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1. Citizenship
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English
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Teaches young learners the importance of being a good citizen by helping out neighbors and other areas of the community, obeying the laws, and learning about voting.
2. Citizenship
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NoveList Series:
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Pub. Date:
c2008
Language:
English
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Irreverent cartoons and concise text answer questions about our system of government.
3. Citizenship
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Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Citizenship is an important issue, and becoming a more informed and active citizen is part of growing up. This guide examines what it means to be a citizen in the United States. It explains the ways people become citizens, the responsibilities of a citizen, and the rights of U.S. citizens. Readers can form their own opinions on citizenship by reading engaging discussion questions, sidebars, and fact boxes. In addition, they can better understand the...
4. Citizenship
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Lerner Publishing Group
Language:
English
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Citizenship offers emergent readers an introduction to the rules for being a good citizen and explains the basics about how someone becomes a U.S. citizen.
5. Citizenship
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Pub. Date:
2019
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Unabridged
Language:
English
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The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov, citizenship is a story of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and demeaning for noncitizens. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kochenov explains the state of citizenship in the modern world. Kochenov offers a critical introduction...
6. Citizenship
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Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
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Concepts in American government brought to you in a kid-friendly, graphic/cartoon format, with irreverent art and concise text.
7. Citizenship
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Pub. Date:
2020
Edition:
Unabridged
Language:
English
Description:
In Citizenship: What Everyone Needs to Know, legal scholar Peter J. Spiro explains citizenship through accessible terms and questions: what citizenship means, how you obtain citizenship (and how you lose it), how it has changed through history, what benefits citizenship gets you, and what obligations it extracts from you-all in comparative perspective. He addresses how citizenship status affects a person's rights and obligations, what it means to...
Pub. Date:
[2003?]
Language:
Spanish
Description:
This film is based on the examination given by the Immigration and Naturalization Service for United States citizenship. It presents the structure of our government at all levels. It also provides a sensitive look at our historical struggle for freedom and independence.
Pub. Date:
[2003?]
Language:
Russian
Description:
Introduces the governmental structure of the United States and briefly reviews American history from the discovery of the New World to the Vietnam War. Intended for speakers with limited English language proficiency who are preparing to become United States citizens. Multiple choice questions follow each section and incorrect responses send the learner back to the correct answer.
11. Citizenship 2.0
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Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
Yossi Harpaz is affiliated with Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Center, in addition to his role as assistant professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University. Citizenship 2.0 focuses on an important yet overlooked dimension of globalization: the steady rise in the legitimacy and prevalence of dual citizenship. Demand for dual citizenship is particularly high in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where more than three million...
Pub. Date:
[200?]
Language:
Hmong
Description:
Introduces the governmental structure of the United States and briefly reviews American history from the discovery of the New World to the Vietnam War. Intended for speakers with limited English language proficiency who are preparing to become United States citizens. Multiple choice questions follow each section and incorrect responses send the learner back to the correct answer.
Pub. Date:
[2003?]
Language:
Panjabi
Description:
This film is based on the examination given by the Immigration and Naturalization Service for United States citizenship. It presents the structure of our government at all levels. It also provides a sensitive look at our historical struggle for freedom and independence.
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Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Assesses the place of non-military national service in Israeli politics and society. All citizens in a democracy are promised the same guaranteed rights, but should they have the same obligations? Should minorities with different attitudes toward the state be obliged to do national service in the name of equality? And what are the social and political consequences for minorities not given the opportunity to serve? This groundbreaking study examines...
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Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
What defines a citizen? Who can become one? Does the creation of new citizens benefit a country or threaten it? All democracies grapple with questions about who should or should not become citizens of their countries. But not all countries answer these questions in the same ways. The benefits of democracy can be found in every part of the globe. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist ideology in 1991, democracy has been touted as...
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Pub. Date:
1997
Language:
English
Description:
This book is part of the Towards the New Millennium Series, featuring the works of thoughtful Canadians who are profoundly interested in the future of Canada and the world. Most democracies do not use Canada's "first past the post" voting system. To give a party more seats than its share of the popular vote warrants is deemed undemocratic by most. Such democracies use proportional representation to ensure a party's seat-share does not exceed its vote-share....
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Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
The English second edition of Citizenship Study Guide provides all that you need to know to succeed on your U.S. Citizenship Test and Interview. This condensed learning tool was designed by a teacher of the U.S. Naturalization process with more than 30 years' experience. This guide assists future Citizenship Test-takers to memorize the civic concepts of the United States through repetition and visualization. The end of the book presents a series of...
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Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
Sigal Ben-Porath is assistant professor at the Graduate School of Education and special assistant to the president at the University of Pennsylvania. She previously was a postdoctoral fellow at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. She earned her doctoral degree in political philosophy from Tel Aviv University in 2000. Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest...
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