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America's Civic Disengagement, 2005.
A discussion on how and why Robert Putnam argues that civic engagement is in decline in America.
2,340 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 49.95
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This paper examines how America has been characterised by a dramatic decrease in civic engagement and how this decrease is not only illustrated by low turnouts at presidential elections, which reveals a fall in electoral political participation, but also by lower civic engagement through active participation in social and political organisations. Robert Putnam suggests that American society's civic disengagement is, in large part, due to the development of the television. The paper argues that, if the American society is indeed characterised by a significant decrease in civic engagement, the development of television and other forms of media technologies does not lead necessarily to a more 'politically cynical' society.
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Putnam's Thesis: The Loss in Social Trust is Responsible For Less Civic Engagement
The End of America's Republican Civic Engagement?
Conclusion
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"Mouritsen questions Putnam's concept of social capital by interrogating the 'civil' in Putnam's conception of 'civil society'. Mouritsen insists on the fact that Putnam puts largely the emphasis on a civic community that emerges almost spontaneously from the people, "from the microcosmos of society" (MOURITSEN, 2003: 651). Putnam's considerations on the forming of social capital are thus based on the assertion that voluntary forces emanating from the people, from 'below', constitute the foundation of a civic consciousness. Mouritsen therefore criticises a conception of civil society that appeals to a narrow sense of republicanism: in this logic, many social scientists used to see the civil society as a civic space emerging independently from state forces, according to the "classical republican ideology of self-governing citizens" (MOURITSEN, 2003: 652). "
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The Disengagement Plan, 2006.
This paper discusses the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
997 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 24.95
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The paper discusses the "Gaza Pull-Out Plan," also called "Israel's Unilateral Disengagement Plan." This was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to remove all Israeli settlers from various communities in Gaza and the West Bank. The paper presents two web sites that have varying attitudes regarding Israel's pullout from Gaza. The first site (Palestinian Responses...) shows that it was a victory for Palestine and a defeat for Israel. The second site (So Much for Good Deeds...) shows that although it may seem a temporary defeat for Israel, the repercussions are many. The paper concludes that we can only wonder whether peaceful actions will eventually lead to a nation's victory or annihilation.
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Introduction
Palestinian Responses to an Israeli Withdrawal from Gaza
So Much for Good Deeds
Analysis and Conclusion
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"The "Gaza Pull-Out Plan", also called the "Israel's Unilateral Disengagement Plan", was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to remove all Israeli settlers from various communities in Gaza and the West Bank. This move was enacted last August 15, 2005 and completed on September 12, 2005. According to Sharon, the purpose of the withdrawal was to reduce the existing conflict between the Palestinians who have their own claim on the said territories. It is also the part of the plan of a greater peace "roadmap", which aims to propose a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict. Israel claims to initiate the peace process through this move, and it expects Palestine to stop terrorism against them. Another purpose was to improve the quality of life of Israeli settlers by unifying them demographically."
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Assessing the Concept of Civics Education, 2002.
This paper addresses the current movement to create civics education within the classroom through contrasting existing political philosophies on the subject of conformity against the initiative to teach civics within the classroom.
3,900 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 8 sources, £ 98.95
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This paper addresses the current movement to create civics education within the classroom through contrasting existing political philosophies on the subject of conformity against the initiative to teach civics within the classroom. This demonstrates how civics education rather than government education is a form of propaganda that promotes conformity.
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Concept of Civics Education in Terms of Historical Texts, 2002.
This paper addresses the current movement to create civics education within the classroom through contrasting existing political philosophies on the subject of conformity against the initiative to teach civics within the classroom.
3,900 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 8 sources, £ 98.95
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This paper addresses the current movement to create civics education within the classroom through contrasting existing political philosophies on the subject of conformity against the initiative to teach civics within the classroom. This demonstrates how civics education rather than government education is a form of propaganda that promotes conformity.
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Civic Engagement, 2007.
This paper discusses nuclear weapons and looks at the influence of civic
engagement on arms control.
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 30.95
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In this article, the writer notes that an examination of civic engagement in global public policy demonstrates that citizens have increasingly joined transnational networks to try to influence policy and bring about change. The writer points out that some of these campaigns have been very successful, some have had mixed success, and some failed to achieve their goals altogether. The writer discusses that in the 1980's, the civic engagement of millions of people to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union was a mixed success, for significant nuclear arms reductions were achieved, but nuclear war is still a threat to the survival of humanity. The writer maintains that many aspects of this civic engagement need to be examined and analyzed, not only because these efforts helped to end the Cold War, but because similar efforts are needed today to prevent new nuclear arms races from developing, both regionally and globally.
The writer concludes that examining civic engagement in global public policy demonstrates that concerned citizens have increasingly participated in transnational efforts to try to influence policy and effect change. The paper includes an annotated bibliography.
