My photoshop masking image portraits the bald eagle which is the symbol of America.It symbolizes liberty, justice, fraternity, and equality.

I wrote about why it's necessary to stop racism and respect each other

The Electoral College is why Trump is in Office

What it means to be an American as a multiracial individual.

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.

A poem about the qualities that make us American.

A quick thought

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

American creed can be symbolized by different words/ symbols. Everyone has their own sense of what they think American Creed is and how it can affect them.

A YHS student interviewed students from Spain and England while on a school exchange and asked them how they perceived the American Creed. She also asked them to share their thoughts on whether the US was succeeding as a nation.

Look at the larger picture to acknowledge, through the generations, how customs and values came to be and can be tied back to the idea that America’s composed of individuals, with their own ethnicity, customs, traditions, and opinions; honoring how they have been modified.

As the daughter of immigrants I have been able to see and get a second-hand experience of how their hardships and battle scars have affected their political and social views. Find out how immigration affects one´s views of the American Dream.

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?

This is a poem about how people view America, but I tell you how things really are here. I purposely did not capitalize the "A" in America to show that are not as great as most people think. The "A" won't be capitalized till we change, hopefully for the better.

My piece is about the varying views and realities on the American Dream.

The first thing that pops into people's minds when they hear the word America is freedom. For a few centuries, people have known America as The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. For most of the time, America has lived up to that statement, but not all the time.

What does it mean to be American? Well, it takes more than one string to play a note, more than one fret to build a neck, and more than one person to be a band...

This essay is about what American creed means to me.

As a very small community, in the deep south, where we drink sweet tea sitting on the porch and say “y’all” in every sentence, we stick together as a whole through everything.

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.

My piece is about how my family is connects to my American Creed. In this instance I wrote a photo story explaining how it does. I write about the journey my parents took from Afghanistan to Russia to The United States.

The American Dream isn't a single dream that is shared with everyone. It is a dream that every individual American uses to drive themselves in everyday life and helps them find their purpose.

A poem questioning the state of our nation.

This is an essay about what it means to be an American.