...PUBLIC SPEAKING AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT A research paper of Gamaliel Eve Relampago MInggong as partial fulfillment of the requirements in English 202 Submitted to: Nora L. Sisneros, M.D TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I- Dynamics of the Study I.a- Rationale of the Study I.b- Significance of the Study I.c- Narrative Approach of the Study I.d- Qualitative Paradigm of the Study CHAPTER II- Research Plans and Methodology II.a- Content Analysis of the Study II.b- Framework and Analysis II.c- Theoretical Foundations of the Study II.d- Interpretative Analysis of the Study REFERENCES CHAPTER I- Dynamics of the Study Public speaking has always been an essential part of our life. We might find ourselves being stuck in a situation to speak in front of people like funerals, weddings, graduations and school activities. It was never erased in our existence. Civic activities are one of these situations. Civic engagement or civic participation is the encouragement of the general public to become involved in the political process and the issues that affect them. It is the community coming together to be a collective source of change, political and non-political. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_engagement) Public speaking and Civic engagement goes hand in hand. Without speaking in public, like the definition above, you will never be able to speak your mind out to the general public for the sake of your purpose. Civic engagement doesn’t happen with just watching...
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...of apathy towards civic participation on one hand and on the other hand, witness campaigns and protests against an existing system. Much of transformation has been brought about in the society recently in various spheres; right of women to enter certain religious places, voices against corruption to name a few where there was large scale public participation. Public engagement and participation is manifestation of civic literacy- a 21st century skill, which is a pre-requisite for transparent, democratic governance. The ubiquitous social networking today, integrated with every sphere of one's daily life including education, holds potential of being used in different ways to make civic education more engaging and meaningful. Most of the youth today, is active on one or more social media with high participation. Large scale participation on social media campaigns for 'causes' like the Ice bucket challenge has shown that social media can have a wider impact...
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...education faculty that perceive critical thinking to be an essential learning outcome and the 6% of undergraduate seniors that actually demonstrated critical thinking proficiency. Source: Ian J. Quitadamo and Martha J. Kurts, "Learning to Improve: Using Writing to Increase Critical Thinking Performance in General Education Biology,” CBE Life Sciences Education, Feb. 2007. 2.Critical thinking is considered the second most important life skill after interpersonal skill. In a 1994 survey of over 11,000 college graduates, the "ability to think critically” ranked as the second most important skill out of 16 in their daily life (#1 was interpersonal skills). Source: Cooperative Institutional Research Program, "1994 Nine Year Follow-Up Survey (of 1985 Freshmen),” Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, 1995. 3.Learning and discussing controversial issues in school helps students become more informed and more active citizens. A 2007 survey of 5,400 secondary students found that: "Students who regularly take part in classroom discussion are more likely to: •Vote in later life •Support basic democratic values •Take part in political discussions •Follow political news in the media •Be interested in the political process •Have confidence in their ability to influence public policy” Source: Keith Barton and Alan McCully, "Teaching Controversial Issues...Where Controversial Issues Really Matter," Teaching History, June 2007. 4.Learning about controversial...
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...Democracy Latisha Wallace October 11, 2014 Govt 2305 American Government Today’s democratic societies practice representative democracy but the ideal of a true representative democracy, where those elected to power mirror the population of a given society is inconsistent with reality. The reality is that, there is an underrepresentation of different minority groups both in terms of their presence in the political assemblies and in terms of their substantive representation. History has shown that minority groups have been continuously underrepresented in most of the world’s democratic societies, and while there have been small improvements in some countries, for the most part minorities in general have yet to make any impressive gain towards more effective political representation. In the existing literature, the under-representation of minorities in countries across the world and the potential impact of the Single Member Plurality and “pure” Proportional Representation systems on that representation have been studied extensively by authors and social scientists such as Norris (2004), Lijphart (1994), Blais (2008), Pitkin (1997), Reynolds and Reilly (2005) and Diamond (2008). While those studies have shown that minorities are better represented under “pure” proportional representation than under Single Member Plurality systems, little is known about the propensity of Mixed Member Proportional systems to provide minority groups with access to power and or better representation...
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...Civic-based approaches to education grant students the chance to take away persuasive, informative, and debate communication skills and apply them to the challenges facing civic life. When elected officials make a speech or comment about our current state of education, they do not encourage students to read Plato, Descartes, or even the Federalist Papers, instead our government is encouraging students to become increasingly experienced in math and computers and other STEM programs, or else foreign countries will steal all of our jobs and advance in front of America when it comes to education. Yet in reality, these foreign countries will steal nothing from the United States if they do not entertain lively and democratic institutions, like American’s...
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...student can receive quick help on a few questions they may have about assignments. In anything above, a recommendation for a 40 minutes’ session is advised. In a 40 minutes’ session, a student can be assisted with the comprehension/managing of writing assignments, therapeutic writing, citing sources, developing a thesis statement, grammar, punctuation, and all the above. With each session, a writing advisor can help a student with essays and research papers for any class, project/portfolios, degree program advising, poetry, resumes/cover letters… etc. There are also specific sessions held for CCD class in the confluence...
