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| America's Symbol of Freedom and Rights: the Flag |
The flag symbol originated in 1775 on American ships in New England water flying a liberty tree flag.
The flag has evolved greatly to change the colors used because the colors represent things, to include all 13 colonies, and to have all the states symbolized. One of the first flag changes was in 1775 when red and white stripes were added to the original tree flag. Then in 1776 Betsy Ross made a red and white striped flag with a blue corner that had 13 stars. After this template was created each time a state was added a new stripe and star were too so this happened in 1795, 1818, 1819, 1820, 1822, 1836, 1837, 1845, 1846, 1847-48, 1851, 1858-59, 1861, 1863, 1865, 1867, 1877, 1890, 1891, 1896, 1908, 1912, and 1959-60. The flag has not undergone any major changes since this because no new states have been added.
There are many purposeful design elements chosen on the flag such as colors, stripes, and stars. The stripes represent the 13 colonies and the stars represent the 50 states. The colors are also symbolic with red meaning valor, blue meaning justice, and white meaning purity.
The American flag represents freedom, unity, liberty, and unalienable rights. I think this meaning is overall very widespread and viewed as a positive symbol because many schools and other establishments, sport games, etc all say the Pledge of Allegiance together in unity and with pride.
Our flag has been nicknamed Old Glory, Stars and Stripes, or Star-Spangled Banner. These nicknames. These nicknames have usually originated from soldiers or art pieces such as poems or songs. For example Star Spangled Banner originated from a Francis Key poem and Old Glory came from a war veteran. This shows our culture at the time highly valued veterans and art forms such as writing or music.
You could learn that the flag represents freedom and that our country has extreme patriotism to the flag though the country genre. Some of these songs include, “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue”, “American Soldier”, “It’s America,” etc.
I can tell our flag is very respected because it is used to honor the dead by flying at half mast, it is praised by all American people, it represents our veterans and their bravery, and it has a song dedicated to it that is sung throughout the entire US.
The flag itself does not represent any controversy, however, there are many controversial, disgraceful ways to use it. For example, when laid flat the union stars should be left, on top. When the flag is raised or lowered everyone should face it with their right hand over their heart, and the flag should never be touching anything below it or pointed at something.
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From this source i got one of the nicknames i mentioned above, the colors symbolism, and the appropriate customs of how to handle and respect the flag.
From this source i learned and saw all the different flags the US has been through and all the changes to it. I also got all the dates I used from this source for answer #2.
I learned about what morals and values the flag represents and that one can legally do whatever they want to a flag because it represents freedom and your rights.
I needed songs to list as examples and this website was very helpful and provided me with hundreds of songs about the American flag and patriotism.
Your post looks pretty good! You could have a little more descriptive caption to your image. You don't exactly say that you found certain things from a source, not exactly sure when you're talking or when you're using a source.
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