The Scape Goats of America

We often focus so much on what is the American Creed or dream when in reality this one dream or creed is made up of every citizen's individual dream. This is an in depth look at the Jewish people's view on life in America.

By Ethan G. from Okemos High School in Michigan

Okemos High School

American Literature with Mrs. Reed

Students in American Literature in Mrs. Reed's courses

American Creed Interview

Inspired by the American Creed documentary, we decided to make our own version by interviewing people of different ages, races and gender to get the diverse views of students at our high school. We found many commonalities and many differences among Americans.

America from an Immigrant's Perspective

For our American Creed project, we decided to interview our parents, who are immigrants, and showcase their ideas around what it is to be American.

American Values

This is a piece by a high school student on the core American Values and what his views are on the subject. And it shows how the values affect people, and what experiences have led to the values.

American Teamwork

Our piece talks about teamwork in America, unity, and how it should be more valued in our country

Just world

This piece is about the American dream of equal opportunity. This work is specifically focused on the just world hypothesis and how it leads to the misconception that is the American dream.

Immigration

A family's Immigration story.

Immigration Stories

These immigration stories are supposed to see the point of view of immigrants. It's supposed to help you understand their struggles.

American Division

We always say we want to be The UNITED States of America. But how true is that?

Impoverished Education

How does your community's wealth affect the quality of education?

American Creed Video Essay

Thoughts on American Creed as shown by robot.

Privacy in America: How We Have Changed

How has American people's value of privacy been affected by our new technological age?

What is the American Dream?

In this project, we interviewed 3 different age groups to see each age groups perception of the American Dream, and how it related to other age groups.

American Creed in Communities

American Creed is found in individuals and in their communities. The values for each group of people is different and unique but all of these values still affect the people around them and create a united country.

The Failure of Our Affirmative Action System

In the United States, affirmative action is used to promote diversity in universities. Universities take race into consideration during their admissions process. But how exactly did we get here? What have people done about this? And should we even keep our current system?

Inequality in American Education

In this article I discuss inequalities that plague American education.

American Creed

This essay is about politics and media in the United States of America.

My Identity Story

This is my identity story on how my ancestors came over to the United States. I'm showing how I ended up where I live today and showing how we all can come from different places and still end up at the same high school.

How Does Education Connect to Our American Dream?

A Letter to our Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.

The Immigrant Dream

Immigration has been an integral part of american history since its conception. Although immigration has taken many forms immigrants have always had the same goal, to seize opportunities in order to lead a better life and fulfill their american dream.

American Citizenship

We researched the process of naturalization through the lives of our family members and other people with similar stories.

Our American Creed

I decided to make my poem about my parents and what it took for them to come here. How they see us (my siblings and I) as Pakistani Americans and their perspective on America and what it holds for us.

Who's America Is It?

An interview of a family member and a reflection on who runs the country.

Interview with exchange students

I’m an exchange student from Germany and I’m really happy to be here in U.S., but I was wondering was other exchange students think about the U.S. and what they experience are compared to their different background and their different countries.

How is American Creed defined by its members?

A narrative of how my immigrant mother overcame hardships to become American, relating to Gone with the Wind and the Great Gatsby, defining what American Creed is, defined by those whom belong to it.

An American Medley (Poetry)

Composed by Mia Colony and Sydney Stephens. Poems Used: "We Leave To-Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and "Growing Up" by E.H. "How Would You Describe America?" is an original poem by Mia Colony and Abe Frank.

American Creed: The Significance of Immigration

I had to put the images into chunks so it can show up more clearly. However, there can be words that are still not clear. My poster is basically about immigration. My explanation and reason why this is significant to American Creed is explained below. Please enjoy.

Our Historical Journey to America

Nick Balesky and I compare and share our grandparents adventures from Europe to Michigan today.

Family History

To make this paper and further my understanding, I decided to interview my Grandpa to complete this task.

Equality For All

Equality is arguably the most important American Creed, in this piece you will read about events that either represent equality or fail to.

Gen-Z

What is Gen-Z?

