As Patrick Henry once said, "Give me liberty or give me death." ... Honor's obligation is to make the people of this country say, "I am proud to be an American." ... If you do not love your family than how can you love yourself and friends. ... And if that is the case America's future would not be worth considering. ...
Blacks have high infant mortality, low income, high unemployment, substandard education, capitol incapacity, insurmountable credit barriers, high morbidity, below-average life span, overrepresentation in prison and on death row ."" ... He makes it very clear that he wants reparation from the government, and not from individual citizens. ... The ruling was that the United States could not be sued without its consent and dismissed the case. ... African-Americans have no great culture in which to fall back on, to be proud of, to hold up high and proudly call their own. ... II disagree, NOT gi...
Another admirable decision of Antigone is that although her sister did not agree to help, she pursued on. ... The beauty of family is that in either life or death we are all connected through the power of love, and no law could ever change that. In the words of Antigone, "It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands. ... Not only does Creon hurt his niece Antigone by making such a sentence, but his own son is heartbroken by learning death is to come to his fiancé. ... Had Antigone not been so stubborn and Creon not so proud, there could have been an equal balance for bo...
To be a United States citizen is not only a privilege, but also an honor. ... In the end we will be judged as a country, not as an individual. Because this is a free country, terrorist were allowed to live among us, not knowing our language, not honoring our flag, or standing for our country. Because of American hospitality they were allowed to train as pilots in our country, which ultimately lead to the largest death toll on American soil in U.S. history. ... Displaying a flag is a proud display of devotion to America. ...
Without the dream we once had, our country would not be what she is today. ... America boasts proudly of her freedom and equality, yet she never had it. ... However, not in huge quantities for the white folk did not want the workers to taste too much. ... Yet it did not happen. ... We need to "bring back our mighty dream," only then will be have America or our country will die "of our own gangster death." ...
Seamus Heaney's poem, Mid-Term Break, is a great example of how society's expectations can impact identity because the poem is about a young man who is away at school to obtain an education and establish his identity when he is called back home to deal with the death of his younger brother. ... The young man is very matter-of-fact about his brother's death, almost sarcastic one could say, because he despises being called away from his life and opportunities at school. ... To her, this life is not so wonderful. ... This first line sets a tone that the narrator is very proud to ...
Most of the animals circuses so proudly display to their audiences are wild creatures that are in need of a space that portrays their natural environment. ... Unfortunately, this was not the only incident in which Ringling Bros. ... In 1999 the Ringling Bros were charged a fee of 20,000 for the death of Benjamin and Kenny, two baby elephants (Merrit). ... Furthermore, the circus is not appropriate environment for wild creatures. ... According to Sam Farr, representative of The Captive Elephant Accident Prevention Act, riding circus elephants caused 28 deaths and 70 injuries from 1983 to 2004 ...
FOX broadcasts commercials as if they were proud of deceiving and lying to these women. ... Either way, this is not the type of person America needs to teach our children. ... Engagement is not simply a test-run as relationship reality shows portray. Morals and values are not taught in school, they are learned from the home. ... Until death do us part apparently has no meaning to many people, particularly to eager participants of reality shows that are willing to marry someone they have never met. ...
America accused Iraq of having deadly chemical and biological weapons that can cause a wholesale death in the world. ... But soon it added that even if Saddam left Iraq it would not desist from attacking Iraq. ... And not being satisfied with it, America is now threatening Syria and Iran again and again. ... At present, they feel proud to be the personal friends of George W. ... They do not pay any heed to the Quranic declaration that "The Jews and the Christians can not be your friends."" ...
The book is not a novel, but more of a historic documentary. It is not about the war, but the people that were in it. ... After reading the book, I will not be one to argue. ... However, those who faced death and crushing sorrow every day for four years keep their remorse or pride silent. ... I think that the soldiers that never made it home would be proud of the way they have been represented in American culture. ...
All we could do after that is sit and watch the buildings crumble as people hopelessly scrambled for whatever cover they could find and the heroes of the hour strong and proud took their places running back into the ash and dust looking for people who's lives they felt were more important then their own. ... And the fact is the two events were not all that different from each other. ... Further than that, however, I will not forget what happened that day. All of America started to look at one another and realize that we are not and should not be fighting ourselves. ... Not that I can sa...
The North, however, was a cooler, rockier climate that would not support the development of plantations. ... New territories would have the choice to decide whether to permit slavery or not. ... Following the firing on Fort Sumter, Fredrick Douglass wrote a fiery editorial Nemesis: At last our proud Republic is overtaken. ... The South did not decide to use blacks as soldiers until the closing days of the war. ... As the war progressed, the death toll drastically increased. ...
Introduction When I first sat down and researched into American exceptionalism I discovered an idea that was complex in not just its definition but also its understanding. ... ", not only shows Uncle Sam as a heroic Greek figure with the strength to hold up the world, but also shows that there was an unwillingness from the American government, or at least the people, to engage in more international warfare. ... Contained within this unique document defined the conditions for free people with free rights, not from the government but from their creator.15 This was a unique structure, where...
