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.

By Emma C. from Okemos High School in Michigan

Okemos High School

American Literature with Mrs. Reed

Students in American Literature in Mrs. Reed's courses

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 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.

Privacy in America: How We Have Changed

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

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.

The American Creed and its Environment

Could concern for the environment unify the United States?

Inequality in American Education

In this article I discuss inequalities that plague American education.

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

American Creed

American Teamwork

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

How the American Dream Has Changed

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

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.

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.

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...

Education in America

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

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:

Why Our Values Are Our Values

How we view the values of others.

The Vitality of American Entertainment and Sports

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

American Division

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

American Culture and Values

How Does Education Connect to Our American Dream?

A Letter to our Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.

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.

Dear Grandpa

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

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.

Immigration and the American Dream

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

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.

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.

Is the Immigration Ban Changing Our American Values?

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

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.

American Creed

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Creed

My grandpa's American dream.

Immigration

A family's Immigration story.

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.

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.

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.

Immigration and the American Creed

Immigration is an important aspect of American culture and this article explains how immigration has changed since my ancestors and a friend's ancestors immigrated

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.

Our Historical Journey to America

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

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?

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.

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.

American Creed Video Essay

Thoughts on American Creed as shown by robot.

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.

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.

Impoverished Education

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

Perseverance and Our American Creed

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

Family History

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

Our Fiercely Unique Nation

An essay about our individualistic principles.

Who's America Is It?

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

Immigration Stories

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

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 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.

Core American Values

What are the values that we share as Americans?

Discussion on Midterms and other subjects

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

Immigration Stories

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

American Citizenship

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

Gen-Z

What is Gen-Z?

To Be American

Poem

More responses from Michigan

Surprise Me

Made in America

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

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.

The Social Contract

The following discussion and reflections were prompted by four questions centered around the topic of gun control, with the purpose of evaluating how we as Americans consider the social contract and alterations to our rights.

American Creeds Future

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

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.

The Italian Perspective

The Italian way of immigration. Through family experiences and other perspectives of Italians. What they went through and how they faced them and let it shape them to be who they are.

I AM AMERICAN

This is my poem about the everyday life of being an “Black American”

What Connection?

The first computer was released in 1981. My mother was born in 1964. 17 years. For 17 years, my parents generation lived day to day life without wifi, but some would argue they had a much better connection

Immigration and the American Dream

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

On Letting Go Of What Once Was

This piece is a critique of the fallacies in America today and a proposal of what can be done to stop them. This nation has tried to rely on the same old values yet still pleads that progress is being made, a stagnation that goes against the rights of man, woman, and child.

The Building Block of Our Nation

This piece is about our country being built on equality, but is the land of inequality. I talk about racism over and the people of our country lying about our country. My piece makes you think about our country in a different light and the realities some people face.

Being an Immigrant American

This writing piece is about how first generation immigrants view living in America, versus second generation immigrants and some of the struggles they go through to really feel American. You will see these peoples experiences and perspectives of what being American means to them.

More responses about "equality"

Surprise Me

When I Think of Home

The American Creed is not always as equally attainable as it may seem.

My Beliefs on Women Equality

My topic is about how women equality is something that women strive to have but haven't yet accomplished. In this country that we are living in men have a bigger say in what happens to women.

Native American Heritage

I come from a line of Cherokee Native American heritage including people like the famous Sequoyah and Chief Young Tassel! My family and many others were forced on the Trail of Tears and discriminated because of their different cultural backgrounds.

To Be An American

I wrote this essay to explain what I think it means to "be" an American.

The Problematic System

Mary K., Hollie E., and Hero F. interviewed the administrator of our local hospital, Jonathon Andrus. He shared the problems with the current healthcare system and its impact on Fairchild Medical Center.

Plan of Success

This piece is about how I view America. My focus might be different from others.

A Country of Immigrants

Through the experiences of talking to my mother, who was born and raised and Ukraine, I came to learn an important lesson on what it means 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.

Reconstruction in today's society and what it means to be American

Actions Speak Louder Then

This is a poem about the actions I can take to express my American Creed

Being An LGBT American

This is about the growth of being a member of the LGBT community in America in 2018.

American Creed

My poem is about civil rights, individuality, and capability as people of our nation.

Diversity & Equality

Diversity and equality go hand in hand. One's culture can determine how much they are open to the issue of diversity and being different and how, other than those who are open minded, there still are people who cause conflicts due to their biases.

Quality of Equality

A short poem about how I feel about intolerance in America.

My American Creed

This is an expository essay about what it feels like to be an American.

Ethnicities' Ethical Creeds

America is chock full of different nationalities, ethnicities, and cultures, and these different ethnicities that make up our country understand the American Creed differently based on their unique backgrounds.

Home of the Brave

This is a masking project of an eagle filled with the words Justice, Freedom, Equality, Unity made in Photoshop to show the values the American Creed.

My American Creed

“My American Creed” is about what it means to me to be an American and two core values I live by. I wrote about the opportunities in America and that my two core values are equality and individualism.

American Creed

No matter who you are you have the same privileges to check out as many as book you like. Instead of people decimalizing on other races, age, or religion we could improve on working our skills as a citizen to make our nation stronger

My American Creed

This poster has symbols that express my American Creed.

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.

Opportunity; The Name of the Game

My piece is about the current mindset around opportunity in America. My goal is to point out that we should strive to create equality, but right now there is also too much to do with identifying problems without finding solutions. Change comes through action, not complaining.

Privilege

Eclipse Glasses

Colored storms meets the catastrophic miracle.