Throughout the Spirit of America trip, I visited many different places and some destinations became very meaningful to me. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was very meaningful to me because I am Jewish and ... of the entrance gates to Auschwitz, witnessing not one, but two massive pools full of charred and burnt shoes from Jews just like myself, it was impossible not to reflect on myself to understand the amount of Jewish people that were exterminated by the Nazis. The events of the Holocaust broke my heart to the point that it can never be ... the names of victims to the trials ...

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"American spirit" to me is knowing and being proud that you live in America. On a special day of the year like president's day or Independence Day whatever it is even every day of the week you should hang a flag or at least be proud ... I am usually not very happy when I see the flag half-mast but I know America is there and I can always feel protected in it. I feel that if you have the spirit then you will always stand by our country weather it be at war or at peace always stand by. Even if you don't agree with it maybe speak your thoughts ... little but don't make other people suffer by blo...

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... death; If I could not have one, I would have the other." American spirit has an effect on how Americans live today. That is why I think it is so important to tell you about American spirit and people who have had an effect on America. Someone who has pride and respect for our country and feeling in their ... pride and patriotism. Harriet Tubman is a good example of someone who had American spirit. She believed people should have equal right no matter black or white. She fought to free other slaves. Harriet put her life on the line to help others in need of help. she even walked through...

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... Guns are a large part of with these laws that are meant to protect us. When the Second Amendment was written, giving citizens the right to bear arms, our forefathers were simply accommodating the "norm" for society at that time. Guns really were for protection of family and property then. The ... were harder and law enforcement was unquestionably different from what we are used to today. People that lived in America during the revolution still relied very much on hunting. Hunting was a means to accommodate human kind's inherent need for nourishment. Whereas today, hunting is a sport wher...

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... dreams. "Give me liberty or give me death" was once just a dream. Many years ago the people of the United States chose to take a risk and put their lives on the line, all for the American dream. Americans declared their independence in 1776 when Benjamin Franklin, in all his wisdom, stated, "We must all hang together or assuredly we shall ... all hang separately". These words embodied the true American spirit. America has an extraordinary history when it comes to living the American dream. Abraham Lincoln stood tall and led us through the Civil War with the belief that ... ease, brough...

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... You and You Fall Down In Anne Fadiman's, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, the reader feels many emotions rush through them as they read the novel, confusion, pain, sorrow, and anger just to name a ... we don't speak the language, we cannot drive, we just stay home isolated"(205). This is how many elders felt in America, isolated and deeply depressed. Hmong children on the other hand were put into American schools, taught to speak, read, and write English and adapted to American life easier than their parents. The roles therefore were ... alone. Villages were destroyed; cattle h...

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... do the shopping in supermarkets where we can buy all kinds of food. And what are these foods? The frozen meals, chips, Coca-cola, Pepsi, canned bear etc. But if we want to have a quick lunch we just drop into the McDonald's. The fast food restaurants are wide-spread in our country too. Many ... influence it has changed. Women in Slovakia are much more ambitious and self confident, now they know they can stand on their own feet. I do think it was a very positive influence of America. But on the other hand not everything is so outstanding which comes from America. We've already taken over m...

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... every four years, sports bring a sense of unity along with a diverse topic for conversation. Although some may find it enjoyable to talk about weather on the subway to work, talking about sports creates a somewhat deeper, more meaningful connection. The most logical reason for this is that a sporting team, in ... goals by supporting them and become angry whenever they fail to "make the play." Likewise, whenever we feel a significant loss, so do they. On the tragic day of September 11, the planes crashing into buildings rocked the country, including the stadiums throughout. Towns cancelle...

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"Notes on the State of Virginia," by Thomas Jefferson is divided into two parts. The first covers the recently discovered woolly mammoths in North America and the second is ... tusks, grinders (molars) and skeletons were found. Accounts published in Europe supposed these discoveries to be similar to bones that were found in Siberia. Jefferson argued that "on the whole, there seem to be no certain vestiges of the existence of this animal further south than the salines last mentioned." Naturalists in Europe claimed that the tusks ... animals both in Europe and America. In the first table, Buffo...

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Culture's Effect on Language generation-specific language Different generations in cultures have common word usage, grammar, slang. Language will mold to the current culture. For example, grammar rules have changed over and over in the U.S. from 1900 up to the current date to adapt to the current cultural status of the country. Each generation in cultures has words or slang specific only ... culture of today. None of these words were prevalent in the languages of yesterday. multiculturalism: (specific to America) more and more Latin people entering the country, causing a rise in bilingual educ...

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... which means that civilians are killed by mistake. The truth should be told to the people because they deserve to know what is going on. The language used in When Words Go to War is more correct then the other story but it is not too much better. Even though they are not hiding ... be blown up excessively. People want to know what it occurring around them but by using almost like secret words people are not really going to understand what is going on. Also by using incorrect words people canimply them wrong and jump into false conclusions that will lead to them thinking something that is ...

