The Symbiotic Relationship

In the family we can become who we need to be to help our country. The family is where we learn, grow, and become better. My mom and dad taught me how to read when I was four. We have scripture study every night, which helps us grow spiritually. Spencer W. Kimball said, “Home is the place to save society.” We will learn how to be leaders and how to work with others in our families, which we can’t learn anywhere else. I’m the oldest of six kids. I get to help my younger sibling with things like knitting, chores, and bracelet making.  We also learn to honor our fathers and our mothers, as is stated in the Ten Commandments. The family is where we learn how to protect our freedom and our country.

Our country is important. It should help uphold the importance of the family. Our country can keep us safe, free, and happy. If we didn't have our wonderful country we would not be as free and as happy as we are now. The pilgrims give an example of when a country was important in their lives. They were able to come to this great country to be free and independent. Our country plays an important part in our lives.

My family and my country both are important but my family draws a little ahead of my country. I see it as a symbiotic relationship as seen in the animal world. A symbiotic relationship is when to things help each other and both get something out of it. Clown Fish and Sea Anemones, Pilot Fish and sharks, and the Honey Guide Bird and the Honey Badger are just a few examples. So I think that’s the same with our families and our country. I would say its family that is most important, which helps our amazing country like a symbiotic relationship. 

Opinion Paper: Why is a moral people required for good government?

By Shaun Leahy

Why do governments fall when they started off with an iron will, a strong sense of morals and a tireless philosophy of freedom and rights for the people and turn in to a mad, conniving, thieving society that is thoughtless, corrupt and destructive? What happened to this government? How did these people begin to starve when the country was thriving and became one of the world's largest supplier in grain?

The answer to these questions is an immoral person with a charming smile. Every country that falls has many corrupt men behind it. For the person that represents a country has much influence and will set the tone of the country. A good, smart, uncorrupted government requires moral, sane people in charge. Why because they want to create a solid, stable government that the people truly want.

Another reason is because the moral man is not the one to speak lies that are often told to citizens to control of influence them. An immoral man speaks lies openly with pride and deception. A nation that is going to be a good nation must know the truth, with a government that will not do anything that makes the people grow ignorant and become unaware of what is happening to them. (Such as the Mao's Communist China, or North Korea today) I have noticed that all corrupt governments are soon replaced with other corrupted governments.

I also feel that the people themselves the regular average Joe are very important to this operation to have a good government the people must be involved and that is why I believe that one of the biggest reasons our country is failing is because the citizens of America are becoming less free and less involved in the country to make our nation stornger we must involve the people and they must be recognized for the people make up the country.

My point is that you must have moral people to run the country for they help to determine what is moral in a nation.

I believe that one of the duties of a citizen is to make sure that the person in charge is being ethical if they are not the nation will fall. The people do not want a dictator no one in the world wants to be a slave to their own nation, when that is the case, war will break out and unless the charges against this dictator a new corrupted nation would emerge from this fallen one. My point is that if you have strong, smart, moral people to run and be citizens in this nation that it would stay a strong, moral, and sane. If the people remain that way then so will this country.

What are my self-evident rights?

By Shaun Leahy

As human beings, there are certain rights that we cannot survive without. We will be dehumanized without these fundamental rights, and yet, there are countries in this world that are constantly taking away these natural laws, formed by humanity itself. Thought the tempest that is this world, something stands out when people are being unjustly treated. An understanding that we are all meant to be treated by with these standards. But what are they? What is the single most subject that all human beings agree upon? Here are some self-evident rights that I believe that every being wants.

1. The right to be treated fairly in the court of law. Innocent until proven guilty.
2. The right to be heard. By a nation, people, leader or even among friends.
3. Freedom of thought. To think what you want to think.
4. The right to associated with whomever you want to.
5. The freedom of speech.
6. The ability to learn what you want to. Read, write, or other forms of learning.
7. The right to be yourself or who you want to be.
8. The freedom to express yourself in any group.
9. The right to follow who you want to
10. The right to your own religion. To worship as you please
11. The right to express yourself
12. The right to choose your profession
13. The freedom to enjoy life.

These are just some of the self-evident that I believe all people upon this earth should have. If everyone in the world had these rights then we would have a better, smarter and saner society. I wonder what right I take away from people in my everyday life without trying to. I say this because these laws don't just apply to a government they apply to everyone in the world. Although the people should be the government. I wonder what I can to make sure that people around me are at least treated by their fundamental rights. I guess what I can do is to treat people the way I want to be treated. I believe everyone has the same rights, we are all born with these rights. And so to know my rights I must ask myself how I must be treated as a human being and how must I treat others.

The Flame of Liberty

 by Emerson Becker 

"For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine the coal can never expire," as declared by Thomas Paine. To understand what this statement is describing I'll take it apart. The "flame of liberty” he is referring to liberty as a fire. "For though it may sometimes cease to shine,” I would describe as our liberty is being taken away from us and we are taking it for granted. The "coal can never expire” means at least the idea of liberty will never be completely destroyed. I believe it is a true statement.

When the pilgrims came to America in 1620 for their religious freedom their flame of liberty was burning bright.

Through the years of living in America they took their freedoms for granted and their flame started dimming until it was almost coal.

Then when the king of England George the III started to take away their liberty their coal almost burst into flames. That started the revolution in the 1770's as it became a bonfire.

It burned for a couple hundred years but is now mostly coal. 

Some of us are stoking our fires. The right to own and use fire arms is being taken away. Organic farmers are having more and more regulations. We should wake up to what's going on around us and help bring back the "flame of liberty”.