I never knew that the church had gone through so many more in depth changes than some that I have know about including speaking English in mass instead of Latin. ... I think of Sunday masses, bible study, and authority figures such as priests bishops and the pope. ... It was a progressive time in the ways of trying to free itself from the Papal ways that the church was previously guided by. ... The ability for the people to become involved in the affairs of the church gave them the feeling of the "free religion" that they had come to America to gain. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the article "I Just Wanna Be Average" (We Are America, Page 211), the author, Mike Rose goes on to say that his English teacher, Jack MacFarland, taught and approved him to be aroused motivation. ... Then, the teacher, who was my math class instructor and gave me motivation to study, hit his yardstick on my desk brought me back to the real world where subjects did not relate to my interest and dreamers are related to dummies. ... Learning how to think frees our dependency on others for knowledge. ... After that time, I could devote myself to study to go to high ranked university. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"A more confident speaker of English I didn't trouble to listen to how strangers sounded anymore at last, seven years old I came to believe what was technically true since I was born I was a US Citizen". ... The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them choose. ... That is because they know they are free to hold to their religion, their beliefs, their history, as each of them choose.... These studies expose the impracticability of US citizenship as the baseline for true Americanism. Another common viewpoint on the National Identity Crisis is tha...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to the National Education Association, 41 percent of English speaking whites are illiterate, 22 percent are English speaking African Americans, 22 percent are Spanish speaking and 15 percent are non-English speaking people. ... America, land of the free and home of the brave, the county where anything can happen and your opportunities are endless. ... According to several studies, the prison population represents the single highest concentration of illiterate US adults. ...

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