God Bless America

“God bless you, and God bless the United States of America” – Ronald Regan (Goldenthal 2015). Is our modern capitalist society where wealth is earned and maintained by private individuals originated from religion, specifically Christianity? Max Weber believed that religion played a central role in the western world’s economic development (Ritzer & Guppy 2014). In the article “God Bless America: How Christ became Central to Capitalism and US politics”, Goldenthal (2015) discussed the idea of how God or the idea of Christianization became the religion of the United States of America. The United States has not always used Christian terms to support their ideas of politics and capitalism. In this article, Princeton University professor, Kruse…

September 11th, 2001 was one of if not the most destructive and transformative terrorist events to happen on American Soil. On the morning of the event, three commercial airliners were hijacked by terrorist that slammed into the Pentagon and the twin towers of the New York’s World Trade Center. This attack took “2,752 men and women… including nearly 350 firefighters and 23 police officers” (Boyer, page 958). This horrid event had a silver lining of rejuvenating American pride. “God Bless…

songwriter Woody Guthrie. This Land is Your Land was written in response to the song God Bless America which songwriter Woody Guthrie disagreed. He wanted is own representation of a patriotic song that he felt would more accurately relate to American citizens at the time. In an article by Mark Allen Jackson, Jackson sates that “it is a musical response to God Bless America” (Jackson 251). In order to best understand the song it must be interpreted through historical criticism. Historical…

As many of you readers may not know it, I have taken the liberty of including it into this article. I myself didn 't know the words until a colleague of mine, who had the pleasure to work with the Air Core, gave them to me upon my request. So here are the lyrics to "Off We Go Into The Wild Blue Thunder." "Off we go into the wild blue yonder, climbing high into the sky, here they come zooming to meet our thunder, At em boys give er the gun (give er the gun now) Down we dive spouting our flame…

school. When I asked my parents to share stories, they humbly explained that they couldn’t assist with my literacy advancement. As Haitian and Jamaican citizens, they told me that I learned from my teachers and by my intellect, though they are a magnificent support system, always praising my efforts for high achievement. However, one story makes me smile when I hear it. At three years of age, I started day care with no knowledge of the English language; and thankfully, the school was welcoming…

We eat an awkward welcome/goodbye barbeque lunch with our parents and then we’re left to ourselves in McGloin, marooned on the second floor, what’s supposed to be a common room that apparently doubles as an overflow for wayward freshmen. Ryan and Tom are from Nebraska, close enough to leave campus for family dinners, visits with high school friends. So on the weekends it’s just me and Seth, a Chicago kid with the strangeness and attitude to prove it. We have two primary activities: we drink, and…

I have chosen to compare and contrast the following two works of arts: (1) Faith Ringgold, God Bless America, 1963 and (2) Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, from the series Women of Allah, 1994. Although they dramatically differ in appearance, style and interpretation, they convey a similar message. When looking at both Ringgold's God Bless America and Shirin Neshat's Rebellious Silence, the viewer can deliberately feel the tone the artworks set because of the color and the unity. Ringgold's…

self-pity? Here’s another quote from the same man in which he articulated his idea of what God is — and is not: He is not “the Big Guy upstairs,” nor the loud booming…

receiving a resignation from their leader and seeking assurance that the last 8 years have been a success. He delivered to them what they were seeking and left the office with the people feeling satisfied with his leadership. The main purpose of this section of the speech is to compare the country to a shining city on the hill in hopes of giving the people pride and hope in their homeland. The shining city on the hill is important to Ronald Reagan because he had used it all throughout his…

because I care whether or not you like me, but because I feel that you respected what I tried to do for each of you. I have always tried to be honest and upfront with you and challenge you to achieve more than even you thought possible of yourselves. It is very rewarding to be recognized by you for that. Every year, I leave my students with the saying that the greatest form of respect is to be challenged to do more than we think possible, because it shows that someone believes in us. I do…