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God Bless the U.S.A. " God Bless the U.S.A. " (also known as " Proud to Be an American " [ 2][ 3][ 4]) is an American patriotic song written and recorded by American country singer Lee Greenwood, and is considered to be his signature song. Released by MCA Nashville on May 21, 1984, it appeared on Greenwood's third album, You've Got a Good Love ...
Thomas Paine(born Thomas Pain;[1]February 9, 1737 [O.S.January 29, 1736][Note 1]– June 8, 1809) was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, political activist, philosopher, political theorist, inventor, and revolutionary.
Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to a country or state. This attachment can be a combination of different feelings for things such as the language of one's homeland, and its ethnic, cultural, political, or historical aspects. It may encompass a set of concepts closely related to nationalism, mostly civic ...
The novel Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. is an exploration of the pursuit of American success as it turns delirious and lethal, told through the ensuing tailspin of its main characters. George Carlin famously wrote the joke "it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it".
Fart Proudly. " Fart Proudly " (also referred as " A Letter to a Royal Academy about farting " and " To the Royal Academy of Farting ") is the popular name of an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin c. 1781 while he was living abroad as United States Ambassador to France. [1] [2] It is an example of flatulence humor .
Stereotypes of American people (here meaning citizens of the United States) can today be found in virtually all cultures. [1] They often manifest in America's own television and in the media's portrayal of the United States as seen in other countries, but can also be spread by literature , art and public opinion .
A painting of Jonathan Swift. Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of English literature.Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states: "A young healthy child ...
The Coddling of the American Mind. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure is a 2018 book by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. It is an expansion of a popular essay the two wrote for The Atlantic in 2015. Lukianoff and Haidt argue that overprotection is having a negative ...