Critical thinking
For critical thinking I've chosen an Essay for my English class about the Pledge of Allegiance whether we should keep or get rid of "under god". The real critical thinking is that we needed to have our opinion but go against what we believe in. it was hard for me to think about the opposite of what I believed in.
Pledge of Allegiance
Before the U.S. was founded, Christopher Columbus discovered America while on his voyage to India for spices. After claiming the land the Christians believed in three things: “God, Glory, Gold". A phrase giving the reasons why the early Spanish explorers went to the Americas. When you think of the actual trip the Spanish had to endure to reach America from Spain, they had to have very important reasons to risk starvation, drowning, disease, and murder. Rumors of Gold - amounts beyond their wildest dreams - made men believe they could get rich quickly. Glory was to be found in the adventure and in the land they might claim, making them rich lords instead of poor sailors. God was a reason to go to America because they also wanted to spread Christianity across the Americas. The Pledge is related to this because “Under God” is a “Position with respect to the purely religious question of the existence and Identity of God.” The Pledge is supported by the Christian’s, but the government of this time cite “under God” had very little religious content.
One reason that people support keeping the words in the pledge is because the U.S. is a nation founded by Christian people. The pledge was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy. In 1954, during the McCarthy era and communism scare, Congress passed a bill, which was signed into law, to add the words "under God" to the pledge to not only make it a patriotic oath but a public prayer and is to be said at school when the flag is being raised daily. It is important for children to learn, respect, and even love the liberty and freedoms afforded to American citizens. Reciting the pledge and taking a basic civic course should be mandatory In public schools, yet or schools slack off in doing so.
There was a law that was made for the people to make it mandatory to recite the pledge in schools. It was mandatory because the name the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ says it all. An oath to the allegiance to the nation, the U.S.A, whoever recites this pledge demonstrates their loyalty to their country. Not reciting the pledge isn’t something that will get you arrested or something that you will be given a citation for, but it is just an oath that you make yourself and to your country.
Before the U.S. was founded, Christopher Columbus discovered America while on his voyage to India for spices. After claiming the land the Christians believed in three things: “God, Glory, Gold". A phrase giving the reasons why the early Spanish explorers went to the Americas. When you think of the actual trip the Spanish had to endure to reach America from Spain, they had to have very important reasons to risk starvation, drowning, disease, and murder. Rumors of Gold - amounts beyond their wildest dreams - made men believe they could get rich quickly. Glory was to be found in the adventure and in the land they might claim, making them rich lords instead of poor sailors. God was a reason to go to America because they also wanted to spread Christianity across the Americas. The Pledge is related to this because “Under God” is a “Position with respect to the purely religious question of the existence and Identity of God.” The Pledge is supported by the Christian’s, but the government of this time cite “under God” had very little religious content.
One reason that people support keeping the words in the pledge is because the U.S. is a nation founded by Christian people. The pledge was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy. In 1954, during the McCarthy era and communism scare, Congress passed a bill, which was signed into law, to add the words "under God" to the pledge to not only make it a patriotic oath but a public prayer and is to be said at school when the flag is being raised daily. It is important for children to learn, respect, and even love the liberty and freedoms afforded to American citizens. Reciting the pledge and taking a basic civic course should be mandatory In public schools, yet or schools slack off in doing so.
There was a law that was made for the people to make it mandatory to recite the pledge in schools. It was mandatory because the name the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ says it all. An oath to the allegiance to the nation, the U.S.A, whoever recites this pledge demonstrates their loyalty to their country. Not reciting the pledge isn’t something that will get you arrested or something that you will be given a citation for, but it is just an oath that you make yourself and to your country.