"And you"ll be sorry that you messed with the US of A," exclaims Toby Keith in his song "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)." In this excerpt, Toby Keith threatens anyone who has harmed the United States. Throughout his song, Keith uses symbolism, personification, and archetypes to show the strength and unity of the Unites States. Though personification may sometimes seem unusual, as objects ... display human characteristics, it is appropriate for certain topics. In the case of Keith's song ... take care of herself. "[N]ow this nation a mighty sucker punch came flyin" ...

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... . Consequently, I think the flag does follow the Constitution in that aspect. The reason for this conclusion is that the flag represents the American Revolution Era, to me, because the red represents blood meaning lives lost, the white represents freedom, and the original stars represented the colonies that was established. Therefore the flag does follow the Constitution in the aspect representing one race. I think the flag should follow the Constitution. For the simple reason the constitution is what ... makes America-America. The Constitution makes us, and the flag represents us. Howev...

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... say take a tea break' in England. Perhaps most startling is the way it has affected the most important established folk tradition in America; Christmas. The Coca-Cola company shaped the American ideal of how Santa Claus should be depicted. We see a jolly, red and white clad Santa Claus who pauses for a Coke-break', holding the bottle high and near his lips. It is now viewed as ... a given in much of the western world that Santa should appear in Red and White. In America the ideal traditional festive dining table should not only include a Christmas pudding and ... no Coke he is still a ...

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... a painful, but necessary, process in order to be in touch with your true self; but it is only when the scarred skin is peeled away that the healing can begin. Much of the book deals with past suffering, hich causes a need for healing Lindo Jong - The Red Candle Lindo Jong's story is about familial obligations and honor. Following ancient Chinese custom, Lindo's parents promised their ... fourteen-carat gold, while she herself is twenty-four carat gold, like the bracelets that she wears. Each of the bracelets was a present from her husband when she delivered his baby. The red candle of the...

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... and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former ... slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a...

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... However, in America this is how we also determine what we are by the color of our skin: white, non-white, brown, red, and yellow. By this accusation we can prove how the white population is copying the black race. Is the White population subconsciously trying to imitate the black race? This is the question that needs to be answered. Why do white's appear to want to ... to come to dealing with this situation? Blacks have the genetic inability to produce the skin pigment of melanin. Color is normal for human beings and color absence is abnormal. Color always annihilates the non-color, whit...

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... page, handed it in and left. I felt fully defeated, unprepared, and an idiot for believing I could join the ranks of brilliant students expecting to succeed. I returned to school the following day, reluctant to read the numbers engraved on my paper in sentencing, red ink. Each desk had its owner's paper placed on it, waiting to ruin hopes of a successful year. I sat down, looked at ... from my parents, never meant anything to me until this point. I was in a an AP Dual Credit US History course, one of the hardest courses for a high school junior and the red ink clearly stated that this w...

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... a salute to all American women. The model depicted is not actually Miss America but a glorified depiction of the everyday woman. The subtle brilliance in this ad is how it appeals to its female audience. The ad undeniably targets women, specifically young women. The woman's white dress, gloves, and fur-lined coat resemble the cigarette itself. Moreover, the red shape and color-scheme is oddly ... similar to that of the red Lucky Strike emblem on the cigarette carton itself-perhaps demonstrating the aesthetic, feminine ways in which a woman can maintain her ... beauty and sexual appeal, ...

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... 5. Shame 6. Love, marriage, and commitment 7. Famous people 8. The arena II. How does the novel relate? A. not a novel, many biographies B. obviously is written as a historic documentary C. WWII getting more attention, thin red line, saving private ryan, monument III.Impact A. More respect for veterans B. Realize the way our generation can never live up The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw What's with kids these days?!? This ... was a phrase I heard but seldom understood why it was said until I read The Greatest Generation, by Tom Brokaw. The book explores the past and present lives of ....

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... 's too much and some companies will go out of business. Now let's think about this for a second, saving the planet and stop the depleting ozone layer and losing a couple of companies. Or slowly yet surly destroying the planet from heat and then in time, we would end up like the "red planet" and keeping some big pointless company that we already have millions of in ... the world. Filmmakers are casting in on this possible scenario with the release of movies like WaterWorld, Imagine a future without dry land. A future where ... the earth, covered in water, has evolved into a gritty, nauti...

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... often an excuse for the rich to justify outcasting the poor or the slums of their society. After the Time Traveler leaves the world of the Eloi and Morlocks, he travels to what he believes is the end of the world. Everything is gone and the sky is red. "I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with ... these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurts one's lungs: all contributed to ... ...

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... restaurants locate in Asian or Chinese population condensed community due to culture inheritance. Furthermore, such as deep frying foods are hardly find in an authentic Chinese restaurant. Taste Most of the popular Americanized Chinese food are loaded with sugar and salt. So it tastes more salty, sweeter and often greasier than Authentic Chinese Food. Such food like Sesame Chicken, Lemon Chicken ... Chinese food like to mix up all the species little bit at each time, the combination of flavor brought by those species that makes authentic Chinese food taste different to Americanized food...

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... dream. It may be because of hard work, or just because their parents have accomplished their own dream, making it is a short walk in the park for them. These people may have just been lucky, or finally got their big break. They could have had better opportunities than someone that ... did not achieve their dreams. They might have had more money than other people so they get the chance to do things other people might not get to do because they spend their time with a job paying for college. By conforming to ... society's values and expectations, people might not be able to express themse...

