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.

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.

I Believe

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

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.

Improving Respect

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

American Creed and The Pledge of Allegiance

How the Pledge of Allegiance is a misrepresentation of the 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.

Let's Talk, America

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

Why to not celebrate the 4th of July

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

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.

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.

Immigration: Poem of American Creed

Action & Expression

A poem inspired by the American Creed.

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.

We are all Americans

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

Mass incarceration

Ray Nasser and Alex Nemec

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.

'Murican Creed

The issue of Immigration

The Electoral College is Failing America

The Electoral College is why Trump is in Office

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 Reamble

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

No One is Illegal

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

My American Creed

It's just my American Creed

Perfect Lies

This is a song about my American Creed.

More responses from Connecticut

Surprise Me

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.

Creed of Rights

My American creed is that anyone and everyone should be able to do what they want, regardless of societal limitations. But, as you'll see, even I'm limiting myself with my current creed. Let's change that.

The Importance of Education

This piece expresses my American creed and how my values about education and hard work have shaped me and the decisions I make. Different perspectives are incorporated to illustrate similar beliefs and how other peoples creeds tie into my own.

Symbols of the American Creed.

We were tasked with having to answer one of the many invitations about the American Creed. I took the American Flag and imported images of my friends and family, together as Americans, we make up a democracy which is an American ideal/belief that most Americans believe in.

Protecting basic human rights

This video explains how service men and women, similar to my ancestors, selflessly risk their lives in order for people to live out their American Creed.

Climbing to Success

This photo represents how my grandparents self-perseverance have built my American creed. The three phases under the staircase show how my grandparents self-perseverance allowed them to create good lives for themselves and their family.

How Do Diverse Americans Understand The American Creed?

My essay talks about the diversity of the U.S. and how that effects the American Creed. I summarize how The American Dream is not always achievable and how your background effects your American Creed.

My American Creed

This piece is about what my American Creed is and what it could do for the United States.

American Creed Project

How my family and community has shaped my understanding of what it means to be an American

Freedom, Opportunity and the American Creed

My piece is about the history of my grandparents and how their lives in Italy were able to connect to my American Creed.

Community Through Education

The American Creed by using educational differences to build a community.

Integration of Cultures

My piece explores diversity within America and how I integrate my culture and American culture into my life. This has helped me balance between different aspects of each while learning that the true definition of an American is the blending of differing backgrounds.

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

Surprise Me

True America

This poem travels the paths of the slaves, Indians, the ones in poverty, and the lack of mercy. Throughout this poem pain is the repeating essence. America is filled with beauty, but the suffering faced is silenced.

American Creed

My audio is about two people's opinion on America.

Participating for Change

Understanding how citizen participation in politics has changed American society, and its impact on current American issues.

SEA OF OPPORTUNITY

I decided to showcase my ideas about diverse Americans and their views on American creed through an art piece. My ideas were highly influenced by classic American art and analysis of society and diversity. This connected back to my community and my own American creed.

The Reamble

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

The Electoral College is Failing America

The Electoral College is why Trump is in Office

What the American Creed Means To ME

I wrote about the impact of the American Creed on ideologies about America and what values every American has. The essay also includes how to perfect the American standard

Remembering Our Creed

This piece was written to remind us of the symbols that represent our American Creed.

Unified throughout history

I did a photo essay (The website wouldn't let me include my pictures) tp look through major events in US history and talk about what made the country either unified or divided during that time in history.

How Do You Express Your American Creed?

My text is about how my family and I have expressed our American creeds together. It talks about what it is and means to be an American and the rights that you are given.

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.

Importance of Change

The importance of change and diversity in our society

American Creed Argument

Community is a big part of making the American Dream happen.

America's Foundation

To learn about the American Creed, we made a Photoshop masking project. This project has taught me a lot about the land I live in. I chose this image because it symbolizes the foundations of our country.

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:

My American Creed

My American creed is that in order to reach the American dream is for me to have a good education.

American Creed is...

The American creed is an ideal that defines what it means to be American. The doctrine is based on the principle that all people are created equal

Value of Community regarding the American Creed

Analyzation of the sense of community that drives people to help others around them, specifically in the case of Detroit neighborhoods and downtown area.

How can you express your American creed through action prompt response?

There are a handful of ways I can express my American Creed through action in my community that can help unite our city together. In this summary I go over 2 things that have been done and 2 more things that could be done to help our city.

America's Kids

Interviews with elementary school students about their thoughts on America.

Why Our Values Are Our Values

How we view the values of others.

American Dream

This article is about the American dream and how to get there.

My American Creed - Liberty and a Better Life

My American Creed is closely tied to my family history on my mom's side. My grandparents immigrated from Ukraine to Canada for a better life, and then my mom came to the U.S. for college and a better life.

Alisha's American Creed

Being American means you have the ability to be who you want, do what you want to do, and remake yourself as long as you work hard. You have the right to equal opportunity and to express yourself. It means to accept it's not always about you.

Writing Our Future: American Creed is part of the National Writing Project’s family of youth publishing projects, all gathered under the Writing Our Future initiative.

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