Just The Facts Ma Am Analysis
When we think of the idea of getting involved in our town or area we always assimilate to take responsibility for our actions involved in the community and what happens around us because of that. Engaging in our community and giving notice of our ideas and opinions on various topics may change and affect events that influence us as citizens. Through Bob Graham’s book he explains through a guide the steps we should take as members of a political involvement with the community, he also shows how to define into detail our responsibility of been participants. There are many ways we can participate in our community as citizens, for example – being engaged in community service associations, being part of a protest or a movement regarding policies
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that should be change, the right to vote, etc.
Stetson’s concept of citizenship is combined with the encourage of participation and intellectual and personal development. The University's overall mission is to provide and encourage the development of integrity and personal growth in each of their current enrolled students. Stetson provides several options to guarantee that everyone, if they choose to, participates and embrace commitment to social events happening in our community. Stetson wants us to prepare for life and slowly makes us develop interest in values. Stetson believes that the commitments in the values of our students doesn’t only involve around participation, but about passion and what’s being learned through the components of participating in the community. To have a fuller embrace of engagement in our community Stetson developed a requirement called Cultural Credit, which allows students to participate in events in which they can get in many community activities and experience a development as citizens. After all, Stetson isn’t a school that demands only educational participation but also provide us a creative community engagement.
On his book Bob Graham illustrates many stories involving how average people took terms and responsibilities of situations and with passion and determination got to accomplish their policies/ideas in a political matter. It is very interesting how Graham took interest to see the perspective of how other’s worked their way to accomplish their strategies. Many point Graham makes are strategies to persuade and involve the people to the level of government and political stages.
In Graham's second chapter, " Just the facts ma'am " he narrates a story in which a group of Florida residents tried to solve the cause of their windstorm insurance getting an increase; by gathering information the citizens formed the Fair Insurance Rates In Monroe (FIRM) with the objective to discuss the statewide imbalance of insurance rates, stop an additional increase in rates, and roll the rates back to an affordable level.
In this chapter Graham's addresses the foundation of effective citizenship, which he describes saying, "You cannot solve a problem or successfully confront a challenge unless you have specifically, realistically, and clearly defined it." (pg 45, line 10). As a person, there are many things that upset us regarding politics, what's going on in the world and society, what's going on in our community, and even what's going on in our houses. The first step we have to take before actually going into detail with something is to bring out the facts, the real causes, advantages and disadvantages of whatever problem you want to present. As a citizen, to present facts the first step is to gather information to convince those we want to present the points of the problem, Graham mentioned "[a]n informed citizen who makes persuasive use of facts, figures, and real-life examples is better positioned to sway the city council, county commission, or state legislature than is someone who speaks from ignorance or pure emotion, often claiming without substantiation to be the sole processor of the truth." (Page 45, line 16) By researching some facts relating your interest you can find data that may be beneficial or may relate to other similar problems that could be face at the same time, by taking the time to research you enhance credibility of what you are going to present to the public, the more you know the better. Defining the challenge in political terms might become beneficial to look for actual political terms that can change your problem you're getting
involved and keeping track of it how influences in your community as a public term. One of the concepts that we have to take in consideration is who the audience is, what public support do we have if any, and what level of the government can be involved regarding our challenge, "The key is determining which entity controls the particular problem you aim to solve" (page 75, line 9) The key point of citizenship is being involved in their area, present facts, building a concept of what's going on, getting involved with organizations and engage through media by finding the resources to support the initiative objective. Graham's book covers practical strategies for people to engage in democratic practices encouraging the readers to get involved in citizen participation issues highlighting some political and reasonable aspects regarding the issue a citizen wants to face.
In both terms Graham’s and Stetson’s goal regarding us as citizens is to get involved in and comprehend how we could affect the community. Being able and determined to be part of a change that’s beneficial for the majority is a significant step coming out of just complaining and actually contributing time and effort. Graham’s concept of getting involved politically is a compelling advice but regarding the situation and exactly what challenge we're facing, political involvement isn’t always a great idea; Many political figures abuse of their power and discourage people to keep moving on and fight for their rights of taking action to make a change at all. From my perspective, and what it has occurred, in my country political action would be irrelevant. In Venezuela, a communist/socialist country that lately has faced ongoing protest and civil unrest, the planning, persistence, and communication between the citizens and those superiors would just become in a whole controversy with no solution. In chapter 3, “The Bucks Stops Where?” it shows how Barbara Capitman’s persistent can result in a success from years to years passing by , however, there are other events that may happened while this events are being taken care of and might affect the processing of the whole issue we are trying to face. On the other hand, Stetson’s concept of preparing their students being active in events of their interest motivates them while at the same time engaging them to associate with the community. One of the concepts of Stetson’s mission in Global Citizenship their goal incorporates “University and individual commitments to community engagement, diversity and inclusion, environmental responsibility, and social justice.”
Now back to the main idea of what really citizenship is; many people assume that by being born or living in a country you’re already a citizen but it does not necessarily mean you are, many immigrants are part of our community and many take action, even participate more in political arrangements. In fact, the U.S. is known for the variety of cultures and immigrants that came here centuries ago to race and make what we now know is our nation, The United States of America. Throughout the history of the United States, many of the movements that have being affected in our community come from families whose ancestors once were immigrants. One of the biggest examples is Martin Luther king’s Junior Civil Rights movements.
Many people would thing the concept of a citizen is just a person who is born in a country and has the rights to vote and the benefits of being born in that specific place but, subjectively speaking, there are two roles of a citizen, a good citizen and a bad citizen. The first time our class had a discussion on what makes a person one or the other we managed to agree that a citizen is characterize by the choice he or she makes to be actively involved in matters regarding their political aspects. A person that gets involved in their community is seen as a good citizen, but then again, a person that wants to make a change doesn't necessarily have to be born in the United States. Through the U.S. history we have fought for equality and as people living in the same country resolving the problems this country has it is something we have fought for.
that should be change, the right to vote, etc.
