Free Narrative Essays - Marching Backwards in Americana :: Personal Narrative Essay Example

Marching Backwards in the Statesna   Id like to tell you about my dream... its a stick where strip malls abound and diversions mere moments away. Where the ones least refined define culture youll be left behind if you dont fit in. Everythings backwards in Americana. --The Offspring   Indeed, everything is backwards in our Beautiful America Where the intellectuals are on the bottom of the social hierarchy--at least, until they become rich intellectuals. Where magnificent painters, musicians, and writers can be belittled as starving artists--before they become famous artists, that is. Where so many of us find it too difficult to take a walk or jog outside--but will spend hours searching for the remote control. Yes, this is Americana.   anticipate Free or Die, as the New Hampshire state motto tells us. Since the 18th-century debut of the phrase, it has inspired the encumbered to fight to no end for their rights to representative government, to vote, to equality. And when those liberties were granted, they sought the jurist to industrialize Native American reserves, to dump toxic wastes into the ocean, to smother monkeys with chemicals. How long must we fight until we can call ourselves free?   Your freedom isnt free. Pushing us a drug you call freedom and democracy, promise us that selfishness is the means for happiness... If this is all there is to freedom, I dont want it. --Five Iron Frenzy   Protect whats yours - slide what isnt. When someone else wants it, take it. If you cant have it, complain. Everythings game in this country, no? Isnt that the meaning of freedom?   Something went seriously awry in this countrys constant quest for justice between July 4th, 1776, and today. Will we ever be satisfied with what we have, or will our crusades for more be the death of us? Lets demolish the forests, we need more homes--someone else can get about oxygen depletion. Hop in the car, its too far to walk around the block--I dont believe in acid rain. No place to dump those hazardous chemical wastes?