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

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.

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 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 Teamwork

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

What America could use

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

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...

Who's America Is It?

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

To Be American

Poem

The Vitality of American Entertainment and Sports

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

The American Creed and its Environment

Could concern for the environment unify the United States?

How Does Education Connect to Our American Dream?

A Letter to our Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.

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.

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?

Gen-Z

What is Gen-Z?

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?

Impoverished Education

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

Immigration

A family's Immigration story.

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.

Dear Grandpa

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

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

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

Family History

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

American Division

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

How the American Dream Has Changed

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

Education in America

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

Core American Values

What are the values that we share as Americans?

Why Our Values Are Our Values

How we view the values of others.

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.

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.

American Creed Video Essay

Thoughts on American Creed as shown by robot.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 Fiercely Unique Nation

An essay about our individualistic principles.

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.

Creed

My grandpa's American dream.

Our Historical Journey to America

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

Perseverance and Our American Creed

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

Inequality in American Education

In this article I discuss inequalities that plague American education.

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 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:

Is the Immigration Ban Changing Our American Values?

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

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.

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.

Privacy in America: How We Have Changed

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

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

American Creed

American Culture and Values

American Citizenship

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

More responses from Michigan

Surprise Me

My American Creed ~The Flag~

My American Creed is based on how I feel about the United States flag and how I feel about people mistreating it. I talk about how important it is and what it is used for. The flag means a lot and I'm here to tell you why.

Rebuilding Detroit

For years, Detroit was one of the lowest economic ranking cities in the U.S. Now, it's on the rise and it's giving many Americans hope for growth in the community.

Family and an American Identity

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

The American Creed and the death of spirituality

The American Creed and the ideals that built America. Where do these ideals lead people? Why do these ideals lead people? The truth behind the ideals and actions of America as a whole, and it's connection to life itself and mine and many others' spiritual views on life.

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.

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

Impoverished Education

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

American Creed; Educational Opportunities

The equal opportunity of furthering education is important to many. The act of making sure the path is open to all is essential to American.

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.

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.

The Opportunity of Education

Is education the key to the American dream? I write about why I value education and how it became important to me.

The Land of Opportunity

A comparison of the American Creed throughout my families history.

More responses about "equality"

Surprise Me

College Struggles

This piece is about the struggles of college admissions and scholarship money for minorities.

How my family and community connects me to the American Creed

My piece is about how my family and where I live have showed me that the principle of equality plays a big role in America. Everyone is given equal opportunity.

Being An LGBT American

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

Social Issues in America

People are ignorant of many of the social issues that are still happening today. Through these drawings will help you be more aware of these important issues.

American Creed

Talented educated people are stuck living in a place where they are not able to take opportunities that will benefit them for their own good. They are not able to take their talents to better themselves because they are too poor to move away and take the opportunities.

American Mentor

I chose an image of Oprah to represent the American Creed because she has been a very impactful person on America. The words I used were, Freedom, Equality, Service and Diversity.

The Creed of The Past, Present and Future

As we have wrapped up our unit on the American Creed, we wrote an expository essay in which we wrote what the American Creed means to us personally. I wrote that the American Creed encompasses our past, the present, and the future, as well as everything America was meant to be.

America Is One

Being an American is understanding and learning from each other.

United Women of America

Ever wonder what challenges women face in America? How about minority women? In this website I will do an analysis of the beliefs of six very different women and sum up their personal experiences and in short essay.

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.

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George Washington Photoshop Mask

This is an image I made to represent our first president, George Washington. With the help of my peers and facilitators, I was able to 'mask' George Washington using the words I believe represent the American Creed.

Our "United" States of America

This argumentative essay talks about my American creed. The importance of unity and community and working towards achieving them is my American creed.

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.

American Evolution

Our final paper for Senior year (2018), my thoughts on how to improve or somewhat improve the conditions of American lives, by increasing communication.

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

America: The Dark Side of the Dream

My essay is regarding our country's foundation of the American Dream, and how it eventually influenced my family to emigrate to the States, even in the present day of unjust immigrant laws.

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".

Actions Speak Louder Then

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

Treat Others How They ALL Deserve

This letter encourages others to treat others with equality and to realize that everyone is in fact, human.

Let Dreamers Dream

This is a poem I wrote about the values that America cherishes and exemplifies the rights that everyone possesses. No matter how different you may look or the way you act, everyone is given the right to be treated the same and this is why we should truly value the American Creed.

My American Creed

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

My American Creed

This poster has symbols that express my American Creed.

American Soldiers

My writing peace is about the soldiers in our military that do not get the respect and recognition they deserve. Our soldiers defend are country to keep us safe and for us to have freedom. Our american soldiers risk everything they have to protect the country they love.

America

My American Creed