Unit Two: Assignment One

Five purposes of the government are to: represent the people, rule the country fairly, protect the country and its people from danger, take care of the needs of the people, and maintain relationships and protect allied countries.
My family served in the American Revolution and I would certainly be willing to follow in their footsteps if the government refused to fulfill their duties as listed above. To me protecting the people of America and her integrity is far more important than obeying the government. At times your only honorable option is to take matters into your own hands and break the law for what is right even if it means putting your own life on the line, even if it means having to take other lives. That is my opinion, what I have been taught since birth, and will I stand by it no matter what it takes.

Assaignment 1: Should I Stay of Should I Go?

Most immigrants to the Unites States today are motivated by hopes of freedom and ecomonic prosperity. Though they will lose many things; they might have to leave their family and friends and all but the most essential possessions behind; they gain many things. They can escape oppressive governments, achieve assylum from persecution, earn higher wages, and have all the rights granted to every citizen of the United States.
Personally, I plan to make aliyah. Aliyah means return in Hebrew, to make aliyah is when a Jew immigrates to the holy land of Israel. I would not go for economic or freedom issues, instead to go to Israel means many other things to me, a Jew-by-choice. It means a chance to be part of a country, a family of Jews. It means a chance to defend my people by serving in the Israeli Defence Forces. It means to escape a country where Christianity is so prevalent it has become oppressive. It means to see a beautiful country, a paradise. But, most of all, it means to fufill a longing that is impossible to explain, it means to finally be whole again.