Essays on Civic Responsibility

Introduction

There are several reasons why the annual Burning Man festival is unique among mass gatherings. Held in the Black Rock section of America’s Great Basin desert in Nevada, Burning Man’s 70,000 participants construct a city that houses—and in itself functions as—a participatory performing arts space, a communal spiritual retreat, and a cathartic experience of radical self-expression (Brill 2007). Then, one week later, they tear it all down, pack everything out, and leave no trace behind. It is an anti-market event (Cesewski & Giles 2007) whose participants rely on gift-giving and barter to secure any necessities ...

Identification

The identification section of the questionnaire comprises of discrete prompts. Consequently, the data collected from the prompts will be interpreted through principal content analysis and general conclusions on the data made based on the discrete values. The identification component is mainly used as a control variable in the study; hence, allowing for the identification of the suitability of the respondents in meeting the objectives of the study. Notably, the data will be assessed using descriptive statistics, which provides a general perspective on the characterization of the respondents in the study.

Income and Wellbeing

The interpretation of the income and wellbeing data requires ...

Literature Review

Hafiz program was constituted for the wellbeing of unemployed in support during the job seeking period. The integral approach provides mechanism and platform in developing appropriate strategies required to assess the program and how unemployed benefits from the system. The beneficiaries of the Hafiz program are evaluated by social, behavioral and cultural perspectives to determine their living standards and the needs. The Hafiz program considers interpersonal dimensions recognition that consists social life covering family and how they influence behavioral changes. Therefore, the main focus is an observation of traditional macroeconomic in the determination of the family structure, their influence ...

Higher education is at a fork in the road – because of the greater possibilities of the technological age, distance education is becoming more and more of a common option for many, leaving normal higher education in a strange position. Because of the higher use of online education as a way to easily get an education, as well as opening up education chance for some who may not have the time or money to attend a college campus, the group of people gaining online degrees is becoming a more streamlined and big part of a worldwide population. Online education is said to have many different advantages and ...

Overview and Literature Review

Courting the youth vote is one of the primary objectives of political parties in any representative form of government. The youth vote ensures a party's or representative's future in government, but many representative forms of government struggle with encouraging youth participation in government, particularly when it comes to participation in the voting process. Research shows that people within representative forms of government, particularly within large-scale representative democracies, often face severe alienation from their government and from the voting process as a whole (Blount, 1998). Young people are particularly prone to alienation from the process of civic engagement, and one of the ...