the messages and quotes of a protested poem, how America isn’t what it used to be. Everything will revolve around a poem called “Let America be America Again”`, by: Langston Hughes. “Let America be America again. - Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain. - Seeking a home where he himself is free. Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme - That any man be crushed by one above.” In this section the author is introducing the idea that America isn’t what it used to be. America was simple a great dream like pioneers on the plain. It seems like the author is saying that America has changed to something that is unfamiliar and new to society. America was a place of love and romance; a place where no king was up to schemes or no man was better than another. “O, let my land be a land where Liberty - Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, - Equality is in the air we breathe. (There's never been equality for me, - Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")” By the author saying “let my land be a land where Liberty – Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath”. The author is saying...
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...“Let America Be America Again” is a poem not about just one group of people, but about African Americans, immigrants, poor white people, American Indians, and any and all groups who have been left out. When Mr. Hughes says: “I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery’s scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek— And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.” (Hughes 697) He speaking is for everyone, except the rich and privileged as we see in the line that says: Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land! Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need! Of work the men! Of take the pay! Of owning everything for one’s own greed (Hughes 697) It is important for us all to remember this land is for everyone, not just the privileged. Reading this poem and passing it on to others is a good way to remember what this country initially stood for and what most people are still fighting for. At one time America stood for liberty, equality, and the land of the free. When Mr. Hughes states “Let it be the dream it used to be” and “America never was America to me” we understand that he never has felt America was equal or free, but we also see that Mr. Hughes wants America to fulfill the promises of freedom, liberty, and equality. I enjoyed this part of the poem because it reminded me of why people came to this country and still come to this country...
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...World” or the Americas, they probably heard that it was land free for their taking; a land of opportunity and wealth. However, in their voyage to the Americas, they would be met by numerous different people, with towering structures, successful farm lands, and fearsome warriors. Truly, it would be false to say that “the Americas was void of civilization and culture, open for the taking by Europeans.” Before the European settlement, the Americas already boasted a large population, great and varying cultures, and intelligently built bodies of architectures within their own settlements. In fact, “prior to European settlement, the northern and southern American continents were home to more than 2,000 separate cultures and people groups.” (Power Point 1 Early Migrants) Evidently, the Americas cannot be considered void of civilization when numerous people of different cultures and groups had already been in the area. Also, the Aztecs were known to have built “Pyramids… [as well as], causeways that would connect their floating city to the main land provinces… These causeways required a strong workforce and the best of...
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...Declaration Of Independence, but how true is it really? The United States was not truly, a “land of the free” in any time between the colonial time to the civil war. America has always treated black men, women, and children in such an unfair manner. American landowners bought blacks as slaves. They had these slaves work on their plantations for them and do most of their chores. Most slavery was in the south but that did not mean that blacks in the north were treated like human. Many slaves had said, after they were no longer in slavery, that they would rather die than ever have to go back to being slave again. Many recordings of what formers slaves were found and tell us today how dreadful their experiences truly were....
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...Colonies in British North America were settled for a multitude of reasons. These include, but are not limited to a desire to flee religious persecution in Europe, a desire to find work unavailable in Europe as a result of economic recessions, and a desire to profit from the natural resources of the American Colonies, such as gold and lumber. Thus as a result of this, both religious and economic concerns contributed to the settling of British North America. However, the economic concerns overshadowed the religious concerns, and as a result, it is valid to state that they were the main factor of the settling of British North America due to the abundance of natural resources of the colonies, the difficulty of finding work in England, and the increasing population and shortage of free land in England and other...
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...America thrives off the implementation of individualism and succeeds from the idea of the free market and the outcomes it generates for the country and its economy. Trump is one of the wealthiest and most successful business entrepreneurs, and now future President of this country. For his presidential policies to be in line with what Americas economic vision for success is and how he got to where he is, he must implement these four things into his presidency. One policy recommendation that would service this is the reduction in regulation for businesses, especially small businesses/entrepreneurs. The bigger the government becomes, the smaller the citizen becomes. Entrepreneurs and small businesses are what run this country. These individuals...
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...America is commonly referred to as the land of opportunity. Whether it's to escape war, flee poverty or to find freedom, people come to America today to fulfill their “American dream.” Many of the reasons why people came to colonial America 400 years ago are the same reasons why people still come today. They are in search of a better life for their families. The opportunities were so good, many of the people were willing to come to colonial America as an indentured servant in order to reap the benefits America provided, including cheaper land, higher wages and the promise of religious freedom. Colonial America offered many people economic stability. In document 3 and 5, we can see how many financial benefits were offered to the poor. They...
