Reflective Essay: My Life In The United States

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There are approximately 319 million people currently living in the United States of America. (U.S. population) All of which are experiencing life in their own unique way. Wither that pertains to their career, a religious calling or even just getting acquainted with a new environment. Yet, set out on seemingly different journeys, everyone has some connection with each other. Perhaps the strongest and maybe most obvious connection is the country these people call home. The great melting pot, the land of equal opportunity, the one place you can live that holds absolutely no discrimination based on your race, size, religious beliefs, or anything for that matter. The very principles that give life to opportunity, sparked hope in achieving a better …show more content…
I later moved to Mississippi to attend college at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). The question is, how could a teenage boy from Texas have the same problems as a middle aged black woman from New York that has taken a path emerging herself in religion and aiming to fulfill herself by living a lifestyle that most would call holly? Or a man from the middle east who has a wife and a kid, who’s just trying to make it in his new found home, New York? Or even a Native American man living in Seattle trying to battle for his child’s life any and every way possible? I believe that even though all of these characters seem to come from very different walks of life, all of the people have at least one thing in common, they are human. Every human has an aspect to their creation that makes them inherently human. It is my belief that that this aspect is simply called human nature. Humans have spent years trying to solve problems by isolating themselves and working on them alone. Those groups, as history proves, always falls behind in technology and human relations. We see this when Japan isolated themselves in the late 1800’s. Japan fell behind and made no connections worldwide. Eventfully the United States liberated them and they rapidly caught up to the rest of the

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