“With liberty and justice for all…” The ending of our pledge of allegiance so delicately yet definitively addressed to make a statement about one of the greatest nations ever to exist. Key values that every American can relate to. But what exactly makes these values independent of the same ideas in other places in the world? The idea that is America. The United States is very unique in the idea that nowhere else in the world does everyone that comes here or is born here do they have the idea that they can achieve anything even when starting from nothing, time and time throughout our history we have heard of the American dream and what it means to those who have achieved it, whether it is living the white picket fence life in the suburbs raising
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To social rights like the civil and women’s rights movements. We as a nation have always been able to adapt to change whether it was a popular opinion or not. It’s constantly driving the idealism of the American dream toward prosperity, progress, and betterment for one another. Undoubtedly since the start of the 20th century, we have seen nothing but progress in our nation with obvious setbacks accordingly, but as American social reformer and founding father Frederick Douglass stated: “Without a struggle, there can be no progress.” This value which is a result of change and cycles back into creating one's destiny is Progress. Progress is often defined as the process of improving or developing something over a period of time. Something this nation has been defined on. Even given the current state of affairs in the United States look at where we have come from. Oppression is virtually nonexistent on the level of slavery and the decline of racism since our founding. Technologically we have developed some of the greatest inventions in history thanks to great minds inspired by changing everyday life with aspirations of convenience through technology. Change takes time and at the forefront of change is …show more content…
Nikola Tesla a Serbian immigrant who set the standard for all modern day technology with the invention of the alternating current that is used in everything electronic we use today. With the last of these pristine examples we have Bill Gates, the man who completed the idea of bringing a computer into your home with a well-integrated operating system completely changed the way we interacted with
To social rights like the civil and women’s rights movements. We as a nation have always been able to adapt to change whether it was a popular opinion or not. It’s constantly driving the idealism of the American dream toward prosperity, progress, and betterment for one another. Undoubtedly since the start of the 20th century, we have seen nothing but progress in our nation with obvious setbacks accordingly, but as American social reformer and founding father Frederick Douglass stated: “Without a struggle, there can be no progress.” This value which is a result of change and cycles back into creating one's destiny is Progress. Progress is often defined as the process of improving or developing something over a period of time. Something this nation has been defined on. Even given the current state of affairs in the United States look at where we have come from. Oppression is virtually nonexistent on the level of slavery and the decline of racism since our founding. Technologically we have developed some of the greatest inventions in history thanks to great minds inspired by changing everyday life with aspirations of convenience through technology. Change takes time and at the forefront of change is …show more content…
Nikola Tesla a Serbian immigrant who set the standard for all modern day technology with the invention of the alternating current that is used in everything electronic we use today. With the last of these pristine examples we have Bill Gates, the man who completed the idea of bringing a computer into your home with a well-integrated operating system completely changed the way we interacted with