Dbq Essay On Strong Citizens

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” This is quoted by Winston

describing citizenship, its importance in his point of view. So what is considered a strong and

dependable citizen? There are many different perspectives on a good citizen. Do we need strong

citizens or do we need dependable citizens, what type of citizens do we need for a strong

Democracy? There are three types of citizens. A citizen is a legal recognized subject who they

are native or naturalized. Three types are personally responsible, Participatory, and Justice

oriented citizens. A personally responsible citizen is one that works, obeys laws, pays taxes, and

donates money or time. A Participatory is very similar to the first one

only there lives are affected

by politics. Justice oriented citizens, they are people that try to fight for the underprivileged in

societies.
One citizen greatly involved in this democracy is personally responsible citizens; can they

be classified as a strong, dependable citizen for this democracy and are they mostly needed?

First, what are some things personally responsible citizens do? Citied In source (Doc A), there is a

picture showing children donating cans of food. Donating food is one of the many ways personally

responsible citizens can do. They are also responsible for paying their taxes and their bills, and

keeping their property clean. (Doc A) This is one of the many things personally responsible

citizens do. This example of citizenship is called, charitable service. This type of citizen is always

helpful. With all groups too many is not a good thing. We all need many groups not just one type

of citizenship. This is probably one of the easiest but helpful ways to do citizenship. Being one of

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the most common types of citizens it is controversial. Just because there is a large number of

these types of citizens helping are they most helpful? Too many is not a good thing as said we

need balance. Which we are all encouraged to do task personally responsible citizens do.

What are examples of participatory citizenship? As cited in source (Doc B), they used a

woman named Sue Brady for example. Showing all participatory she did in her life. Starting from

her 20’s to 70’s. She did examples (showing task involved) with participatory citizenship. With

being a board member in many different organizations, Being a volunteer chairman, etc. This

citizenship is basically volunteering to be in clubs. It’s just programs people are providing service

to. This is used to help out the community with services, businesses, and organizations. They also

want to include marginalized groups and they help with any tensions that come to surface of a

community. (Doc B)

Justice oriented citizens are important because they are the ones that mostly look in the

bigger part of their community and the society but how do you exactly show Justice oriented

citizenship? AS cited in source (Doc C), it explains how Cesar Chazer performed this type of

citizenship. This citizenship usually involves protesting. Sometimes it even involves physical harm

to them for protesting in serious cases. Which is what Cesar did, he disagreed with grape

growers. He made a union with migration farmers, to help fight for justice. He then explained what

characteristics are needed for this citizenship. The two characteristics are courageous and strong.

Is this citizenship enough to stabilize our democracy?

Having outspoken ideas and opinions to

grow our democracy or to opinionated it to no agreement? They are worried about social justice

and they make sure people are not treated unfairly in their society and in their communities and

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they also wonder how they can make the place they live in a better place for everybody to live

in.(Doc C)

The three types of Citizenships are what form the community. Each type of citizenship is

important and helps with different types of areas in the community. If we were to go to the moon

and set a lunar colony I believe we should have 600 personally responsible, 200 participatory, and

200 justice oriented citizens. The reason for this is because if we have citizens that help the other

two citizens and help run what they are doing then we should more of that on citizen. They are all

equally important because the personally responsible, participatory, and justice oriented

are

essential to running a working democracy.