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... more than 2 years later, it is easier to notice these things; especially the negative things. Although he only stumbled on words a couple of times, he seemed to mesh sentences together, take unnecessary pitch changes, and pause where more intense dialogue could have been more effective. The ... words "huge" and "enemies" seem to be problem words for the President as he stuttered on both of them twice. Although small and menial mistakes, the compromised the integrity and emotion of the sentences ... of fragmented sentences, which, actually, seemed to work very well at some points. At oth...

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... of a life of peace, love and copious amounts of marijuana, Timothy Leany who was a professor of philosophy summed it up with the quote "Turn on and drop out". They saw the war as a thing they could fight against, and so held protests and peaceful demonstrations against the war. All over ... were starting to realise that their presence was not wanted nor was helping anyone in Vietnam. The cost of the war was also too harsh to bear, around 28 billion dollars. Vital money that should have been used to renovate America's social ills (such as poverty and racism etc) was being ... bring bac...

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... dance, art, and clothing. Music It is understandable that when Africans were torn from their homes and families, lashed into submission , and forced into lifelong slave labor, they would be, on the most part, resentful and angry. Various forms of expression, clandestine yet lucent, developed out of these feelings. One such form was music. Native African music consisted mainly of wind ... congregations would use distinctly "Black" preaching methods, as when "he begins to employ numerous stock phrases and ideas," and, "Midway in the message the preacher begins to chant his words rhythmical...

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... to my grandfather's house and we watched Fox News in apprehensive trepidation. Upon witnessing the plane strike the building, I was at a loss for words, dumbfounded you may say. I could not believe that in this day and age that something of this magnitude could transpire. Observing the victims and the ... me. I could not perish in peace knowing that I did not tell them goodbye, and I cannot stress the fact that I love them enough. On September 11th, we no longer were New Yorkers, Georgians, Blacks, or Whites, we were Americans. The masses came together in effort to help the victims ... ...

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... Money has become a materialistic part of American life. In a passage from Money and Class in America, Lewis Lapham expresses his views on how America has assimilated to the value of wealth. Through literary devices such as diction, rhetoric, and euphemisms, Lapham defines the ridiculous form of money that the American Society can't ... please themselves by being the best at everything. The author uses many euphemisms to stray from insulting readers with his views, yet he stills applies them to everyone. He writes words such as "deflected," and phrases such as, "That we our lost to know...

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... example, The Puritans came to America fleeing from the Church of England. They saw the flaws in the Church of England and came to a New land hoping to build a society on what they thought to be the proper religious standards. The ways and beliefs of the Puritans made them somewhat less tolerant than other colonial cultures, but they were making a slow ... ...

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... example, The Puritans came to America fleeing from the Church of England. They saw the flaws in the Church of England and came to a New land hoping to build a society on what they thought to be the proper religious standards. The ways and beliefs of the Puritans made them somewhat less tolerant than other colonial cultures, but they were making a slow ... ...

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THE WAR ON IRAQ The quote I like is the one where Jefferson asserts: "I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effec...

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... take political control it is time for us to do something. Terrorist's cells have been springing up all over the United States and most are filled with immigrates. The attacks on September 11, 2001, were carried out by cold hearted terrorists from another country. The suicide bombings that happen daily in the Middle East do not need to happen here. America ... ...

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... I can think of that is targeted at a very young audience has a fighting, but they also have a strong sense of right and wrong. I can't think of one show that is based on crude violence. Look at Pokemon, Batman, Spiderman, Digimon, X-men, and Dragon Ball Z. The first opinion a parent gets when they walk in the room and their child is watching a fight, witch ... ...

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... computer games. Television authorities will tell you that TV doesn't breed murderers, and to some extent it is true, but the fantasy violence on TV and computer games is enough to tip a blood-drenched fantasy or perhaps a gruesome dream of revenge into an irreversible act of reality. ... not designed for children's ever believing eyes. Figures also show that they are very damaging, not least because of the desensitising more sex and violence has on children's minds. The rampage in 1987 by a sacked mail man put the term "going postal" into the American vocabulary, meaning: a murderous rage...

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... does not care about truth or about who they hurt in the process of manipulating the truth. Both pieces show that the media relies greatly on vision, meaning the media use vision to shape the publics perception and opinion of a story. In "Yugoslavia and Afghanistan", Keller demonstrates this ... as the government needed to justify the bombing of Kosovo to the public, and therefore used the "humanitarian" approach "endless coverage of the refugees on TV made the war for "humanitarian intervention" seem like a noble goal", manipulating the truth to suite the story that the media needed. How...

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... many benefits: increased specialization in jobs and productivity, more jobs, better salaries. The poor found the industrial revolution to be availing as well: new farm technology greatly improved skills learned on the poor farm. However, industrialization was not serviceable to all. Artisans suffered from lack of efficiency in producing products; people had begun purchasing products from assembly-line-based factories. It ... ...

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... in the world. Everyone is diverse. Diversity affects the world so much. So much, it's hard to imagine. Diversity is sometimes respected, other times it is hated. It all depends on the person. It can be the cause of wars, unity, murder, genocide, or several other good and bad things. For a long time, there have been many battles, killings, riot, and ... ...

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