People For the American Way

Rooted in the Declaration of Independence, the American Dream was further generalized as “living a better life through hard work regardless of class and origin” in early-mid 20th century. For most white Americans in the years after World War Two, a better life means material abundance, social mobility upward, and perhaps advanced education for self and children. For those in poverty and minority, the dream would also include democracy and equality. While living standard can be generally improved…

Professor of Bioethics, Peter Singer, explains in the article “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” that all prosperous people should give all money that is not needed for basic necessities to places that are in need of food and medicine. As an American, I have knowledge this argument would shake up America as a whole. This could create a world of giving up the Capitalistic ways of America and the economic food chain. On the other hand, it could create a world of kindness and less violence. Can…

America declared their independence from the British, the government also included Americans right to pursue happiness as one of the most important privileges. This promise has not been kept because it does not seem that Americans are happy today. Even though happiness is not a gift that the government can give to its citizens, it is up them to step out of the way and allow its citizens to create their own happiness. Americans have to fight to pursue their true happiness. This is why America…

In the novel Getting Ghost by Luke Bergmann, the street drug trade in Detroit is one of the most important social institutions for young African American people. Detroit was one of the most prosperous cities in the 1950s and 1960s where many people flocked to find better jobs and a better future for their family. Unfortunately, the economic wealth and prosperity of the city dramatically declined as the jobs in the automobile and manufacturing industries were being outsourced. There were many…

D’Arcy McNickle, in his final novel, Wind from an Enemy Sky, is able to clearly convey to the reader his personal views regarding the future of Native American culture as it is subjected to the pressure of the American legislative system. These ideas are conveyed through both the progression of the storyline and the individual roles, with intertwined actions, of each of the story’s well calculated characters. This paper will first summarize the plot of Wind from an Enemy Sky and will then…

“The only way to end racism is to stop talking about it.” Was actor Morgan Freeman’s response when asked how to end racism. Morgan said that: “Black history is American history.” and it seems fairly accurate. The racial schism has existed in America since 1619, when African Americans were brought to help tobacco farmers in Jamestown, Virginia. We as Americans would like to believe that racism is no longer a problem; However, it still exists in large amounts in our country. When Morgan said…

Most people wonder what is the American dream and how do people obtain it. The segregation and disrespect brought upon African American people by not having equal rights as the white people, it made them feel weak against the society of white american citizens. How the society and government held back all of their dreams and ideas due to unfair treatment towards the African Americans. All of that bad treatment towards them caused the African American citizens to speak up and make a change in the…

explored in Wimberly’s book, “African American Pastoral Care and Counseling”. It is a personal reflection and interpretation of counseling as a political process, as it relates to liberation from oppressive conversations. In addition, this paper exhibits my understanding of pastoral care and counseling as an integral part of public theology. I understand counseling as a political process, as it relates to liberation from oppressive conversations, in the African American congregation, as a…

group. The way most people see how a few, or a couple of people from the a different culture act, say in a negative way, then they my start to think that is how that ethnic group act as a whole. Though that may not be the case. Not everyone in said culture or ethnic group act the way the their peers do. Some mey even go against their culture to live a life they want to live and not the way their culture does. A lot…

Culture is defined as the people 's 'way of life ', or the way a group do things that are or were pasted on from generation to generation by means of learning, writing, religion, music, clothes, cooking, and in whatever way they do. In America, there are thousands of cultures and subcultures that live within communities. Cultures are what makes each group of people unique and different in their rightful ways. In America today, there are people from all around the world which makes it a…