...The United States flag is a symbol which represents the country that we are today. The flag is a symbol of respect which holds true to many of the citizens who have fought for lived and died for the freedoms that we have today. These freedoms are not granted to any other countries in the world. Therefore, the importance and responsibility of keeping it properly folded and safe is a huge honor and should not be taken lightly. The folds in the flag each have a special meaning and are not to be rushed through as to forget what each of the meanings stand for. The United States Flag has been a part of history since January 1, 1776. American history has set fourth a legend that Betsy Ross was the seamstress who sewed the first American flag. Betsy Ross knew George Washington and had done some repair seamstress work for him. Betsy Ross ran an upholstery shop that she took over when her husband had passed away. She often mended some of Washington’s clothing which how they became friends. Many people have different stories and legends of how the flag came about and why and if Ross was in fact the first person to sew the flag. There has never been any documentation that proved that Ross did create the flag however legend says that one day George Washington and two of his key figures sketched out the United States flag and asked Betsy Ross to sew it together and she did. No one knows for sure whether Betsy Ross designed the flag or if she did in fact change the original six stars to five...
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...Do you ever wonder why the flag of the United States is so important or why it has a pledge dedicated to it? Do you know why it is such a big deal? Do you know what it represents? The flag symbolizes unity of the colonies and the states and maybe that is why the flag is such a big deal. If you want to learn all about the U.S. flag then you are going want to read this report. Some people believe that Betsy Ross designed the flag of the United States. Although she didn’t design it she suggested some of the features along with George Washington, she also sewed it. No one knows who designed the flag but they believe it was a man named Francis Hopkinson. Even though people believe Francis Hopkinson designed the flag captain Samuel Reid suggested the design....
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...One of the most popular uses of a flag is to symbolize a nation or country. Some national flags have been particularly inspirational to other nations, countries, or subnational entities in the design of their own flags. Some prominent examples include: * The flag of Denmark is the oldest state flag still in use (dates back to the 13th century). This flag, called the Dannebrog, inspired the cross design of the other Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and regional Scandinavian flags for the Faroe Islands, Åland, Scania and Bornholm, as well as flags for the non-Scandinavian Shetland and Orkney. * The Tricolour of the Netherlands is the oldest tricolor, first appearing in 1572 as the Prince's Flag in orange–white–blue. Soon the more famous red–white–blue began appearing—it is however unknown why, though many stories are known. After 1630 the red–white–blue was the most commonly seen flag. The Dutch Tricolor has inspired[citation needed] many flags but most notably those of Russia, New York City, and South Africa (the 1928–94 flag). * The national flag of France, the Tricolore was designed in 1794. As a forerunner of revolution, France's tricolour flag style has been adopted by other nations. Examples: Italy, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ireland, Haiti, Romania, Mexico, etc. * The flag of Russia, the source for the Pan-Slavic colors red, white and blue, adopted by many Slavic states and peoples as their symbols. Examples: Slovakia, Serbia...
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...each of the 6 symbols featured. 7. Staple “My Book of American Symbols” book together. “Fact Page” Writing Paper Symbols: Paste to writing paper Informational Card My Book of American Symbols By: My Patriotic Portrait Symbol: Fact 1: Fact 2: Symbols: copy one page for each student. Cut and place on writing paper. Liberty Bald The bald eagle has been the national symbol of the United States since June 20, 1782. The bald eagle is an endangered species and is the only unique eagle found on the North America continent. The bald eagle gets its name from an old English word, “balde” which means “white,” not “hairless.” You can find bald eagles in every U. S. state except Hawaii. 80% of the bald eagles in the United States are found in Alaska. The Liberty Bell is a huge bronze bell that symbolizes freedom in the United States of America. This historic bell is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The bell was originally cast in 1752 in London, England. It was commissioned as a bell for the Pennsylvania State House (now called Independence Hall). The Crack: The bell first cracked during a test ringing. After cracking, the bell was recast twice in 1753 in Philadelphia. The first US President to live in the White House was John Adams (the second President of the USA). American White The White House is the official residence...
