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My Culture Identity Everyone has a culture that identifies their identity. As in who they are or where they come from. They 're many different cultures in the world. A culture is a tradition past on to a family generation. Every culture has different holidays, traditon but more importantly style. It represents what type of music you listen to or what type of clothing you wear. Most people find their culture by their family. For example; gandparents, mother, father. This essay is about how…

After World War 1 America was viewed as a superior power in the world, the economy boomed, people were living lavish and comfortable, and a way of life quickly devolved that was dramatically different from the one people once knew . The 1920’s was a pivotal time in America’s History. It was a time when morals were lost, social revolutions were fought and a new “urban culture” was born. These new ideas and philosophies were so pivotal that America 96 years later is still running off the fumes of…

Just Another Unattainable Dream America proudly known as the nation of the free, holds a dark history of enslavement, greed, and unattainable dreams. Personal freedom of speech in America during the early 1900’s was more of an extravagant disguise than a blissful reality. Despite the self assured claims of America, being the supposed land of freedom, histories pages express the discrimination and hatred that took place towards different races that was omnipresent. African American citizens who…

The controversy as to whom discovered America still rages on today. One of the most disputed characters in history is indeed the Italian Christopher Columbus. Although not stated as a villain or a hero in the Social Studies Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), Columbus is still acknowledged as one of the most important historical figures whose expeditions to the New World led the way to other expeditions of Europeans to America. During Columbus time, the belief that the earth was round…

function within our society. Immigrants will mostly populate the United States in the future, so why does our school systems not require a second language? This problem is occurring because we haven 't had progress with really understanding how diverse America is. A lot of the places in the south still have the same beliefs they did for years because of the ideals their families grew up with for generations. My father never lived in the south, however, he has narrow minded views about our…

Describing a Larger Conversation The United States of America, the land of the free and the land where people from all different parts of the world are still dreaming to live in. that is the standard America has put itself upon where different sorts of people who are deprived of their own freedom, business opportunities, education, and equality are taken away from. These social outcasts are desperately striving to achieve the dream of living in America, the country of the great, just, and free.…

American’ was established because her responsibilities called to aid a nation whose own government could not uphold a level of dignity that Americans held true to be the standard of quality of life for all her citizens, regardless if they live within Americas…

In these days, transportation has become more and more important to move from place A to place B. Transportation has started for a long time ago since people want to travel by using the shortest time. People started to ride an animal on land and then invent a junk to travel across the ocean by using wind. After that, human built the glider to travel through the sky. There are several advantages and disadvantage to using each type of transportation. If we make use of these advantages, we will be…

From before America declared their independence to now there has always been this discussion between nationalism and sectionalism. Most things in history are caused by one of the two taking over an idea or county. When you look at American history with this idea in mind, you can find a lot of examples that support this idea. From America picking their first president to the civil war, everything is about either nationalism, sectionalism, or a mix of the two. In American history there has been a…

“In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue” is a common phrase used to teach schoolchildren the history of exploration in North America. In the United States, we refer to Columbus as the first person to discover America. Not only do schools and government buildings close nationwide in remembrance of Columbus’s arrival to the New World on October 12th, our nation’s capital is the District of Columbia. However, Columbus was not the explorer, or person, history textbooks portray him as…