Journal 15: The American Ideal

in Ralph Waldo's quote of walking in our own feet, working with our own hands, and speaking with our own minds can be split and analyzed in three separate parts because each part expresses on American Ideal. Walking in our own feet means we follow our own footsteps, we have self-creation because everyone is original and can create our own path that suits us the best that will take us and lead us to success and wealth in America. Working with our own hands means self-reliance, means that we are independent and we rely on our own achievement. Instead of putting this in a tone that suggests everyman for himself and not helping each other, put this in a way that expresses the idea that we don't require and need help to achieve success in America because we are all capable and independent individual that achieve whatever we want just by ourselves. Speaking with our minds refers to the freedom of press and freedom of speech. This means that whatever we think we have the right and we should to say it out because what the people think matters and what the people think is what the country should think so we must voice out our concerns, comments, questions. This is an important idea because most of the European Monarchy system does not allow trash talk about the king or important figures.