Being an American can mean numerous things. Such as being proud‚ brave‚ and confident. But most importantly‚ it means being free. Families and individuals come to the U.S with the hope of a new life and a greater future. They see it as a fresh start as well as a chance to start over and become more successful. All of those who arrive to America are in search of a life fulfilled with freedom‚ liberty‚ and happiness. Accomplishing these three things are what makes an American “successful.” It doesn’t
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Modern Day Prisons Patricia A. Farley Abstract This paper explores compares and contrasts the Pennsylvania Correctional System and the Auburn Correctional system and explains why the Auburn Correctional system most closely explains our modern day prisons. “In the early decades of the nineteenth century there arose two competing models of prison discipline in the United States; one was the “separate” or “solitary” system employed in Pennsylvania‚ and was kept as much as possible in total
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What it means to be an american There are many ways to describe the american identity today like family traditions or or how you feel in time of tragedy. Another way to describe an american identity is the age of the person. How old the person is will affect their american identity because they have seen more than us more tragedy and that may have shaped their identity differently according to how long they have been around. A person who has been around longer knows more about America. How does
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What being an American means to me is that I have the rights to do anything. Even though we are able to have all of these rights doesn’t mean we are able to take advantage of them there are still consequences for our actions. All the people in the Navy‚ Army‚ Air-force etc have the job to protect us‚ not everyone who shoots people just because. Being an American to me means being respectful to everyone. Like what Harry S Truman said‚ “you know that being an American is more than a matter
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mainly from Mexico and South America. What de Crevecoeur said continues to stand for them to an extent. This new wave of poor immigrants still see America as the land of opportunity. The leave their homes behind and move to this country where they can receive “land‚ bread‚ protection‚ and consequence.” Though one of de Crevecoeur’s statements about new immigrants are not true with Hispanics coming to this country. In de Crevecoeur ‘s words‚ “He is an American‚ who leaving behind him all his ancient
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widely known events that have occurred in the United States is the American Revolution. The purpose of that is due to the many sources of its occurrence. The American Revolution was a war that was fought for the independence of Americans‚ a war that had various triggers. Many colonists were fed up with the treatment that they endured from the British and decided to rise up and fight for their strong cause. In short‚ the American Revolution was an uprising that was brought upon by unfair treatment
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Since the early 1980’s the private prison system in the United States has expanded immensely. This is mainly due to lobbying between corporations and politicians including big investors gaining record high profits within Wall Street. Through such lobbying this movement has been baptized as the Prison Industrial Complex where the main goal is making money by sending individual bodies to the confinements of the prison system. With the U.S. prisons housing approximately more than 2 million inmates through
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The American Revolution occurred between the years of 1775 and 1783. It was the colonists’ way of fighting for their independence from Britain. It took several years and a variety of events to cause the colonists to fight for their independence. These events include the French and Indian war‚ Taxes and laws‚ protests in Boston‚ The Intolerable Acts and the Battle between Lexington and Concord. The French and Indian War took place between the years 1754 and 1763. It was a war fought between American
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This article ‘Germans Americans: Paradoxes of a model minority’ discusses about their immigrations and the problems associated with it. First of all‚ in May 1917‚ was against the fact that bilingual schools of Indianapolis state were singing star Spangled banner in German translation even though they were had the least number of ethnic groups. Germans almost did not exist. Benjamin franklin said that they were trying to make people German instead of adapting to the language or culture they lived
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The Stanford prison and BBC prison Experiments comparison In summary the studies showed that the behavior of the ‘normal’ students who had been randomly allocated to each condition‚ was affected by the role they had been assigned‚ to the extent that they seemed to believe in their allocated positions. The studies therefore reject the dispositional hypothesis. The Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrates the powerful role that the situation can play in human behavior. Because the guards were placed
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