Land Of The Free Essay

“What’s done cannot be undone,”(V,1,2188) are the words of a guilty, manipulative, and regretful character in Shakespeare's masterpiece Macbeth. That character is Lady Macbeth. The phrase “behind every great man is a great woman” is truly proven in this play. Lady Macbeth was the one who had Macbeth gain all the power she desired. She was the great woman who was behind the mighty king.

    A main idea in the first chapter is about the history of slavery and freedom in the U.S. Firstly slavery had existed during the American Revolution. Despite the fact that the founding fathers wanted freedom as a right to all men, then African Americans should also rightfully be allowed freedom. Foner quotes Lemuel Haynes, “ If liberty were truly ‘an innate principle” for all mankind’ Haynes wrote, ‘ even an African [had] as equally good a right to his liberty in common with Englishmen.’(Foner 9). Slavery was a problem in the United States history from the beginning.

The most common phrase in America today is “Home of the Free”. When America first started out in the Colonies the above quote was probably very true. As time has passed through the centuries, America has felt the need to regulate and reduce the freedom that our founding fathers had intentionally planned for us. Such things as religion, reproductive rights, Native Americans and their rights, and marriage rights are being marginalized. These rights could be considered private matters that the government shouldn’t get involved with and probably rightly so.

Christopher Columbus sailed in 1492 and found the Americas. They claimed the Americas until the 18th century. The “Americans” enjoyed the freedom the British gave them from the negligence. Soon, they got themselves into a war with the French, which was fought in three different theatres; North America, Europe, India. The battles were known as the French Revolution and they were very costly. The British tried to pay off the debts earlier, but when the 7 year war ended, they expected the Americas to contribute to the cost-- but they did not. After all, they did defend them from the French and the Native Americans. Within the coming years, the British continued to tax the Americans and they refused to pay. The British tried to make and enforce laws, making the

Is America really the land of the free? Whether we are really free or not is questionable. We can learn to protect our freedoms by educating ourselves on the advice the founding fathers gave to us. In order to keep our freedoms, we must have a separation of powers, a religious foundation, education and resistance of tyranny, and we must also remain an independent nation.

America is not universally free. This is easily proven with examples from a variety of subjects. For example, take LGBT rights. De jure, gay marriage is legal nationwide. But de facto, when one looks at the social reality dealt with by people who are not heterosexual, one finds that not everyone has the realistic ability to do so. Even on a de jure level, there are the “bathroom bills,” passed by North Carolina and looked at by many states, designed to limit transgender people’s ability to use the bathroom.

5. Americans pride themselves on the idea that they live in a country that embodies the ideals of democracy and freedom for all. Can the Cold War moment of McCarthyism, the fervent pursuit of Communist sympathizers in the United States, and the accompanying suppression of civil liberties be reconciled with this tradition of the “land of the free”? Does it represent an anomaly? Or is it one example of many in which the freedom of individual Americans has been (needlessly) sacrificed to protect perceived threats to the United States?

We’ve all heard of a rhetorical question. But have you heard of the rhetoric of freedom? The word rhetoric means the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. The key words in the previous sentences are “use of figures of speech” and figures of speech are known as rhetorical tropes. This is why throughout this essay you will see “rhetoric freedom” in quotations.

Meet the Herdmans they lie, cheat, steal, smoke cigars, and even bully children. They without a doubt the worst kids in the town. Their name where Leroy, Alley, Gladys, Claude, Imagene, and Ralph. They also stuck together no matter what. They lived in a garage basement. The Herdmans didn’t know where their father was. The Hermans father left when Gladys was two years old on a train. The kids mother worked two shifts at the shoe factory so she was not home much. No one blamed neither parents for not wanting to be home with the bad kids. There where a social worker who routinely came to visit the kids and for Christmas she left a basket full of items so the kids may eat and survive.

The author of “In the Land of Free”, Edith Maud Eaton, with pen name Sui Sin Far, was not a direct immigrant from Asia to the United States, but she portrayed the harsh treatment Asian immigrants faced upon entering in the U.S. in the late 1800s.  Sui Sin Far, working as a journalist for Fly Lea, had exposed the extreme injustice done to Asian Americans in U.S. while she was living on the west coast of the United States. In addition, Sui Sin Far’s narration throughout “The Land of the Free” presents the truth about what was immigrant’s life behind America's dreams of fortune.

They say America is the land of the free… is it really? The battle of immigration is a serious issue in America, especially local places; it is also keeping families apart. Immigration is “the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.” following that definition is states “the place at an airport or country's border where government officials check the documents of people entering that country.” Most immigration comes in from the border of Mexico. Our new president is planning on building a wall at that border so no one can be let in the country. He also wants to make new laws so the ones who are already here but have no documents get deported.

America is the universal symbol of freedom. But is it really free? Does the history of the United States stay true to the ideas of our forefathers? Or has the definition been altered to fit American policies? Has freedom defined America? Or has America defined freedom? I believe America was at first defined by freedom, then after time, America defined freedom, altering the definition to fit the niche it fits in, but still keeping key components so it still seems to be staying true to the ideas of America’s founding fathers.

What is the price for FREEDOM? It's obvious that the price for freedom is not free but that it is rather large. After obtaining freedom, we look back and wonder was it worth it? Was freedom overpriced? In other words, did we sacrifice and pay too much to be free?

The man stood there in remorse, silently he thought about everything he has the potential to do, for a moment the thoughts inside him froze, and disappeared into uncharted space. His world was being torn away from him, and the worst part was he wasn’t able to experience what, not only himself but of human beings are capable of. He had a sudden longing to overcome his society 's wrongs, a new person was beginning to emerge from the lifeless body that has been encasing his competence. The one that wanted comfort, music, dance and love. The one that wanted sin. Dystopias imitate a utopia, or balanced society they dangle the idea of perfection but never

A nation is said to exist when it could traced its origins through the state, in which it associate itself with, histories. Additionally, the cultural elites must be established and well-versed in writing and speaking the national language. There must also be a valid reason for its claim on a certain territory. It is only when these three requirements are fulfilled will the international community consider their claim for a nation (Hobsbawm, 1990: 37). Disagreements, however, tend to arise in the political community over the definition of a nation. This essay will try to list out the different approaches employed in defining a nation starting from a nation being a natural cultural entity to it being politically and