active citizenship in a global context differs across continents - introducation

active citizenship in a global context differs across continents: such as America
contrast and discuss with Ireland

You could start off by saying how active citizenship depends on the constitution and the type of government a country has. Whether historically people of that country engaged were active citizens or is it just a new concept?

Then discuss the various factors which constitute active citizenship for each country, like voting rights, fundamental duties and whether these are well defined or not.

Anyway, I've got just a vague idea about active citizenship. There might be other people in this forum who can give you better advice.

Good luck!

That is a good point that I had not considered. Good call!
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Rebecca, what seems to be giving you trouble with this?

If you need to write about it, search your school's library database for:
global active citizenship

Write a paragraph to tell about one of the article. Just describe what the author said.
Do that for a few articles, and then go back and add an intro para with a good thesis statement.
Do you have questions?

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By the way, Rebecca, I hope you don't mind me replying to Kevin on your thread.

hi Kevin

teh whole essay seems to be giving me trouble at the moment
ive only had two lectures in order to do this essay and i just feel quite lost

in relation to the essay i have to discuss active citizenship both in Ireland and in America
i have to talk about the Power distrubition, inequalities to be honest just dont know where to start

i have been reading for a few days but just cant seem to get a handle on it
i feel that i dont know enough about the subject in order to pull the essay together

rebecca

Rebecca, I understand what you mean. You must allow yourself to write a paragraph about any article you read that is relevant.

Then, do the same thing for another article.

You can put them in the right order later. Do not try to start with an intro paragraph or thesis statement. When an essay is hard, begin by writing ONE sentence about ONE article.

Read an article about this:
Ireland social activism
Also
Ireland social reform

When you see someone taking a stand and making a difference, write about it.

If you can find any articles at all about active citizenship, you will find ideas. For example, if you find articles about environmentalists, you might get the idea to search the database for:

Ireland environmentalist

Or, search for Irish social issues.

When you find one article and write one sentence, you are off to a good start. Ad an example to support that sentence, and soon it will be a paragraph.

Write one para for each article.

When you have 5 articles, you'll have a great paper taking form.

I really hope you do well, good luck!!

:-)

thank you so much for your support around this essay
i am going to take your advice by writing one line at a time with an example
and hopefully it will end up flowing

another thing i have been asked is to thread the essay do you know what is ment by that

once again thank you so much for your help

rebecca