American Life
America has had its times of despair and advances but through it all we have learned new ways, cultures, and overall advancements in life. Throughout the literatures we were given to read and analyze, there were many things about American life that not only related to now but also showed us lessons learned and conflicts repeated through time. To myself and maybe others, the pieces presented to me in class had the ability to bring me into another world. In each piece, I was almost warped to a different time of America and had the ability to see many things. One thing I would like to compare is not only the trillion changes and differences we have made from those times to now but the common sense of diversity that has lurked our environment for decades and decades. Diversity can be broken down in some pieces of life including heritage, religion, race, color, and overall culture. Different cultures and civilizations have been the reason we have succeeded in this world and advanced to where we are now, yet they also have caused many wars and conflicts with each other. Through the pieces we see people treated as outcastes for their beliefs, groups evicted from society because of different religions, men trying to take the p
Life is basically a roller coaster, as it continues you will always hit your turns at a fast pace, climb that big hill, do that flip that changes your life for good or bad but if you don't notice it always goes back to the beginning with a new generation of people on board. Rapping it all up, we need to allow people to live by trial and error and as long as they are allowed to dictate their own life, their destiny is up tot hem and no one else. We are all individuals in a network of cultures, religions, races, and classes now all we have to do is learn how to work as a team. Continuing with religion is also your own beliefs in what ever it might be. Many people through time situate themselves in a certain "click" where some occurrences may be considered weird and different to other groups. We read bout the witch trials in early American time and the minute I read about them all I could think about was the movies and real life events I have seen in my own life. Besides witches, maybe people have been treated as outcastes in their life and it has only resulted in rebellion and deaths of themselves and others. Gothic, witches, and many other groups have one thing in common and one thing that separates them from the normal; that is different ways and beliefs towards living life. In the witch trials outcastes were portrayed as the bad people and just for being different were trialed for their existence. It is very much like today in every day life not necessarily a trial for life or death with jurors and what have you but true believers in gothic or witchcraft are put to the test daily by peers. They are forced to live in a world as ou
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Approximate Word count = 1121
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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