“An informed citizenry will benefit from applying both creative thinking and critical thinking in solving the challenges of our society.” The definition of an informed citizen is having sufficient and sufficiently reliable information or knowledge to be able to understand a subject or situation and make appropriate judgments or decisions regarding it. If I had to have a personal definition on an informed citizen I would say that it means involving ourselves with the overall knowledge of politics
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DBQ Does a strong democracy need good citizens? Of course a strong demorcracy need good citizens. This is also true for moon colonies. But how many of each good citizens do we need to help this colony to stand erect on this world? The evidence shows a strong colony needs 40%personally responsible citizens‚ 40%actively participating citizens‚ and only 20%justice oriented citizens. A colony need personally responsible citizens‚ they are best worker‚ and they are friendly. For example‚ personally
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Introduction One of the salient features of the National Service Training Program (NSTP)‚ particularly its Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS) and Literacy Training Service (LTS) components is that it focused on the promotion of the general welfare of the Filipinos via responsive and altruistic community based projects by student trainees as they undergo community immersion in fulfilment of the requirements of NSTP. Coverage Under the NSTP Program‚ both male and female college students of any baccalaureate
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RIGHT TO INFORMATION The Government of India always lays emphasis on making the lives of its citizens easy‚ smooth and making India truly democratic and keeping this in mind the RTI Act has been established. RTI stands for Right To Information and has been given the status of a fundamental right under Article 19(1) of the Constitution. Article 19 (1) under which every citizen has freedom of speech and expression and have the right to know how the government works‚ what role does it play‚ what are
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“Four Challenges of Sustainability” by David W. Orr “Four Challenges of Sustainability” by David W. Orr confronts the problems of sustainability and proposes a path to get there. The concept of sustainability is the primary topic and goal in regards to the future of humans. The entire idea that humans and civilization as we know it may cease to exist‚ is a relatively new idea. This very real idea has spawned acknowledgement and pursuit of avoiding it through sustainability. Militarization‚
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Quinn Bailey 3/4/2013 Civic Duties of Teenagers Introduction Civic duty is the obligation to each of us to leave our community in a better condition than we found it. Every person in our country has rights‚ and with those rights come responsibilities. That is what civic duty is‚ your rights and responsibilities that help contribute to society. Every single day we perform these tasks to help better our country as a whole. Teenagers have a huge role in this circle‚ whether they believe it or not
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National e-Governance Plan Funded under the Integrated Action Plan (IAP)3 ‚ the National e-Governance Plan aims to provide support to the district administration to facilitate development of G2C (Government to Citizen) services. The three pillars of the infrastructure used to implement the plan are the state data centres‚ state-wide area networks and common service centres (CSC). Jharkhand has been selected as the pilot state for the implementation of this Plan‚ and Ranchi is the pilot district
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John E Kennedy once said‚ "ask not what your country can do for you‚ but what you can do for your country". These are wise words to live by‚ since every person has a civic duty that they owe to their country. All Americans owe so much to their society including; obeying the law‚ paying taxes‚ and making an effort to get a job. The government puts laws in place to ensure that the society will run smoothly‚ and everyone owes it to the country to obey these mks. Laws are created only to‚ again‚ further
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Introduction The purpose of this essay is to illustrate‚ compare and contrast the moral and political duties and characteristics of a citizen according to Plato and Aristotle. The essay will be splitted into three parts. The first part will focus on Plato’s description of citizen’s duties‚ followed by Aristotle’s view on it. The comparison and highlighting of the differences and similarities between philosophers will be given at the next part. Finally‚ it will be concluded that Aristotle and Plato
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Citizenship Law in Africa A Comparative Study By Bronwen Manby Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) Open Society Justice Intitiative Second edition October 2010‚ incorporating revisions to the tables and other information relevant to Kenya‚ Libya‚ Namibia‚ South Africa‚ Sudan and Zimbabwe. Copyright © 2010 Open Society Institute. All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-936133-29-1 Published by Open Society Foundations 400 West 59th Street New York‚ NY 10019 USA www.soros
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