is america a success

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At the first of the year Miss Schoonmaker asked us if we thought America was a success or not. This got me thinking what are we going to learn that will make us think our country isn't a success? Well throughout the year I learned things that made me believe America is not a success. Things that made me not believe in America were how we go against things we pledge. Like the Constitution and how we treated blacks in the Civil Rights era. Another example is the "American dream". The Dream was all centered primarily around money. Has it not been said that money is the root of all evil? Do we really believe in a country that's dream is evil?

I believe the thought of the "American dream" brought us into civil war. The North and the South both had their views on what the "American dream" was. The Northern States wanted the "American dream" achieved for the whole country to be industrial, anti-slavery, and very federalist. Upon these institutions they planned to make the U.S. a superior nation in the world. The South wanted to achieve the same ultimate goal for the U.S. but with agricultural, pro- slavery, and states sovereignty institutions. These are the differences between both sides in achieving "the American Dream." In or

Our nation has failed on the subject of diversity. The word diversity is closely related to discrimination. Both mean or have something to do with people of different race, religion, or sex. It has been said the more diverse a thing is, the more strength it possess. Than why did America have such a problem with blacks? The south especially discriminated the blacks and wouldn't even go to the same schools as the blacks, drink from the same drinking fountains, etc. one example of this is when a group of blacks would go do sit-ins. This is when they would go into a white restaurant sit at a table and wait to be served of corse they wouldn't get served so they just sat until the police came and hauled them off to jail. This is a joke. It would be so much easier if they would just have served them some food. But no they couldn't do that they had a reputation to keep up. I can remember when my junior high wanted us to wear uniforms to school. I know this has its ups and downs but this is taking away the sweet diversity that you can represent by the clothes you wear. By taking away our freedom to choose the clothes we wear you are taking a chunk out of who we really are. If you are a skater you wear skate brand clothes and skate shoes. If you like sports you wear sport memorabilia. So you can see giving us uniforms takes a chunk out of who we really are. If America wants to be strengthened , we need to be more diverse and uniforms in school is not the answer. School uniforms will solve some problems but I think it will create even bigger ones.

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