...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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...Thinking Through Civic Engagement Extra Credit Through out this unit the uses of Civic Engagement have, become more prevalent through all of the authors. Each author has their opinion on what civic engagement is and what it should be through their texts to give us a better understanding. In the first reading Lost Art of Argument Lasch argues we need vigorous public debate in order to attain knowledge best. Lasch showed how important it is to be engaged and seek knowledge, by public debate, because you are forced to learn information rather than only go by what you know. With debate this causes you and I to defend our arguments and hear the arguments of others and this causes the public to take in this information and apply it rather than just taking it in by going through the motions....
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...Discussion 4 Is the linkage between news and citizen engagement broken? Can the Internet fix it? Explain. Youth are indifferent to news and politics today. Most of today’s youth are swept into over stimulated digital environments and try to earn a career and a living just like their parents before them did but don’t focus on things that do not directly affect their life like the newspaper. I believe that youth are indifferent to news and politics unless they are influenced through peers and media, family upbringing or if they are concerned with social change. Youth that are aware of news and politics at an early age may take an interest in them as a career choice or a desire to make a difference in society. Author David T. Z. Mindich believes that, “the linkage between an informed citizenry and political and civic engagement has been broken in contemporary society” (p.351). He also says that our democracy will pay the price for this. I believe the main reason behind the problem of lack of engagement is “some feel that the education system has failed to produce appropriate levels of civic knowledge” (p. 352). This is true in schools everywhere because most teachers are not allowed to share their personal views on their political position to students and therefore neglect to inform their students of the vital information about how to make their own educated political position. So the linkage between news and citizen engagement is broken because it was never even established in...
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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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...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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...The Relationship of Civic Engagement, Democratic Decision-Making, and Public Speaking Tiffaney Piper Honors Public Speaking/COM 2243 Tiffaney Piper Dr. Hal Fulmar Honors Public Speaking 6 December 2011 The Relationship of Civic Engagement, Democratic Decision-Making, and Public Speaking The relationship of civic engagement, democratic decision-making, and public speaking is something that indirectly and directly affects the lives of citizens and law makers alike. These terms go hand in hand with each other in their role in a democratic society. They create a sort of continuous triangle that keeps repeating as the cycle repeats itself. This semester we have grazed the surface, at the least, of each of these topics with our discussions from the textbook, Starship Troopers, and The New York Times. All these different mediums help us to begin to understand the deeply intertwined relationship of these three terms, each tied to the one before it to create the cycle we strive to live by. A final paper deciphering what we have learned and applying it to our roles in citizenship is my goal. I want to use this paper to break down each terms meaning, the relation of this term to citizens, and at the end explain the relationship of these terms as a whole and how their relationship affects citizens. “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country (John F. Kennedy).” One of the most remembered lines of a Presidential Inaugural in history...
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...a). You are to review the US Constitution and choose one of the Amendments. Provide the number, what the essence of it is (please do NOT re-write the whole Amendment - only what is necessary), what it means, and what are your views on it? The Fourth Amendment prohibits form any official personnel to go through personal belongs without a probable cause. It prohibits the search and seizure procedure which is used in many civil law and common law legal systems whereby police or other authorities and their agents, who suspect that a crime has been committed, do a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence to the crime. A search occurs when an expectation of privacy that society considers reasonable is infringed by a governmental employee or by an agent of the government. Private individuals who are not acting in either capacity are exempt from the Fourth Amendment prohibitions. A seizure refers to the interference with an individual's possessory interest in property. To meet the definition of an unreasonable seizure, the property's owner must have had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the items seized. A person is seized when law enforcement personnel use physical force to restrain the person if a reasonable person in the same or a similar situation would not feel free to leave the situation. The previous owner of abandoned property cannot allege an unreasonable seizure of that abandoned property. Abandoned property is property left behind by its owner...
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...Civic Engagement: Portfolio Part 1 Our first task was to research a person or a group that we regard as having been or is civically engaged. During my research in the internet I came across the group called CCIVS 1 – Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service. It is an International Non Governmental Organisation (INGO) which works in a area of International Voluntary Service (IVS). The CCIVS generates and supports projects settled on the idea that the best way of creating international friendship and understanding each other, is to work together on a objective tasks. Besides guiding the consideration of the movement on the effect, policies and approval related to International Voluntary Service, the CCIVS fellows operate on the five key topics. Those are the Intercultural Dialogue, Sustainable Development, World Heritage, Health and Conflict Transformation. Civic Engagement2 is way of citizens participation in life of the community with the aim of improving conditions for others and/or helping to form the communities future. Being civically engaged means to work with the goal of making differences in the civic life of the communities. To make that difference happen people have to develop the arrangement of knowledge, skills, principles and motivation. CCIVS is helping people to understand the cultural diversity and encourage the positive value of the cultural diversity, supports other organisation to encourage the ESD – Education for Sustainable Development...
