Diversity In America

One thing all Americans have in common is diversity. Having diversity causes Americans to work together and form a bond and treat everyone as they would like to be treated. We also have our freedom in common. Everyone has rights of speech, religion, press, etc. so everyone can define who they are and who we will become. Everyone has different ideas as to what being an American means, but to me it means that we have individuality, that we take pride on our country, and that we can be opportunists.
Individuality is shown through many different ways. It can be shown by standing up for someone or by defining yourself by your own thoughts and personality. Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley in 1676. He
Proud in the way that we are not ashamed to say that we are from the United States and that we can take pride in what the achievements that we make. Many people had made achievements in the worlds of art, literature, and science. Thomas Cole came to the United States in 1819 and later became famous for his beautiful paintings of American landscapes. A poet at the time had described Cole's paintings as “scenes of the wild grandeur peculiar to our country.” This means that his incredible paintings were foreign to the United States and his paintings were very unique and that . In the field of literature, Washington Irving published the first American sketchbook. His drawings included “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Female writers also had become very popular, such as Margaret Fuller or Catharine Sedgwick, who wrote serials for magazines and newspapers or some women had written best-selling novels. Edgar Allan Poe may have been the most whimsical author in the 1800’s in America. His poetry and short stories reflected deeply troubled lives, containing abused drugs and worrying constantly about money. The Americans still seemed to enjoy his work. As far as scientific advances go, people had taught themselves astronomy, developed ways to predict winds and ocean tides and monitor weather predictions, and developed a way of using ether as an anesthetic during surgery. At this time, people would not be ashamed of where they live because they are developing ways that are not coming off the ideas from the British and coming up with their own customs to live by. (Era of Good