Summary Of What's So Great About America By Dinesh D'souza

We live in a culture where success is increasingly defined by a paycheck and is seemingly as important to the parent as the child. Raising children to be “successful” is increasingly becoming an obsession for upper-middle-class-parents, who encourage certain activities and scores to provide their child with the best chances of attending elite schools. The article focuses on the inherent advantage upper-middle-class parents provide but fails to mention those who the parent’s action affects: their children.

D’Souza, while writing the book, also wanted to portray America as the innocent country and that Al Qaeda had very little truth to their claims. He made sure to always let the reader see that America was innocent while also talking about her being a leader for all the other countries. Throughout history, leaders of countries and civil movements shaped America. They have taken many different aspects from other countries and put them all together. America is a country that has been mashed together by different ideas, and has not come up with something completely on their own.

What every American should know by Eric Liu thoroughly examines the issue of cultural literacy and its place in modern America. It takes on a convincing argument against E.D. Hirsch’s book on the same which included some 5000 things that he thought define cultural literacy and every American should know. Liu argues that America has changed over time, becoming more multicultural, and to capture the cultural literacy of the country, no one person should sit down and come up with what they think everyone else should know. Instead he suggests that in order to capture the view of the nation, every American should be involved in the making of the list. The most engaging part of this article is Liu’s idea that this new list that is crowd-sourced should always change according to the times. It should not be cast in stone because things in this day and age change really fast; what is a hit this month will be old news in the next one. This is what cultural literacy really is; keeping up with what is going on around you and being open to learn new things as they emerge. This can also be said of education; in order to stay educated in any field, you have to be in the know of in terms of new developments.

Ishmael read does an incredible job of pointing out all possible notions that the people who were here before us are,our cause of success. Reed discusses passionately for the ideas and social behaviors that arrived in the United States of America before and after the first wave of European settlers.

The article ‘’What Every American Should Know’’ by Eric Liu acknowledges the struggles, the rapidly changing, and all of the multicultural issues that continually expands through every day of the culture wars. So within this article Liu is confronting a very substantial topic, which he asserts the problem of cultural diversity or the culture wars inside of the United States. In the article Liu provides the reader with many different examples all the way from cultural literacy, multiculturalism, and many examples from history over the years. Liu also expresses these examples in a way that the reader can absorb the details in a different style were the reader has to look at each example in a different aspect to fully understand what he is trying to stay. Liu evaluates E.D Hirsch and talks about the list. The list that every American should know, containing ten words that every citizen in America should know. Liu discourages people use Hirsch’s list because of the time differences between the past and the future, and how the culture war has progressed through time. Liu has evolved Hirsch’s idea and created something more modern that people can create their own list to show the people of America different opinions to have and no one is wrong or right that is what makes this list so influential. (Liu)

What sets America apart from any nation in the world is that it never settle. America, at times, has had the tenancy to spent too long in the darkness of satisfaction and despondency, but never has it settles in shadows. Every single time America has fallen or been knocked down, it has never failed to rise from defeat. It may take months, years and even decades, but America never stops pursuing the perfection of the unparalleled ideals it was founded on.

In the essay “What’s so great about America” by Dinesh D’Souza, the India born author shares his experience while living in America. D’Souza first starts his essay saying “Here is a country where everything works”(D’Souza 237-238), everything from the highway sign to properly working public toilets. He also emphasized how overwhelmed an immigrant can find themselves while visiting a supermarket for the first time. D’Souza then compares America to most countries today that does not have the most basic of health care products like deodorant which “is unavailable in much of the Third World”. New immigrants and people all over the world are witnessing the lifestyle of the poor in America living well, other

D’Souza, while writing the book, also wanted to portray America as the country that was not in the wrong at all. He made sure to always let the reader see that America was innocent while also talking about her being a leader for all the other countries. America is a country that has been shaped

