Anna Quindlen's Quilt Of A Country

After analyzing both texts, the article “A Quilt of a Country.” best depicts the theme of Finding Common Ground. Finding common ground, referring to finding mutual agreements with others, is displayed as a theme of unity in the articles “A Quilt of a Country” and “Once Upon a Time” In the article “A Quilt of a Country,” it is expressing a theme of unity through diversity. In other words, becoming united although they’re people of different cultures and religions. In the article “Once Upon a Time,” it is expressing a theme of unity through similarity. In other words, it is stating that both the narrator and the family in the short story both were united with a similarity of fright. Although both articles showed unity, the author of “A Quilt

In the argumentative essay “Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen, she argues that how people are being ostracized and discriminated for their race and skin color. For example in the argumentative essay “Quilt of a country” Anna Quindlen states “Slavery and sweatshops, the burning of crosses and the ostracism of others”. This evidence connects to the claim by explaining how other people of different race and different color were being ostracized and discriminated just because of their color. When Anna Quindlen first starts to describe slavery, sweatshops and burning of crosses Anna is describing how the white community started to disintegrate and manage African Americans lives. The evidence also describes how people are trying to evolve from

In this speech I will be talking about whether or not I think that individuals can live together as one human race. I will use quotes from three passages. Those three passages will be Quilt of a Country by Anna Quindlen, Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer, and Rituals of Memory by Kimberly M. Blaeser. All three of these passages have something to do with diversity. In conclusion, I don’t think that individuals can live together as one human race.

created equal. Anna Quindlen says that the united states is like a huge quilt. That means that it is

America by far is the most diverse country on the face of the earth. America today is known for freedom, equality, democracy, and a defender against tyranny. The foundation of American values lay in a belief of independence, nationalism, capitalism, and religion. However, many conflicts have arisen over these values in the past. Capitalism and other characteristics have made America great, but they have brought about their own set of inequalities. Those inequalities have deep roots in race, culture, gender, and wealth. In the 1800s two of the biggest conflict lies with the issue of slavery and women’s rights.

Differences are the key to the Development of the U.S.A. Quindlen wrote “Quilt of a Country” and John F. Kennedy wrote “The Immigrant Contribution”. Both Authors agree that America was built in nobodies image, but in different styles. Quindlen thinks more about the wars, John.F. Kennedy thinks more about immigrants and Cultures. Although they wrote in very different styles they also had similar ideas about America. Quindlen believes this is a mongrel nation and John F. Kennedy believes that the nation was built by immigrants coming to the nation and becoming entrepreneurs that help our nation become what it is today.

America, a country that could only be described as a quilt as it is made up of many different peoples. Sadly, equality and common respect is hard to come by in a nation full of different opinions, colors, and cultures. Through heart-wrenching pathos, Leutze’s painting Washington Crossing the Delaware and Quindlen’s The Quilt signifies that while America may seem on the verge of breaking at times it manages to succeed through the unification of it’s people.

America is a country full of ideas that create opportunities and memorable moments people enjoy with the company of others. Within the United States of America, diversity is a huge aspect that allows numerous races, ethnicities, and genders, etc. to roam our flourishing nation. Our nation is exceptional by having a beautiful range of natural wonders, collection of first-rate cities, and a wide variety of art and pop culture.The values and beliefs that unite Americans and define our nation’s purpose are the ideas of our nation steps forward to perform actions for the betterment of society, the lack of and enforcement of equality, and the citizenships that people fought to achieve.

The United States, often referred to as a “melting pot,” is known for its extensive cultures. This paramount aspect of the Unites States makes it so unique yet it also happens to be the center of its many conflicts. America, although seemingly doubtful due to the vast amount of cultures and people, has been able to withstand conflicts and adversities because Americans have been able to learn from the country’s past and find a way to use their differences to come together.

In Anna Quindlen’s essay “Quilt of a Country,” she claims that “America is an improbable idea…” (paragraph one) as well as that we are all have different cultures and beliefs, but we have stayed together against all odds. In paragraph four, Quindlen states “other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities,” meaning that other countries that had these problems with racism and differences have split into other nations. It is because of this that she says that America is surprising, since we have now divided. She later mentions in paragraph six how intriguing it is that groups of people who are almost at war with each other can live together,

To be united in the United States of America is to be united in spite of being of a different gender, race, religion, or political opinion. Which both Brooks and Martin Luther King Jr. recognize, but do not express in the same way. Brooks’ argument regarding socio-political beliefs in both Red and Blue America creates even more difference between the two. In the article, Brooks describes Red America as dominated by churches and the people in these areas are more concerned about being part of the community. Brooks states, “America is divided between two moral systems. Red America is traditional, religious, self-disciplined, and patriotic. Blue America is modern, secular, self-expressive, and discomfited by blatant displays of patriotism,” (537).

In Anna Quindlen’s argumentative essay , “A Quilt of a Country” she argues that conflict and atrocities bring the citizens of the United States together. The author’s use of real-life events and experiences communicates how unity, especially occurs after a conflict . During her analysis of the Cold War and its’ aftermath, she explains,”Today the citizens of the United States have come together once more because of armed conflict and enemy attack.” Here, Quindlen compares the cold war’s devastating effects on society to 9/11’s effect on the country. She analyses how, in both instances, society’s post-traumatic sense of unity brought citizens all across the country together as one.

Many individuals view America as a place of equality and ample amounts of opportunity. However, America has not always been the image that it portrays. For example, the Declaration of Independence states that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” But, these, “unalienable rights,” were not granted to women or the other minorities.

“America is an improbable idea. A mongrel nation built of ever changing disparate parts, it is held together by a notion, the notion that all

And it is saying that with more diverse people there are probably going to be more conflict. But we need to work past this conflict to keep as one nation that stands above all in the end. And that we should always keep going even through the roughest of times. And that is the theme of Quilt of a country.