Sample Synthesis Essay-- Focus on Style

Mauro Villalovos
Per. 2
10/28/08
Burning in the Melting Pot

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the nation for which it stands… with liberty and justice for…..some.” America, a country of immigrants, has not kept its promise to the ideals from it was constructed. Race, gender, and social status it all matters under the watchful eyes of the statue of liberty.

One of the races that helped, and allowed this nation to grow has been horribly mistreated, the African American people. According to source E, Janie was unaware of her “race” until she was six years of age. At school, she was teased for being black. She was hated without any justification at all. The black race continued to suffer, even after being “emancipated” by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.

To big corporations, the word “equality” exists only in fictitious stories and folklore. In source D, an employee of Wal-Mart shows the qualities of the modern slave, the wage slave. Wal-Mart, according to source D, likes to make it’s employees feel like associates, to convince the human that he or she is not a slave, that he or she is equal to them, even though the company takes away your civil rights and freedoms as soon as your foot touches the entrance. If your belongings are on their property your boss has the right to examine it, ladies and gentlemen, George Orwell’s nightmare has already been implemented in our society. The Wal-Mart employees and other company slaves leave their freedoms outside of the work place and enter Hitler’s vision of the world. You’re under surveillance from cameras, other employees, your boss, consumers. You get paid minimum wage to become a slave, and this is what it means to be a wage slave. After all wasn’t the American Revolution made to erase such injustices?

As a whole, we all love privacy when we shower and when we attend to other such matters. But source F tells us our phone conversations are anything but private. America loves to keep a close eye on us. Share a different belief and you will find an unmarked van in front of your house. Say something negative about President Bush and you will find yourself in Guantanamo Bay with the rest of the “terrorists”

In 1978, Congress passed the foreign intelligence surveillance Act which gives them insight on your personal life. With his committee, Bush passed a bill which allowed wiretapping without warrants. George Bush was told that such moves were unconstitutional, and he replied with “it’s just a god damn piece of paper!” such disregard for the structure of our nation shows the “democratic” totalitarian rule.

Life in America is unequal; the rich get richer and the poor get power. A nation built for free enterprisers, and big business. America is a giant honeycomb, and the average person is the honey bee. The only thing that separates the average American from the honey bee, is the bee is not mistreated and judged; it isn’t asked to be quiet; and most importantly, it has wings and can fly away and be free.