Conservatism in the United States

Society The privileges that I have and I don’t give much thought to are: have freedom of speech, I can say what I want living in America. I can eat when or what I want to eat, nobody can tell me what to eat or not except my parents but I still eat what I want. The freedom of driving whenever or where ever I desire. I am free do drive to Los Angeles when I feel like it, if I want to drive to Mexico, I have the freedom to do so if I have enough gas. I can apply to a job that I know I qualify to,…

French, Dutch, Irish, Scottish, and even Swedish colonies started popping up. Eventually the British controlled most of current east coast on United States land. They had a prosperous start. However, the colonist started expressing the need for freedom especially after the French-Indian War,…

being free would affect the job market, unemployment, and the people financially. Right now free college is beings talked about with the current student debt, the college plan itself, other countries, the cost, and rising tuition prices. The United States student debt is at an all time high with 1.1+ trillion dollars (Schrager). One free college plan is called “The Sanders Plan”. The Sanders plan would make getting a bachelors (4 year) degree tuition free for public colleges, lower interest…

Many people who had been born in America with their families residing there for a few decades did not feel too kindly to the Japanese emigrating to the United States in the large numbers that they did, especially since the Chinese had just been prohibited from entering the United States in search for jobs. The Japanese had began to emigrate to America─more often California, Oregon and Washington─in large numbers during the 1890’s and early 1900’s, many of them coming…

The Great Gatsby Essay #3 The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald wrote about how a part of society’s elite and wealthy were reckless and irresponsible. In his own way he exemplifies exuberant ways of the era’s lifestyle of what might have been during the 1920’s otherwise known as the “Roaring Twenties”. Luxury, wealth, and decadence are what best describe the roaring twenties. Some key factors of the “Jazz Age” were music, wealthy, and having a sense of fashion…

The United States is one of the most advanced countries in the entire world. The U.S. has one of the highest GDP’s in the world, one of the highest life expectancies in the world, and one of the top economies in the world. However the United States also leads the world in the highest number of mass shootings each year. Mike Sharpe, the author of Violent Nation also agrees that United is one of the greatest countries in the world. However Sharpe finds two issues with the United States, “I want to…

When my grandfather came to United States it was originally just to work and make some money to take back to his family, but that changed when he got married. Magdaleno Rubalcava, my grandfather, was born on a little ranch in Los Zapotes, Cuquío, Mexico. He was the youngest of over 10 children. Los Zapotes when my grandfather was born was just a bunch of ranches and till this day they aren’t as modernized as other parts of Mexico but they do have more houses and are using more modern technology.…

bluntly spiting factual lyrics. He states he has many question of the current…

It is fair to say that women in the United States have a lot more control of making decisions for themselves than women in other countries. Even though it may seem as if we still aren 't treated as equally as men in situations like the workplace, or even when it comes to just walking the down the street we have much more say than those women in foreign countries. One of the reasons why women in foreign countries may not have much power is due to their cultures and customs. Coming from a mother…

The second amendment states allows people to have the right to keep and bear arms, and as an individual, I stand on the conservative side to do so, rather than a liberal thinker, who believes in authorities being the only ones to bear arms and protect individuals. As a conservative…