Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Relfection


Before we started this unit I thought that America was perfect, perfect place to live, grow, and dream to be whatever you wanted to be. After reading these articles and learning more about how other people view America has changed my thoughts. I do believe that America is a great place to live but it is not perfect and never will be until we do change something’s about how we live. I now think that us Americans are very greedy, selfish, and arrogant due to the fact that we think that we have it all and we can get whatever we want if we pay for it. This is actually not true because we have been in so much dept that it is hurting our economy. 

There were two texts that influenced me a lot. One was “American and Americans”. This text influenced me in a negative way because it really pint point on all the bad things that do happen here. It also made me understand that where I live isn’t the perfect place and never will be. The other text that influenced me was “The America I Love”. This text influenced me in a positive way. It did because there are a lot of people who don’t have it as good as we do. It made me realize that I can’t take the little things for granted because if some people had the same chances that I have would make the most of it.

An unanswered question that I still have is what are we doing as a country to try and fix all of these negative things?

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