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"Criteria such as the signing and ratification of these treaties confirms the success of this civic engagement campaign, as does documented evidence that the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers were reduced by fifty-percent in many strategic and tactical weapons categories, while other categories such as short-range and medium range nuclear ballistic missiles were eliminated entirely. This was all achieved without any direct participation by citizens in international decision-making forums, and was produced primarily through domestic political pressure."
"This campaign was legitimate, for the nuclear arms race had escalated for decades after the first atomic bombs were developed, and the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers consisted of more than forty-thousand nuclear warheads by the early 1980's."
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Hockey and Canadian Civic Pride, 2008.
An examination of the way that Canadian civic pride and hockey are no longer interrelated.
2,509 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 52.95
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This paper examines the interrelated issues of civic pride and identity and the challenges of retaining big league sports teams in Canadian cities. The paper argues that the sources of civic pride are changing, such that hockey is no longer the chief or only source of a sense of civic pride and identity in Canadian cities. Moreover, the paper argues that this is a good thing, as hockey has become increasingly commercialized and public money should not end up in the private pockets of franchise holders.
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"Fortunately, as we have seen, civic identity and pride is no longer tied exclusively to hockey in Canada. People have grown up and moved on. This is a good thing, as hockey at the same time has morphed into a big-money sport that makes only a very few people richer - mainly just the franchise owners. It is untenable and unconscionable for people to be denied food, healthcare and housing, while taxpayers' money is poured into the pockets of already wealthy franchise owners. This will mean that more Canadian cities will see the departure of their teams to the big, wealthy cities of the USA's sunshine belt. It seems that Canadians will simply have to root their civic pride and identity in benefits for all, and learn to watch the games from afar. Fortunately, most of us have television!"
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Civic Athenian Festivals, 2007.
An analysis of the practices of some of the main Athenian civic festivals.
2,412 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 50.95
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This paper describes the ways that the Athenians practiced a polytheistic religion which expressed itself through civic festivals and cults. The paper attempts to create an overview of the most important Athenian civic festivals. It describes the way in which each festival provided a basis in Athenian worship, gave Athenian's a sense and a meaning in life and provided them with a sense of identity as human beings.
Table of Contents:
The Panathenaia
The Anthesteria
The Dionysia
The City Dionysia
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"The Dipolieia was a very strange Athenian festival that took place two days after another important festival, the Skira (Parke 162). It comprised of a ceremony called the Butaphonia in the honor of Zeus (Parke 162). They celebrated a special aspect of Zeus by this festival, i.e. Zeus as the God of the city and the festivities took place at his altar from the Acropolis (Parke 162). The ceremony implied the sacrifice of an ox and a mock of its restoration to life. The ritual had become antiquated and so did the festival (Parke 166).
In conclusion, the calendar of the ancient Greeks was full with both the specific Athenian festivals and the ones referring to the entire Attica. However, they did not serve only the scope of entertainment, but they supported the development of the sciences and the art while encouraging people to travel and try new things."
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The Influence of Civic Engagement on Arms Control, 2008.
A discussion of the effectiveness of civic engagement in influencing global public policy on nuclear arms control.
4,030 words (approx. 16.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 75.95
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This paper states that its research on the issue of civic engagement in global public policy confirms that citizens and peace activists all over the world have organized transnational networks in order to influence arms control policies and bring about change. Their efforts have produced mixed results, from remarkable success to complete failure. Ultimately, their influence on arms control policy depends upon their ability to generate public support for arms reductions, for public support translates into political pressure on government policymakers. The paper brings historical examples from the Cold War to illustrate this, such as the Cuban missile crisis, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union, the Salt I Treaty, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the START treaty. The paper concludes by stating that arms and militarism have been an inseparable part of every major empire or culture throughout human history and that this is a dilemma peace activists may not be able to resolve. The paper includes an annotated bibliography.
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"Civic engagement on arms control policy emerged in the aftermath of the Second World War in response to the development and deployment of nuclear weapons by the United States and the Soviet Union. After the fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union amassed huge arsenals of atomic bombs, intercontinental ballistic missiles, strategic jet bombers, and ballistic missile submarines, and it seemed that conventional battles fought by massed armies of tanks and infantry would never occur again. The general consensus among government officials and the public as well was that possession of nuclear weapons was the new measure of any nation's military power."
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The Honda Civic, 2002.
This paper discusses the Honda Civic as a consumer product.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, £ 36.95
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This paper evaluates the Honda Civic as a product in terms of Porter's Five Forces Model of analysis.
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Civic Welfare and Tillamook County, Oregon, 2006.
An analysis of Tillamook County, Oregon and its system of public administration.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 8 sources, £ 49.95
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This paper considers the case of Tillamook County, Oregon and reviews the civic life of the community in terms of its local economy and social institutions. In order to research a question of public administration -- that civic welfare relies on local capitalism and civic engagement, the county life and government are outlined and an analysis conducted.
