This piece is an attempt to explain what it takes to move one's entire life across the world. It shows what makes one want to leave and what makes one choose America. The boy pictured is my father at age 11, on the bottom, where he came from; above, where he wanted to go.

This is about how my family shaped my American Creed through their story and beliefs of how they succeeded.

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.

I wrote a story about my Pop, who grew up in poverty, and how he proves that the American Dream is, in fact, attainable to any American through hard work, perseverance despite wealth, social status, and circumstances at birth.

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.

America is a melting pot of people, beliefs, and dreams. Everybody has dreams, and everybody wishes they would come true. I believe that America should be a place where the opportunity to follow your dreams is available to everyone.

Family and community motivate us in life unlike any other person or factor in the world and help us become the best version of ourselves we can be. My parent's immigrant past filled with hard work and perseverance has shown me who I want to be and shapes my American Creed today.

I discuss how my parent's influence with immigrating to America has influenced their American Creeds and how that influenced mine as well.

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.

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

My parent's stories about overcoming racial and economic adversity in different ways transform my American Creed into making sure everybody has opportunities to overcome their challenges and live their American Dream.

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.

The illusion of the American Dream has misleadingly lead minorities into a mindless society. In America, we are known as the land of opportunity and success. By us remaining ignorant to the inequalities that still exist, we have allowed thousands of innocent lives to be ruined.

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.

My podcast is me interviewing my two brothers and Dad. I asked them all about mottos. We all believe our main motto is to be the best you can be. In conclusion, our American Creed is being the best you can be, leads you to be resilient in whatever you do in life.

I feel what guides us is what we believe to be right. I came to the conclusion that my creed is following the beliefs of leaders that have fought discrimination; to me that is what I think is right. Here is my art piece that reflects this creed:

My American Creed is that Americans have had the opportunities to work hard to take advantage of the markets and systems in America so that they can achieve their life goals and dreams and do what they love.

My American Creed is the importance of religious freedom. It is something America offers that gives individuals a sense of security.

Through an audio story containing multiple interviews, I explore how I learned the importance of helping others from my family and community members.

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.

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.

Exploring my family history through art in order to explain my American Creed

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.

The liberty and freedom that people associate with the Statue of Liberty is built on the language in our legislation, so in the image, I made the interior of the statue filled with images of the Constitution to signify where our Freedom comes from.

My American Creed is my support system because of the way it helped shape the young adult I am. This system consists of my family and teachers. It is my American Creed because of how much value they have to me.

My essay is regarding our country's foundation of the American Dream, and how it eventually influenced my family to emigrate to the States, even in the present day of unjust immigrant laws.

The story of my parents and how they have passed their American Creed onto me.

This letter highlights different perspectives and strorie​s about what it means to give back. In my short lifetime, I have learned the incredible value of freedom and the sacrifices made in order to achieve it.

Through the stories of two immigrants who made a good life for themselves in America, I explain how education is your path to fulfilling your American dream and how some are unfortunate enough to not have this opportunity.

my American creed is the importance of family