Admissions Essay: My Vision For America

This young but great nation has seen its share of ups and downs already. Between our moments of heroism and the struggles we have endured, I believe our country has advanced beyond belief. I am immensely proud of all that we have accomplished, but I cannot say that this would be my personal vision for America. Maybe I was born in the wrong time, or maybe I was just raised in an old fashioned state of mind, but my ideal vision for America would be more of a flashback. Our country was founded on the fact that “...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Our very own Declaration of Independence states that we are supposed to be happy. We are supposed to be equal, and we are supposed to be liberated. More than once, I have caught myself fearing if we were on the same path that our founding fathers intended us to be.
I know, as a nation, we are headed in the right direction as for the technology aspect of things. My biggest fear though is that we have backslid an astonishing …show more content…
I believe this nation can return to a place of trust, love, and empathy for each other. Would it be so difficult to go back to the mentality of treating each person like your brother? Is the thought of trusting your neighbor so foreign that our country has forgotten it? I say no. This tremendous nation can overcome this epidemic of apathy. This country can be unified. We can be “...one nation under God, indivisible” once again. I think we are the same country that strived to feel a brotherhood amongst its citizens. We are the same nation that saw every individual as equal. We are the same. That is my vision for America- that it would be the same America, in principle, that it was when it started. It could be the same caring, unified, great nation that our founding fathers