Essay About Kathleen Gibb And Analytic Essay Of The Culture Of The United States

Analytic Essay of the Culture of the United States
One idea of American culture that we are ingrained with is monogamous relationships.
According to www.Dictionary.com monogamy is “marriage to only one person at a time”. As a matter of
fact, this idea has been set into law in every state in the United States. For example, my grandparents
Daniel and Kathleen Gibb were married for 75 years, and for all 75 of those years they never veered
from each other and stayed in unity until they both died. This idea, which is widely accepted and in most
places practiced as law, most likely came into being in the U.S. culture because the founders of the
country and their typically Judeo/Christian laws helped create the laws of the land. In the most primal of
forms it is for the children. “The human species has evolved to make commitments between males and
females in regards to raising their offspring, so this [monogamy] is a bond,” said Jane Lancaster, an
evolutionary anthropologist at the University of New Mexico. The ideal of monogamy in American is an
issue debated on daily. In the year 1967 the U.S. passed laws protecting interracial marriage and as of
2013 nine states have passed laws protecting same-sex marriage. These show that a majority of people
from all groups in the U.S. seek monogamy.
A second idea from the U.S. culture is that a free education should be available through the 12th
grade. Jared Gibb, a current student of K.V.C.C, graduated from Watervliet Senior High, a government
funded public school. He attended the school, 12 years, for free. This has become part of the culture as a
mandate from the government to ensure the children have a better opportunity in life to succeed.
Knowledge is power. By the 1870’s all states had free elementary schools and by 1964 all children
regardless of race