Citizenship

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The paper focuses on the issue of citizenship and what it means to Americans. The paper utilizes the text of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, "A Letter from the Birmingham Jail," and Peter J. Gomes' speech, "Civic Virtue and the Character of Fellowship," as the core of the paper. The paper discusses these texts and their meanings and thus discovers the concept of citizenship and includes the argument over which concept best fits our time in the US.

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"Citizenship in the United States has often been defined in many ways. For many it is a birth right, to others it is something that is obtained through legal formality. Yet, being a citizen in relation to documentation and being a citizen who is a proud member of a structure that works as one unit in the interest of the greater good, are often not ideals that exist in conjunction with one another in America. Peter J. Gomes, Professor at Harvard, and Baptist Minister wrote of his concepts of citizenship in a speech to the University of Texas in 1997. Entitled, "Civic Virtue and the Character of Fellowship: A New Take on an Old Hope," the lecture demonstrated Gomes' vision of an America that seemed to have forgotten what elements are incorporated into being a citizen and reflects on the history of fellowship, (Gomes 242)."

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