National Junior Honors Society is a society for kids who exceed in the four categories: leadership, service, character, and citizenship. Being in NJHS would be an amazing opportunity that I hope I can be a part of. I believe that I excell in all of the four categories in many different ways and I am definitely someone that you should consider for the part. One of the categories is leadership and I feel that I am a very good leader that would be great for NJHS. For example, I play competitive…
responsibility” more than the rest. Since his father, Rocky Johnson, was considered to be a self-made man, Johnson strongly believes that everybody should be responsible for his or her own actions and welfare. Johnson takes a very Republican stand on good citizenship because opposes progressive taxation, decreasing military spending, and government regulation. If Johnson is elected President, he vows that taxes will be flat and not altered in order to support his Republican standards. “The Rock”…
the right to carry small, personal firearms. People should not be powerless to stop heinous individual. If it is life or death, every individual has a right to defend themselves. Immigrants are prohibited from entering the settlements until the citizenship test is passed. Enrollment in this settlement is not very exclusive, but their is a large portion of the population that is not willing to give it their…
What does a Citizen Value? What does it mean to be a good citizen? Is it just voting and obeying the law? No, it is more than that. They have certain great attributes like truth and honesty because it is a key part to being a decent resident. Genuineness can be connected intimately with trust and in a group you need both keeping in mind the end goal to live easily with everyone around you. Justice and have the courage to stand up to corruption and to be unwavering at the sight of a check with a…
In this paper, I will first introduce what I believe to be the best argument for difference principle. To do this, I will compare two different arguments from Blake and Sangiovanni. They sure share some similarities, which I will reserve if I deem appropriate. But the most important point is their different empirical and normative premises. I will elaborate those differences in detail and develop my own argument. After I present my argument, I will acknolwdge my argument’s limitations and try to…
In Northrup Frye’s passage he says that, “The concept of a responsible citizen very much parallels that of being an educated person. Responsible citizenship clearly requires citizens who are informed and involved. An informed citizen is an embodied knower: a person, who seeks information, considers conflicting discourse, is reflective and utilizes critical thinking skills”. For instance, there are dozens…
Neither Tocqueville nor the authors of the Federalist Papers view an enlightened and virtuous citizenry as wholly essential to the Constitutional system, but while the federalists build institutions to defend the government against the self-interested passions of the people, Tocqueville sees the greatest benefits of the American political system where the government and the people meet: in the township and in political associations. The Federalists believe that the core of the Constitution…
Laws can be changed or introduced, why laws change because they need to keep up with the incidents that are happening in society today, instead of using the old laws that won’t strong impact our society. Because every citizen lives will change during the years and many statistics and incidents will change, so therefore the parliament has to change laws so that they could satisfy and keep up with society today. Laws are a system of rules that society is forced to obey and respect. They help…
The quote “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” (Rousseau) doesn’t hold the same meaning it did when Rousseau originally wrote it, but it can still be applied to many facet’s in today’s life. Rousseau’s quote can be applied to many areas in our everyday lives, such as government restrictions, work, and social acceptance and norms. Every day in many aspects we face restrictions that stop us from doing something we may desire to do, but cannot because of regulations against it. Every…
The country of natat mortem (death swims), is under the sea located in the bermuda triangle along the tropic of cancer, northwestern hemisphere, with the coordinates of 25.0000 N and 71.0000 W, elongated east to west. The climate is tropical and extremely hot throughout the year, in fact the water is in the constant state of boiling due to the tropical temperatures. Though it seems there should be no survival in the hot temperatures the genius supreme leader esther falokun developed pod like…