My American Dream

My American Creed consists of a caring community who contributes to society, hard-working people with lots of energy who care about bettering themselves and America, a place where everyone is welcome, and a successful powerful country.

By Ryann M. from Bay High School in Ohio

 My American Creed

My American Creed consists of a caring community who contributes to society, hard-working people with lots of energy who care about bettering themselves and America, a place where everyone is welcome, and a successful powerful country.

A caring community who contributes to society

- Together, Service, Engaged

Hard-working people with lots of energy who care about bettering themselves and America

- Hard-working, Ambition

A place where everyone is welcome

- Tolerance, Encouraging

A successful powerful country

- Triumph, Strong

T ogether
H ard-working
E ngaged

S ervice
T olerance
A mbition
T riumph
E ncouraging
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Bay High School

4th Block

4th Block AP Gov

Get Down

What are you doing to stop the running blood of schools?

Adam's American Creed

"Caring for others will lead to future success", this Creed if taken into consideration will cause our Country to have a bright future.

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

Together

My American Creed

This poem is about keeping in touch with one’s individualism through times of trouble. The first stanza is the claim, and the other 4 are evidence supporting America's notion of individualism.

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.

My American Creed

My American Creed showcases how Americans are united by their characteristics, including their ambition and drive, their uniqueness, their acceptance of others, and their possession of kindness.

Expressing Your American Creed Through Action

How can you express your American Creed through action? Included is a documentation of ways my community has expressed American Creed through action.

American Creed

My American Creed

American Creed

Equality

My American Creed

American Creed could look different from person to person, but we all share some similar qualities. These qualities link us together as Americans and makes each person a little more similar than they may think.

My American Creed

There are many different ways people can express their American Creed and improve the community and bond in the US.

My America

My American Creed expressed through different verses and an structured chorus. Acceptance, change, individuality, and the freedom to think for yourself.

What is your American Creed?

A poem describing what the American Creed means to me.

My American Creed

This is my story of my American creed and how it has shaped and improved my life.

American Creed

My American Creed

The Qualities I see in Americans

In my experiences, I have learned many things that shaped how I act or what I do. The same goes for what I believe in, and most importantly, my view on what makes up the ideal American person.

Creed

My response is a poem describing the ideals of America and the people within. The poem takes into account why so many migrate to America and what it means to be an American. It describes America as a place of freedom and hope.

my american creed

Even though everyone from America is uniquely different, the American Creed is something that unites us all together. To me, the American Creed is all about growth.

My American Creed

My American creed.

American Creed

My American Creed is based on the features that America obtains. The rights given to the citizens of the United States have made America the nation that it is today and continued to help the nation prosper.

My American Creed

This is what I believe it means to be an American and what qualities they should exhibit.

How Americans Express Service

Prompt: How can you express your American creed through action?

My American Creed

I describe my American Creed through a parody of Party in the U.S.A

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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

American Creed

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.

Compromise

My piece is an essay that talks about why we as a country have become so divided. It talks about the causes, effects, and how we can fix this growing problem.

American Actions

This is my American Creed.

Symbols Defining the American Creed

The creation and development of rituals and symbols supports the nations national identity and represents the American Creed. This annotated photo essay describes how the American Creed is made up by symbols and rituals of everyday life.

Words, Symbols, and Rituals

How words, symbals, and rituals help express american creed

Patriotism in our Country

My piece is about how I believe the most patriotic thing you can do is recognize the problems with your country and try to fix them.

The American Creed: What is Your Idea of the American Creed?

This piece encompasses the American Creed by explaining the ideals set down through the history of America and, using the American Creed, applies them to the people of this nation.

The Values of an American

In the American creed, the people talk about their backgrounds and how they worked and currently work in america and how it shaped them into how they think and dictate what their values are.How they were brought up and raised as children to adults

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.

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.

American Creed

The importance of small town events and impacting others.

What Being American Means

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

Improving Respect

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

Dream

My piece is about how some people never get to live their American Dream because of being killed in one of the many school shootings.

The Evolution of the American Identity

The American Creed of young Americans today is not the same as that of their parents. What causes these changes, and why is this difference significant to Americans?

America: Our Current Problems and Future Solution

The essay that I've wriiten is about the major problem America is having with gun violence and why we as Americans need to find a way to stop this in order to live up to the expectation we have set for ourselves, that everyone in America is treated equally and respectfully.

American Opportunity

America allowed me to receive a new education and gave my mom to live close to her parent.

Aiden's American Creed 😎

America represents many ideas and many words but I put the three most important words into a google slideshow, Enjoy!

American Creed

The more we ignore the issues we are facing, the more people are going to turn away and lose faith in their communities.

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.

My American Creed

These poems show how my community, family, and family origins strengthen my American Creed.

The Creed

My piece is about many different topics about the American Creed. First, I talk about the history and how the American Creed was created. Then, I talk about American. Finally, I state my personal opinion about America and how I feel about being an American.

As American as Apple Pie

As Americans, we have inherited a firearm tradition that has grown more and more at odds with modern society. If we are to move forward as Americans, we must critically understand this aspect of our history.

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