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...The American Dream is the idea of coming to america and being able to do what you want. America is the land of opportunity. There are many different ideas of the American dream, but it still present in today. The American dream does exist today because people come to america, the land of opportunity to accomplish the impossible goal and to succeed in life. In the text “I, Too, Sing America” by Langston Hughes, Challenges the American dream. It shows how the American dream is not what it seems. How the American dream is different for everyone. The text states “They send me to eat in the kitchen”(Hughes). The meaning of this quote is that he does not get to eat with everyone else when people come over. This challenges the american dream because this man should be free to eat wherever he wants to. The text also states, “Nobody’ll dare say to me, ‘Eat in the Kitchen,’(Hughes). This quotes meaning is to show that he will fight for his right to be and equally treated American. This challenges the right of the American dream because he has to fight just to be treated...
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...were all competitors trying to find more land to colonize, better trade routes and goods that they discover which they could bring back and sell in their markets. Sugar plantations were spreading and growing in the new areas that the europeans had found which added to the competition. Spreading...
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...America-Home of the Brave, Land of the Free. We hear this almost every day. Have you ever thought about just what it means. We all have different opinions but I am going to tell mine. When I hear those 8 words I think about how much effort it took to get here. I'm talking about all the people who has worked for us to get here. All the sacrifices they made for us. Home of the brave. The soldiers are the brave. They are the reason we are here. They had to be brave all the way from the beginning. They were brave in the wars. They are Brave in a criteria. They were their when we were weak they didn't have to sign up to sacrifice their life but they did knowing that It would lead to a better future, and for us to be free. They...
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...The idea of what an American is can be different for everyone. It all depends on perspective. Through my experiences and research I have a better grasp on what I think it means to be an American. With stories and letters, such as Equiano, Of Plymouth Plantation, and Letters from Columbus, an American is one who has a desire for success, money, power, and freedom. It is through the stories of the past that provide proof to that statement. In the story of Equiano, slaves were brought to America, to fulfill America’s need for power and money, but the story also shows the desire for freedom. Equiano was a young boy who was ripped out of Nigeria and transported by boat to be sold as a slave in America. He suffered the long, awful boat ride, and...
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...Freedom, to many people does not necessarily mean they are free. There are many degrees and definitions of freedom throughout the history of America many different races, genders, and ethnicities experienced. The varieties of freedom come from multiple groups of people such as slaves, indentured servants, Native Americans, property owners, and Puritans. All of these groups had their own definition of freedom they experienced, ranging from little to no freedom, freedom from the land they possessed, and the freedom to worship any God they so choose. However, some of these freedoms conflicted with the freedoms of others. First and foremost, there were many groups of people who had little to no freedom in seventeenth – century North America. Among these people, there were the slaves who were forced upon their will to come over to America from Africa and work for the masters who claimed them. Slaves by far had the least amount of freedom given to them when they came to America. In slave work on the plantations is described in the words of Eric Foner as “far more demanding than in the household slavery common to in Africa, and death rate among slaves much higher” (p. 98). This shows how slaves had little to no freedom to choose how much or how long they wanted to work and the lifestyle the slaves lived was dictated by their masters. Another group of settlers that came to America to try and start a new life for were the indentured servants. These indentured servants, being about...
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...position for and against were set in order to express personal and collective point of view. Yet in the nineteenth century the question of American domination in the world economics was set: “Shall the American people continue their resistless march toward the commercial supremacy of the world? Shall free institutions broaden their blessed reign as the children of liberty wax in strength, until the empire of our principles is established over the hearts of all mankind?” (Albert J. Beveridge, 1). The commercial domination of the United States caused contradictory feelings in the hearts of Americans and people of the whole world. The same time the words of admiration and the honest governmental policy. The country that is brining democracy to the whole world: “America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being-confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented-a vast improvement over the fatalistic and intolerant human beings that traditional societies have always produced, and Islamic societies produce now” (Dinesh D’Souza, 2005). He is considered Americans to be the outstanding nation of those who set for democracy and eager to set the nations free (from terrorism, for example, if we speak about Islamic countries). According to Albert Beveridge a number of violations of human rights were observed in the end the 19th century and it seriously undermine the authority of the country and the government as well: “The rule of liberty that all just government...
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...allow everyone to own the land, everyone is responsible to work, and the state will control communications and transports. Marx said a communist nation will do and be much more but those list above are a few main points. The opposite of communism is capitalism, which is where private owners, rather than the state, control a country's trade and industry for profit. The United States of America is not communist but capitalist because America does not share land between citizens, does not force the disabled to work, and Americans can communicate how they please and ship their goods wherever. The United States of America allows citizens to own private property, unlike communist nations that Marx describes in his essay. In a communist nation, the nation will have an “abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes,” according to Marx. This means that there will be no private property but just public land which the people work. America does allow citizens to own land, and then use it for private purposes. There are private property rights in the Constitution, the fourth Amendment, regarding that individuals may hold and exercise their property, even if it is against the government itself. In a capitalist nation, the people are allowed free enterprise which Americans can do and communists cannot. Therefore, since the Constitution cannot be changed, America is not a communist nation but a capitalist nation. Although America is popular for it’s equality...
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