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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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...about what steps are next in the realm of immigration. President Trump has an issue with political satire because he has tweeted in the past at Alec Baldwin’s impersonation on “Saturday Night Live” was “unwatchable”, and that he had no “talent” (Trump). This sort of attention from the President of The United States creates mass attention and further allows the positive effects of satire to seep into American society and democracy. Although, the presidents view on satire is very low, it is sparking debate around the country and causing more skepticism within American journalism. Only 40% of the public trust the media to report “fully,accurately, and fairly”, which helps carves a spaces for comedians and satirists. Hoffman describes how satirists...
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...examines the culture of the modern Americans and the good life that has been eroded off the society. He points out that America has a nostalgic feeling which the people of America have not understood the context. The feeling is one that a person feels that there is something wrong within the American society. One yearns to go back to the ancient times when people care for themselves and others, where there was no crime and everyone was happy. He argues out that, such issues are important in the transformation of the modern society to one that is socially, economically moralistically and politically at peace with the people’s intrinsic perception of a collective utopia. Putman points out that the current trends in the social capital and civic engagement have been wiped out to a critical level. He explains that the modern society has become a cesspool of crime, immorality, inequality and utmost poverty among the American people. He goes further to relate the deviation of the social capital to the earlier mentioned ill activities in the society, while he associates the social capital increase to the some positive aspects like economic prosperity, education, democracy, children welfare, productive neighborhoods, safe welfare, proper healthcare and happiness to the people. The evidence that Putman mounts is unquestionable with regards to correlation, and he cautions that even mere correlation cannot be substituted for causation just automatically. In addition, the author of the book goes...
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...The Earth Hour resource is best used for level 3 and 4. It exercises many skills that students need such as critical thinking, team work, empathy, communicating, creative thinking, problem finding, personal and social skills, ethical behavior, community engagement, problem solving, leadership and global citizenship (Cool Australia, 2017). Therefore, the more students practice these skills, the greater they will become at implementing them into their daily life and community. In light of these skills the lesson resource promises to develop, we can find their importance among the Victorian Curriculum content descriptors (VCAA, 2017a). Earth Hour supports level 3 and 4 Citizenship, Diversity and Identity in investigating why and how people participate...
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...Throughout my six year membership with the Prince Kūhiō Hawaiian Civic Club (PKHCC), I have been assigned many positions and projects that have contributed to the organization’s mission to stimulate civic efforts and promote Hawaiian culture and values. Most recently, I became the membership chair who is in charge of managing the membership information system, collecting membership dues, sending membership fee invoices, and processing new member applications. I decided to take on this responsibility because PKHCC’s need for improved information systems and databases was apparent to me, and I knew I could help by incorporating PKHCC into my school projects. PKHCC is a civic club that encourages its members to be politically active and promotes...
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...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. • Engage in self-assessment, self-reflection, and analysis • Reflect on what is happening to make meaning, gain perspective and understanding • Engage in civil discourse and debate • Mediate and resolve conflicts • Analyze power, structures of inequality, and social systems that govern individual and communal life • Recognize the global implications of their...
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...Amy Heimbecher Social Responsibility Task 1 June 3, 2014 Social Responsibility Strategy Report Overview Radharani Yoga Sanctuary (RYS) is a brand-new, small business located in Portland, OR. Currently, the company has start up funding, is looking for a storefront and plans to open its doors within the next 6 months. RYS would like to offer the community yoga classes, meditation sessions, dance classes, community events, workshops, Yoga Teacher trainings, and socially responsible retail. Objectives The main business objective in opening the studio, is to maintain and run the studio based on yogic principles, while bringing in a profit. Living in harmony with self, community, and the planet is at the core of these principles. While the exchange of money for the ancient practice of yoga is relatively a new concept, in this modern day and age the majority of teachers need to make a living and require payment for their service. This correlates to the socially responsible business principle of “Triple Bottom Line”. Triple Bottom Line refers to focusing on three factors in business: people, planet, and profit. Leadership Considerations (People) Under the “People” category there are 2 main groups : Leadership and community. Leadership includes the individuals running the studio and community includes every person or organization that has a relationship with the studio. The owner of RYS is currently looking for a studio manager. Within the job profile, the owner...
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