Essays on American Nationalism

Based on the novel Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, the production of a film with the same name is world-famous. With its release date falling in 1939, the movie starred Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Vivien Leigh, and Olivia de Havilland and went on to win multiple academy awards for its apparent ability to capture the Old South as it was before the coming of the American Civil War. Presently, the movie has become one of the classic romantic renditions of turbulent love affairs, with a particular emphasis on Rhett Butler and Scarlet O’Hara, who, as they ...

American nationalism is the kind that is concerned with asserting America on the international scene as a nation as well as promoting its culture and unity of purpose. This would imply the direct actions of the American government aimed at advancing the position and role of America on the international scene. It also entails the actions of multinationals whose mother country is America, movements, and non-profit organizations advancing their ideals, and the elements of American culture that inform their charters and terms of services on the international scene. Orientalism is an outlook that emphasizes, projects, imagines, misrepresents and exaggerates ...

Walt Whitman is widely known as the first American ‘Democratic’ Poet, and for his liberal thinking. Whitman began creating poetry as a means of defining America in 1855. Although America has always been a conflicted and multi-cultural nation, Whitman tried to recreate it as a unified whole through his poetry. In Song of Myself, Whitman describes America as, “One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same” (Whitman). Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” like the rest of his poems stems from the desire to heal, mediate, and reunite different factions in American, and create a unified ...