Essays about America Page 2

What makes America Great? Personally, I think the Freedom and diversity that makes it great. America is a free country and everyone has freedom. Opportunity to do whatever you want. The Bill of Rights which was passed by Congress on September 25, 1789, and ratified on December 15, 1791. In the Bill of Rights there…

Before I went to the Grand Rapids Public Museum I was trying to strategize and think of some great history topics to potentially write about. I was looking up various topics and came across “Native Americans in Grand Rapids.” When I saw the topic, I was caught off guard a bit and to be fully…

As of January 2015, nearly 90,000 lots within Detroit’s cityscape lay vacant. (“Vacant Lots in Detroit Draw Ideas, Creativity.”) With all this empty space, we’re left the question of “where to go?” To answer this, it’s important to retrace our steps to how we got to the way we are. An easy way to contextualize…

The American transcendentalists, in particular, found sympathetic ideals in such mystical philosophies as Neoplatonism, and in the religions of East Asia, introduced into the Boston area in the early nineteenth century. From Hinduism and Buddhism, they adopted a holistic philosophy based in pantheism and in the ideal of a ‘universal brotherhood’ shared by humanity, nature,…

The significant inflow of immigrant throughout the globe in the new world, America resulted in a diverse population; mainly from Europe and Africa.  “According to Gjerde (1998), among the 3,929,000 population in the census of 1790, forty eight percent English, twenty percent African and the remaining percentage from diverse parts of part of the world…

I remember when I was in the sixth grade, I found out that an eighth-grader in our school was pregnant. I never knew how she became pregnant or why she wanted to keep the baby. All I knew was how incredibly big her stomach was to her entire body. I remember the jokes our school…

Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia and Lucy Prebble’s Enron both examine the progression and the ramifications of society within a capitalist system. In the former, Le Guin portrays two seemingly utopic societies—the capitalist Urras and the Odionian experiment of anarachism and communism, Anarres—to demonstrate how communities of pure individualism and pure…

As the idea of Manifest Destiny continued to thrive in America, so did its dominant racial ideology that Mexicans were far less superior to the “pure”, white race. Because of this racial idea, several factors arose in the early 1900’s that ultimately created personal troubles, which in turn, became public issues. These personal troubles were…

Introduction Diversity defined: Is the presence of human beings with perceived or actual differences based on a variety of human characteristics. Diversity in the workplace defined: According to CITATION Enc19 \l 1033 (Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, 2019) , in a workplace, diversity means employing people who may be different from each other and who…

Abortion refers to a deliberate attempt to terminate a pregnancy resulting in the death of the fetus. Once a pregnancy has been conceived, it is usually expected that the mother will carry the pregnancy to term since many people see the fetus as a living being. Countries such as Canada have adopted to pro-abortion policies,…