Future Of America Research Paper

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What is hope? Hope is the desire for something to happen, to want it to be true. As I write this speech I see my younger sisters and wonder what the future will be like for them? What will it be like for me? Will we still be a great nation? Will they still be free? Will I still be free? Who is responsible for their future? Who is responsible for the future of America? Anyone who is alive is responsible for the future.
Every individual American is responsible for the future of the United States of America. The United States of America is made up of many different types of people with many different backgrounds. Every individual person should be accountable for themselves. Americans and people in the world in general need to stop blaming others for the state of our country and world. According to my mother, who was in the military, the military is taught to see only one color, that color is green, meaning to see race or ethnicity. To fight for one’s country is to fight for everyone in the country, not just a political party in that country. Every religion,race,class,and political belief is what our soldiers fight for. They fight to protect our rights to be free-willed.
Our country seems to be ridiculously divided over political parties and foreign affairs, so we need to stop blaming each other
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Division would shatter the country that they worked so hard to preserve. Monuments and statues have been removed because they show a different side of history, one that doesn’t need to be forgotten just because it was a mistake. Mistake doesn’t always mean bad. Making a mistake is the only way to learn. If you don’t learn from your mistakes, you are doomed to repeat them. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” said George Santayana in his book The Life of Reason between 1905 and 1906. We have to stand

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