Ideal Of The American Ideal

In Edward L. Hudgins article, What is an American?, Hudgins defines an American in ways I had not thought of before. Hudgins stated all these ideas about Americans being driven to do their best and meeting challenges head-on. I would like to think that being an American means everything Hudgins stated, however I think Hudgins is giving the optimistic answer of what being an American means. What Hudgins explains as being an American is what I believe most Americans were like when the country was first founded. The idea of taking risks and working until the risks paid off is one that most Americans do not believe because the possibility of actually achieve one’s dream is extremely less likely today than it was when the country was first established.

When Cooke was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, her credentials were evaluated for her biography by the Pulitzer Committee. During their evaluation, they found some problems in her resume that she had used for her jobs. The evaluation concluded that she didn’t get a degree from Vassar College and only got her Bachelors from University of Toledo not Masters. These discrepancies in her resume questioned her credibility

In the speech “The Spirit of Liberty ”Learned Hand says, ”Liberty lies in the heart of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much help.” I agree with Hand because if the people think they have no liberty and can never get it they won't fight for liberty. For me to be an American means to have freedom as a whole, equality, and justice.The most important Ideals related to being an American are equality, freedom and justice

Americanism has a different meaning to everyone. It defines who we are, and the country we live in. To me it means victory. All the wars we have won. The Civil war and the Revolutionary war are a symbol of America. Even we when the chances were very low we never gave up. All the great soldiers help us win. Americanism also means to be free. America gained its freedom from Great Britain. Free to do anything.You are allowed to do study anything in the world and pick your own religion or not have one at all. One last thing Americanism means to me is diversity. To be able to walk in a store where everybody is equal. No matter the race, color, or how you look like. In America there are races from all the world. All

A question most fascinating to me is where in history does the first hint of American ideals and identities originate from? If we were to look at where the fiery passions of an American identity first arise we have to look to where the colonists first fought for their right to be a recognized citizen of America. American colonists formed their identity through the ideas of liberty, resistance to unfair British jurisdiction, and cultural diversity. Their identities formed between the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War as these two events deeply brought out what the colonist’s ideals were and what they fought for so passionately. Between these years 1763 and 1775 we see the first American ideals being born in the colonies. An example of such ideals is the want and need for Liberty. A reason for wanting liberty was that British control suppressed the lives of the people living in America and over time grew harder for colonists to live with. Americans are revered to have a passionate patriotic view of their country and this is true as it is seen throughout history but in my research I will try to explain where these ideals first arose.

America has seemed to always have contentious relations with the rest of the world in concerning their reaction to international affairs and an overinflated sense of nationalism. With the terrorist attack of 9/11, not many seem to mention the attacks that happened before that signaled the hate for America. The bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and the attack of the USS Cole highlighted events in which it brought to light the planned attacks against United States. Some may say that the Americans should have expected this reaction as there were events that happened before that signaled a rise in anti-American idealism.

“In baseball, Democracy shines its clearest. They only race that matters is the race to the the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguished one team’s uniform from another”- Ernie Harwell. Democratic ideals shaped America with its Common Democratic Ideals. American society still functions with these Common Ideals. Life, liberty and the Pursuit of happiness, The Common good, Justice, Equality, Diversity, Truth, Popular Sovereignty, Patriotism are all part of the Democratic ideals. If the United states did not have these ideas our country would not be a country.

     In the poem "Let America Be America Again," Langston Hughes paints a vivid word picture of a depressed America in the 1930's. To many living in America, the idealism presented as the American Dream had escaped their grasp. In this poetic expression, a speaker is allowed to voice the unsung Americans' concern of how America was intended to be, had become to them, and could aspire to be again.

There is immigration mostly found throughout the U.S. It consists of foreigners coming from out of countries without paperwork. In the article “The Americanization Ideal” by: Barbara Jordan. She explains how the congress is giving more hope to immigrants. Newspaper tell us more about what’s going on. This article also says how the “alien” can be good or bad. Either way he/she should be able to become an American, and deal with less racism. By doing this, we should show more American civic culture as it says by: teaching the language, history, and rules/regulations. Now naturalization is mostly needed for this goal to become a success and together we can become one

By the late eighteenth century, the Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason as it was called had begun to rapidly spread across Europe. People began believing in the ideals of popular government, the centrality of economics to politics, secularism, and progress. This cultural movement was sparked by intellectuals and commonwealth thinkers such as the influential writer John Locke and the famous scientist Isaac Newton, both who emphasized the fact that man, by the use of reason, would be able to solve all of his problems-whether it be problems with the government, morals or the society. However, these ideals weren’t just limited to the European nations where they had first begun. On the other side of the world, off in the United States,

American democracy is not ideal democracy. Low voter turnout, excessive sums of money that is poured into elections, and the increasingly unpopular Electoral College leaves American democracy from being an ideal, well-functioning democratic electoral system. American democracy, however, has never been closer to an ideal democracy than it is now. The endless information voters have due to the Internet allows voters to cast their ballots with more confidence and information than ever before. More information available to voters means more accountability for elected officials. Voting has become much easier and accessible than ever before. Absentee ballots and early voting allows voters to cast their ballots without hassle and on their own time.

When he was just thirty-five years old he won the Pulitzer prize for fiction with his creative way of writing about his culture and his first novel House Made of Dawn. This book was known as his best work by many of his fans and critics.

Lewis's next popular novel, Arrowsmith (1925), returned to the form of Main Street to portray a young doctor's battle to maintain his dignity in a petty, dishonest world. Despite its often simplistic look at science as a means of saving one's soul, Arrowsmith was offered the Pulitzer Prize. Lewis, however, immediately refused the honor because the terms of the award required that it be given not for a work of value, but for a work that presents "the wholesome atmosphere of American Life."

It is not so much that Philip Roth disagrees with the concept of the American dream; he simply does not wish to buy into the myth of it all. In American Pastoral Roth laments the loss of innocence, as exemplified by both Seymour Levov, the protagonist, and Nathan Zuckerman, the narrator. Both grew up in an idyllic Jewish Newark neighborhood, both being the sons of Jewish parents. The separation of their commonality came at a young age, when Zuckerman began to idolize the golden boy of the neighborhood – Seymour “Swede” Levov, born blond haired and blue eyed, and representing everything that a young, Jewish boy would want in a local hero. It is through the narrator’s eyes that we see both the rise and fall of a Jewish family in America,

The ideal American family was transformed in the 19th century in large part due to the great changes taking place in the American society. Many family groups fit this changing mold while some did not. In this essay I will show how this concept of the ideal American family changed. I will also try to explain which groups of Americans followed this concept and why.