America, with a population of over 320 million people, opportunities for excellency are endless. Millions of minds coming together to form one great country. But what do these minds come together for? To make up a statistic in wealth? Education? Happiness? My vision for America is not one plagued by the competition to be the best educated, the most wealthy, or the happiest country. No, a perfect balance of opportunity for everyone. To do this, we must make America what we want. The people's wants, needs, and voices making America ours. As a whole, the American population definitely has the most pride to be apart of the country. We wear our American flag shirts, pants, shoes, and hair bands to match our red, white, and blue phone cases. Our pride to be Americans is clear. And I see us …show more content…
A fine competition of friendly nature and rivalry. State rivalries of the best college football team or the highest employment rate. Our 50 states have a sibling type rivalry that only wants to one up the other. But in these sorts of competitions the only way to do better, is to be better. I see America as 50 states who should constantly push each other and strive to be the best. Rates of unemployment that plummet as every state pushes to have the lower percentage than the other. Education in young children soars and more and more men and women accomplish college dreams when we push each other to be the best. But that doesn’t mean that one state is the best. We can find our errors and make a change to better suit one state to the next. There is a wide variety of ways to solve one problem. One great advancement in minimizing pollution in one state isn’t going to work in the next, but as the next state see the advancement being made, they too will find their own solution, just to one up them. States must make the necessary alterations to keep up with the ever changing population to make America
Equality. Opportunity. Prosperity. The American Dream paints a vision in which each of these ideals are ever present and available to all individuals inside the vast border of the nation. The notion is that every individual can, through concentrated efforts and dedication, improve their own socioeconomic class and climb up the hierarchy.
Nationalism Nationalism, the feeling of love, unity and patriotism towards one’s country, filled the emotions of Americans during the Battle of the New Orleans where Americans defeated the British. During this period the States used the liberal nationalism to solve their differences and put aside self-interests then united to form one nation. The unity brought great success to America. Further, nationalism was shown through the rising of the American Flags and people singing the national anthem as a show of pride and identity (Lind, 2010). The idea of nationalism can lead to people spreading certain ideologies that their country is proud of to other countries.
What does it mean to be an American today? Or rather, what does being an American entail? Does that pertain to a certain individual’s perspective? Or is Americanism defined through a collective consciousness projected around the world? Over the course of time, Americans have gone through various embodiments of who they are, without loosing the essence of what they represent.
Perhaps we can't. So rather, let us look at what makes America unique compared to other
Imagine the United States in its near future: while a select few successful, affluent and influential people take power over the rest of the country and essentially control the way it operates domestically and internationally, the remainder of the population remains at a state comparable to the Great Depression in the 1930s, where unemployment rates are high, few unskilled jobs are available to the public, and the majority of urban residents are forced to rely on soup kitchens and live in shantytowns. The state of most United States schools today is absolutely atrocious, and should they continue to educate the modern generation of children and teens, a dystopian society is bound to arise in what is now considered one of the most powerful and
America prides itself on being one of the most effective democratically governed counties. The idea of the American dream is that all people have equivalent political freedoms and a responsive government. However the effectiveness of social equality is being threatened by increasing inequality in the United States. Economic inequality in the US has expanded drastically. The wealth gap has had drastic changes over the past 35 years.
That’s a fairly simplistic notion and the focus of my essay explores whether this literal interpretation can still apply in today’s more complex society or whether being an American requires more than that. As I try to answer this question myself, I began first by trying to inventory the things I appreciate most about America. I quickly determined that the things I cherish most might be quite different than my other classmates, friends, and possibly my own family and that’s when I realized that the discretion to express your own ideas and to think
The American Dream Explained What is the American Dream? James Truslow Adams stated in his book The Epic of America, that the American Dream is “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement…” (p.214-215). The American Dream has changed from our Founding Fathers writing of the Declaration of Independence protecting our opportunity to improve our life, no matter who we are to the materialistic things that the American Dream is for some today in the year 2018.
The American Dream: Happiness The key to achieving the American dream is to live life happy. No matter if it is happiness with money, love, freedom, or safety all people deserve the American dream. Everyone has their own way of pursuing an "American dream". Many immigrants have come to America to pursue that dream.
Immigrants and Education We believe that teachers and parents are struggling to make their students and children involved in a different community from their original community. Because these students have different cultures, languages and values from their teachers who are doing their best to meet the needs of all international students (Shurki & Richard, 2009). The schools across the country today are looking for ways to welcome and assist immigrant families because they become a big part of their communities. So how these effect on each of students, teachers and parent? Teachers Some school districts respond to the needs of immigrant and refugee students by creating “newcomer” programs (Hertzberg, 1998).
America is built upon the ideal that every citizen has an equal opportunity to success and prosperity through hard work and dedication. This is also known as the American dream. Many authors have speculated what is most important in grasping the American dream and through reading these stories it can be determined that success, happiness, and freedoms all play an important role in attaining the American dream. The American dream is historically unique because everyone American has the right to it.
When a person hears or sees the word America, what do they think? America is a country that almost everyone in the world knows about because there are certain words and phrases that can be used to describe it. Some common terms are sports, equality, the melting pot, powerful, freedom, hard working, and some more. All of these words make up what is known as the American Identity. This American Identity has been built up over time by people’s actions and thoughts.
Living in the United States Of America you have the right to a free education. When my class was told about the theme for patriot's pen and it was “America's Gift To My Generation”, the first thought i had was education. Education is Knowledge . Not only is Education to help the mind develop but also helps you “develop a perspective on life” edlab.tc.columbia.edu. Having an education is the most valuable thing you can have.
To what extent is Education responsible for poverty and misery? Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get. William Lowe Bryan (1860–1955) 10th president of Indiana University (1902 to 1937). Education is one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. Bertrand A. Russell (1872-1970)
Secondary Education in Latin America According to UNESCO Secondary Education Reform: Towards a Convergence of Knowledge Acquisition and Skills Development in 2005, secondary education is the “stage in the education continuum, following the primary level, accountable for the progress of the young during their adolescence”. During this level, values and attitudes formed during the primary level were firmly enriched together with the attainment of more knowledge and skills. In Latin America, secondary education is divided into two stages—the lower secondary stage and the upper secondary stage.