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...Constitutionality of flag burning and my feelings about this symbolic act On June 14, 1777, the United States flag was born in Philadelphia, PA which was the capitol of the United States. As a symbol of the patriot’s idea of the Nation conceived in Liberty, the flag was a sign of freedom and justice in the United States of America. The American flag was sometimes called Old Glory also. Between 1897-1932, forty eight state laws were established for banning the desecrating of the United States flag. Immediately following the civil war, the American Flag was being threatened by at least two fronts. The first was by white southerners that wanted the Confederate flag as the American Flag and the second was by businesses that wanted to use the flag for commercial advertising. In response to these threats, forty eight states passed laws The U. S. Supreme Court’s first ruling on Flag Desecration was in 1907. The statues prohibited the following: marking, defacing, using in commercial advertising, and showing “contempt” by publicly burning, trampling, spitting on, showing lack of respect for the U. S. Flag. In Halter v. Nebraska in 1907, this ruling was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court as Constitutional. In 1968, a Federal Government Flag Desecration law was passed by Congress due to the incident in Central Park where a peace activist decided to burn an American Flag to protest against the Vietnam War. The law banned anyone that demonstrated “Contempt”...
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...Two hundred-forty-one years and one day ago, the Second Continental Congress met at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia to adopt the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Hailed as a federal and national holiday in the United States, the Fourth of July commemorates America’s fight for freedom to be an independent and self-governed nation. Taking arms to free themselves from under monarch control, the thirteen established American colonies sought to overthrow Great Britain and become its own great nation on the eve of April 19, 1775. Colonists who supported the forefathers’ efforts were called Patriots, whereas those who remained loyal to the British were called “Loyalists.” With family and friends fighting on both sides of the...
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...HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FLAG & US FLAG HISTORY “Old Glory, Stars and Stripes, the Star Spangled Banner” - From its inception, the American flag has been an important part of our nation’s history. Surviving over 200 years, the flag has both physically and symbolically grown and developed in times of both achievement and crisis. The American flag is a symbol known worldwide. It has been the inspiration for holidays, songs, poems, books, artwork and so much more. The flag has been used to display our nationalism, as well as our rebellion, and everything else in between. The flag is so important that its history tells the story of America itself. It represents the freedom, dignity, and true meaning of being an American. It has been with us...
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...My freedom cost many lives, and now it is my turn to pay back the debt to the men who fought for my beautiful country. My responsibility as a citizen to America consists of voting, respecting, submitting, and to serving my country. Responsibility is defined as the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one’s power, control, or management. Personally, I agree with that statement, but responsibility means more to me than just being accountable it means to fulfill your jobs, own up to your actions, but most importantly follow the commands given to us in scripture by God. When I think of America, I think of it’s history, and all of the battles and wars that were fought to bring us to where we are today....
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...Racism is alive to this very day and you would have thought over 100 years it would ceased to exist but this generation it seems like it grows bigger and bigger. The way we are set up with the culture we should come together as one. Hatred always comes up and we became prejudice towards different racial group. African Americans came up with a movement called “black lives matter”. Black lives matter is an activist movement founded in the United States by three black activist: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi. Similar to the “all lives matter” movement that was in after Bush left the office. On Huffpost, David Goldberg came up with “"All lives matter" is a universal moral principle, a Kantian categorical imperative. Other things being equal, all lives matter, equally. Except when they don't. And they don't when other things are taken not to be equal. Like racial standing in a society such as ours. The universalizing politics of "All lives matter" is one of racial dismissal, ignoring, and denial. The insistence that Black lives matter accordingly is necessary only because, unlike "all lives," in this society, black lives are too often taken not to matter. Black lives are presumed too readily in the U.S. not to inhabit the universal.” This movement was to rebuild the black liberation movement. What started this movement? The Trayvon Martin incident after the murderer, George Zimmerman, wasn’t charged for the killing during the trail. Ever since that plethora of blacks...
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...Primary Source Analysis Paper 1. In the pictorial, Miss Colombia’s School House (1894), my initial impression is that this picture serves as the basis for the term “the great melting pot”. The pictorial shows the exclusion of Hawaii and Canada from the United States at that time but the desire to include them. The views of the South are expressed with the presence of the African American child being accosted with a weapon. The picture further depicts an Anglo child assaulting an Asian child. In the back of the pictorial one of the attendees is protesting his view of socialism by carrying a red flag with the work socialism publicized on the flag. This pictorial gives a quick look in to history regarding America’s relations with surrounding nations. Aguinaldo’s criticism of America’s policies towards the Philippines echo in the 1894 cartoon is when the Spanish was eradicated from the Philippines. It was at this moment that the American guerrilla began. Cuba was under the Spanish control and America became an ally and attempted to free Cuba from their tyrannical control. The Spanish also controlled the countries of Puerto Rico and Guam at this time. Due to the corrupt treatment, Aguinaldo deciphered that those in America viewed all native of the Philippines as savages. Due to this view the land of the Philippine Island was transformed from “a land of despotism and vicious governmental methods into an enlightened and progressive republic, with America guiding them”. The documents...
