A good citizen is one who knows his rights and duties as a citizen. He asserts his rights and performs his duties with equal zest. His rights infect imply his duties. In all democracies an individual enjoys political as well as civic rights. Political rights consists of right to vote‚ right to freedom of expression and faiths right to movement etc‚ Civic rights are of as vital importance as the political rights. This enables an individual to live in a civilized manner. A good citizen defends his
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CITIZENSHIP "The freedoms and privileges afforded every citizen in our democracy are unwittingly being threatened by the very citizens they were designed to benefit. The term Citizen’ is too often considered to be a status‚ gained either through birth or naturalization‚ rather than a role to be fulfilled.". Matthew Horton - Good Citizen Director (August 2003) GOOD MAN vs. GOOD CITIZEN “It‟s not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”- Aristotle A good man knows the difference
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Qualities Of A Good Citizen : A good citizen is one who is a good person. There seems to be no scope for differentiating between the two - for a weak or a bad person cannot be a good citizen and it holds true the other way round also. It is a man’s everyday behavior and his everyday virtues which count and contribute to his character. A good citizen is one whose behavior is consistent with the canons of self-respect and social justice and he should be reliable both in peace and war. The first
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Rights Of Senior Citizen : Need Of The Hour By despising all that has preceded us‚ We teach others to despise our self Ageing is a natural process‚ which inevitably occurs in human life cycle. It brings with a host of challenges in the life of the elderly‚ which are mostly engineered by the changes in their body‚ mind‚ thought process and the living patterns. Ageing refers to a decline n the functional capacity of the organs of the human body‚ which occurs mostly due to physiological transformation
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despite some kind of injustice within them? Are good citizens obliged to blindly follow the government policies? It follows then‚ what is good citizenship? Henry David Thoreau provides an adequate definition of good citizenship within his essay‚ Civil Disobedience; Thoreau discusses certain characteristics of a good citizen. Examples of Thoreau’s definition exist in both the ancient and contemporary culture. Sophocles describes Antigone as a good citizen by Thoreau’s definition. Within the play‚ Antigone
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Senior Citizen interview The senior citizen I interviewed was 86-years old. She was born in Florida‚ she have three siblings. The childhood of Mrs. X was very much like other children. Mrs. X belonged to a middle-income family who used to live in a small neighborhood. Mrs. x enjoyed several happy moments along with her siblings during childhood. Mrs. X‚ along with her family‚ has celebrated all occasions‚ holidays‚ and festivals. It depicts that she had a happy family. During childhood‚ Mrs
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FOUNDATION COURSE PROJECT PROBLEMS OF THE SENIOR CITIZENS ILL-TREATMENT BY THE NEXT GENERATION AND GENERATION GAP ISSUES INTRODUCTION The traditional norms and values of Indian society laid stress on showing respect and providing care for the elderly. Consequently‚ the older members of the family were normally taken care of in the family itself. The family‚ commonly the joint family type‚ and social networks provided an appropriate environment in which the elderly spent their lives. The
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Interview A Senior Citizen PSY/600 Vineeta Cooper September 30‚ 2013 Interview a Senior Citizen I interviewed a senior citizen named Debbie. Debbie is 57 years old and was born in Lynchburg‚ Virginia. She was raised with two other siblings. She has two brothers and she is the oldest of the three. Debbie attended school for thirteen years completing elementary school and high school followed by four years of college. Debbie graduated college with a degree in Elementary
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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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them for succumbing to peer pressure. In “The Unknown Citizen” by W. H. Auden‚ the speaker‚ a government bureaucrat‚ also takes on this two-faced attitude towards a man identified as the unknown citizen. At first glance‚ this poem seems like the well-deserved tribute to a man who lived the perfect life‚ but after a more detailed analysis‚ the speaker reveals his attitude towards his subject. The speaker uses diction and irony to criticize the citizen for following the standards set forth by society to
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