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American poets, novelists, and other writers often write about the topic of American identity. In this lesson, you have read excerpts from two texts, “Response to Executive Order 9066” by Dwight Okita, and “Mericans” by Sandra Cisneros. Determine a common theme that both authors establish about the topic. In response to the first sign of American identity I noticed by the sort of stories in the classifications of relatives in style tradition Americans names such as empty and uncle. The next thing I noticed relates to young American identity, regarding childhood. As a result of American culture a couple things that could be experienced and childhood during this period, the narrator tries to avoid falling victim of. For example, the grandmother

Quindlen uses pathos to convey the danger of young driving. A quote from the article “The sports contests, the SATs, the exams, the elections, the dances, the proms. And too often, the funerals.” The writer uses imagery to demonstrate how every teenager experiences the same things throughout high school and those who lose their life's in car accidents miss out on all the high school memories that would last a lifetime. Instead of making

The use also appears to represent the view that Native Americans are lesser people than the majority group. This is seen during Charlene Teters attendance in a protest in which she holds a sign saying, “ American Indians are human beings not mascots”. Stereotyping is another basic theme represented in this documentary. The Cleveland Indians’ use of a Native American caricature is grossly embedded with stereotypical features of the race. As well, misrepresentation and misunderstanding appear to be themes in this documentary.

In 2017 with technology being so immensely distributed, ideologies and cultures are shared with great agility. As a result, homogenization and monoculture are all concepts that are inevitable to occur. For example in this cartoon the author, Andy Singer illustrates the causes and the consequences of social globalization and monoculture. In addition to that, he uses various disney characters taking over a tropical region using popular transnational corporations, as a way of representing how popular culture is forcing foreign cultures to marginalize their ideological beliefs and ethnologies. Furthermore leaving this world with decreased diversity, hence a place far from the idea of a pluralistic society. Overall, the symbols in the author’s illustration

The Thematic Paradigm, written by Robert Ray, shows that throughout America’s history, people are often attracted to heroes whose traits reflect those of the society at the time. Ray writes about how many American heroes are valued for their strong leadership and sense of community, but there are other heroes who are celebrated for their individuality and their ability to form their own moral laws. In The Thematic Paradigm, Robert Ray shows that the American people are drawn to those who embody traits of both good and bad values. By comparing common values and laws, showing a strong sense of individualism, and contradicting opposite views on America’s historical heroes, Ray is able to give a strong argument as to why Americans are drawn to certain characters in cinema and history.

The author of “A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen show American identity in a lot of ways. One way the ways Quindlen shows american identity is how after the 9/11 terrorist attack, Americans hold on together even though all different, like a quilt. Also the author touches on how different we are as a country and how that's not a bad thing at all. A famous quote from the story by Daniel Boorstin is “Of all the nations of the world, the United States was built in

Throughout the life span of the United States, from its infancy after the Revolution to the present, people have asked, “What is an American?” This question goes far beyond asking who is a citizen or who resides in this land. No, it asks what the identity of an American is? Through popular, art, film, and literature, the American image is defined as being based on embracing our individual identities.

Americans have not only defined themselves by their religious, ethnic and racial identity, but also by their individual freedom and common values. America has become a nation where its people can fight for what they believe in. Our founding fathers have formed America to be “the land of the free and the home of the brave”. Being apart of the American culture and living on the land founded by our leaders specifies the meaning of the American Identity.

In the early years of America’s foundation, a powerful air of uncapped potential, the desire for expansion and individual identification enamored the American people. Progress was inevitable as was cultural definition. But as time progressed, the feeling of unlimited strength, time and space transformed into something that, for better or worse, was no longer shared by later poets. Those of the “New World” came to realize that their world never really managed to leave behind the faults of the “Old.” Societal tension rose as different poets and authors struggled to pin down the direction of American culture and its ideals. When no solid idea was able to capture American culture adequately, the concept of an ever-evolving American identity

‘How can I show Americanism?’ That is a question that crossed every Americans mind at least once. And there are many answers to this question. For instance, we can hang a American flag outside of our house, or think for a minute how lucky we are to have our freedom. Bun this essay, I will not just have a few ideas about how to express Americanism, I will have many ideas.

What does it mean to be an American? Well think of it like this our generation has changed a lot throughout the years one big thing is technology we've went from just using paper and pencil to making documents and reading online. If you think about it we get new ways to learn and write stuff online and avoid paper and pencil we don't use it as often anymore, most things we use is on technology. We went from writing essays on paper to now doing most of it online we find it easier and faster and new ways to learn that aren't on paper and pencil.

There are many aspects to what it means to be an American. Freedom and equality are two things that defines you as an American. Also, depending on the area you live can have an impact on if you are considered an American. There are many things that surprised me throughout the essays in the book. What surprised me the most was the fact that we all had immigrants in our family that came to the United States from another country, so they were at one time immigrants. Also, I never really thought how America is a lot of different people coming together with all different religions.

So with the introduction of a foreign symbol into a host country like a new McDonald’s restaurant, the impact is not so dramatic and the host country does not fully take in the American culture but shapes it in a way to suit their lifestyle and tastes. For example, the food and names of the food at McDonald’s in Tokyo is slightly different to those in America. In India, it serves lamb burgers and in Germany beer is available. This shows that the American formula was not as international as had been hoped, and local cultural practices had to be acknowledged.

Parents always teach their children to ‘treat others how you want to be treated’, yet people create excuses about why women should be treated as less than males. Women are mistreated because men believe that they are better. In Paolo Bacigalupi's novel The Windup Girl Emiko is enslaved in Raleigh’s brothel. She is abused and laughed at, even though she did not do anything wrong. She is a female New Person trying to get through life. Emiko’s emotions are devalued, she is treated as if she is subpar, and she is only valued for her body and servitude.

How can a simple pink plastic decoration effectively symbolize the collective culture of the U.S.? In her essay “The Pink Plastic Flamingo: A Natural History”, Jennifer Price explains both the impact that the iconic decoration had on American and what it says about American culture as a whole. Price expertly crafts the text using powerful diction to explain the significance of the pink flamingo, allusions to cultural icons to demonstrate the easily influenced nature of Americans, and sarcasm and irony to explain and highlight America’s consumeristic and materialistic culture.