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Okemos High School

American Literature with Mrs. Reed

Students in American Literature in Mrs. Reed's courses

American Culture and Values

Education in America

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

Immigration Stories

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

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.
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Discussion on Midterms and other subjects

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

Thoughts on American Creed as shown by robot.

Dear Grandpa

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

Our Fiercely Unique Nation

An essay about our individualistic principles.

Privacy in America: How We Have Changed

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

Family History

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

Why Our Values Are Our Values

How we view the values of others.

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.

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 Stories

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

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

Immigration

A family's Immigration story.

Inequality in American Education

In this article I discuss inequalities that plague American education.
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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.

To Be American

Poem

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.

Perseverance and Our American Creed

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

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

How Does Education Connect to Our American Dream?

A Letter to our Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.

American Citizenship

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

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.
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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?
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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.

The American Creed and its Environment

Could concern for the environment unify the United States?

What America could use

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

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?
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Gen-Z

What is Gen-Z?
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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.

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.

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

Who's America Is It?

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

American Creed

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

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.

How the American Dream Has Changed

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

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.

Our Historical Journey to America

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

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.
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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.

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.

Is the Immigration Ban Changing Our American Values?

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

Core American Values

What are the values that we share as Americans?

American Teamwork

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

Creed

My grandpa's American dream.

My Great Grandparents Journey

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

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.
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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...

Immigration and the American Dream

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

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

American Creed

More responses from Michigan

Surprise Me

A World Without Discrimination

In my American Creed essay I talked about discrimination and how it can affect certain people and why there should be no such thing as discrimination.

Illegal Immigration and the American Creed

Do illegal immigrants deserve to fulfill their American Creed?

Achieving Kindness

My essay is about how I believe in everyone being kind to one another. I share my thoughts & stories and facts I've learned, and research I've conducted.

Privacy in America: How We Have Changed

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

Don't Deny the Poblems We Face

In this essay you will experience what it feels like to truly know America. People constantly want to tell others about how great America is by just reading in a book. America faces problems that are unforgiving and we must be aware of these problems.

Preserving Family Culture

Preserving family culture is essential to my American Creed. Remembering and acknowledged our family's history helps increase the diversity in America, which is beautiful and unique.

Supporting America

A major part of being American is that you don't have to support America. In fact, this helps the country grow and change.

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.

Creed

My grandpa's American dream.

Education in America

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

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.

Our Historical Journey to America

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

More responses about "equality"

Surprise Me

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.

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My American Creed

Is the American Dream Achievable for everyone?

My response is about the everyday positives and negatives of being an american. It also focuses on immagrants and student debt. It answers the question, Is the American dream achievable for everyone?

Eclipse Glasses

Colored storms meets the catastrophic miracle.

American Dream?

My essay is about the american dream and what it means to all different types of people.

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.

Actions Speak Louder Then

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

Everyone is excited to become an American Citizen but what are we really signing up

Plan of Success

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

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.

College Struggles

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

To Be An American

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

American Creed

With freedom comes opportunity. As Americans, what are we to do with our freedom? I believe this freedom we have been given should be used to benefit others.

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.
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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.
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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.

A Southerner's Perspective: Black In America

The stereotype of being black in America, is that all black people own illegal guns, all steal, all are broke and all are gang members, when that is not true. All of us are equal.

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.

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.
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Equality as the American Creed

Our project symbolizes complete equality through all aspects of America. Equality is spelled in different languages to represent how language and ethnicity should not cause discrimination. The other words demonstrate what separates people from having respect for one another.
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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.

Minorities Migration for their American Creed

My project is to explain how the American Creed isn’t always exemplified through immigrants and people of color in America. While America was founded by immigrants, and built on the backs of people of color, time and time again these people are discr

Quality of Equality

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

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