American Identity: Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness

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American Identity How does the American Identity relate to you as an American? In my own humble opinion, the American identity to me is represented by three little words; Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Three very different pieces relate to those three words; “The Declaration of Independence,” “ I Hear America Singing,” and the artwork named “Spirit of ’76.” Evidently, all my rights as an American come from life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness like I’ve said. Jefferson said, “Any form government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it” (Jefferson, 129). This is my right as an American, my unalienable rights. It’s my right to abolish or try to alter a law, if I so happen not to like it. If I don’t approve of lets say the president, I have the right to vote for a different one every four years when I reach the age. Jefferson always said we had three true rights to being an American, he wrote “certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”(Jefferson, 128). Being an American theses rights cant be taken away from me, my right as an American to have these three main rights.…show more content…
I as an American have the Freedom of Speech, to say what I want to say. In Whitman’s poem he spook “ The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam” (Whitman, 424) the carpenter is doing his job as American, as a hard working American. No one is telling him or me to be something that he and I don’t want to be. With being an American I have the right to choose what I want to be and do with my life. One other t his Whitman said was “ the delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work” (Whitman, 424) even as an American woman we are always hard working. Like my self, a very strong hard working young American

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