...more important than the bullet. I think that is a really strong quote and i really like it because it has a sequences like jail or they could take you to court . That is why it is important to vote be cause we have a right to. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”-Abraham Lincoln. This quote means One of the reasons not to vote is some presidents are for bad stuff. One president was voting for abortion. And other bad stuff like really really bad stuff. But I personally like voting. Well kinda. Sometimes. The reason you should is because it is a honer. Some people don’t take it as a honer. But i do but i am not saying it you shouldn’t vote i think we should. Everybody...
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...Not everyone likes that America is a diverse country. By making this commercial it upset a lot of people. It started with the coke commercial and the individual videos from each singer, then they made a video about how each person felt being able to live her in America and how they have felt about all of this being done, and then finally there was the deadspin quotes where people were mad that the commercial came out and the Stephen Colbert report on the whole situation. The commercial was made to show the diversity in America and how we can all be one but after seeing all of this is shows me how many people are really against America being diverse and having people here with different nationalities. I however, think that this commercial was very inspirational and intriguing. This commercial has opened up my eyes and showed me how diverse our country really is. What I also didn’t realize before watching this commercial was how horrible and disrespectful Americans can be to foreigners. While watching this commercial I saw how upset these people were about how they have been treated and how different and out of place that they felt sometimes being in certain groups. No one should ever have to feel the way that they have had to feel in their life. Most of the people that were in this commercial were born and raised here in America. Just because they have different nationalities and have learned things about their cultures and know different languages does not make them foreigners...
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...It is the year of 3001, of the United States, and the world is turning upside down. America is having yet another war again, but this time with the lawbreakers. The criminals have escaped from jail, and have worked together to form a new type of technology that will take over the wireless electricity from America. But, not can the criminals make just one new technology, they made dozens more to take over America. Also, not just America, but the whole entire world. The criminals never knew that one day can do this, but only from a help of a baby. I know, a baby, right? That baby accidentally released the power of evil, and it contained more than a hundred piggy banks full of toys. Just kidding, it was the criminals who released the power of...
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...This Thursday I went to the "The Cost of Silence in The American System" with attorney S. Lee Merritt. This was an eye-opener for me and really made me think about how unfair and the ignorance of justice is still here. I found it most appropriate, the purpose of the conversation Civil rights and how Lee explained his personal feelings towards the issue and his professional feelings. Lee had what we can call a troubled childhood and he found the impotence of speaking up in his society very important. He was born in LA with a father that was a gangbanger, had been in jail, and that was a drug dealer and with a teenage mom that had her first child at the age of 15. In 1991, when Lee was younger, he witnessed a young girl named Natasha Camilo...
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...The poem “Let America Be America Again” by Langton Hughes has different meanings. This poem begins to talk about how the pioneers first came to America in the search of what many people call “The American Dream”. It talks about how they came to America seeking for equality and liberty, but is it America really a place of liberty and equality? This is what Hughes makes us question our self about. The poem speaks of the American dream that never existed for the lower class American. It also talks about the freedom and equality that every immigrant hoped for but never achieved. In his poem, Hughes represents not only African Americans, but other minority groups as well. Besides criticizing the unfair life in America, the poem conveys a sense of hope that the American Dream is soon to come. Which I think is something that even now many people can relate to. This poem is written in 1935. Langston Hughes is writing a poem of someone who feels that America does not live up to what it should be. The tone is angry and resentful. In this poem it’s not representing the point of view of one particular group. It’s saying that there are many people who’ve come here with hopes and dreams and they’re being let down. He’s also saying that there is an economic difference between people. In essence the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer, because there is not equal opportunity. That idea is something that is not real for many people because of their race, economic situation, and come up...
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...“Freedom is Intended as a Challenge” by Naomi Wolf mentions in her reading about Thomas Jefferson who was one of the writers of “The Declaration of Independence” had two main ideas which were individually and happiness, the pursuit of happiness. As Wolf researches she comes up with the idea that Jefferson had the idea that we would live a life that was guaranteed, Wolf explains “liberation is not about a historical moment that had happened in the past it is more of a destination of the mind” (636). Life is not all about being born in America and being free, people around us must continue their happiness, and find their own meaning of liberty. Wolf is a piece that takes a deeper look into the current perception of how the Declaration of Independence. Wolf believes us present day Americans have a right sense of what really happened in the late 1700’s. Wolf explains how many American’s now just look at the Declaration of Independence as just a piece of paper, and not taken as serious as it should be. The Declaration of Independence is supposed to be looked at on how free America is, as the Declaration of Independence states, “We hold truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” (625). As Wolf argues that America is not the same as it was before she explains “This sense of the world descended to the revolutionary generation from Greek...
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...People take things for 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”...
