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Iceland Ice Mansion Sports Activities School Farms Bungee Jumping Dark Room Community Ice Skating Rink

The Declaration of Independence We’ve been trying to change how things were, but it just got worse and worse, so we want to change it. People have the right of speech, the right of religion, the right of freedom, right of choice, right of jury, right of press, right to vote, right of belief, right of property, and the right of opinion. We don’t like the president. We don’t like that the schools don’t get enough money for supplies. We don’t like that the school doesn’t give us lockers. We don’t like how they treat immigrants. We don’t like running the mile in PE. We don’t like homework.

Bill of Rights • • • Right of speech Right of religion Right of freedom Right of choice Right of jury Right of press Right to vote Right of belief Right of property Right of opinion.

I. Members Page: Anyone who wants to become a member of our island can become a member. We would like to start with 50 people. We think any kind of people should be able to live on our island. Our qualifications for our island is to be responsible. Our island would be open to all people. We wouldn’t select the members. We would allow outsiders into our island. There will be no requirements and anyone can have the chance to live in our island.

II. Citizens Page: Every citizen on the island has the same rights as everyone in the island. The duties of the members would be to work and pay for what they owned. Everything on our island is equal for everyone. There would be no social stratification on our island. The most important job on our island would be constructing. A perfect citizen would be a responsible person who always makes the right decisions. Every citizen should look up to God. If someone doesn’t obey our laws they would get kicked of the island.

III. Children/Education Page: Every parent that lives on our island can have as many children as they want without having a limit. Every children have to live with their parents. Children have the same rights as adults. No, every child can do what ever activities that they want. Children would get educated by going to school. The parents are the educators. Every child has to go to school. The traditional higher education would be retained.

IV. Island Power We will have a democracy as a government. Our President would make all our decisions. Our island will be based on political authority. We would vote to make all decisions. On our island we would have a constitution. We will vote to select who is the officials. We would have officials on our island.

V. Island Governing Body: The president will be charge of our island. The president will live in the Ice Mansion. The president will only have a certain amount of power. The members of our island have ten rights. They are the right to speak, the right of religion, the right of choice, the right of jury, the right of press, the right to vote, the right of belief, the right of property, and the right of opinion. The president’s responsibility is to keep the island in order. The responsibilities of the members are to work for our island to respect each other. We would have a Three Strikes Law. Every time they did something against the law, they would have to go in a pitch black room that only had a toilet and a bed. They would have to stay in there without eating for a whole day. Once they do something bad three times they get kicked off the island. Our leader would have to be a good Ice Skater. Then the 3 judges would decide who was the best. Only 3 people can run for president at a time. Whenever the president wants to make a new law the people have to vote for it. They will either say no they don’t want the law or yes they want the law.

VI. Work: People go to stores to buy what they need at their homes. People have jobs such as constructing our island, farming, selling food, making new products for our island, and staying at home managing their households. When the people work, they get paychecks. It depends what you work for the amount of money we get. It depends what you work for. If you work at something that is really hard you get a lot of money, but if you work for something more easily you get less money. People who were doing unpleasant jobs would get better pay than those doing pleasant jobs. People would determine their jobs according to their abilities. The people who work for our island would work 8 hours a day.

VII. Leisure: On our island we offer a lot of fun activities for our members. People on our island ice skate for fun. People will only be able to have fun on their free time. On our island we will have all kinds of sports people can play. We will make leagues for all kinds of sports. It will be available for anyone who wants to play sports. The most important sport on our island is ice skating. Everyone has to go ice skating on Saturdays is a sacred day for us on our island. Nobody will go to work or school on Saturdays. Not going ice skating is against the law. We also bungee jump of the cliff for fun.

VIII. Economics: We do have an economy on our island. On our island we would use dollars as our kind of money. My utopia would be based on private property. My utopia would be based on middle class and would be at poverty level. In our community we would grow all kinds of fruit and vegetables, such as apples, bananas, watermelon, grapes, oranges, kiwi, tomatoes, squash, zucchini, etc. Our product is grapes. On our island we will import and export. We will only allow family members of the citizens to visit our island. If outsiders come to trade on our island we will make them follow our rules by telling them that if they don’t follow our rules we will kick them out.

IX. Values: The fundamental values of our utopia is liberty. Our goals for our utopia are to make our utopia as civilized as possible. We share the same common values, such as liberty and privacy. Everyone would have their own goals and they would have the same values.

X. Antisocial Behavior or Conflict Resolution: Citizens on our island should always be responsible and respect other citizens. One should help friends if they need help, but if it gets to a point where you might get in trouble, you should stop. You shouldn’t hurt any enemies unless using self- defense. We enforce our laws by using the Three Strikes Law. On our island if someone doesn’t follow our rules or huts someone we punish them with the Three Strikes Law. The Three Strikes Law means that when you break a law three times you get kicked off the island forever. Every time someone breaks laws or commits criminal behavior we send them into a dark room for one day. While they are in the room the criminal won’t have any food. We will deal with self-destructive behaviors by using the Three Strikes Law. We would deal with conflicts between individuals by sending them to one of our professional counselors. When two people get in an argument we will send them both to the dark room. We will ban all weapons including guns, the only people who may use any kind of weapon would be the army.