Stetson’s concept of citizenship is combined with the encourage of participation and intellectual and personal development. The University's overall mission is to provide and encourage the development of integrity and personal growth in each of their current enrolled students. Stetson provides several options to guarantee that everyone, if they choose to, participates and embrace commitment to social events happening in our community. Stetson wants us to prepare for life and slowly makes us develop interest in values. Stetson believes that the commitments in the values of our students doesn’t only involve around participation, but about passion and what’s being learned through the components of participating in the community. To have a fuller embrace of engagement in our community Stetson developed a requirement called Cultural Credit, which allows students to participate in events in which they can get in many community activities and experience a development as citizens. After all, Stetson isn’t a school that demands only educational participation but also provide us a creative community engagement.
On his book Bob Graham illustrates many stories involving how average people took terms and responsibilities of situations and with passion and determination got to accomplish their policies/ideas in a political matter. It is very interesting how Graham took interest to see the perspective of how other’s worked their way to accomplish their strategies. Many point Graham makes are strategies to persuade and involve the people to the level of government and political stages.
In Graham's second chapter, " Just the facts ma'am " he narrates a story in which a group of Florida residents tried to solve the cause of their windstorm insurance getting an increase; by gathering information the citizens formed the Fair Insurance Rates In Monroe (FIRM) with the objective to discuss the statewide imbalance of insurance rates, stop an additional increase in rates, and roll the rates back to an affordable level.
In this chapter Graham's addresses the foundation of effective citizenship, which he describes saying, "You cannot solve a problem or successfully confront a challenge unless you have specifically, realistically, and clearly defined it." (pg 45, line 10). As a person, there are many things that upset us regarding politics, what's going on in the world and society, what's going on in our community, and even what's going on in our houses. The first step we have to take before actually going into detail with something is to bring out the facts, the real causes, advantages and disadvantages of whatever problem you want to present. As a citizen, to present facts the first step is to gather information to convince those we want to present the points of the problem, Graham mentioned "[a]n informed citizen who makes persuasive use of facts, figures, and real-life examples is better positioned to sway the city council, county commission, or state legislature than is someone who speaks from ignorance or pure emotion, often claiming without substantiation to be the sole processor of the truth." (Page 45, line 16) By researching some facts relating your interest you can find data that may be beneficial or may relate to other similar problems that could be face at the same time, by taking the time to research you enhance credibility of what you are going to present to the public, the more you know the better. Defining the challenge in political terms might become beneficial to look for actual political terms that can change your problem you're getting
involved and keeping track of it how influences in your community as a public term. One of the concepts that we have to take in consideration is who the audience is, what public support do we have if any, and what level of the government can be involved regarding our challenge, "The key is determining which entity controls the particular problem you aim to solve" (page 75, line 9) The key point of citizenship is being involved in their area, present facts, building a concept of what's going on, getting involved with organizations and engage through media by finding the resources to support the initiative objective. Graham's book covers practical strategies for people to engage in democratic practices encouraging the readers to get involved in citizen participation issues highlighting some political and reasonable aspects regarding the issue a citizen wants to face.
In both terms Graham’s and Stetson’s goal regarding us as citizens is to get involved in and comprehend how we could affect the community. Being able and determined to be part of a change that’s beneficial for the majority is a significant step coming out of just complaining and actually contributing time and effort. Graham’s concept of getting involved politically is a compelling advice but regarding the situation and exactly what challenge we're facing, political involvement isn’t always a great idea; Many political figures abuse of their power and discourage people to keep moving on and fight for their rights of taking action to make a change at all. From my perspective, and what it has occurred, in my country political action would be irrelevant. In Venezuela, a communist/socialist country that lately has faced ongoing protest and civil unrest, the planning, persistence, and communication between the citizens and those superiors would just become in a whole controversy with no solution. In chapter 3, “The Bucks Stops Where?” it shows how Barbara Capitman’s persistent can result in a success from years to years passing by , however, there are other events that may happened while this events are being taken care of and might affect the processing of the whole issue we are trying to face. On the other hand, Stetson’s concept of preparing their students being active in events of their interest motivates them while at the same time engaging them to associate with the community. One of the concepts of Stetson’s mission in Global Citizenship their goal incorporates “University and individual commitments to community engagement, diversity and inclusion, environmental responsibility, and social justice.”
Now back to the main idea of what really citizenship is; many people assume that by being born or living in a country you’re already a citizen but it does not necessarily mean you are, many immigrants are part of our community and many take action, even participate more in political arrangements. In fact, the U.S. is known for the variety of cultures and immigrants that came here centuries ago to race and make what we now know is our nation, The United States of America. Throughout the history of the United States, many of the movements that have being affected in our community come from families whose ancestors once were immigrants. One of the biggest examples is Martin Luther king’s Junior Civil Rights movements.
Many people would thing the concept of a citizen is just a person who is born in a country and has the rights to vote and the benefits of being born in that specific place but, subjectively speaking, there are two roles of a citizen, a good citizen and a bad citizen. The first time our class had a discussion on what makes a person one or the other we managed to agree that a citizen is characterize by the choice he or she makes to be actively involved in matters regarding their political aspects. A person that gets involved in their community is seen as a good citizen, but then again, a person that wants to make a change doesn't necessarily have to be born in the United States. Through the U.S. history we have fought for equality and as people living in the same country resolving the problems this country has it is something we have fought for.