by Fabienne Pierre

Created on: December 16, 2008   Last Updated: December 15, 2009

While I was researching about the Constitution I've come to realize that most of the amendments need to be restructured. I've made my own decision about what this country means to me and making my own opinions of what we need to do to fix it.

I think we have a dilemma. The American Dream. I believe that the American Dream is just a word that describes nothing. Well over 100 years ago the American Dream stood for courage, camaraderie, safety, and protection. Also the dream expressed patriotism and the thought of being anything a person wanted to become.

The American Flag is like the American Dream, because well over 100 years ago, the white part of the flag stood for purity and innocence, red stood for hardiness, and valor, blue stood for vigilance, perseverance, and justice, last but not least, the stars stood for endurance and graciousness. The dream and the flag stood for something else. They stood for hope, beliefs, and accomplishments of our nation. I think that, us Americans give the American Dream and Flag way too much power.

"Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose"-Ulysses S. Grant.

They both have to be treated with respect. Its been brought to my attention by a twelve year old girl that we give these simple words such significance that we treat the people in America like trash, because no one cares if a homeless person touches the gr ound, like they would if it were the flag. They wouldn't clean the homeless person, and shelter them, the way they do the flag.

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it" Martin Luther King Jr.

Instead of trying to perfect the American Dream and the American Flag, how about we try to make the American Dream, by fixing our nation, and saving its people? Then we would open our blind eyes to the bona fide meaning of the Dream. Betsy Ross would be quite surprised to see how successful her creation has become. But Thomas Jefferson would be saddened to see how little of the flag and dream's real meaning remains

"People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantas izing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error."- Florence King.

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