America the Beautiful Essays

The song “America the Beautiful” describes my love for America. One of Katharine Lee Bates’ lines read off, “From sea to shining sea!” Everybody has rights and freedoms from one of America’s coasts all the way to the next. I love America because we are free, I count on America to let me live a happy life and it has succeeded so far. America is great because of our constitutional rights. Our constitution makes sure that we will be free and treated fairly everywhere. In our constitution it states

overcome great challenges before, and I know we will again. This is our future, to make the America we all believe in. We will continue the dream of safety and strength, of freedom and prosperity and create a world that each and every one of us can live in. I hope that we can all come to see this one day, that despite its flaws, despite its mistakes, despite some of its people, our country is a beautiful place. Around the world, people are being denied freedoms, they are being denied clean air, they

America the Great. America the Beautiful. What if the United States wasn’t as prosperous of a country, the way many individuals view America today? What if the U.S. was categorized as a third world country and another nation became the new America? If that was the case wouldn’t individuals, living in America, want to move to a place where there are better opportunities for themselves and the future generations. In today’s society individuals that are against granting amnesty to immigrants, who

Journal Entry: America The Beautiful In the documentary, America The Beautiful by Darryl Roberts, he is trying to understand what causes us obsess with physical beautify and not appreciate what truly makes women gorgeous. Throughout the documentary, Roberts follows twelve-year-old Gerren's modeling career and makes inferences about how a child is a new and impossible standard for older women to live up to. During the duration of the film; impossibly skinny and unhealthy models, beauty cosmetics

takes the audience's back to late 1800's and the early 1900's when cowboys and horse were popular in society. The director of "Coca-Cola America the Beautiful" use the rhetorical feature of camera – to- subject distances to bring focus to a cowboy love for nature with his horse. Scene one has a foreground or close up shot of a handsome man riding his beautiful white horse through a National Park. Scene two, viewers see more of the background in why the National Park has so much beauty.

El Salvador is a beautiful country located in Central America. Because it is located in Central America, El Salvador has a tropical savanna climate with dry winters. Its neighboring countries are Honduras, Guatemala and the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador has many things that makes it the beautiful country that it is, but one thing that stands out the most is it’s beautiful landscape. From the green terrain to the mountains to the volcano located in the capital, San Salvador, this country is definitely

Rear Window thrusts us into the role of a voyeuristic neighbor, a role that we find ourselves quite comfortable filling. The point of voyeurism though, is that it is always a one-way street; we find comfort in knowing that we are able to watch others while we ourselves remain unseen. Together with our wheelchair ridden protagonist, LB “Jeff” Jeffries, we watch through a series of open windows as Jeff’s various neighbors go about their day to day lives. Though all of these people are placed there

portion of the American Dream which most people had at this time of the 1930’s America, just after the Great Depression. Men wished for their own land which they could use to make a living for themselves without the hardships of being a farmworker at that time. Many people came from far and wide to escape religious prejudice and any other kind of adversity they were dealing with, hoping to find a bright future in America. The American Dream

A Beautiful Mind came out in 2001. I chose this movie because it is very easy to figure out what his psychological disorder is and it is a very good movie that explains how he learns to cope with his disorder. In A Beautiful Mind the main character John Nash a very strong case of schizophrenia. John Nash’s disorder is very obvious through out the movie. In the beginning of the movie you start to see signs that relate to schizophrenia and through the movie they proceed to increase. Nash is not aware

Life is Beautiful by Robert Benigni is a comedy war movie. A Jewish librarian, Guido becomes victims of the Holocaust alone with his son, Giosue.Once Guido and Giosue arrive at the concentration camp, Guido tells his son Giosue that their playing a game. With humor and imagination, Guido protect his son's innocence, of the fatal reality from the danger Nazi concentration. Throughout the film, Benigni usage of character development the depiction of the individuality for a greater purpose. In the

His gesture of throwing shirts at Daisy is done to dazzle her, to show her that he has so much money that he can buy tons and tons of beautiful clothes made of very expensive fabrics. Many of the things he has in his house are just there to impress Daisy and to make her love him more. This shows that Gatsby’s and Daisy’s love is all about materials and what they have and not about themselves

It is never too late to fall in love for the first time in your life. Saving Face is a 2004 movie directed by, Alice Wu, is about an American theatrical release featuring an Asian American lesbian couple. One character that stands out in the story is, Vivian Shing, (Lynn Chen).This character known as Vivian Shing can be described as: careerist, romantic, sex-maniac. Vivian Shing, can be described as a careerist for two reasons. One example of, Vivian Shing, being characterized as a careerist

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald portrays love, obsession, and objectification through the characters Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Some might say their love was true and Gatsby’s feelings for her was pure affection, while others say that he objectifies and is obsessed with her. Perhaps Gatsby confuses lust and obsession with love, and throughout the novel, he is determined to win his old love back. At the end of the novel, Gatsby is met with an untimely death and never got

Themes in Alice Walker the Color Purple Introduction Alice walker is the author of the color purple; the novel was released in 1982 and has won two major awards, which are, best fiction from the national book award and the Pulitzer award for best fiction (Alsen, 45). The book has since been adopted into musical and film while retaining the same name. The book focuses on African American women’s lives in the southern state of Georgia (LaGrone, 53). Moreover, the book paints a picture of how low the

The Unattainable American Dream “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (Source A). Jay Gatsby shares that no matter what happens or how hard you try you are trying still trying to achieve an impossible accomplishment. Some say that the American dream can be achieved and that is how people became rich. The reality is that the American dream is not what gave them wealth at all. In the book, The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates how people

“Great men are not born great, they grow great (Puzo)”. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the protagonist Jay Gatsby comes from a poor background and strives into a wealthy individual because of his hard work and determination. In the Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the narrator, reflects on how Gatsby hails from a lower-class family in North Dakota surviving with nearly nothing. Eventually after returning from World War I, he moves to West Egg New York to attempt to win the love of his life

The movie is based off of the true story of Nobel Prize winner John Nash. The story follows child prodigy, John Nash through his life. John arrives at Princeton University as a smart young man who won the Carnegie Prize for mathematics. As he arrives in campus he discovers that he has a shared room with Charles, Charles and John quickly become best friends. John needs to create an original idea for a assignment. The idea is triggered after he faces rejection from a women at a local bar. Five years

Before watching the film A Beautiful Mind I had some understanding of schizophrenia. I knew that it could cause hallucinations, but I never knew it could make the person suffering with go through so much more. Not only does it affect them mentally it also affects the social aspect of their lives. It was surprising to see how the main character of the film honestly thought that these major parts of his life were actually real. He believed he was a spy for the government and that his roommate from

why they refuse to take their responsibilities seriously. This song conveys an idea of the declining humanity found in the American people. Springsteen appeals to the men in charge and the average man to ask for a shift in attitude. Without this, America will end up as an inhumane, ignorant country with people lacking

In Kathleen Karlyn’s third chapter of Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers, she states how Girl World is ambivalent. Not only is Girl World unruly because the films place female desire as a focal point in the film, thereby validating the existence of female desire, while also being manufactured by the ideologies of patriarchal and postfeminist cultures with female power stopping at basic normative femininity. The film The Devil Wears Prada (2006) finds itself in agreement with both of these ideas. On