Jamison Bracy
3/31/17
Miss. Bryant
Essay
7th
Values
I am going to use requiem for the American Dream and To Kill a Mocking Bird. This will help define three of America’s values and, I will use outside sources.
One of the values is personal control over the environment. Over the years, we have built: cities, towns, workplaces, etc. We as people control how our world is formed. For example, things we do can change a lot of things, like pollution. Pollution kills lots of animals every year. In, To Kill a Mockingbird, some kids will grow up to be racist because of their parents.
Another value is time and its control. It is one of Americas most important values. Time is to be kept, on, wasted, spent, given, etc. Time controls us because everything we do is based on time. Your job could be lost because you weren’t on time. Another Example is, when NBA teams play most teams lose because they ran out of time, not because they were the worst team.
My last value is individualism and privacy. Some Americans are individualist but not all. Individualism is what makes us different. Privacy is something we all want, but we can’t get privacy all the time. When people put things on the internet those things are no longer private. If you post the wrong thing on social media it can never be erased. So, therefore your privacy is not an option anymore. Some kids lose scholarships, to colleges, because of something bad they posted on social media.
There is a movie called Free Birds, it’s when two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must team up to travel back in time to change the course of history, trying to get turkey off the Thanksgiving menu for good. (Instead of eating turkey people ate pizza). This movie relates to time and its control because when they time traveled everything changed in the present.
An outside source for our personal control over the environment is a movie called, After Earth. In this movie people polluted the earth to where it was not livable for humans. Every human on earth had to go to a unknown planet, where people had to live their forever.