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A couple of days ago we read a poem called America. It struck me as not your average poem. Mainly because it was actually good. But i didn't think much of it. Later in the week we wrote a paragraph about it and it struck me like a baseball bat across the face. America. That is the ultimate icon. It is everything we set our goals to. It fuels our hope and aspirations. That may seem like a broad stroke but understand. America is the center of the map. At least as far as Americans are concerned.

I'm not really sure what "pervades our lives" means but I'm assuming it means the icons that affect our lives. The American ideals are my icon. The college-bound, American dream driven, individualist, elitist ideals.

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I've decided instead to do Statue of Liberty as the icon but I'm going to stick with the American Ideals theme.