Immigration and the American Dream

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

By Grace R. from Okemos High School in Michigan

Okemos High School

American Literature with Mrs. Reed

Students in American Literature in Mrs. Reed's courses

Perseverance and Our American Creed

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

The Vitality of American Entertainment and Sports

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

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.

Who's America Is It?

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

Immigration

A family's Immigration story.

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:

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.

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.

Inequality in American Education

In this article I discuss inequalities that plague American education.

How the American Dream Has Changed

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

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.

The American Creed and its Environment

Could concern for the environment unify the United States?

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?

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.

Creed

My grandpa's American dream.

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?

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.

Privacy in America: How We Have Changed

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

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.

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.

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.

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

American Creed

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.

Gen-Z

What is Gen-Z?

My Great Grandparents Journey

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

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.

Immigration Stories

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

How Does Education Connect to Our American Dream?

A Letter to our Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.

Discussion on Midterms and other subjects

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

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 Teamwork

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

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.

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.

Dear Grandpa

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

Family History

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

American Creed Video Essay

Thoughts on American Creed as shown by robot.

Education in America

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

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.

Core American Values

What are the values that we share as Americans?

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 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.

Is the Immigration Ban Changing Our American Values?

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

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.

Immigration Stories

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

Our Fiercely Unique Nation

An essay about our individualistic principles.

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.

What America could use

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

American Creed

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

Why Our Values Are Our Values

How we view the values of others.

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...

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.

To Be American

Poem

Impoverished Education

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

American Division

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

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.

American Citizenship

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

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.

American Culture and Values

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.

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.

Our Historical Journey to America

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

More responses from Michigan

Surprise Me

American Creed

What it means to be an American as a multiracial individual.

Food and the American Creed

How food represents the American Creed and its values and how food is symbolic of something greater than just a basic human need. Food can represent a culture's values and history.

An Immigrant's Journey

The story of my grandparent's journeys to America and the freedom they found here.

American Privilege

Traveling around the world has given perspective on what it is like to be American and how fortunate we are to be an American citizen.

Proud (?) American

How it is to live under the Red, White and Blue

The American Creed as Seen Through Family and Community

This is a 7-page picture book about my personal experiences with the American Creed, and how others can relate to it.

American Creed

An essay about immigration and being American.

Learning What it Means to be an American in New York City

In one trip, I learned some of the most important values of what it truly means to be an American.

Made in America

The way in which life in America has positively influenced the opportunities available to my family and the surrounding community.

Being Black in America

This is a short video explaining my perception of being a young black man in America and my view on our country's history of what it was being black in America. Has there been much progress? Is there still more progress to be made?

American Dream within the American Creed

The American Dream, is implemented by the American Creed, what it means to be American.

My American Dream

This essay is a discription of my American Dream and how the American Dream is broad enough for everyone to chase their own indivisual dream.

More responses about "dream" and "immigration"

Surprise Me

Our Struggle

This describes my family's ethnic origins and the struggles they faced that define my american creed. This uses evidence from interviews to illustrate how our American creed is formed from our family's struggles and hardships in life in America.

Immigration Stories

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

My American Dream

This essay is a discription of my American Dream and how the American Dream is broad enough for everyone to chase their own indivisual dream.

My Family of Immigrants

Look into my Family History. See my American Creed.

The Patriot

My digital story is about the American creed and what it means for Americans.

My Family History

My piece is about my family history and the lessons we have learned through the years.

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.

American Creed: The Significance of Immigration

What is the American Creed?

Everyone's idea of the American Creed is different. This piece discusses my personal opinions on what I believe America stands for and how we can set aside our differences and truly symbolize the ideologies that many believe America stands for.

American Creed: Perception Versus Reality

With this essay, I was able to explore the realities of the American creed for minorities by incorporating the voices from various races and ethnicities. This essay also highlights the selectivity in our nation as to who gets utilise their voice and who doesn't; thus speaking out

Our American Dream

Recently in our 9th grade english class, we have been trying to find out what America means to us and how America as an idea has influenced our lives.

Immigrants Are Humans Not Criminals

This piece is about the issues that immigrants face as part of their day-to-day lives.

My American Creed

This is what I think being an American is...

My American Creed

American Dream within the American Creed

The American Dream, is implemented by the American Creed, what it means to be American.

What is My American Creed

I wrote about how we should not take guns away.

American Opportunity

America allowed me to receive a new education and gave my mom to live close to her parent.

The American Dream

What our group talked about was what it meant to be an American. We talked about our personal experiences, past history, and we also had to reflect off of what one another said.

Requiem for the American Creed

A Poem about some of the flaws in America, with some chunks of good in it.

What It Means To Be American

Everyone is here for a purpose. Everyone wants to live their own version of the American Dream.

It's Simple

My American Creed

Dream

My piece is about how some people never get to live their American Dream because of being killed in one of the many school shootings.

Family history and the American Creed

An essay about my family history and origin, and how it connects to the American Creed.

My American Creed: Living with the Discussion of a "Dream," but Never Seeing it Realized

The repercussions of a teen who realizes everything she was told about America is far from the truth. Its sounds slightly dramatic, sure, but becoming more aware of the social constructs in this country continues to surprise me.