United States Flag
The United States flag bears three different unique and patriotic colors significant to the United States of America. These colors include; red, blue, and white. The stripes alternating between red and white. There are 13 stripes in total symbolizing the 13 British colonies that became free from the Kingdom of Great Britain. The red stripes also represent the 7 continents of the world. Moving onto the upper left side of the flag, you will see a blue square which symbolized the Union. Inside, there are 50 stars which exemplify the 50 states in the United States. The flag is used to show the patriotism shown in the United States of America. Recognizing the independence we had gained and the freedom and liberty we have created. Usually many American citizens will fly their flags year round inside their private homes, but its most widespread during holidays like Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, and President’s Day.
United States Revolutionary Flag
The United States Revolutionary Flag otherwise known as the “Betsy Ross Flag”. The Flags exterior resembles very closely to the United States Flag but differs in the amount of stars the flag bears. The flag shows 13 starts instead of the 50 stars the United States Flag shows. The 13 stars resemble the 13 colonies . The distinction of the flag is how the stars are arranged, in a circle. “In 1877, author Alfred B. Street (1811 - 1881) places the flag at the 1777 surrender of General Burgoyne, and understood the circle of stars to represent equality among the American states” (Wikipedia. “Betsy Ross Flag”). Many people have tied the true meaning to the flag to history. Researchers and historians believe that the stars could resemble the United St...
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First I would like to include some information about our american flag and how it came about. In the British colonies of North America before the Revolution, each of the 13 colonies had its flag. On Jan. 2, 1776, the first flag of the United States was raised at Cambridge, Mass., by George Washington. Known as the Grand Union flag, it consisted of 13 stripes, alternate red and white, with a blue canton bearing the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew. Congress, on June 14, 1777, enacted a resolution “that the Flag of the United States be 13 stripes alternate red and white, that the Union be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a new constellation.” On Jan. 13, 1794, Vermont and Kentucky having been admitted to the Union, Congress added a stripe and a star for each state. Congress in 1818 enacted that the 13 stripes, denoting the 13 original colonies, be restored and a star added to the blue canton for each state after its admission to the Union. All of the states and territories of the United States also have their own flags. Betsy Ross created the first flag. Betsy would often tell her children, grandchildren, relatives, and friends of the fateful day when three members of a secret committee from the Continental Congress came to call upon her. Those representatives, George Washington, Robert Morris, and George Ross, asked her to sew the first flag. This meeting occurred in her home some time late in May 1776. George Washington was then the head of the Continen...
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The quote "Martin Luther King didn't just carry a piece of cloth to symbolize his belief in racial equality; he carried around an American flag" by Adrian Cronauer really makes you think about what the American Flag stands for. The American Flag is not just a piece of fabric. The American Flag symbolizes so many things our great nation was founded on. The American Flag stands for equality for all, freedom, and tolerance. Our founding fathers wanted something to symbolize everything their new nation would stand for. In the end our founding fathers chose to make a flag with thirteen stripes representing our original thirteen colonies with thirteen stars also representing our original thirteen colonies. This flag still has thirteen stripes but now has fifty stars representing all fifty states in our nation (History). The American flag represents a nation shaped by more than two hundred years of history.
There are many rules to correctly displaying the flag of the United States of America.
Have you ever stopped to think, what does our flag mean to me? Well to me, our flag means justice, united, hope and sacrifice. Let me explain word by word. The word justice is like saying all of the police men and women out there. They bring criminals to justice so then they can face their consequences. Now we go to the word sacrifice. Sacrifice to me means all of the solders out there sacrificing their lives to keep us safe, to let us free and most important to keep the United States of America together. Now we go the word, united. United to me means the two that we just talked about. We talked about sacrifice, we talked about justice and they both keep us united in many ways. Since the soldiers risk their lives to keep us safe, they also
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“So we raise her up every morning. And we bring her down slow every night. We don’t let her touch the ground, and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag, ‘cause I’m mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag.” – Johnny Cash
Like America our flag symbolizes many things about this nation such as freedom and people's right and many more. Flags has been around for many years and flags can represent a country with colors and shapes. This part is important to the project because this flag will be representing our island and what it will stand for. Also it will symbolize what will our island be. For this solo project I had to do the flag which I have to make a flag for our country. I had to think of colors and symbols that can represent us in the island and the island itself. Which we settled with the colors white, blue, black, yellow, and red. We had many shapes that symbolizes our island and us that is in it. It represented a courageous and determine