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...Change Agent Abilities Required to Help Create a Sustainable Future © ACPA – College Student Educators International (http://www.myacpa.org/) in collaboration with the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development (www.uspartnership.org ) May be reproduced for educational purposes with credit given In order to be a successful sustainability change agent, an individual must have the following: 1. Knowledge of the environmental, economic, and social issues related to sustainability (understanding); 2. A value system and self-concept to support and under gird the actions of a change agent (motivation); and 3. Change agent abilities (skills). Change Agent Abilities: The following is a listing of change agent abilities compiled from numerous sources. For ease of use, these sources have all been acknowledged at the end of this document. Change agents are: • Resilient • Optimistic • Tenacious • Committed • Passionate • Patient • Emotionally intelligent • Assertive • Persuasive • Empathetic • Authentic • Ethical • Self-Aware • Competent • Curious They can: • Communicate ideas clearly, concisely, and precisely both orally and in writing • Listen to others and incorporate their ideas and perspectives • Accommodate individual differences (cultural, socioeconomic, global, etc.) in your decisions and actions and be able to negotiate across these differences...
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...Civic and Community Engagement Project Brief 12.12.2013 Task: Complete a research paper on Homelessness in Ireland. Write a reflective paper, with maximum 2000 words including references, discussing and reflecting on – The causes of homelessness – The issues that Homeless people face – Solutions to Homelessness – The Simon Society in Ireland Homelessness in Ireland Homelessness is one of our biggest problems in the word and also in Ireland. According to the statistics there are 3808 homeless people living in Ireland. Those include the people who are sleeping on the street, the ones who are staying in refugees or alternative hostels, people who live temporarily in bed and breakfast, or with their family or friends or illegally in squats. Figure 1 1 Figure 2 In the Figure 1 you can see how many homeless people each city or region has and the Figure 2 shows us the statistic categorized in homeless male and female living in a accommodation and the ones who don´t have a stay. But what causes the homelessness? Unfortunately most people think that homelessness is mostly caused by they own fault. A lot of people think after some personal failures the people loose control about their life caused by alcohol or drug abuse and become homeless. Although the personal failures named before also affect homelessness there are more personal reasons that caused homelessness and also most people forget to think about the structural reasons that also affects the homelessness...
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...events that have a ripple effect upon individuals. Whether the change is a result of advancing technology, social climate, or foreign influence there is little chance of preventing the effect it will have on society. It is difficult to argue that we have not seen a paradigm shift in social attitudes from generation to generation, and one could easily point to this the being the reason that we as a society have progressed so quickly over the last 50 years. Until conducting these interviews I was not aware of the immense amount of progress, and in some cases amount of deterioration, that we as a society have caused. It is obvious in the way that human beings have treated things like environmental sustainability, civic engagement and social justice over this time and this paper will be examining how these ideas have are different to generation. While interviewing my grandfather I was able to gather lots of information about not just the time he lived in, but also some information about himself that I had not previously known. He started off the interview by telling me about his childhood. My grandfather was born in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1940 and as many know this was the year that Germany began its occupation of the Netherlands. He grew up in a rural area and spoke about how little food him and his family had due to the conflict happening in his home country. When I asked my Grandfather about his childhood he told me there was little to be...
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...Colorblindness and our loss of heritage Like many popular literary works in American history “The Color of Water” focuses on the issue of race in America. This is nothing new since a lot of the great works of American history like “Huckleberry Finn” and “The Color Purple” took on the somewhat of a unique experience that many Americans have regarding race. One of things that is a different about ‘The Color of Water” is that the character of Ruth espouses to her children the idea that we build a society that is color blind. Even the title of the work hints at this view since water has no color, thus the color of water is clear. Even though this idea of a colorless society sounds great it is utopian and just not possible. It is a much better idea that if we are going to tackle the issue of race in this country, that we do not pretend that we can’t see differences amongst various ethnicities. The real goal should be that we recognize these differences and celebrate them. To understand why Ruth would say to advocate something like a color blind society it is important to understand who Ruth is. The character of Ruth, even though she was a real person, could be looked upon as being a symbol for the American experience. The classic American dream is one in which hard working immigrants move to the US, the land of opportunity, and make it big through hard work and determination. The American experience is different from the American Dream in that it is the realistic events and...