American Education

American education is essential to achieving the American dream and it molds our American values into what they are today. Getting a good education helps get you a better job and better quality of life. American education makes us into who we are.

Immigration and the American Dream

Immigration to America changed throughout the decades and this is how.

Immigration Stories

The story of three different immigrants, and the reasons why they came.

American Culture and Values

The American Creed and its Environment

Could concern for the environment unify the United States?

Land of the Free as Symbolic as Can Be

Symbols show up on our lives everyday. America has many objects and items that represent the nation and they all have their own meanings and history.

To Be American

Poem

Becoming a U.S. Citizen

This passage is about the process of becoming a U.S. citizen and a specific perspective of that process from the eyes of my parents.

My Great Grandparents Journey

My grandparents made a great journey to the U.S. to better their lives.

Was Every Man "Created Equal" ?

The Declaration of Independence says that "all Men are created equal". Looking at the treatment of minorities during and after of which it was written, that statement says otherwise.

American Values in the Political Climate of 2018

This is a video conference with teens across the country examining how today's political climate has affected our lives and American Values.

American Creed Interviews

For my American Creed project I interviewed people of different races and genders about the issues that America is having today. I made sure to ask everyone the same questions, so I could see the difference in answer. I turned these interviews into a scrapbook:

The Vitality of American Entertainment and Sports

Exploring how entertainment is a vital part of the United States of America and her culture.

Discussion on Midterms and other subjects

7 friends have a discussion around the recent midterm elections and their effects on the US moving forward

Education in America

Why education has been and is still a strong aspect of our American culture.

Dear Grandpa

Years after my grandfather passed away I have written a letter to him explaining how his stories have changed my life.

Why Our Values Are Our Values

How we view the values of others.

Immigration and America

I decided to craft an American Bald Eagle, since it often used to represent America. On it, I put snippets of stories from people who have immigrated to America.

How do Traditions, Customs, and Holidays Change Through Immigration?

American Creed

Roots

This work is a narrative describing the story of my Great Grandpa Lewis J. Minor and how he and his family came to America from Ireland in order to live the American Dream.

What America could use

A few things America could use to make the country a better place overall.

Perseverance and Our American Creed

This explains how perseverance is a key topic in our American creed.

Dear Grandchild

I created a scrapbook which is composed of pictures and letters. I wrote these letters to myself as if I were my grandmother just after moving to the United States. I composed this because in the film, American Creed, Condoleezza Rice said, “It doesn’t matter where you came from, it matters where...

Is the Immigration Ban Changing Our American Values?

A letter addressing the immigration ban and how it affects our American values.

How the American Dream Has Changed

A video on how the American Dream has changed over time.

The Lost Dream

The United States has lost its common luster known as the American Dream. Through my essay, I explain the problems caused by the parts of the American Dream that have been lost and how those parts affects the American people today.

Our Fiercely Unique Nation

An essay about our individualistic principles.

Core American Values

What are the values that we share as Americans?

The Future of America

What is your dream? How do you plan to achieve your dream? Do you believe your dream aligns with the American dream?

Creed

My grandpa's American dream.

The American Dream Fulfilled

The following work talks about the important values of American creed that exist to this day. There is no doubt that the values written in the nation’s documents are still in use today. By reading this piece, you will discover how well America has kept these values throughout these years.

More responses from Michigan

Surprise Me

My American Creed

My American Creed is what I see in America everyday. I wake up everyday not knowing what will happen that day, week, month or even that year. It's so many bad things happening in America that it just scares me. I just hope we all can help better America and it's sad habits.

Improper Resources in America

My paper is about how America doesn't provide the proper resources for some people to succeed in life. For example, job opportunities, and housing. So I'm trying to raise awareness of this problem to see if other people could help out and help other peoples lives.

On Military Service & Success

Success in America can be achieved in many ways. One large foundation for success is the Military. My family has lived up to the idea of personal success through the military. Their stories speak for themselves.

A Dog's Friendship

This essay is about the friendship that can form between the dog and their owner. About the benefits of having a dog and taking care of it.

Risky Business

The story of how risk is essential for the American Dream.

Opportunity for Immigrants in America

Gives an outlook of the opportunities that immigrants have in America.

