Friday Favorites - Land of the Free

Today's prompt: What is your favorite part about America? Write a motivational speech promoting it.


Melody Joy wrote:

I guess I sort of covered this on Monday.... My favorite part about America is that it’s easy to leave.

Don’t like the way America is headed? Get out! Don’t like the new health care laws? Get out! Don’t like what the president is up to now? Get out! Don’t like the racism and hatred? Get out! With your American passport, you can easily make it into a total of 174 different countries without needing to get a visa in advance! That means if you don’t like America and want to escape, you can! And, it’s easy! Just book a flight, pack your bag, and you’re on your way! Go, Americans! Be free!


Pope Jon wrote:

Art.

I'm not fool enough to say that America has the best art in the world. That's for each individual mind to decide on its own. It wouldn't be art otherwise.

But none can deny the abundance of art that flows from America via cinema, media, and music. Sure, the quality of much of this overflow is widely considered to be low. But American art is unique in the way that it adapts to other cultures. Many say that America has lost its way and isn't the country it once was, and I'm not in a position to argue.

But one thing America still has going strong is diversity. Rap mixes with rock, comedy mixes with romance, and hate mixes with beauty. Sure, all that diversity sometimes gets ugly, but art isn't always attractive. Sometimes art just needs to prove a point.

Many of the greatest musicians, writers, and actors have come from the land of the free, the home of the brave, and the thing about Americans is that we rarely know when to quit, good or bad.

So pick your genres. Be it romance, RTS, and heavy metal, or comedy, RPG, and techno. Whatever your tastes, America has something in store for you.

'Murica.

Dana Lee wrote:

We should fight for our right to express ourselves! We should fight for our right to write whatever we want in the press. This is something that you know we all take for granted. We need to fight to defend our rights. Let's tell the nation and everyone how we feel about them! Let's spread the the awesomeness of the freedom of speech. Let's tell everyone how awesome it is that we have freedom of the press. Let's assemble together! Let's practice our own religions. Let's worship how we want to worship.