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There are many values that I appreciate 

and enjoy: equality, progress, material 

comfort:

Yet, at least to me, I most appreciate my 

freedom.   In America, all people are 

free to do what they want as they want.  

Since the beginning of this country, Americans 

have been free to speak as they like, to assemble 

as they like.   They are free to practice religion, or 

not practice religion. 

We have been free to own guns.   We have also 

been free to write what we want to write.   And 

those freedoms are not just because we are 

Americans, but because we are people.

Those freedoms are 

something not lost on 

me.   I use those 

freedoms, and it is 

something I appreciate.  

While many other countries now have the same 

freedoms, they have not always existed there.   And our 

world has many other countries and cultures where 

those freedoms do not exist.   In places like North Korea 

and Cuba, brutal dictatorships restrict the freedoms of 

its people for many reasons.   Those countries do not 

have the freedom to express their dissatisfaction with 

their lives

Until 1989, many 

countries in Europe, 

seen to the right, did 

not enjoy these 

freedoms.   In the 

Soviet Union and other 

Communist countries, 

they did not have these 

freedoms.

These freedoms are something that I do not take 

lightly.   I cherish these freedoms on a daily basis.   I 

think of someone the same age as me living in North 

Korea who has no idea what the world is truly 

about, and that is sad and pathetic.

I express these freedoms in the 

clothes that I wear, in the 

words that I use, and in my 

actions.   These are things many 

others do not have.   I am free to 

live my life how I want to live 

it.   My freedoms are very 

important to me, and I will 

cherish those freedoms for the 

rest of my life.

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