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...The “old guard” is the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment.It currently has three active battalions. It also is referred to as “Escort to the President”. The unit is the oldest active duty regiment in the US Army, having been the First American Regiment in 1784. The old guard hold ceremonies, and memorial affairs to honor the fallen comrades, and special events relating to the army. The unit received its name from Gen. Winfield Scott at a victory parade at Mexico City in 1847 after their win in the Mexican War. The 3rd infantry has a long history of service including fifty campaign streamers, which spans from the Battle of Fallen Timber to World War II and Vietnam. After world war II the old guard has been the official Army Honor Guard and...
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...of an attraction than anything else. Arlington also holds its pride and respect to the most sacred resting places in the country, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, it also is the resting place of John F. Kennedy, and one other US president, it also the final resting place to the over four hundred thousand deceased casualties from the United States, and eleven deceased casualties from different countries....
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...Class stamp. On its upper left corner, the number 2008 shows that this stamp was produced in year 2008. The right side of the stamp says “USA FIRST-CLASSS FOREVER”, meaning that this postage stamp is valid for First-Class postage in the United States no matter when it is used. There is an extraordinary metal bell is in the middle of the stamp – the Liberty Bell, a venerable historic relic that I am going to analyze in the rest of this research paper. The bell was first known by the world as a metal musical instrument in ancient China. Tuned bells in that age were created and played to be performed only for imperial families and noblemen, as a symbol of power and status. Later on, bells became widely used in different religions. For example, bells played an important role in the Eastern world of Buddhism and Hinduism as temple bells. In western world, bells were commonly used as church bells or town bells for gathering people together. In 1752, the Quaker William Penn, legislator and founder of the Pennsylvania colony in 1682, had decided and commissioned the bell to be cast in London, and brought to North America to hang in the State House of the colony of Pennsylvania. “They had ordered very precisely that these prophetic words from the Old Testament be cast on the bell: ‘Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof.’ ” Obviously, the Liberty Bell represents the important value of liberty and freedom in Pennsylvania colony. Charlene Mires, the...
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...“It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.” – Mark Twain (476) Introduction Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, traveled the world and got to know imperialistic endeavors from many different nations. After he returned to America on 15 October 1900, he joined the “Anti-Imperialist League” and actively opposed policies of the United States and Great Britain (William D. Howells and Mark Twain 723). In 1905, Mark Twain composed the short story The War Prayer in an effort to open the eyes to patriotic, war-loving people. This term paper will be a close-reading on Twain’s short story The War Prayer. The focus will not be on what was said about this short story by other authors, but rather give an explanation and deeper understanding on its satirical criticism on people’s patriotism and their glorification of war. The First Paragraph “It was a time of great and exalting excitement” (Twain 652). After reading these first nine words in Mark Twain’s The War Prayer one expects the time of “great and exalting excitement” to be one of technological advances or economic strength, or at least having to do with another peaceful connotation. Twain diverts these associations with his satirical competence by writing “The country was up in arms, the war was on . . .” Therefore, a “time...
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...Ethics are the principles that dictate an individual or group of individual’s actions. ("Ethics," 2013) This simple concept of differentiating between right and wrong explains the motivation of every individual who has ever lived. Their ethics guide them through the decisions they make in a lifetime. In this assignment I will attempt to recommend an ethical decision that is presented to a recent top graduate from Liberty University named Benji. From our reading we learn that Benji is invited to attend an event at the New Gen Health Services headquarters. We are told that Benji accepts this all inclusive invitation and decides the opportunity is worth the trip. While awaiting his flight to Seattle Benji takes the opportunity to learn a little about the company that is attempting to recruit him. Once he begins his search Benji learns of some of the good things that the company does. He finds that New Gen sends researchers around the world in an attempt to find new beneficial health services. This action seems to be reinforced with another article that interviews the CEO who professes his mission of creating a healthier America and touting the companies leading ethics code. Having found these articles as well as many supporting the financial wellness of company Benji seems to have found a great company to work for. As it is with many situations things that appear too good to be true usually are. With continued researched Benji begins to find articles that paint a different picture...
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