American values (Final exam time, this is the LAST english help thread)

[GotTurbos?]

ill quote the prompt to make it easy for you guys:

"If you could translate a piece of writing that represents an essential American Value - and have that translation widely distributed to people in nations that might have a skewed view of The United States - what would it be? What one document or literary work would best articulate the character values and spirit of the American people?"

cliffs: need an article that displays an essential American value

p.s. our responses should be published in the news paper so Ill make a supramania shout out if you guys give me the hook up :naughty:

Jon

 

[outofstep]

A Clockwork Orange. Yeah I know it's set in england.

 

[Big Wang Bandit]

That movie rocked cause it had the Probe 16

http://www.imps4ever.info/specials/centaur/probe/probe16.html

Outofstep has a good point

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Read the Great Gatsby...that, to me, signifys Americans and their values.
jealousy, envy, money, lust, cheating, deception, death. old money vs new money.

its a great book.

 

[GotTurbos?]

Read the Great Gatsby...that, to me, signifys Americans and their values.

read that 2 months ago...

haha it represents our values? yea, that we can get away with doing anything we want until we piss of the wrong person and get shot trying to take a damn swim! LOL, good book and good movie

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

read that 2 months ago...

haha it represents our values? yea, that we can get away with doing anything we want until we piss of the wrong person and get shot trying to take a damn swim! LOL, good book and good movie

it says this..money gets u some badass places, money does this and that and u can get away with whatever....but it just cant make you happy. money alone cant make you happy...u become a slave to it.

 

[GotTurbos?]

as childish as it seems, Im thinking about using "holes"

IDK yet, I have to either use a book I have here, or something that I can print off the internet.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Go watch Cool Hand Luke..youre bound to find something in there.

 

[bigunitpitcher22]

Use the Constitution. Plenty of American values in there.

 

[GotTurbos?]

ahh, forgot to add on part of the directions:

"you may not use the declaration of independence or the constitution."

right now my biggest problem is finding something that I can have in my hand tomorrow for class.

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Read the Great Gatsby...that, to me, signifys Americans and their values.
jealousy, envy, money, lust, cheating, deception, death. old money vs new money.

its a great book.

If you want to show the world how boring you can be. :ugh2:

 

[Solid Soup]

Dude! American Psycho. Brett Easton Ellis. You could totally read that in a night, or rent the movie that is not as good but still good! There's gotta be some good stuff in there.

 

[Supracentral]

The Constitution of the United States of America

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

The Constitution of the United States of America

He can't use that fooo.

ahh, forgot to add on part of the directions:

"you may not use the declaration of independence or the constitution."

right now my biggest problem is finding something that I can have in my hand tomorrow for class.

Christian Bale was awesome in American Psycho. Only reason it was any good.

 

[Supracentral]

I'd use this section of Atlas Shrugged. I can't think of anything more American. ;p

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

So that's where that came from.

 

[lanky189]

The Federalist papers:
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/federalist/

 

[bigunitpitcher22]

Ah, the Federalist papers, good choice.

 

[thesandymancan]

I'd use this section of Atlas Shrugged. I can't think of anything more American. ;p

good reading.

i think you should find a book/article that shows how weak american values truely are. someting that shows greed, deception, frawd, adultry, drug use, murder, and blackmail. i don't know of a book that includes all of thoes values but it would make for a great essay/paper.