My American Creed

My response about My American Creed has to do with my frustration being a young person in the United States. I am so grateful for living in such a wonderful country, but there are so many things we as a society need to change and improve!

By Maggie B. from Bay High School in Ohio

Freedom Rings

Best Country on Earth

Or So We Tell Ourselves


Who Wouldn't Want to Live

In the Land of the Free and the Brave

Where Someone's Joke Pronouns are U/S/A

Kids Get Shot While At School

They Scream "If I Die in a School Shooting Forget Burial

Just Drop My Body on the Steps of the Capital"

Politicians and Adults Say

"Kids Are So Naive"

Yet We Are Fighting For Our Futures

Access to Safe Abortions Are Banned

The World is Burning

Gender and Racial Inequality

But Hey, We Have Freedom of Speech!

Except For The Censorship of Books and Subjects In School

And Definitely Don't Say Gay 

We Still Have A Great Country

But Are We Truly Free?


Bay High School

2023 1st Block

AP Government Class

my american creed

this poem is about how growing up in a predominantly Christian community where I constantly felt set apart from my peers because of a cultural difference. the small but essential difference shaped me into becoming who I am today and my outlook o lif

American Creed

How can you express your American Creed through action?

The American "Creed"

As it is impossible to truly define any one symbol or concept that unites all Americans under a single "creed" the best we can do is to hope to find inspiration in comical/uplifting humanitarian ideas about our nation and our neighbors.

My Mothers story

Your family's stories make up your stories, it's important to take the good traits from people and carry them on with you. My American creed comes from my mother's American Creed and that is an incredible thing.

Dreams change lives everyday

Every American has a dream and dreams can change the lives of people everyday. With enough determination and passion a person can achieve anything they put their mind to.

My American Creed

My Poem about my American Creed

How does your family & community history connect to your American creed?

How my family connects to the American Creed.

My American Creed

My American creed is unity. Without unity we have nothing.

American Creed: Rituals that Make America

To me, America is a county full of abundance and community. In this poem I describe a common ritual that embodies these traits: gathering around the dinner table. When we share a meal we are open to the food, the company, and America comes together.

American Creed

This is how I can show my American creed in my actions.

The Life of an American

America is a place of opportunity and freedom for all and through compromise I believe that all citizens can feel protected and important in our country without doubt or discrimination because of the common goal of the American Dream.

The Melting Pot- My American Creed

My poem is about what makes me, me. I am a mix of so many things, and I am proud to represent my country through my American Creed.

My American Creed

My American Creed is based on how people treat each other. Counties are built on the people that live in it. Whether rich, poor, happy, or sad everyone that lives in America should feel blessed they live in the great country of opportunity.

What Happened?

What Happened?

The American Dream

The idealogy of the American Dream.

A dream, about the American Dream

The following is a fictional narrative in the form of a poem, about what the ideal American Dream could look like from a Highschooler's perspective.

The American Creed: The pursuit of progress and equality

In today's world we can feel more and more divided, but I believe we still share a common creed: a common desire for progress

My American Creed

This is a poem that describes how, although America has many dark things in its past, there have been good things as well, and America is truly neither good nor bad. This poem gives examples of both the good and the bad to support the claim.

American Creed

What an American is

My American Creed

This is my response to the Fifth Prompt

my american creed

The American Creed is a fundamental principle at the core of the United States. It represents the values, beliefs, and aspirations upon which the nation was founded and continues to thrive.

Land of the Free

A short poem about veterans transition home from war.

My American Creed

The American Creed can use words, symbols, and rituals to help define ourselves and our nation better.

American Creed

American

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The American's dream

My American Creed is that Americans have had the opportunities to work hard to take advantage of the markets and systems in America so that they can achieve their life goals and dreams and do what they love.

How my Grandfather influenced my view on American Creed

My grandfather worked his way from the bottom to achieve success, and his experiences serve as the basis of my American Creed

America, The Land of the Free?

America is called the land of the free and we are supposed to have enumerable rights. Minorities in this country have to endure many hardships and only when everyone can come together as equals will America be a great country.

Lucy Impacts America

We used Photoshop to create an image of someone we feel impacted America. I chose Lucille Ball because I grew up watching I Love Lucy and knew that the show was a big part of other peoples' childhoods as well as mine.

Connected American Creed across the country

From the original colonists who created the foundation of American Creed, it spread throughout the country, the ideals passed down through their descendants, and shared with new Immigrants as time passes.

American Creed

My American Creed poster is about how I feel and what makes me an American Creed. I feel free and freedom of speech and my ancestors.

American Creed free verse poetry

what is your fate in/ for America.

American Creed

The document I have created helps to describe what makes me and others the American Creed. Three words to describe the American Creed is freedom, lifestyle, and citizenship.

The Freedom of Speech

Why the right to protest is the American Creed.

The Impact of Religion

Religion has completely changed our past, making our free exercise of religion one of the most important parts of America.

American Creed

The words citizenship, recreation, freedom, and scholarship show that i have American creed. They show this by me using them in everyday life and having the ability to say them out loud with no one hindering me from saying them.This shows why i have American creed.

My opinion on the government shutdown

My article is about what happened during the government shutdown and how I and other people view it.

Carley's creed

This essay expresses my views on American creed.

American Creed; Teens Perspective

Parents must guide their children into their American freedoms so their child is familiar with what the future entails. Children have freedoms just like adults and when they reach certain ages these freedoms should be introduced to them when they are given.

My American Creed

This is a description of my American Creed.

Because of Freedom and Liberty

The United States of America. The country that gave my mother numerous opportunities that were not present in her homeland, and the country that sealed for me the birthright of freedom and liberty.

Shattered Glass

During our American Creed project, we all made a digital story to represent our personal idea of what the American Creed means to us. I saw the American Creed as a representation of Patriotism, Equality, Unity, and Freedom.

My American Creed

This slideshow I created helps me describe my American Creed. Four words that help me describe it are freedom, citizenship, culture, and education.

The Melting Pot

America is a melting pot of people, beliefs, and dreams. Everybody has dreams, and everybody wishes they would come true. I believe that America should be a place where the opportunity to follow your dreams is available to everyone.

Unity Through the American Creed

We are divided as a people, but through listening and bringing people together, regardless of who they are, we will become closer.

My words of American Creed

These words symbolise my American Creed, they all mean something to me. Freedom shows everyone has free rights. Equality shows everyone is equal. Dreams shows that everyone can believe what they want. Independence contributes to all of the other three words before independence.

New Faces, Old Creed

No matter your origin, you are another face that America recognizes as its child. It's not about where you came from, but where you're going should be what people choose to hinge onto. Coming from anywhere going everywhere, should be the automatic thought that comes to our head.

American Creed

This is about the film American Creed.

ISHY'S AMERICAN CREED

This is about freedom and being free.

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