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...has been a major issue since the movement of the internet into mainstream culture since the early 1990s. We have basically the entire world on the internet now, let alone America itself, and it really is a massive social experiment. We have nothing to compare the internet to throughout history and governments are debating and experimenting on how best to govern this incredible evolution of communication. It is important to remember that the internet really is quite new. The benchmarks we set now are extremely important to the rest of history on this planet because like it or not, the internet is definitely here to stay. The world has rapidly become dependent on its functioning. This is why internet privacy law is so important. We are establishing standards that our progeny will have to live with for years and years to come. The current state of internet privacy is a bit blurry because there are many factors at play here. We have many interest groups, concerns, and legal issues to consider. The legal issues we are looking at when talking about privacy on the internet are primarily free speech, and whether the government or organizations have the right to track your personal information. If they do have that right, how much information can they use and how can they use it? The reason we are dealing with free speech here is because there is a question as to what all can be broadcast in the public domain so to speak. For example, should a website be able to post the names of a member’s...
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...people to shut up? Like the cartoon Bambi says: “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all”. One of the most ugly faces of America is racism and discrimination. They say, “sticks and stones may break bones but words will never hurt me”, but racial slurs and comments on sexual orientation hurt people everyday. Racism still exists today and its effect is still as strong as it was fifty years ago. The first amendment has allowed great men and women like Martin Luther King, Jr. to deliver speeches like ‘I Had A Dream’. By using our voice, we have gained equal rights for all people. However entertainment seems to have no concern about the progress that was made. Comedian Michael Richards, commonly known as Kramer on Seinfeld, was caught screaming racist remarks to a member of his audience. Also, shows like South Park push the limits of free speech all the time. South Park cartoons are constantly bashing Jews and making fun of religious figures. This season, South Park debuted with an episode in which the racist remark ‘nigger” was used over 40 times. However, many people feel like it helps teach the impact of the word to others. So, it is really hard to really determine what is too much and what is not. Some say that today’s gay rights movement is like the Civil Rights movement. And homosexuals are today’s top victims of free speech abuse. Stars like Eminem sing songs about killing gays and lesbians in his 2000 album “The Marshal Matters LP”. Even religion takes...
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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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...the Declaration of Independence, one of America’s most historical documents, was signed in Philadelphia. Doug Hoey states “It marked the birth of this nation which, under God, was destined to become the symbol of freedom and world leadership” (91) in his article Freedom is Not Free, and It Must Be Preserved. Each year on July 4th, Americans celebrate Independence Day, with fireworks, family gatherings, and bar-b-que, but the people of this country should also take time to reflect and remember the importance of why this is such an important holiday. Millions of young men and women lost their lives on a foreign battle field, fighting for this country, so that the people of the U.S. could enjoy the freedom and rights that they have today. Do they really understand how this country began and how their freedom was obtained? Do they truly appreciate freedom? The citizens of this country need to remember and honor these fallen heroes not just on Independence Day, but every day. “It is important that we recall and return to the faith of our forefathers. In our prosperity and our present position of world leadership, America today is forgetting the God who gave this nation its birth and its present greatness” states REV. Doug Hoey. (91) In the year 1492, the year that Columbus reached the present day Caribbean islands, Native American Indians made up the population of what we now know as the U.S. This was before European explorers, mostly French and Spanish, began to arrive in large...
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...Lythcott-Haims wrote an article in the New York Times in December about this called “Millennials Will Soon Define ‘America,’ and That’s a Problem for Ideas” arguing that millennials will be extremely detrimental to society. Then on the other hand, Kathy McCartney wrote an opinion piece in December, also in The New York Times, called “Today’s Students Have a New Way of Looking at Free Speech”, where she argues that millennials are more open minded than they seem. While there is no right or wrong answer to the ongoing question of if the next generation...
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...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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...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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...American Literature October 9, 2014 What we think about America today is not how America was in the 1700’s. Much thought should go into how this country was made from the very beginnings and the struggles that the early Americans went through. Before the Revolutionary War, some people might not think about it, America was ruled by the British. The British had set up 13 colonies, where the people were under rule by King George. America was essentially a mini British country that was trying to make its way. Then there was the Revolutionary War between the British and the colonists, which brought so much change throughout the entire land. Eventually, the Declaration of Independence was signed, George Washington was made President, and instead of being 13 British colonies, America was now 13 states. So much change had happened in such a short time. America signed the declaration, elected a president, and became 13 states with the benefit of freedom. What more could a country want? Well I am here to prove that at this time, change didn’t happen for the colonists like it is portrayed. “Rip Van Winkle” suggests that the people of this time didn’t appreciate the Revolutionary War. Their adaptation to new features for living life may have changed, but the Revolutionary War had little impact on how the people thought about government and the idea of freedom. Using the story of “Rip Van Winkle”, I will compare characters and ideas in the book to broader ideas of the American nature at...
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