MYP winners! Academic honesty film competition. In 2016, we invited students from the Middle Years Programme (MYP), Diploma Programme (DP) and Career-related Programme (CP) to take part in the Academic Honesty Competition. Students were asked to submit a poster or short film either individually or as part of a team. The results were outstanding and the standard of films and posters was exceptional. Choosing the winners was a very difficult task for our panel of judges but we are delighted to share with you the winning entries along with an interview with those winners.
A huge thank you to all those students who participated in this competition with such enthusiasm. We spoke to four students Hanna Jean, Hind Melouah, Leena Aissaka and Madina Khaleque, MYP students from the King Fahad Academy (United Kingdom), and winners of the MYP film category, to see what they thought about winning and why they felt academic honesty was an important topic.
Why did you decide to take part in this competition? Do you enjoy being creative? ‘The Painting Must Go’: Hannah Black Pens Open Letter to the Whitney About Controversial Biennial Work. Parker Bright protesting Dana Schutz’s Open Casket. Despite initially receiving semi-positive notices, mainly from white critics, a Dana Schutz painting in the Whitney Biennial generated controversy this weekend. This past Saturday, the artist Parker Bright held a protest in front of the work, which is titled Open Casket and depicts an abstracted version of the famed photograph of Emmett Till’s open-casket funeral. Bright wore a grey T-shirt, with “BLACK DEATH SPECTACLE” written in Sharpie on the back of it, and reportedly said, “She has nothing to say to the black community about black trauma.” Writers, curators, and artists took note of the protest online and responded. Now, the artist and writer Hannah Black has issued an open letter addressed to the Whitney Biennial’s curators, Christopher Y.
Lew and Mia Locks. Repeating the refrain “the painting must go,” she urges the curators to destroy the work so as to make sure that the it can’t be sold or seen in the future. Comments. Korean age explained.:Why a baby born on Dec. 31 turns two years old the next day — Quartz. Being wealthy has become so passé that rich people are increasingly choosing not to display that wealth—that’s the theory behind a new book exploring the changing consumption habits of rich people in the West. In 1899, the American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen published the classic polemic The Theory of the Leisure Class. Veblen’s book was among the first to examine how the wealthy used purchasing decisions to demonstrate their class. To describe this behavior, Veblen coined the term “conspicuous consumption”—defined as spending on publicly observable goods like clothing and accessories. Veblen argued, as an example, that the main point (pdf) of wearing high-heel shoes or a top hat for the rich was to demonstrate that you could not possibly do any manual labor.
The book became well-known as an early criticism of the excesses of capitalism. Almost 120 years later, sociologist Elizabeth Currid-Halkett has taken the baton from Veblen—but with a modified target. 1. 2. Literature’s Greatest Opening Lines, as Written By Mathematicians | Math with Bad Drawings. International Mindedness - Teachers Are Talking About It, But What Exactly Is It? | HuffPost UK. Most schools have their own definition of what it means to be internationally minded. Policies have been written, curricula developed and special events scheduled into academic calendars, but what exactly do we mean by international mindedness? Put simply, international mindedness means understanding, respecting and valuing different cultures, embracing diversity and knowing that different perspectives have a great deal to offer.
International mindedness enables us to work in harmony with colleagues from around the world and to benefit from a wide range of knowledge and experience. It promotes respect, encourages collaboration and sees students develop high levels of empathy and compassion. Image credit: iStock Seven signs of an internationally minded person: Globalisation and increased population mobility have led to communities becoming melting pots for a colourful array of cultures.
So what can you do to help your child develop international mindedness? 111 Ways NOT to say "turn to page XYZ and answer the questions" when Teaching History - FlippingHistory.net. Why Did America Fight the Korean War? | PragerU. How Comics Captured America’s Opinions About the Vietnam War. In America’s imagination, the Vietnam War is not so much celebrated as it is assiduously contemplated. This inward-looking approach is reflected in films like “The Deer Hunter” and “Apocalypse Now,” best-selling novels and popular memoirs that dwell on the psychological impact of the war. Was the war worth the cost, human and otherwise? Was it a winnable war or doomed from the outset? What are its lessons and legacies? These questions also underpin Ken Burns’ Vietnam War documentary, which premiered September 17. As a child, I was always fascinated by comics; now, as a cultural studies scholar, I’ve been able to fuse this passion with an interest in war narratives.
The voice of the people Histories of war are often told through the major battles and the views of the generals and politicians in power. American comics, on the other hand, tend to reflect the popular attitudes of the era in which they are produced. During the Great Depression, Superman battled corrupt landlords. JFK's Second Term - The Atlantic. When Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in November of 1963, he knew that in order to accrue political capital he would initially need to champion goals and policies that Kennedy had already been pursuing. Not long before his death Kennedy had scrawled the word "poverty" on a piece of paper and circled it multiple times; this note fell into the hands of his brother Robert and became a symbolic justification for Johnson's declaration of the War on Poverty, early in 1964.
Similarly, many of the things that Johnson pushed through Congress in his first two years as President—such as an $11 billion tax cut, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the 1965 laws that brought Medicare and Medicaid into existence and that poured billions of federal dollars into primary and secondary education—can readily be seen as extensions of the avowed policies of the Kennedy Administration. From Atlantic Unbound: But what if it wasn't? Facing History and Ourselves. Could Mikhail Gorbachev Have Saved the Soviet Union? Cuban missile crisis was a triumph of diplomacy, not brinksmanship. Why Authoritarians Attack the Arts - NYTimes.com.
In 1937, ascending leaders of the Third Reich hosted two art exhibitions in Munich. One, the “Great German Art Exhibition,” featured art Adolf Hitler deemed acceptable and reflective of an ideal Aryan society: representational, featuring blond people in heroic poses and pastoral landscapes of the German countryside. The other featured what Hitler and his followers referred to as “degenerate art”: work that was modern or abstract, and art produced by people disavowed by Nazis — Jewish people, Communists, or those suspected of being one or the other.
The “degenerate art” was presented in chaos and disarray, accompanied by derogatory labels, graffiti and catalog entries describing “the sick brains of those who wielded the brush or pencil.” Hitler and those close to him strictly controlled how artists lived and worked in Nazi Germany, because they understood that art could play a key role in the rise or fall of their dictatorship and the realization of their vision for Germany’s future. Cuban Missile Crisis Reconnaissance Photographs. B Sourcework Tips 2015 (1) The CIA Is Celebrating Its Cartography Division’s 75th Anniversary by Sharing Declassified Maps. As much as James Bond is defined by his outlandish gadgets, one of the most important tools for real-life spies is actually much less flashy: maps. Whether used to gather information or plan an attack, good maps are an integral part of the tradecraft of espionage.
Now, to celebrate 75 years of serious cartography, the Central Intelligence Agency has declassified and put decades of once-secret maps online. These days, the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies rely more on digital mapping technologies and satellite images to make its maps, but for decades it relied on geographers and cartographers for planning and executing operations around the world. Because these maps could literally mean the difference between life and death for spies and soldiers alike, making them as accurate as possible was paramount, Greg Miller reports for National Geographic. ClassTools.net. Nuclear tests – How North Korea compares to other nuclear powers - Washington Post.