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Liberty, equality, and equal opportunity for all are at the core of our values as Americans. None of them...
Throughout the United States, many people ponder on what is the most important American value. Historically, the United States...
Anyone can be an American if they are willing to be respectful, unite for Justice and Liberty. This idea...
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When I think about the most important American values I think of freedom, equality, and individualism. These are some...
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Are you a true American? Most of you reading this might have never thought about it. So what does...
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What is the American Dream? The American Dream is the prospect of freedom, choices and endless opportunity for all...
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To me being an american means very little, Most would probably say they identify with the general traits associated...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Argument, Fall 2020, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Showcase, 1
What it means to be an American could mean various different things in this day and age depending on...
What does it mean to be an American? That is a question that really has no “right” answer. To...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Argument, Black Lives Matter, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Community, Fall 2020, Reduced Inequalities, Showcase, Student-Centered, 5
In American culture, there are many different values, cultures, and creeds that shape the way we all exist as...
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We are repetitively being told by schools and politicians to have pride in our country and its values. Values...
, , , American Creed, Fall 2020, Race Relations, Reduced Inequalities, Showcase, 4
In order to talk about American beliefs and values we must look at all of American history and our...
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Being an American means something different to everyone. Since no two people are the same, they will have different...
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“The American Dream” is a term we hear often as Americans, but what does it really mean? Does it...
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The American Dream, having a great job and a perfect family in an admirable house with a white picket...
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America has strong roots in philosophy, from that we have created certain values that we have come to believe...
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What does it mean to be American? Whenever someone asks me this question, I instantly think back to the...
America, the land was founded in 1607 and was declared to be free from Britain in 1776. With new...
There are always many debates, talks, and disputes about what America’s values really are and what Americans stand for....
What does it mean to be American? I believe the answer to that question is relative to whom you...
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Despite the divides in America, there are still shared values that can help us come together and create a...
What does it mean to be an American? It can mean a lot of different things for a lot...
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Being an American is always staying open-minded and welcoming to others. America is filled with so many different people...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Black Lives Matter, Fall 2020, Showcase, This is America, 1
Jack Guggemos Mrs. Reed American Lit 18 October 2020 To Be American What it means to be American is...
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For many people America is an amazing country where people have free will and can be anything their heart...
Johnson 1 Sasha Johnson Ms. Reed American Literature 07 October 2020 Importance of Equality in America A core American...
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America is nowhere near perfect. Our history is not all sunshine. The shadows from our past loom over us...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Argument, Fall 2020, Politics, Showcase, 2
To me being American means many things and different things to every person, but right now most of them...
, , , American Dream, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Fall 2020, Goals, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Showcase, This is America, 0
To be American means to be free. Americans’ beliefs consist of many freedoms like freedom of speech, freedom of...
Being American means different things to different people. To some, it may mean patriotism, voting, eating chili at the...
, , , Clean Water and Sanitation, Fall 2019, Family, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, 2
“I hate you.” That is the last thing I remember saying. During dinner, my mother and I had gotten...
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, diversity is the inclusion of different types of people (such as people of different...
There are three things that Americans value most, justice, equality, and freedom. Americans are greatly influenced by their constitutions...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Clean Water and Sanitation, Fall 2019, History, Immigration, Partnerships for the Goals, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Politics, Reduced Inequalities, Refugees, This is America, Writing, 4
Immigration and refuge have always been part of America’s history. There is not a person in the US that...
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“With family on your side, there isn’t a battle you can’t lose”. It is more than fair to say...
Culture defines us. But how can we define American culture? The answer is we can’t, at least not completely....
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Laura Ruby’s novel, Bone Gap, features a tight-knit community in Illinois. Everybody knows everybody’s business, and when Finn’s inability...
, , , Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, Partnerships for the Goals, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, This is America, War, 3
As most would know, World war II made a huge impact on the whole world. But what some may...
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In the memoir Americanized by Sara Saedi, she talks about the fact that she struggled with identity as an...
“Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair” (Mann). After the 9/11 attack that was...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, Terrorism, This is America, 1
The book BullyVille presents a real-life event and also what happens in many parts of the United States. When...
When the topic of crime and criminals come up, what do we think of? Do we think of the...
As Americans we all have similar values and morals. We have these similar values because we are a united...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, Immigration, Partnerships for the Goals, Reduced Inequalities, Showcase, 1
In the last couple of years, there has been an increase in deportation and voluntary departure. “Voluntary departure allows...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, Immigration, Reduced Inequalities, Showcase, 1
The United States is known as a melting pot – a country with different people, “Mexico is the top...
Being an American means a lot of things, whether you were born here in the United States or immigrated...
, , , American Dream, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, Showcase, 3
The “American Dream”. The dictionary definition is “the aspirational belief in the US that all individuals are entitled to...
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The land of the free and opportunity, the United States of America. It was established on the ideal of freedom...
After reading Love hate and Other Filters, a book written by Samira Ahmed that follows a 17-year-old Muslim girl...
In America, people might think that there is only one culture, but there is more than one culture because...
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Values are the foundation of a society, they direct the society accordingly in a path with established boundaries, and...
“What are our American values?” And “What is the American dream?” Are very important questions in this country. Arthur...
