Being An American Analysis
Definition Essay
Jose Charles
Ms. Saxton
Adv. English 3 My interpretation of being an American would be is fairly different from others, I became an American and was not born as one. The influences of being an American mostly came from my friends that I made at school and not so much as from my parents because they too became Americans. So what I have learned to be an American is to speak the language and have different cultures around you to be different ethnicities because that how the U.S. is. The U.S. has ethnicities from all over the world coming here and mixing into one like a melting pot. Having a chance or dream is how an American life starts out, believing you can do something with your own life, getting the job you always wanted, …show more content…
This quote explains it, “But now I can say that I am a Japanese-American. It means I have a place here in this country, too” (Growing up Asian in America). This girl overcame the problem that was going on in World War 2 when all Japanese were being put in concentration camps by the U.S. government because of Pearl Harbor. After it all ended she was actually proud to be Japanese-American because she had rights and a chance to get somewhere in life after all the down falls during the war where everything was taken for all Japanese. She still had hope and was influenced by America, to a dream that can be possible. Following it no matter what color or race your are, all you have to do is have a dream, but go out there and make that dream become true. Every person has this chance to go out there and make it to the top, work hard for it and you have to be the one who has to make it …show more content…
“The laws, the indulgent laws, protect them as they arrive, stamping on them the symbol of adoption; they receive ample rewards for their labors; these accumulated rewards procure them lands; those lands confer on them the title of freemen; and to that title every benefit is affixed which men can possibly require”(What is an America). Looking at this quote I can tell that minorities are coming into this country from Europe and the law is protecting them to be here and work in lands and then reward them with land of their own. This will lead to opportunity and riches, but still today this can be possible because the U.S. is accepting people to come here and study or get a job just to have an
Jose Charles
Ms. Saxton
Adv. English 3 My interpretation of being an American would be is fairly different from others, I became an American and was not born as one. The influences of being an American mostly came from my friends that I made at school and not so much as from my parents because they too became Americans. So what I have learned to be an American is to speak the language and have different cultures around you to be different ethnicities because that how the U.S. is. The U.S. has ethnicities from all over the world coming here and mixing into one like a melting pot. Having a chance or dream is how an American life starts out, believing you can do something with your own life, getting the job you always wanted, …show more content…
This quote explains it, “But now I can say that I am a Japanese-American. It means I have a place here in this country, too” (Growing up Asian in America). This girl overcame the problem that was going on in World War 2 when all Japanese were being put in concentration camps by the U.S. government because of Pearl Harbor. After it all ended she was actually proud to be Japanese-American because she had rights and a chance to get somewhere in life after all the down falls during the war where everything was taken for all Japanese. She still had hope and was influenced by America, to a dream that can be possible. Following it no matter what color or race your are, all you have to do is have a dream, but go out there and make that dream become true. Every person has this chance to go out there and make it to the top, work hard for it and you have to be the one who has to make it …show more content…
“The laws, the indulgent laws, protect them as they arrive, stamping on them the symbol of adoption; they receive ample rewards for their labors; these accumulated rewards procure them lands; those lands confer on them the title of freemen; and to that title every benefit is affixed which men can possibly require”(What is an America). Looking at this quote I can tell that minorities are coming into this country from Europe and the law is protecting them to be here and work in lands and then reward them with land of their own. This will lead to opportunity and riches, but still today this can be possible because the U.S. is accepting people to come here and study or get a job just to have an