Skate Til’ You Drop

Optional Pages: Plant & Animal Life On our island we can whatever they like. They don’t have just one kind of food. On our island our agriculture would be organic or non-organic. On our island just a few animals will be needed for food such as chickens, pigs, and fish. We will also need cows for milk. This production will be under the factory system. There would be free-range of animals such as cows, chickens, and pigs. Hunting will not be allowed, except for chickens, pigs, and cows. Some animals will be used for testing to try to find a cure for other animals or humans. On our island we will have animals as pets, some animals will be cats, dogs, birds, rabbits, and reptiles.

Optional Pages: Gender Differences/Relationships On our Utopia book, they let women and men live together on our utopia. Also in the book, men and women would have the same roles. They should be equal. The book we read also kept the nuclear family role. Men and woman on our island will be able to get married. The priests will give the ceremonies in the church. Alternative relationships would be prohibited. On our island we would accept young relationships.

Optional Pages: Military/War On our island when we have rebels we will sent out the army to take care of the people. The way we will prevent the masses from wanting to rebel, is that we will start kicking people of the island. When angry citizens decide to rebel, because they were not happy with who was elected, they will have to leave our island. We will stop the citizens desire to overthrow the government by sending them to the black room. We would not want to abolish war. All weapons will be banned, with the exception of the army.

Optional Pages: Alcohol and Other Drugs Alcohol will only be allowed to people over 21 years old. If someone did something crazy, then they will not be allowed to drink. Tobacco won’t be allowed, nor any other drugs. There will be no restrictions.

Optional Pages: Religion On our island we have only one religion, in which we believe in ice skating. If the people in our island don’t believe in ice skating they will be asked to leave the island. There would only be one religion, one social institution, and one political institution. There would be one religion, so that everyone agrees on the same thing. We wouldn’t have to deal with religious strife, because everyone would agree on the same thing. We would deal with cults and gurus by allowing it. We will have rituals and celebrations. The most important celebration would be when the first ice skating rink was made. We will have something called the seven sacraments. They are Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing of the sick, Matrimony, and Holy Orders. Religion would be integrated into daily life, by going ice skating every Saturday.

Optional Pages: Scale of Island We would have one hundred people live per square mile. We would have people live one hundred feet away from each other. That way people wouldn’t live to close nor to far. People will work to earn their piece of land. Everyone should have their own land.

Optional Pages: Arts The role of arts in our utopia would be to influence the citizens. Our utopia will distinguish art from life. The president will do all the distinguishing. Our utopia would encourage the participation in t he arts by encouraging people to do arts. We would distinguish mere entertainment and serious art. Mere entertainment will be for just having fun and don’t really take it seriously. Serious art is for people that take art seriously and might choose art as their career. We would distinguish them by having schools for people who take it seriously and mere entertainment for people just to do it for fun. The president will decide who makes the distinction. We would make a distinction between amateur and professional artists. We will do the following by having professional artists practicing what they know and actually giving them careers and amateur artists will have the decision of going to schools where they make you a professional artists. There wouldn’t be an effect of this distinction. If artists actually become professional we will support them by encouraging them to pursue their creative efforts full time. The president will determine who receives public support. Their will be any censorship. The artists will do the censoring.

Optional Pages: Media On our island, we would have all types of media, such as TVs, radios, stereos, cd players and etc. Everyone would have media at their houses. The citizens would own the media. There would be censorship of the media, because we don’t want any inappropriate language. The people who make the media would do the censoring. Participation in media would be open to all. On our island we would have places were the media would be held, also the media would be held at the citizen's houses.

Optional Pages: Health & Medicine Our community members will receive medical care. Our utopia would utilize allopathic medicine. We will not allow all kinds of medicine. Only some medicines will be legal. Everyone will have the same chance to get medical treatment. Our utopia will/won’t deal with mental illness. Our island will not use psychotherapeutic approaches nor will it be used. Death and Dignity will not be allowed on our island.

Optional Pages: How the Elderly Are Taken Care of Our island let’s old people retire at 62 years old. Once you retire, if you worked hard you will get a certain amount of money every month for things you need. Once they reach 62 they will stay in a place just for them where they can have fun or they can also decide to stay at there house.

Optional Pages: Transportation We will use cars as our main way of transportation. There will also be buses, Bart, and airplanes. Anybody can own cars as long as they buy it. People can also own airplanes, but have to be able to afford it.

Optional Pages: Fashion On our island everyone has the choice to wear whatever they like. People will have the choice in clothing and home design. Tailors would design types of clothes that are wanted.

Optional Pages: Music/ Entertainment There will be a lot of music on our island. The music will be shares by listening to cd’s and radio. We would like all kinds of music to be available and all kinds of artists.

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