United Way of America

remembering slavery in the United States of America, a student in the class mentioned statues. With this, the class discussion turned from a productive discussion to a politicized debate over whether to remove or keep the statues of Confederate Statues. During this class discussion, I grew increasingly infuriated and frustrated because the politicized debate on statues overrode, what I believe is more important, the class discussion on how to remember slavery in the United States of America.…

Since its conception, the beautiful game of soccer has been a sport played all over the world, played by many ages and admired by all. In Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa, soccer is as big of a deal, if not more, than American football is in the United States. While soccer has not been in the United States for that long, the American people do not elevate it to the same status as they do baseball, basketball, or football. In the rest of the world, soccer is considered to be their…

1. Realizing that cultural diversity is not the same thing as demographics, what is the changing nature of cultural diversity in the United States today and in the likely future? Cultural diversity refers to the differences in how individuals in different societal setting do things. Cultural diversity is a wide facet of social sciences that focuses mainly on how individuals appreciate the various phenomena that exist in the society. Demographics on the other hand is a general science that deals…

For decades, America has been known as a land of immigrants; people from England, France, Spain, and other countries descended on the New World to leave a lasting impression, one that can still be seen today in American culture. But of them all, England probably had the greatest effect on America. Since the time of Columbus’s discovery of the New World, Spain had been colonizing almost all the areas in the South, in what is today South America and along the South and West coast of what is now…

strife the citizens of the United States of America come together no matter what beliefs and opinions we have to defeat the opposition. Secondly, America was built on immigrants, and as such we are open to diverse races and beliefs, and Americans consider people they have just met as friends. This is what I believe is my American Identity. The United States of America has come together in many cases of strife. This is exemplified not only by recent events, but by the United States’ history, one…

Most people today think of the United States as a democratic society. This was also the same thought that a man named Alexis De Tocqueville had. Tocqueville was born on July 29, 1805 and died April 16, 1859. He was a French diplomat, political scientist, and historian. Tocqueville was best known for one of his works titled Democracy in America. This was published after he traveled through the United States and people today consider it as an early work of sociology and political science which are…

My vision for America would be for America to great as it once was. In this most recent decade America has changed so much as a country that we are not the same as we once were. Our current actions and ways will be the demise of our country. If we as a country do not change our current ways, we will never be the same, once great country we always were. Money, the centerpiece of our economy, but there isn’t enough of it. We need economic stability in our country. Our country needs economic…

The height of American imperialism showcased when United Sates waged the Spanish-American war. The war transpired between the countries of Spain and the United Sates and linked by historians to America’s imperialistic expansion concepts. The war was known as “A Splendid Little War”, due to the short duration it took for the United Sates to defeat the Spanish. The war ended with 1898 Treaty of Paris, which compelled the Spanish to abdicate claims of Cuba, and surrender the sovereignty of Puerto…

Frequent conflicts currently seen in America reflect back to the issues addressed by Bharati Mukherjee in her article “Two Ways to Belong in America”. Mukherjee describes the experience her sister, Mira Mukherjee, and she underwent when moving to America and the conflicts that occurred while living in the United States. The tension both sisters felt when moving to America are what newly immigrants face such as the transformation of life. During their residence in America, processed changes in…

In the United States of America, people, especially in the world of politics, are often asked to define who is exactly is an “American”. On the surface, the answer seems rather obvious; an American is a person who is a native or citizen of the United States of America (Oxford Dictionary). However, 239 years ago, the United States of America became it’s own independent country. Since the formation of the original 13 colonies, men, women, and their families have fled to the USA to escape the…