The Defining of a Nation

                 "My country tiss of thee, sweat land of liberty...." These words begin a patriotic song taught to many Americans at an early age. They are also a good beginning for this essay. To define my country in its entirety would take a life time, which would be an impossibility in this essay. But it is possible to give a few characteristics that, to me, provide meaning to my country.         One of the greatest attributes of …

…to a court's decision causing racial tension and riotous outbreaks of violence, irony has charted the maps of America's past and it is this characteristic that helps to define this country even more.         As my home land continues to grow, it defines itself, each day, in a different way. The people change while a government grows in order to form a nation where freedom rings to those who chose to ring the bell of liberty.