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Why I Want To Be An American Essay

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My uncle has won best rock album in his band and my aunt has been on America’s Got Talent a few years back, you can say I have a music based family. My family has a wide range of careers, my mom is a teacher, my aunt is a composer for her band, and my dad lays down tile for various houses and other places. Then there is me, who is on YouTube and performs with my cello and piano in her room dreaming big. I have always dreamed about performing on stage with my cello or on Broadway on some stage in New York. Then you look at other countries, not England or Austria, but countries like Syria or Pakistan. Countries like those who don’t have the freedom to do what they want love to do, that is performing arts related or anything else that expresses what they want to do. That is why being an American means that you have the freedom of expression. When I was little, my mom got me a piano that can plug into your TV and you can play songs like themes to various shows from my childhood, Christmas songs, and songs that were playing in that year when …show more content…

I remember asking about if they had a violin, because my nine year old self thought that it was the coolest instrument ever, but he said he didn’t. Then he brought out what I then thought was the coolest instrument ever, the snare drum. He played a piece on it and the loudness of the instrument was the coolest thing ever. Before you can learn something like that, you first had to learn the treacherous recorder for a year. So my seven class mates and I learned it, then performed several pieces at the time, and moved on to what we called the cool instruments. My friend Jacob and I were the only fourth graders who were taking the snare at the time and we both loved it, we took solo and ensemble together and both got first on our solos. Sadly, I moved school and couldn’t join my band, but I then found

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