Representative vs. Direct Democracy: Power of the People: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btvfWphWQOk What did democracy really mean in Athens? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fivQUlC7-8 + text (see attachments)+ advice for the summer (see attachment)
As agreed in class (and written on the whiteboard), for Tuesday you need to re-read the article “Biden wants to make the Roe v. Wade decision about much more than… Read more »
Read document A (America’s Elite : a Hereditary Meritocracy) and B (Is the New Meritocracy a Sham?) [Distributed in class and attached below.]
Work on text “Ukrainian dansers” (read in class + see attachment) Answer the two questions. 1) Give a brief account of the reasons why the National Gallery has decided to… Read more »
How do we solve a problem like Putin? Four leading writers on Russia have their say (see also file attached).Write a short summary (10 lines max) of the text you… Read more »
Dossier “Centrale” (Technology and Justice) – continued. Following one of the two “plans” we saw in class (you must have copied them from the whiteboard), decide how you would present… Read more »
Sorry for posting this late… As we had agreed in class, I’d like you to read for tomorrow documents 3 and 4 — (dossier Synthèse Centrale 2020, attached below). I… Read more »
Be able to present (without reading) doc 1 (Atomic Arbitration) – distributed in class and also attached below. Read doc 2 – extract from the Minority Report (distributed in class… Read more »
Ex. 1 (PO)You are scriptwriters for an upcoming science-fiction Netflix series entitled Apocalypse City. Taking inspiration from the documents studied (and esp. “Science Fiction Cities: How our future visions influence… Read more »
Read the text distributed in class and learn the new vocabulary.