The, America, By Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America” is a editorial about the decrease importance in intellectuals. Anti-intellectualism is defined as a person who believes that intellect and reason are less important. This editorial was written by Ray Williams.

Today America is one of the wealthiest, strongest, and hardworking countries in the world. It has population of over three hundred million and growth rate of 0.97% annually. America as a nation is known to have done many great contributions to the world such as: the idea of presidency, inventing telephone, discovering electricity, inventing planes, the first nation to put a man on moon, and many more. America has grown and multiplied over time and it is still increasing. Even though today America stands out apart from other countries, it was built from nothing but scrap.

America the greatest! Some people may say, but why? Others may ask. Throughout America there are various opinions about the country as a whole.Yeah there are good parts, but there are also bad parts; a country is only great if everything is balanced, Economically, Socially, and Politically. In this case Michael Moore a left-wing political activist and author states that it isn’t in his book Stupid White Men saying that “everything sucked” referring to the United States. After reading the “Introduction” to Stupid White Men the readers will soon realize that Moore has very biased opinions on the United States.

America is a gorgeous country, from her tall rocky mountains to her marvelous oceans. America has fought through the worst of battles, but she always comes out triumphant. America is a place where many individuals call home. She is a symbol of hope, acceptance, and new life. For years, people have been coming to her borders, looking for safety. America is an example to the world, of what a country should be to her people. America holds history, shows the present, and predicts the future. America is always moving forward; she is never content to stand still. However, America could not make all these changes by herself; it is her people that call themselves Americans that make her so great. American is an extremely generalized word. What makes

If it wasn’t for people acting against conformity and developing their interests in academics America wouldn’t be where it is in technical advancements. Fridman argues that for America’s success it’s necessary that, “the anti-intellectual values that pervade our society must be fought” to raise more citizens to be intellectual (Fridman 20-21). He urges for society’s values to be challenged in order for individuals to get more involved with educating themselves. Fridman points out, “There are very few countries in the world where anti-intellectualism runs as high in popular culture as it does in the U.S.”

Transcendentalists believe that using their principles, humanity can inch closer and closer to utopia, the perfect society. Transcendentalism, the flawed doctrine, instead leads its adherents on the road to nowhere, and many of the principles fail spectacularly when applied in real life. Transcendentalism is too idealistic to be realistic. Simply put, transcendentalism is wrong. Their ideals are not just incorrect, they are potentially dangerous.

From the moment Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, the United States of America established itself as a nation built upon the foundation of equality. In the legendary document, Jefferson proclaimed, “all men... are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights... life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (Declaration).” Contradictorily, when the separatists fled England for an auspicious future in North America, their treatment of the Native American and Spanish occupants was inhumane, barbaric, and not becoming of a civilization ingrained with the principles of equality. Moreover, the pioneers of the “free” world marginalized, ostracized, and chimerically represented the African race more than any other minority. Paradoxically dubbed the “man of the people”, Thomas Jefferson illuminated his true interpretation of equality in Notes on the State of Virginia. “We have had under our eyes the races of black and of red men, they have never yet been viewed by us as subjects of natural history,” he wrote. “I advance it... that the blacks... are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind (history).” Despite what the media conveys, this belief system lingered and particularly exists in the Department of Justice. For years, our government controlled the amount of accessible, viable, and financially rewarding opportunities for impoverished African Americans through the surreptitious agendas of law enforcement. However, Los Angeles

John Adams believed that Britain has been filled with Folly, and America with Wisdom, and he suggested America should be totally separated with England. He values freedom, and independence for people. He said in the passage that “…people are extremely addicted to Corruption and Venality...” Adams think it is understandable, and he think he must submit all this hopes and fears, to an overruling Providence. He considered that his action would gain posterity’s acclaim.

Jacoby seeks to answer how and why these barriers negatively affect this “Age of American Unreason”. In Jacoby’s book she explain how American’s have become less and less intellectual over the year due to our culture our distraction. In order to understand what constitutes such anti-intellectualism in our culture, we must first understand what it means to be an intellectual. By doing this, it will help us understand why many American’s today lack such intellectualism.

In conclusion, the power America has sustained over the years has been tremendous. America may not be the greatest country in the world, but our ideals have influenced other countries like Britain to change their

"Remarkable in magnitude, degree, or effectiveness" is the Merriam-Webster dictionary denotation of the word 'great'. At one time it was said that America was the greatest nation in the world. However, today with the economic ups and downs, social instability, and political unrest, one has to wonder if America can still proudly claim that title.

Two hundred and forty years of economic struggles and crisis, racial discrimination, police brutality, political wars, relentless political leaders, almost fair judiciary system, faith, fear, love, and compassion are some of the spices that made United States of America the greatest nation in the world today. Our founding fathers fought and thrived to make the USA a nation of togetherness, a nation without prejudices, a nation where dreams come true, a nation free from strict laws and culture, our fathers fought with all their might to bring us together and to make us stay together. Nevertheless, with all its glory and title has the greatest nation on earth, United Sates of America is still a nation

Anand Giridharadas the author of the article “Who or What is an american” discusses the greatness of America for example the author says “ its willingness, day after day, generation after generation, to give itself over to new faces in exchange for the chance to remain

The written word has become a domain for people of all ages and eras to learn from. Within the last century or so, there has been a procession of memorable writers with important messages to understand and learn from. It takes diligence when reading to understand what the author is saying within the context of their lives. Sometimes, the context of the reader’s life makes the writer’s story more memorable. In The Best American Essays of the Century, by Joyce Carol Oates, just in the range of 35 years, from 1901 to 1935, readers are told about things experienced, told, or imagined. Each essay tells a story or a lesson in the form of the written world. Although the authors most likely lived very different lives compared to each other, each essay portrays similar ideas or themes that can be interpreted by the readers. Only through writing can ideas, such as these, be preserved and shared with others in completely different situations as the author was. These essays’ themes have made them timeless, being able to apply to the past, the present, and the future. Within the first fifteen essays of this collection, the themes: the present is made from events in the past, strength can be stemmed from bad surroundings, and judgment is inevitable from those around us, are evident and important for readers to discover in order to understand the historic credibility behind them.

Additionally, in his essay, History, Ralph Waldo Emerson also reconciled the many with the one: “There is, at the surface, infinite variety of things; at the centre there is simplicity of cause.” Customarily, New Thought teachers profess this same Truth, proclaiming that the infinite is simply one: the cause and effect, the stuff and substance of all that is. For that reason, we believe that everything we see, and all that we do not see, is one reality: an infinite energy moving in a pattern. Although we cannot see the energy, or the pattern, all that we can see is a consequence of the way It moves within Itself, and upon Itself, bringing forth an increasingly greater manifestation of Itself. Albert Einstein quantified this principle by stating