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            Sometime ago in the South Bronx, a robbery was made. The residents of the apartment called the police and reported the theft of a tv and a radio. After three hours, two policemen finally arrived with anxiety and dread blatantly displayed on their face. When the grandmother asked, the two officers replied that when the call was made, everyone at the station was afraid to go for they knew the location. Even though no one said it, the grandma knew the police thought the place as a death camp.             When people think of police, they think of the brave officer who will sacrifice his own life to protect his community. If this event took place in Canton, Toledo, or anywhere else, people would be upset and would say the cops had chosen the wrong profession. Yet there was no public outcry, the folks in the South Bronx had begrudgingly accepted this as reality. For a place synonymous with crime and violence, no one has seriously thought why people raise their children there

            What is citizenship? If I was a dictionary, I would tell you that citizenship is simply being a citizen of a nation. But that is not very intriguing, nor is it worth more than a sentence to discuss. In my view, citizenship is when a person is citizen of a state and said citizen cares about the state he lives in, because if a citizen could care less if he was a citizen of what happens to the state then he might as well be a resident from mars.             One way to care about the state is to get involved in politics, but that doesn’t mean you have to be a politician or a lobbyist. This can be things as small as supporting organizations like meals-on-wheels or voting. While people like Paul Loeb, with his book Soul of a Citizen , may try to convince you that you must part of the organization and dedicate your life fighting “for the good of society,” I think the farthest one truly needs to go is to spread the message further. While there is good argument why one should do