Reconstructing America Analysis

Franz Boas’s who is regarded as the father of anthropology and the founding chair of the study at Columbia University is one whose illustrious career and struggles have left a lasting impact on the field. Boas’s life long projects dealing with immigrant populations and their environments and his avocation of human rights are noble and virtuous qualities all anthropologists should hold near and dear.

In Langston Hughes poem “Let America be America Again” he talks about how America should return to the way that it was perceived to be in the dreams before America was truly America. Throughout the poem he uses various methods to evoke the patriotic images and dreams that he feels America should and will eventually be. Hughes states that America is supposed to be a place of equality for everyone including both white and colored people. During this period in time though there was not equality for everyone. Hughes talks about an America where both whites and colored people will have equality in all aspects socially, politically, and economically. What Hughes is saying is that both whites and colored

Richard Rodriguez, in his article, “Does America Still Exists?” states that America is the nation of united diversity. It is a country where everyone is welcomed and treated equally. He expresses his confusion about the real definition of America when he talks about how the people in America are into racism and differences despite the country being made up of immigrants. The author asserts that America does exist, first by defining America, and by showing the inter-connection between people born from different regions of the world. The responsibility of the people is to stop being racist and staying with the people of own origin only but reaching out and mixing with others as one nation.

Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle in their book “Rereading America” feel that commencing college is a very disturbing experience. So many things we have to deal while starting college, but the major challenges are expanded difficulty levels and higher expectation which we are not familiar over the years of high school. In order to solve this issue, we have to remodel ourselves by taking up the challenge and rethink about our strength and flaws. To succeed in college we need to be mentally strong and dedicated towards our goal.

El norte and “let America be America again” shows the difficult situation the immigrants pass by being in a new country, immigrants face many social, economic and ideological barriers, the struggle to learn a new language and the inequality of opportunities this contradict the hopeful vision Emma Lazarus puts forward in “the new

) The United Sates is a democracy which means it is run by the people for the people. “For a country to be considered democratic, the views of the public must affect the course of government” (Greer 206). This means that if the government wants to change something we must all vote on it, or are at least all be given the chance to vote on it. When asked what it means that the government must have the publics support in order to get their decisions implemented it means just that. In order for anything to change in the laws for the United Sates the citizens must vote on it. Also for the people wanting to pass the law to have a better fighting chance they will need to show the public what this law will do for them and how it will help.

In 2013, The United States spent over $737 billion on its military, at a time where the country is in an economic crisis. The United States spends more money on the military then most of the world combined, it’s no secret that the U.S is known as the world’s police. What are the consequences that will come with this, the American citizens are already feeling the effects of modern imperialism. In order to maintain the world police status, the United Sates continues to make cuts toward the infrastructure and the economy. American roadways, schools, social services, emergency services and the environment are

The connection between the Virtues Franklin discusses in his writings and the "American" values definitely defer in modern day America but compare in some ways. The first example that I noticed was in the "The Way to Wealth" section, from one of the quotes of "Poor Richard Almanac" The line discusses the mindset that people should have towards working. The quote reads, "Drive thy business, let not that drive thee, and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." (Franklin 459). This connection connects to some Americans who have worked hard to make business and basically coming from nothing. This also connects to America because it differs from some lazy Americans who try to find ways to become rich without doing

In the video The Men Who Made America names such as Rockerfeller, Vanderbuilt and J.P. Morgan were mentioned. These names are possibly some of the most iconic names linked to some of the most iconic men who as the name suggest "made america". The video compares them to our modern day Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. Names in which we associate wealth, power and innovation. What we do not seem to understand is that is without the names of Rockerfeller, Morgan and Vanderbilt our country would not be what it is today. These men paved the way thought hard work, intutuion and what some consider brute force the very essience of who we are and what we have grown accustome to may not be what we see today. Vanderbilt linked the country with itself through

Matthew Christopher Is a photographer that travels all over the world and takes pictures of abandoned building as crazy as this might sound his reasoning behind it is really quite amazing and something I would have never thought of. Matthew starts the talk by telling and showing pictures to the group about some of the places all over the world from china to the U.K and yes even the U.S.A. He then tells us that his second book just came out and this would be the only stop on the west coast he makes which I feel is a great experience for everyone that attended. We were also told of a website he has and post pictures and talks about he places he’s been it is called abandoned America and has been up and running for 10 years now.

We went through a series of steps to accomplish the 13 colonies from a newly independent country to a transcontinental nation. The development and transition towards economic improvements proved to be vital. It enabled us to produce an increase in productivity and became a key essential for the Industrial Revolution. Similarly, the War of 1812 became a historical factor and contributed towards the making of the Treaty of Ghent. Lastly, westward expansion has proved itself to become crucial towards the expansion of America.

From the text reader “Reading the American Past”, the document “The Discord” from chapter number four features recurrent power of relationships. By recurrent, it can better be described as “usual power”. Often times, individuals believe men are stronger rule the nation, however this is not the case that the women are trying to persuade in the illustration. The women believe the pants can be worn by whoever wants to take the initiative, and the men believe the pants should only be worn by men.

In the play American Century by Murphy Guyer, we find a woman waiting on her husband Tom to return from war. Upon his return they’re reuniting they are interrupted by a stranger, Tommy, who claims to be their son. Although at first Tom doesn’t believe him and thinks it’s a scam, the woman knew the entire time because of motherly instincts. He goes on to tell them about the future and how he got back by taking drugs because he is a schizophrenic and describes how the other children they had turn out. His therapist wanted for him to revisit the time of his conception thinking maybe that would help him be able to solve his problems which is why he appeared at the house. While there he informs his parents about how their as well as he and his

In the video “The Men Who Built America”, episode four the video opens up with Andrew Carnegie watching as his mentor Tom Scott is buried. The video then goes on to explain how Carnegie became to work for Scott and become his personal assistant at the age of twelve. Scott saw in him the drive and potential that he could use to his advantage. Carnegie is moved up to manager of Scotts railroad company at just twenty-four years old. Scott puts Carnegie in charge of the ask of getting a bridge built across the Mississippi river a daunting task for young Carnegie but he won’t let it stop him. He gets the idea to use steel to build the bridge he had to find a way to get enough. He meets with Henry Bessemer, who has a process that can make a steel rail in fifteen minutes instead of two weeks. Carnegie sees how beneficial this can be and he uses Bessemer’s process but expenses keep rising and he is behind schedule, so he is forced to stop production on the bridge. He doesn’t let this stop him, he gets the money from investors but another task is getting everyone to believe that it is safe. Once again he finds a way around this challenge as well. This bridge opens the doors for Carnegie as railroad companies come knocking on his door for his steel. With the help of Scott, Carnegie opens his steel mill just outside of Pittsburg, there is only one problem the railroads are not making enough profit, so Rockefeller lowers his oil prices for the railroads but it’s not enough and the railroad companies go back

America has been the home of many notable people throughout its 238 years of existence. Three people that have made America one of the most notable countries include, Ernesto Miranda, Walter Elias Disney, and Barry Goldwater. Each one of these people has strengthened the American pride in the 20th century, and has a legacy that may never die. Although they each played different roles in society, they have all made America a better place to live in.