The Creed with Many Scars

The American Creed has many wounds and scars left on it from the years it has existed, yet we still agitate these scars for our own selfish desires.

Past and Present: A Family's American Creed

This short story is about how a family's decisions in the past has shaped the present generations-- and how it's connected to America's changes through time.

The Word Racism

Defining the word racism, and its impact on how people view the American Creed.

Freedom to Live

My writing is about the issue of gun violence and how as Americans we can can use our freedom of speech to help create change.

Tell the truth.

The importance of what it is to say the truth, giving a different point of view to the stereotype that most people have on this subject.

A Culture that Glorifies Success

My piece touches on the fact that the American identity is largely formed off of the parts of American history we glorify as successes and the fact that this largely hinders growth, and additionally analyzes the extent to which failure and success can contribute to an identity.

More responses about "identity" and "interview"

Surprise Me

A Foreign Perspective on the US

A YHS student interviewed students from Spain and England while on a school exchange and asked them how they perceived the American Creed. She also asked them to share their thoughts on whether the US was succeeding as a nation.

Changes in the American Creed

Interviews of two awesome YHS history teachers with their opinion on what the American Creed is and how it has changed over time based on their knowledge of the history of the United States.

American Activism

This piece is about why activism is important to American culture and the overall American identity. It explores how older and more recent movements have impacted American history and how they represent American ideals.

My Identity Story

How Being A First Generation Can Affect Views on What it Means to be an American

An examination on the similarities of how children of immigrants view their privileges and what it means to be an American.

No One is Illegal

I wrote this poem to express how I feel about immigration, as an immigrant.

Ideals in America are but luck and chance, determined by government standards.

My piece talks about the ideals of rags-to-riches and how as a country we might not be able to achieve that because of governmental standards.

Family and an American Identity

An exploration of the relationship between family values and how those values influence who we are as Americans.

American Creed

Through hard work, fighting for your identity, knowing who you are, and being true to yourself it can lead you to the American Dream. People need to value their opportunities and work for what they want.

The American Creed: What is Your Idea of the American Creed?

This piece encompasses the American Creed by explaining the ideals set down through the history of America and, using the American Creed, applies them to the people of this nation.

Land and the American Dream

Tycen B. and Trenton C. of Yreka High School explored the question, "How does/has land influenced your American Dream?" by interviewing three community members from different perspectives.

The American Identity

There are four fundamental ideas that make people American; identity, hope, citizenship, and value. However, today’s culture has ventured far from this ideal.

America was Never America to Me

In America, there are many usuals and many givens. If you don't do this, you're not American. If you don't say this, you're not American. Within this poem I talk about the changes and sub standards of America, and why it's never been America to me.

American Creed Interviews

What It Means to Be an American

My piece is about what it means to be an American in relation to "The Pledge of Allegiance" by George Thatcher Balch. My essay describes the loyalty, pride, and nationalism I, as an American, feel when reciting the Pledge.

Embrace Your Identity

You don't have to fit the American name to be an American. Let your creed show your identity.

American Creeds Future

American identity and culture will be shaped not by the adults, but the children and immigrants that are moving into society.

My Community's American Creed

In this Op-ed I will be explaining My Family's and Community's American creed, stating what it means to me and what it mean to my family and community. I asked a few people about what American creed means to them.

American Individuals

How American individualism sets us apart from other nations. For better or for worse.

Saying the ‘I Believe’: Religion and Our Creeds

For this project, I interviewed the rector at my Episcopalian church. My goal with this project was to explore my own creed through my religion, and hopefully prompt others to do the same.

Family History

To make this paper and further my understanding, I decided to interview my Grandpa to complete this task.

What it means to be an American

My Oped is about what my American creed is and what it means to be an American.

American Values in the Political Climate of 2018

This is a video conference with teens across the country examining how today's political climate has affected our lives and American Values.

America: Our Past Defines Our Future

These Yreka students wanted to revisit old footage to see America's origin story and to see how our story has progressed. They interviewed a local business woman to ascertain if today's American principles are the same as yesterday's.