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... let John Pershing, a general officer in the army, make most of the decisions. He had one rule to follow and it was to keep a separate American army. Wilson did help during the war though. He raised sheep on the land surrounding the White House and sold the wool and gave the money to the Red Cross. Finally, almost two years after America joined the war, Germany surrendered. Soon there would ... be a meeting to finalize the terms of peace in Paris. Woodrow Wilson was the first current president to go to Europe. He was ... greeted with open arms, flowers, screaming fans, and love. People ...

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... of our flag waves war. Red, war. White, war. Blue, war. We see war in each others faces. We hear war in our voices. It parades down our streets, it appears on our headlines: New War. The call for war surrounds us and then falters without a guilty person, country, or religion upon which ... seen as terrorists. Perhaps we should open our eyes and realize that what we are plotting can also be the very thought that runs through the minds of all the other terrorist based countries. Destroying ourselves should be the least of our fears. From one hateful group, we spawn a thousand. In one deat...

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... congress to vote for independence from Britain. In the movie, Mel Gibson plays Benjamin Martin, a character based on different people of that time, but primarily Francis Marion who was accredited for inventing guerrilla warfare. Benjamin Martin is a Militia General who leads them in a battle against King George III`s red coats. Director Spike lee, one of the most prominent black directors was disgusted at ... the fact that they nearly eliminated everything related to black slavery. The Americans continued to support slavery for four decades after the British had already abolished it com...

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... period and don't touch it unless you absolutely need to. Using common sense when it comes to your bills and finances will help you stay out of the red and hence out of a home foreclosure." Isabel is basically saying that we need to spend our money more wisely and save it, so then we ... were offering struggling homeowners a chance to re-modify their home loans, by reducing their mortgage rates by two or three percent. Thirty seven thousand people showed up, as the 120 hour straight long event was held. It will be in Sacramento starting next week. I think this was a good event to have, bu...

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... . Later on that day, the firefighters from around the town came to search around in the rubbish of the building for any people or evidence. (Stewart 141). The attack took months to clean up and get all the rubbish out. (Dudley 102). The ashes from the building were still burning hot, resulting in the firefighters boots to eventually melt. (Stewart 140). The Red Cross put up foundations for ... blood donations for the people who needed it that lived. (Thompson 167). The memorial services after the attack was huge. Annually on ... September 11th the new broadcasts the memorial services an...

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... bomb. Though most Americans were in favor of using any means necessary to win the war, the devastating impact of the bombs dropped in Japan aroused emotions in everyone. Phyllis Fisher, the wife of one of the scientists involved in the creation of the atomic bomb, explains her reaction by saying, "They ticked off the figures as though they were reporting scores at a sporting event. But, hey ... the physical labor of factory work, but rather fell into the autonomous existence of "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" (Firsthand II, 251). This lifestyle was characterized by a return to conserva...

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... innocent person than why does capitol punishment still exist? The death penalty is extremely callous; the two methods used today, the electric chair and lethal injection, have not been proven painless. In fact the electric chair is extremely violent and inflicts an enormous amount of pain. Once the switch is thrown the condemned prisoner cringes, leaps, turns red and white and often limbs will catch fire. ... Sometimes the victim defecates, urinates, vomits blood, and at times his ... or her eyeballs will pop out and rest on the cheek. That is how a condemned prisoner may die. There are...

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... place. This single image speaks for all America about her pride, her valor, and her sacrifice. The picture stands for the greatness of a nation and our ability to dominate the world. Marines of the 28th regiment of the 5th Division Raise the American Flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. As Joe Rosenthal climbed up ... five more Marines as they raised a larger, 4-ft. by 8-ft. flag in its place. It is remarkable that the picture, which won the Pulitzer Prize, ever materialized in the first place. The hoisting of the flag occurred in the span of only four seconds. "I swun...

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... of Wells's novel differed greatly from the picture given in the book. When the professor and Mrs. VanBuren were at the abandoned house we caught our first glimpse of the Martians. About as tall as an average woman, their bodies had no definite shape, something like a potato. They had a centrally located eye with three different colored lenses, one yellow, one red, and one blue. Instead of ... being immobile as they were in the book, they could walk in the movie. However, on top of all these ... characteristics, the one that is most key is the fact that the aliens in the movie were afra...

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... evidence to support this view. Lets take for example the immigrants who come into this country with limited resources. Especially immigrants from the former Soviet Union who had come into this country with as much as four hundred red dollars in their pockets, with no knowledge of English language and no previous experiences in the capitalist world. These people had little or no time ... to assimilate to the American culture, but they know that it is essential ... to their future and the future of their children. The older generation knows that they will do what ... ...

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... most of their lives. However, those who faced death and crushing sorrow every day for four years keep their remorse or pride silent. My grandfather was stationed in the Pacific for most of the war, when I was younger and asked him about his experience, he showed me a picture of him and his war buddies in front of their plane, but told me ... to be paying homage to is the same that flew over many battlegrounds turned graveyards of World War II. It is encouraging however, to know that some stories are beginning to be told through movies like "The Thin Red Line" and "Saving Private Ryan". ...

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... ." Quoting Josef Stalin, this statement conveys the threat that America faced during the 1950s. Commonly referred to as the "red scare", American citizens feared the destruction of capitalism. In 1956, the cult film Invasion of the Body Snatchers premiered at theatres across the country. Through careful analysis, Invasion of the Body Snatchers can be viewed as a metaphor for the Communist scare of the fifties. Although the special effects budget was under 15 ... ,000 dollars, Invasion of the Body Snatchers presents ... ...

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