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Adam Clark

BBC News - What Japanese history lessons leave out - 0 views

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    Japanese people often fail to understand why neighbouring countries harbour a grudge over events that happened in the 1930s and 40s. The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th Century history. I myself only got a full picture when I left Japan and went to school in Australia. From Homo erectus to the present day - more than a million years of history in just one year of lessons. That is how, at the age of 14, I first learned of Japan's relations with the outside world.
Adam Clark

BBC News - Japan defence firm Mitsubishi Heavy in cyber attack - 7 views

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      What observations do you have about the language choice in the title of the article? Is it neutral?
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      What emotions are conjured by the image to the right and the bold text sentence to the left?
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      What are your eyes drawn to naturally in this article? How has sense perception been influenced by what you are visually drawn to? Does the visual presentation have any other impact?Is there anything significant in terms of "knowledge" by the visual impact of the whole page? 
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  • The ministry will continue to monitor the problem and conduct investigations if necessary
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      How would you describe the language used here? Aggressive? Passive? Why?
  • "It's up to the defence ministry to decide whether or not the information is important. That is not for Mitsubishi Heavy to decide. A report should have been made,
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      What emotion do you sense here? Who said it? What's their relationship to the issue? Why might they want to portray a certain attitude? Is the tone they took effective? Why or why not?
  • China is one of the main victims of hacking... Criticising China as being the source of hacking attacks not only is baseless, it is also not beneficial for promoting international co-operation for internet security
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      Do you think this a valid reply that appeals to reason? In other words is this a logical reply to the accusation that China is behind these attacks?
  • hacking as a potential act of war
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      What significance would classifying hacking as "a potential act of war" hold for future international relations between the US and other nations? Which WOK would you use to address this question?
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      These points are grouped in a section? Do you think thy are related? Why or why not?
  • A typical DDoS attack involves hundreds or thousands of computers, under the control of hackers, bombarding an organisation's website with so many hits that it collapses.
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      Apply reason to this paragraph. What significance do you think this has for the whole story?
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      After all this what is the bottom line of this article? What can we claim to know having read it?
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    This is the article for the Typhoon Day lesson
Adam Clark

The Dangers of Certainty: A Lesson From Auschwitz - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Dr. Bronowski thought that the uncertainty principle should therefore be called the principle of tolerance. Pursuing knowledge means accepting uncertainty. Heisenberg's principle has the consequence that no physical events can ultimately be described with absolute certainty or with "zero tolerance," as it were. The more we know, the less certain we are.
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