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"In 1995, members of Congress and the Clinton Administration visited a number of communities in the state of Oregon looking for progressive government and viable local economies that could serve as models for reinventing government and civic welfare and accountability. Among the communities they visited were Tillamook County, a rural farming and fishing community in northwest Oregon. They reviewed the county's governance and found that it tied all aspects of government together in such a way that child care and education, for example, were effectively delivered in a systematic and synchronized manner, so that all government offices worked together to increase civic life (The Institute for Educational Leadership, 1996, p 22)."
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Civic Engagement, 2004.
A look at different views of America?s social forms of engagement with one another, with the world, and with its own history.
1,976 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 43.95
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This paper examines how the rules of American social engagement come into play, not simply on a personal level, but are codified and defined on multiple levels. Through a review of the books, "Bowling Alone" by Robert B, Putnam, William K. Tabb's "Unequal Partners", and Alan Dawley's "Changing the World", it looks at how the changing and evolving rules of social engagement in America invariably relate to how, as a society, a complex nation such as America is constructed on a socially stratified level. It also explores how America functions on a globally stratified level among other nation states in a social and civic fashion and discusses how, although social engagement with one?s peers, with one?s fellow nationals, and with one?s fellow human beings may have grown increasingly atomized and absent in recent years, it does not mean such laws have been erased.
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"All authors see a fundamental lacking in the way that Americans relate to other Americans, how America relates to the world community, and how America perceives its political responsibility to those in need within its borders and abroad. However, all three authors, because of the different paradigms they use to view this lacking of civic engagement, offer quite different solutions. Putman takes a sociological paradigm to examine American post-war Baby Boon social trends, Tabb uses the environmentalist and international relations paradigm of America?s location in a global society, and Dawley takes the historian?s point of view, contrasting the Progressive movement of the turn of the century with American social movements today, stressing the contemporary lack of political movements to cohere and achieve similarly internationalist and civic political ends."
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Citizenship and Civic Life, 2003.
This paper examines how differences related to culture and gender have led some groups to call for ?special rights? to allow them full political equality.
1,158 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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The first part of the paper examines the marginalization of the Aboriginal Australians and of women in the United States. The next part looks at the justification for granting both these groups ?special rights,? such as indigenous property rights for the Aborigines and pregnancy leave acts for women. In the last section, the paper concludes that, rather than undermining democracy, ?special rights? accord many groups the same opportunity to participate in political and economic life. As such, these "special rights" allow all citizens to participate at the same level, regardless of their cultural or even biological differences.
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"For most of its history, Australia had refused to recognize the validity of Aboriginal social orders, much less their demand for special rights. The failure of the state to record the births and deaths of Aboriginal people during the 19th century is an early indicator of the marginalized status of the Aboriginal people. Even progressive social reformer and Aborigine rights supporter A.P. Elkin believed that to achieve full inclusion in colonial society, Aborigines much abandon their way of life and adapt a European lifestyle (Cited in Gray 1998). In other words, Aboriginal people could only achieve full citizenship by abandoning Aboriginal culture."
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American Society and Civics, 2006.
A look at the question, posed by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, about the nature of the American identity.
1,373 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 2 sources, APA, £ 31.95
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This paper addresses the concern alluded to by Arthur M. Schlesinger regarding the tendency of ethnic groups in America to place greater emphasis on their diversity than on their unity. The paper addresses Schlesinger's question about what the American identity will become in the face of all this diversity and concludes that, in spite of the emphasis on diversity, Americans will always value their identity as Americans more highly than their differences.
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"Where we shall seek the answers to our problem of what shall an American therefore become is the keystone issue to be confronted. Shall we seek it within our specified group? Or, perhaps in a classroom format as Schlesinger aptly suggests? Or, perhaps one should seek the answers to these myriad problems beginning within our own mind? Or, is a combination of these and several other approaches perhaps a better way? Indeed, there are many avenues to follow in the quest of defining what an American shall become in the future."
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Honda Civic, 1997.
History, marketing strategy, competition, quality, performance, features, price, models, warranty, reliability and dealer service. Includes charts.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 5 sources, £ 77.95
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"Introduction
After a home, an automobile is typically the most expensive purchase which most Americans make. Cars have become a necessity for most Americans, and the decision that most consumers face is not whether or not to obtain a car, but instead whether to purchase or lease, and whether to choose a new or a used car. Despite the expense of automobiles, they are often purchased on impulse, with dealers pressuring consumers to make a decision worth tens of thousands of dollars within a few minutes after only a brief exposure to a vehicle. Auto manufacturers depend on strong advertising campaigns and word of mouth to support their products, and seek to differentiate their products one from another in a market which often perceives automobiles within a given class as commodities. This research examines one of the most successful automobile.."
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