GOOD CITIZEN Human beings are used to living under laws and patterns that are dictated to us by society‚ but following those patterns does not make us good citizens. To be a good citizen first you have to be a good person. By that I mean that you have to be full of values‚ principles‚ ethics‚ etc. When joining all these aspects together you will find out that there is nothing else to be needed. One important aspect for being a good citizen is to help people. All around us‚ we can see there are
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4.1.1. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at its 62nd session in September 2007. (UN Portal) It is not a legally binding instrument but represents a very important political step towards a binding recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples. The declaration explicitly guarantees indigenous peoples - as collectives but also for individual members - a right to the enjoyment
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The Unknown Citizen "The Unknown Citizen" by W.H. Auden‚ is a commentary on government and the materialism of modern man. The poem is written in the form of an obituary inscribed on a monument built by the government in commemoration of an average‚ upstanding‚ and decent community member. Throughout the passage‚ the speaker lists facts about the citizen’s life which he believes prove that the deceased was a valuable person. In actuality these facts represent nothing more than the socially accepted
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sometimes trust the process to much. I forget that unequal access gives rise to unjust outcomes‚ even when the process itself is fair. I make sure that both my head and heart agree. Although I do a good job of balancing the needs of the community and the rights of individuals‚ I do tend to be rigid in my application of universal principles regardless of
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The Unknown Citizen : W.H. Auden - Summary and Critical Analysis | The Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden is a satiric poem. It describes an average citizen in a government-controlled state. In many big cities‚ there is a monument to the Unknown Soldier that stands for the thousands of unknown soldiers who die for their country. The title of Auden’s poem parodies this. | | The citizen to whom the monument has been built has been found to be without any fault. He was a saint not because he searched
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Caterin L. Villar November 27‚ 2011 English 102 Professor Rigney Is Assuming the Role of Citizen Journalist worth the Risk? Amateur journalism is becoming more and more popular everyday with the advancement of technology. Newspapers across America have become so decimated by staff cutbacks that citizen journalists are stepping in to fill the gap in covering the news. Facebook‚ Twitter‚ and Youtube are only some of the free websites where users are connected with others and can share in
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The film Citizen Kane (1941)‚ directed and written by Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewicz‚ is an American film drama that use various film techniques to illustrate themes‚ attitudes‚ and the development of a story. Welles’ use of camera angles‚ lighting‚ movement‚ symbolism and expression allow the audience to comprehend and understand the themes such as power and exploitation that are present in this movie along with many other themes that pertain to the life of the main character‚ Charles Foster
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"The Unknown Citizen" is an occasional poem. That is to say‚ it is a poem written to mark a specific occasion or event. The occasion is indicated in the lines contained in parenthesis that precede the body of the poem. As these lines indicate‚ the poem is a written monument that functions like a cenotaph: it commemorates a fallen man whose identity is unknown. However‚ unlike the soldier who falls in a battle of war‚ the battle this individual appears to be unwittingly a part of is a social battle
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What is national unity? National unity and integration is a situation where by people of diverse cultures‚ religions‚ languages‚ political‚ social and economic systems are brought together to have a common goal The people have mutual understanding‚ love‚ co-operation and trust among them. They are united‚ tolerant and have faith in their fatherland. They de-emphasize their differences and stress more on their common goals and aspirations and any other thing that can bring about unity in diversity
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1 Myths and Realities of Higher Education as a Vehicle for Nation Building in Developing Countries: The Culture of the University and the New African Diaspora Seth A. Agbo Pacific University Oregon‚ U.S.A. Abstract The thesis of this paper is that the African university‚ like its counterpart in the advanced developed world‚ has maintained a stubborn resistance to change in spite of external pressures and internal transformations. The university strives to remain protected from external
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