The United State of America was founded, because the colonists wanted to escape tyranny and they wanted religious freedom. The Pilgrims came to America from Europe to have religious freedom before the United States was even established. The United States today is home for so many different religions and people who believe different faiths. An episode, from PBS, called “Of God and Caesar” is the sixth and last episode of a series called “God in America” and it goes into how religion can affect…
September 11th, 2001, a wave of chaos hit the United States. People began to blame an entire religious group for the actions of just a few people. Anyone who identified with the Muslim faith was immediately targeted and feared or hated. Instead of America being a welcoming nation for religious diversity, it had become a place where speaking out for religious freedom meant endless prosecution. To combat this, people like Eboo Patel started to make their messages of pluralism known. Eboo Patel,…
5 Ways America is Similar to Rome: Will We Fall? Category: News & Opinion Tags: ancient rome, modern-day America Teaser: Noticeable parallels exist between America and ancient Rome. But are these parallels enough to cripple a modern nation? It’s hard not to compare modern America with ancient Rome — the similarities are many. Just like America, the ancient Roman Empire was extremely powerful economically, politically, culturally and militarily. But just like ancient Rome is America destined to…
Unity Can Conquer Racism Since the birth of America, Americans have struggled transforming a government changing as much as the people who reside in it. Racist acts committed like Jim Crow laws and Plessy v. Ferguson are examples of discriminatory acts that demonstrate parts of racism in history. In contemporary times, events like Ferguson and the actions of the police portrays the racism still prevalent today. In 2008, Obama gives “A More Perfect Union” speech during the time when he ran for…
Like other countries in South and Central America, Panama has had some serious environmental issues. For a lot of the countrys history, money had more importance than conservation, and an ethic of man over nature pervaded the culture. Forests were chopped down routinely to make room for cattle. However, in the 20th century Panama started to take positive steps in the opposite direction. The country started to create protected areas (including parks and wildlife refuges), write environmental…
From both works of arts the viewer can easily relate to the subject at hand that the artist is trying to convey through the pieces. Throughout the 1960s there was change going on within the country and world. Americans feared communism and its spread. With the changes occurring at home and throughout the world it was bound to happen that art movements would change during this time as well. As you can see in both pieces, by Warhol and Johns, the artist used common everyday objects to draw viewers…
modern day America has to deal with. Some of these issues included immigration, debt, gun control, etc. I am going to talk about my main concerns about the future of our country. My main concerns about his promises are the issues of immigration, debt, and Common Core. I hope Donald Trump is aware of the power he holds and uses that power to the best of his ability. Donald Trump has a specific way he wants to make immigration lower. He want to build a wall. In my opinion, I think America has…
known for it's endless opportunities. The most popular reason for people coming to the US has been the American Dream. Through all these years of this idea the dream is still suck with the US, but is it still possible? I don't think the American Dream is still possible because there are so many people in this country that can't pursue their dreams due to their skin color, religion, ethnicity, etc. Much has changed in America, from culture to finances, but the determination to achieve this dream…
are from out-of-state, struggle with not only financial problems, but also diversity and difficulties of finding a job. Also students who come from a working class, and family members who have already obtain a college degree and, the struggles of coming from a different ethnicity having to deal with stereotypes. Not to mention the struggles of trying to become independent while being a dependent. In this paper I will argue that from a college student’s perspective there are challenges that some…
peace. Now the nation lives with the choice to demand freedom. Overall, demanding freedom is very importance to society. Freedom must be demanded because of utility, it is in historical events, modern day society. Although this may be true if given it would be easier, and that there would not be a conflict, but demanding is the first step of freedom. How would people know the problem? How would America be? Demanding of freedom. Now to sum it all of the freedom should surely be…