to understand words. It is about reading‚ listening‚ or hearing texts and coming up with your own thoughts on them. Being able to discuss your thoughts between many different people using your life and knowledge as a baseline. Critically literate citizens challenge thoughts by advocating as well as being active in their government. An activist uses literacy to critically understand and challenge social and political power. Activist’s enjoy collaborating with other groups to change attitudes‚ policies
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The plot of Citizen Kane is about the life (and last words) of an extremely rich‚ famous‚ and formerly influential man named Charles Foster Kane. His life is shown through flashbacks and interviews‚ all of which come together to reveal more and more about Kane‚ as they take the audience through important points of his background and life‚ as seen through the eyes of those who knew him. The film starts with Charles Foster Kane’s death and last word‚ which is ‘Rosebud’. After his death‚ a reporter
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Slave and Citizen Essay It is common knowledge that slavery was an immoral and corrupt practice that destroyed lives‚ families and cultures. However‚ author Frank Tannenbaum the culture of the slave masters dictated how well the slaves were treated. Tannenbaum attributes factors including religious views‚ cultural traditions and laws granting slaves protection the credit for the polarizing differences between slave holding societies. He argues that centuries of inhumane and brutal treatment coupled
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Claudia Rankine‚ author of the book Citizen features multiple artistic genres including: poetry‚ prose‚ images and videos that can be found online. She uses many images that strike readers as beautiful and intriguing to show the importance of understanding the message and main ideas of her book. On image she used in her book‚ which can be found on page 160 was created by Joseph Mallord William Turner. The Slave Ship was created in 1840‚ based on a poem that depicted a slave ship that was caught in
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Battle over Citizen Kane I really enjoyed watching this extremely interesting and entertaining documentary about all of the aspects of this film. In most aspects‚ Orson Welles was the most interesting and fascinating character. It was almost as if I had wanted to learn more about him for a really long time and I never had. It was very well put together and had some great stories. It seemed that I made the similarity of Orson to Marilyn Monroe. I am not a scholar on Marilyn‚ but I know that
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think of freedom and citizenship. The right to vote or the right of free speech are aspects that‚ as citizens‚ we posses. Being born in America automatically gives you these rights and many more‚ and most importantly‚ you become a citizen. Now‚ with citizenship comes responsibility such as obeying the law and paying taxes. So if you follow these simple rules does this make you an effective citizen? This question‚ in my opinion‚ is almost impossible to answer for a number of reasons‚ which will be
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America. The Preamble In act 14 of the Constitution‚ we are given our civil rights. Our Constitution says that all persons born or naturalized in the United States‚ and subject to the jurisdiction thereof‚ are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. All citizens hold a very important position of authority. Many years ago our forefathers implemented a Constitutional Republic government. Our Republic government shows some similarities with a democracy in the ways we elect
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I’m going to become an active citizen in four simply steps which are learn about the issues‚ figure out what is not working and try to come up with solutions‚ take action‚ and make sure to talk to others. Step 1: read a good newspaper or website like www.cp24.com. Find out what is going on and what’s good and bad about my city‚ state‚ country‚ and the world. Step 2: start by looking in my city you I don’t get confused. To do this‚ I will need to make a list of categories‚ which will help me break
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Amber Champion December 1‚ 2012 SPC 2608 In today’s society there seems to be many different restrictions in place. Many people would say too many. For example‚ restrictions on the minimum age requirement before you are allowed to drive a vehicle‚ minimum height requirements for children and adults in order to be able to ride a roller-coaster‚ and how old you have to be in order to legally be allowed to consume alcoholic beverages. Although‚ many of these restrictions are in place to
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In Citizen‚ Rankine describes a microaggression where she responds with silence to satisfy her oppressor’s ignorance. As a child‚ Rankine had this close friend who called her by the black housekeeper’s name. Rankine reflects on the multiple incidents because “[she] never called her [friend] on it” and that act of silence bothers Rankine (7). Her friend eventually stops calling her by the housekeeper’s name‚ but she never forgets; the incidents weigh heavily on Rankine’s memory. When her friend
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