A Few Words

The Pledge of Allegiance rewritten

By Devin from Project Citizen in Connecticut

My American Creed is love and diversity shared across all facets of the World. Equal opportunity to jobs, great education, fair trial, and justice. My American Creed is the end to Supremacy and Fascism for the sake of a Utopia. A Utopia that will only be constructed when no group of people is oppressed. A creed that ratifies race, sexual orientation, gender, and religious beliefs to be as significant as the color of your eyes. 

Project Citizen

Project Citizen '19

Project Citizen is a youth writing lab that is offered as part of the Connecticut Writing Project at Fairfield University. The mission of Project Citizen is to empower young writers to engage in issues of social and political importance through a variety of genres in order to both find their voice and to become fully realized citizens in our democracy. Project Citizen brings together students from school districts and towns in Fairfield county that represent a variety of economic, racial, ethnic, and religious demographic groups in an effort to break down the "zip code apartheid" that stands in the way of true collaborative learning.

Why to not celebrate the 4th of July

An explanation of why America wasn't really free when we signed the Declaration of Independence.

No One is Illegal

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

American Creed and The Pledge of Allegiance

How the Pledge of Allegiance is a misrepresentation of the American Creed.

Happiness

This is a poem about my cousin, who recently moved.

Let's Fight, America

My poem is about fighting for your human rights, and knowing what belongs to you and how to stop it from being taken away.

The Beautiful American Lie

This is about how the American Dream is a lie. I'm not really in any minorities, I just wanted to point all this stuff out.

Improving Respect

In America today, respect is not found as commonly as it should be. Watch the video to understand more!

True Vision

This is some of my thoughts about my American reality and how I feel about the the concept of the freedom in American.

'Murican Creed

The issue of Immigration

The Electoral College is Failing America

The Electoral College is why Trump is in Office

A Penny for your Thoughts

This is a poem to get you thinking about how something that seems worthless is actually worth more then you think it is.

We are all Americans

My poem is about what can make us all Americans and even when we all come from different nation.

The Allfather effect

My piece is about the ways that pantheons and ideas have been destructed through time. Some of these beliefs have lasted for hundreds of years but there was never really talk about how or why the believers just stopped believing.

Immigration: Poem of American Creed

The Truest Believer

On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the US. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men. Domestic abuse is a big problem here in America, this spoken word poem strives to give hope to those victims.

I Believe

This are my beliefs and how I feel about the American Creed.

Let's Talk, America

This is my response to the concept of an American Creed.

Action & Expression

A poem inspired by the American Creed.

Perfect Lies

This is a song about my American Creed.

My American Creed

It's just my American Creed

Mass incarceration

Ray Nasser and Alex Nemec

It's Hard to Keep Talking

I struggled to write about the idea of American Creed because it's a topic that everybody hears of so many times throughout school. To express personal opinions can only happen so many times. This piece conveys how repetitive it is to keep putting a unique spin on the idea.

The Reamble

My piece is a black out poem with the Preamble of the constitution.

Lights in the future

This poem is about making the choice to not let things get in your way, but instead, trying to make a difference and give hope to the world.

More responses from Connecticut

Surprise Me

Happiness

This is a poem about my cousin, who recently moved.

The Allfather effect

My piece is about the ways that pantheons and ideas have been destructed through time. Some of these beliefs have lasted for hundreds of years but there was never really talk about how or why the believers just stopped believing.

How Diverse Americans Understand the American Creed

Different cultures, although having different ideologies, interpret the American Creed as the right to pursue the American Dream. This allows a stronger communal bond to be formed within America, as we all are striving to achieve the same goals.

It Doesn't Matter Where You Came From

I chose this project because I wanted to further my understanding of all perspectives of what people expect from U.S and how diversity impacts the way people see U.S.I was able to relate the interviews back to myself and my own community by thinking about my own American Creed.

'Murican Creed

The issue of Immigration

Let's Fight, America

My poem is about fighting for your human rights, and knowing what belongs to you and how to stop it from being taken away.

Education for kids

Since the kids are the future of this planet, why not educate them from a young age. With the basics of education and the opportunity to proceed to a higher education, the future would be filled with successful men and women.

The Electoral College is Failing America

The Electoral College is why Trump is in Office

Your Experience is Everything

Using audio of interviews to discuss how diverse Americans adapt and view the reason they believe means to be American.

How my Grandfather influenced my view on American Creed

My grandfather worked his way from the bottom to achieve success, and his experiences serve as the basis of my American Creed

How my family shapes my American Creed...

My project, looking through the lens of my father's American story, focuses on how my family has shaped my view of the American identity.

American Creed - Diversity

My American creed is to be a real American, one needs to live to their full potential and strive to be the greatest they can be. My interview with my parents, about their different cultures, helps me understand how they are the American they are today.

More responses about "america", "creed", "diversity", "education", and "equity"

Surprise Me

Living in America

In the wake of recent political turmoil in the US, including the 2016 election and movement for gun reform, I wrote this song in attempt to address the loss of respect within national discussions. For it is respect that is fundamental to bringing together such a diverse nation.

My American Creed

To live the American Dream is to believe in yourself, no matter who you are, where you come from, or what class you were born into. It's to believe in yourself that you can be whatever you want to be in a place where everyone gets equal opportunities

Our future depends on us

In my OpEd i explain and express how America gives us endless opportunities to achieve anything. We can become anyone we strive to be, it just all depends on us. We express our American creed everyday, it's apart of all of our lives.

Education and America

We as Americans should pay heed to the perspectives presented in this documentary. Instead, our society should be encouraged to focus on unity. In order to accomplish this goal, we need to properly educate the future generations.

American Creed Project

The project I did was a poster. This poster shows shared traits of American Citizens.

My Family's Goals

Growing up in affluent town does not expose you to much but when you examine your whole family you can begin to understand what makes you and what goals have been passed down through your family.

I can ...

My American Creed, two simple words, I can... .

What it Means to be American

Unity is fundamental element in America, yet with the current state of politics and media it has become easier to segregate ourselves from each other.

American Creed

An american creed

American Dream

By ignoring and isolating the marginalized areas in our society, the United States does not give everyone a fair opportunity to have the American Dream. Instead, it places these people in a never ending cycle.

Education and America

We as Americans should pay heed to the perspectives presented in this documentary. Instead, our society should be encouraged to focus on unity. In order to accomplish this goal, we need to properly educate the future generations.

America, My Home

This essay is about what American creed means to me.

From Discrimination to Immigration; My Jewish American Creed

In order to understand how my family has affected the way I view my own American creed, I conducted interviews with my mother, father, and grandmother. Ultimately my goal was to figure out, connect, and contrast on how my family history has affected my American Creed.

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.

What Does It Mean to be an American?

This is my take on what it means to be an American.

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.

Unity Through the American Creed

We are divided as a people, but through listening and bringing people together, regardless of who they are, we will become closer.

American Creed

My video talks about (and visually demonstrates) the false notations and divisions emulated in America specifically through American Creed.

American Creed

Our society seems to be self-centered and too focused on their own individual issues rather than helping others. We have to work hard and accept everyone’s differences in order to build that American Dream.

My American Creed

What does being a american means to me..

First Generation

How does your family & community history connect to your American creed?

What is My Identity and What are My Concerns?

How I address what my identity is and what my concerns are, as well as how they are connected to my American Creed.

American Dream?

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

United by our Differences

I interviewed people in my community and asked them what the American Dream means to them. I got a wide variety of answers that mentioned the economic opportunities, freedom and rights, and even that the American Dream is a way of life.

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