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".

4-H is very important to me, and as an American I am able to be in 4-H and many other organizations.

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

My piece explains how being a minority changes my understanding of the American Creed "all men are created equal"

my letter to Americans on why we should be grateful.

My piece is about what it means to be an American.

Thoughts on American Creed as shown by robot.

Often people wonder what the true "American Dream" is...

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.

My essay was about the perspectives of being an American from the eyes of Terrence Davenport. His views on struggle and unity, in my essay I write about how hearing his perspective on what it means to be American, and how it affected my views on struggle, ingenuity, and unity.

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.

This poem is about several topics that have been more relevant within the recent years or has been a topic within U.S. history. Within all of these parts, I do give out my personal opinion about these topics. I will also add some of these topics are controversial.

Police Brutality is an issue that the people who protect us chose to ignore. We should be able to voice our opinions, and not be shot down for doing it. If it's not corrected now, then our future generations in our "colored" communities wouldn't grow up in an safe environment.

My essay is about what it means about being an American.

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 American is having leadership, honorable, and righteousness. Having the freedom and aspects of living life.

My piece is about the rituals and symbols that make us American compared to the past to the modern day. The image is to compare the things we think of when someone says the word America, and how we treat them as symbols of our own identity, and the way we worship them.

Defining the word racism, and its impact on how people view the American Creed.

This is a poem that brings all my ideas about mass incarceration, the issues towards felonies' rights ,and the impact this has on the American dream in one piece of writing. I have also added an illustration I drew to further push these ideas.

This opinion piece is my view on what it means to be an American.

How America is represented using symbols, words and phrases

This is a short video explaining my perception of being a young black man in America and my view on our country's history of what it was being black in America. Has there been much progress? Is there still more progress to be made?

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.

Our country has made a habit of taking for granted the opportunities we have as Americans. We are growing further and further away from each other and we need something to hold us together. We can start with appreciating what we have as Americans.