, , , American Creed, Books or Plays, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Fall 2019, Gender Equity (Women), Partnerships for the Goals, Showcase, 6
Women’s rights have been a topic of American discussion for a long time now. Although America isn’t the only...
, , , American Creed, Books or Plays, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Fall 2019, Showcase, 0
The Hired Girl deals with quite a few controversial topics that relate to American culture. One I would like...
“Literacy is. . .the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can...
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Schooling opportunities we receive play a major role in defining our American life. My American Literature class has really...
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I believe that the book This is Where it Ends has everything to do with American culture. You do...
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It is really hard to describe American culture for many reasons. First, it is something that seems everywhere but...
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In the book Proud, Ibtihaj Muhammad describes the discrimination she faced because she was a woman, because she was...
, , , Clean Water and Sanitation, Fall 2019, No Poverty (Economy), Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, 0
Poverty is a major problem around the world. The issues of hunger and poverty are struggles that almost every...
, , , American Creed, Bullying, Fall 2019, LGBTQ+ Rights, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, 1
Our American Culture is something that each and everyone of us see everyday. Whether or not we see it...
, , , American Dream, Fall 2019, Goals, Showcase, Sports, 1
In America throughout history, we address the idea of dreams, that build the country up from where it started...
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Corruption has plagued the United States, as well as other nations, for many years. The novel All the King’s...
, , , American Creed, Fall 2019, Reduced Inequalities, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, 1
The promise of housing for all is one of the essential values we hold as Americans. In Evicted, by...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Black Lives Matter, Fall 2019, Guns, Police, Politics, Showcase, 4
Everyone has a different definition of being American, although many of us can agree that being American is about...
, , , Call to Action, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, No Poverty (Economy), Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, 0
The book Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich takes you into the everyday life of lower income families and...
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The Green Mile by Stephen King is a book about death, both in life and on death row in...
, , , American Creed, Clean Water and Sanitation, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, No Poverty (Economy), Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, Social Class, 1
Poverty can be defined as “the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Black Lives Matter, Fall 2019, Partnerships for the Goals, Police, Showcase, 1
One concept that has been paved in American minds is the American Creed. The American Creed includes the ideas...
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In Little Fires Everywhere By Celeste Ng, a woman named Bebe Chow gives her child away fearing she cannot...
The words buzzed beneath the scratches hitting the pin. Light low, rest of the world silent. I hummed along...
What does it mean to be American? There is no clear cut answer to that question as it differs...
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For the purpose of this argument, Hispanics and Latinos are used interchangeably. One of the monumental American values that...
, , , Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, Reduced Inequalities, Showcase, 3
Being American is viewed differently by every person. I view it as being accepting and giving everyone an equal...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Argument, Fall 2019, Reduced Inequalities, Showcase, 2
American beliefs and values are what this country is built on and how we unite ourselves as a nation....
, , , Clean Water and Sanitation, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, Reduced Inequalities, Showcase, 1
Accepting others, embracing differences, and learning about new cultures in our melting pot of a country are all parts...
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Throughout history, Americans have changed and become different in their values and beliefs. Equality, as an example, started out...
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American values, cultures, and creed can be interpreted in many different ways by very different people. This is what...
Banning guns would be detrimental to American society. Guns are a large part of American heritage, and banning them...
There is no certain, definitive answer to the question that we ask ourselves day to day. What truly defines...
, , , American Creed, Argument, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, Partnerships for the Goals, Showcase, 0
I was struggling with writing this because to me, being an American means you’re a citizen of America. That’s...
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Freedom and equality are great pillars of the United States. We have always valued these pillars ever since the...
, , , Clean Water and Sanitation, Fall 2019, Reduced Inequalities, Showcase, 1
Martin Lurther King Jr once said, “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Argument, Fall 2019, Partnerships for the Goals, Showcase, 1
“This is America: a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light, in a broad and...
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Although America is looked at as a melting pot and an accepting nation we have always kept it in...
American culture, values, and creeds are all have different meanings to Americans. They are what makes you different from...
Since I grew up in America, being an American should be nothing new to me, but the concept of...
, , , American Creed, Fall 2019, Partnerships for the Goals, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Reduced Inequalities, Showcase, This is America, 0
The U.S. has long been known as a country with a perfect constitution providing liberty, equality, and the pursuit...
What does it mean to be an “American”? An American is someone who has values like equality, or beliefs...
Being American means different things to different people. Being American to me means having freedom, equality of genders and...
, , , American Creed, American Dream, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, Immigration, Reduced Inequalities, Showcase, This is America, 0
American values most important to the continued development of our culture are Social Equality and Equal Opportunity to obtain...
Back in the day, America was all about the American dream, but that dream has shifted. People wanted land,...
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Your American values and beliefs come from the way you were raised as a child and form from certain...
, , , Decent Work and Economic Growth, Fall 2019, No Poverty (Economy), Partnerships for the Goals, Peer Interview, Refugees, Rights, Showcase, This is America, 1
America is one of the most diverse countries in the world and you cannot say that is has one...
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There are many American values like personal control over the environment. The environment has become a huge discussion today...
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Being an American is being accepting of all people. Before and at the beginning of our country, America was...
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One thing that stands out to me about being American is our patriotism. Every sporting event I have ever...
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