Educating the good citizen

This article was by Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kaphne. In the article there are many aspect of perspective about education of making civics become good. In the beginning they give out three characteristic of a good civic be. These three kinds are personally responsible, participatory, and Justice –oriented citizens. Then, the author is writing analysis of conflict situation. For example, citizen with no politics. At the End it talks about the solution of the problem.

In the community there are many kinds of good citizens and they have different characteristic. The Article analyzed into three basic character. First characteristic is personally responsible citizen. It is basically mean community contributor. The second one is Participatory citizen and it means people that participate and care about local event. And the last one, Justice- oriented citizens. They are people who think beyond the community and determine whether things are right or ethical.

After all the explanations, the author is analyzing the extreme situations. In the article, the author talks about the situation that when people do not have democracy. In that paragraph, he talks about the situation when good citizens do not have democracy. The conclusion that he made was that people will not have democracy but still being good. The reason is that in some circumstance democracy do not apply to being good citizen.

In last paragraph the author telling the solution. His solution of solving problem is forming education politics and community service organization.

In conclusion, I think the idea of organize more community service. If school and government do not emphasize it and be serious about it. No one will really care or know. I feel that we should make community service be similar to military obligation or count as a grade.

The Stimulus Plan: $787

After I looking all the thing in the list of the stimulus plan: how to spent $787 billion, I think all of them are important. they are really important that none of it can be deleted. looking from beginning to the end of list, I have found some really crucial ones that are the parts that I think can really make difference. These are Education and Job training, Tax cut For individuals, and Health. The reason why these were more crucial is because these things are decreasing the financial pressure of man and protect the industries.
For the first one aid for Education. I think this one is really helpful. Due to the fiancial crisis a lot of people lose their job. In order to decrease the amount of people with no job, we should let them learn more so they can have another method to survive and contribute to the society. My second point from top three choice is Tax cut for individual. From my perspective, since financial crisis, people already have less money. Therefore, logically, government should reduce the tax. My last point is health.
In conclusion, I think that every point that government listed and passed are really really important. Nothing can be deleted. although I choose 3 that I think it is important but I think every point on the list is really good.

How to Less carbon footprint? I'm not sure !???

After reading the article about an article Yes, They Could. So They Did. by Thomas Friedman, I feel really guilty that I did not do things like that. However, another feeling I have is do not know what to do to contribute thing like that to community.
After thinking this for a class, I think I should think out of box and with some crazy ideas not conventional ideas. From this semester's global ethics class topic "can a individual make difference", I think that I can do it and with weird and new ways. Although, trying to find a weird and new ways is hard, when new crazy idea come up it will "crazy" the people.
In conclusion, I think that in order to lose carbon footprint we should meet like our grad trip meeting and think critically.

Gender social experiment.

Binary
Gender

Today, we have "cross dressing" day. In Global Ethics class, we have discussions about gender and sex culture and we come up a inquiry : Could playing cross-dressing be healthy? Is cross-dressing for one gender over the other ?
For the first inquiry, I think that cross dressing is healthy because I believed that man do have a soft side. Often the stereotype of culture are man should be tough and always being confident and positive. Girls should be really caring and fragile. I think the culture are restricting us. We do not born to be binary. In biological view, male have XY chromosomes and Female have XX Chromosomes but it 's actually not that binary. Recent years, sciencist found out from statistic that the Y chromosome from male usually are not perfect and have a trend of become X. From my persepective I think that if there is no restriction naturally, why do we have to restrict our self.

Ideas for innovation

From my opinion, some of ideas of innovation are not that good. However, I can sum up some similar idea that I think is crucial.
One of them is to offer more educational activity such as internship and community service for civics. This is important for education; Young people can learn more from doing educational activities than from the textbook. The reason that for educational activities are more crucial is that people go to education for learning technique living on this planet. However, in school, classes do not teach people techniques for some specific technique for certain fields. For example, many company in science park have education program to educate the people in the company but somehow I think that if there are opportunities to have internship and community service companies can save more money for education.
Another one is set small school in each committee. I agree with what the article Ideas For Innovation said. In local schools there are too much students for good education. If we want a better education then we needed more concentrated classes. I think that in a big class students will not be as active as small classes but less resources and less attention from teacher.
In conclusion, generally I agreed what the article Idea For Innovation about. From all of the points in the article, I think that the most important and effective idea was to offer more educational activities in school and committees and decrease the size of a class and set a school in each committee. Furthermore, I think in order to make our world become better we need more resources for education because resource is the thing that make people become educated.