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...Faculty of Philosophy Chair of Political Science Prof. Dr. Winand Gellner The Role of Civil Society Organisations in Poverty Reduction in Uganda Term Paper for Advanced Academic Writing Techniques for PPGG Graduate Students WS 2015/2016 Name: Kwerit Alice Matriculation no: 75842 Programme: MA Governance and Public Policy Course Number: 41764 Email: kwert5@yahoo.com Address: Am dobldobl 2, Passau Lecturer: Judith Schatzl Date: March 2016 Acronyms BAI Budget Advocacy Initiative CBO Community Based Organisations CSO Civil Society Organisations DHSP District Health Support Programme DRT Development Research and Training ESIP Education Strategic Investment Plan FBOs Faith Based Organisations GOU Government of Uganda HIV Human Immune Virus HSSP Health Sector Strategic Plan IMs Individual Members INGO International Non-government Organisations LNGO Local Non-government Organisations MFPED Ministry of Finance and Economic Development MTEF Medium Term Expenditure Framework NAWOU National Association for Women Organisations in Uganda NECDP ...
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...Television News Program Analysis COM/310 July 15th, 2014 The following paper evaluates and analyzes a news story broadcast by three different networks on January 28, 2012, that became one of the first world disasters that made me start to rethink my view of the media and their biases and responsibilities to their community. How the story was covered, presented, and ultimately how the programs affected my personal values will be discussed. The three news networks chosen for this paper are BBC, CBS, and CNN. A Costa Concordia cruise ship capsized near Giglio, Italy on January 13, 2012. Today, January 28th, divers continue to seek out missing passengers, charges are being filed against the ship’s captain, and lawsuits on behalf of passengers and crew are mounting. BBC News Network (January 28, 2012 – Giglio, Italy) According to a BBC (2012) reporter, the body of a woman has been found in the capsized ship, Costa Concordia, bringing the known death count to 12. The woman was wearing a life jacket and located on the fourth deck. Out of 4,200 people, including passengers and crew, twenty people have not been accounted for. Captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino (or Capt. Coward, as he has been dubbed by the media), is being investigated for manslaughter on the legal level and for abandoning ship on moral and ethical issues. The female body found today was located in an area near the rear of the ship designated as an evacuation meeting point. DNA will be used to identify...
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...As such, the case study answers the following questions: 1) What are the characteristics of the collaborative relationship that have led to the HKC partnership?; 2) What are the barriers and facilitators of working collectively?; and 3) What are the roles of the HKC lead agency, steering committee members, funders, and community members in building collaborative relationships to support a community health intervention? The first research question for the case study examines the coalition formation process, activities, and ways in which this collaboration manifested. The two additional questions directly explore the coalition formation process and management, such as the planning and organizing of the HKC coalition, its history and how it came to selecting a priority activity as part of a community-based health initiative. This discovery-oriented process helped the researcher to further develop and refine questions as a basis for a more rigorous and reflexive inquiry (Agee, 2009; Maxwell,...
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...THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO POL 1133Q TEXAS POLITICS AND SOCIETY Instructor: Ward S. Albro, Ph.D. Class Sections and Hours: Section 002, 8:30-9:45 MW in MH2.01.40 and Section 003, 10-11:15 MW in UC2.02.02 Office and Office Hours: MS4-03-18 at 7:30-8:15 and 11:15-Noon MW and other times by appointment Email: via Blackboard Learn or ward.albro@utsa.edu COURSE DESCRIPTION This course involves the analysis of Texas government institutions, political behaviors, civic engagement, and their political and philosophical foundations. Topics may include discussions of the Texas and U.S. Constitutions; the role of the state and federal system; the diverse demographic, economic, and cultural bases of state politics; elections, interest groups, and elites; and legislative, executive, judicial, urban, and county politics. Considerable time is devoted to thinking about how those components fit together, and how they shape the nature and importance of citizenship and civic engagement in Texas. STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES Upon completion of this course students should be able to: 1. Explain the origin and development of constitutional democracy in Texas. 2. Demonstrate an understanding of our federal system and how it impacts Texas. 3. Describe separation of powers as well as checks and balances in both theory and practice. 4. Demonstrate knowledge of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of our state. 5. Evaluate the role of public opinion...
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...proof that the democratic notions and principles that were envisioned by the Founding Fathers continue to flourish to this day. A pessimistic individual on the other hand may easily point out that the current political climate exemplifies the decline of civic responsibility, and ultimately, the decline of democratic rule. In Washington, politicians are split along partisan lines, battling one another on decisive and controversial issues such as raising the debt limit, balancing the budget, and health care reform. While politicians carefully calculate the potential consequences of their decisions, the same battles are being waged ferociously on other fronts by the media and other self-interested groups. Ultimately, the results of these policy decisions depend on which party could convince the American public of what is in their best collective interest. This is precisely the nature of politics and democracy, and neither one is always fair. In a world where interest groups and lobbies have tremendous sway and influence over those in power, and when media reporting of the issues lacks fairness and accuracy, it should be the citizen's duty and responsibility to ensure that they are politically aware and civically engaged. This paper will argue that an informed citizenry is necessary to the proper functioning of the American political system. Decreasing levels of political knowledge amongst citizens and the manipulation of the facts by the media obfuscate the important issues that affect...
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