In the video titled Was America Ever Great? by Charity Croff, Croff goes to look into the past of America and shows that America really never was as great as Donald Trump thinks it was. Unless Trump’s idea of greatness is the genocide of millions of native American’s, the stealing of land from the natives and Mexico, and African Americans being forced against their will to work until they die from horrific working conditions then as Croff says “America was never great”. He also goes to say that it is hypocritical of us to be so against illegal immigrants when the first Europeans landed and colonized America were illegal immigrants themselves. Our entire country was built on immigration by immigrants. Croff explains how the Indian Removal Act

It’s a story we know all too well - a seemingly Indomitable nation watches as its greatest accomplishments are torn apart in the powerful jaws of the only thing large enough to consume such a body with inexhaustible ends... itself. It is one that has been so feared, that to this day, literature and arts race to tell of the next episode of how something the human race has done has screwed us all again, and yet, its reality has been repeated over and over again in history, the fall of Rome, Napoleon's last stand, the demise of the Axis empire… hardly anything stood in their way, hardly anyone but their own wretched selves accompanied with the lonely friends unhappiness and greed. Yet, has America not combated the great plagues of the past? Has it not stopped waging war and creating enemies, content to instead build its great walls of protection

Edward Bok’s use of diction in this story is expressed extremely well. He repeats many words throughout the story such as limitless and opportunity. These words express a strong meaning because they show how America is a land of limitless opportunities. In this story, Bok quotes, “...a limitless opportunity: here a man can go as far as his abilities will carry him”. By this quote, he is emphasizing that America will provide all that is needed in order to succeed. The main reasoning behind his statement is that there are no boundaries, and everyone can succeed if they work hard enough for it. Additionally, Bok stated, “...I owe to her the most priceless gift that any nation can offer, and that is opportunity”. The words priceless and opportunity,

The topic I am going to talk about is freedom. I wanted to talk about freedom because we don’t have as much freedom as I want. The freedom I want is that we don’t have to have our army troops out as much. The other way of freedom is that we can live wherever we want to, like you were born in South Carolina you can move to Antarctica. Freedom to me is also you don’t have to go to college for every job you want. Another way of freedom to me is if you want to talk to someone with another religion you can talk to them and they can talk to you.

In one time, William McKinley manifested “Expositions are the timekeepers of progress,” inspiring America that the workflow will be presented graciously. Reaching to the years of massive expansions, America had grown tremendously with goods and services. During the late 1890s, President McKinley urged Americans to transformed America into the greatest powerful nation in the whole world. In preparing for a strong nation, the Spanish-American War had enclosed their attainments due to tensions between Spain and United States. American had its victories and forwarded the Treaty of Paris which had control over several foreign countries. After the war, United States focused on up warding their nation. America’s progression of new

If prompted with the question what is colonization and or how did Europe and America colonize different countries and peoples the answer might be as simple as: it was the process of taking land from other countries and pushing to change the peoples of those countries towards western ways. This answer is to simple, a lot of people do not know the motives behind colonizing another country. Even though the motives behind colonizing another country depend on the time and location of the colonizing, Europe and America have always set above every other country around the world. They title themselves as being superior to all others. Thus, a lot of countries bought into the western ways and believe Westerners to be “demigod”. In Michael Adas essay, Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing-Mission, even though the focus is on the ups and downs of colonization in Asia and Africa. The essay looks at the motives behind colonizing these peoples, why some bought into the idea and how World War One changed everything for Europe, Asia and Africa in terms of colonization.

Despite that there is some recognition that colonialism and post-colonialism is important, Loomba raises some warnings in this regards. Although that most of the countries that were in one point of their history colonized by a western nation are freed now, they are facing a new type of domination: the domination through the economic system. In most of the cases some form of capitalism. Most of the development of the western nation are due to cheap (or free) labor and production factors that were obtained through violence from the colonized nations. Could it possible for US to develop the cotton industry without slavery? Could Spain finance every single war without the Inca’s gold? Could Great Britain that industrialized nation without their colonies? So when These nation complains about the development