Friday, November 13, 2009

November 13


We finished watching "Good Night, and Good Luck" today in class. This film explores a lot of issues that are relevant to today. I found this short video on YouTube that spliced together Edward R. Murrow's speech that appears at the beginning of the film and continues at the end of the film. I find that this speech has relevance even today when you talk about the level of discourse in the media. Please remember that you have your Chapter 7 Test (Cold War period) on Monday, November 16th and your Unit 2 Final Exam on Thursday, November 19th. Please see both study guides here.




I went through the TNC Dossier Assignment with you today, I talked about expectations and showed you some outstanding examples of this assignment from former students. I will be sending you the rubric for this assignment today, so please check your e-mail. I gave you some advice for completing the TNC Dossier Assignment. Please check under the Social 10-1 Links on the right-hand side of the blog for a link to your corporation's corporate website. Be sure that you check out the link to the Multinational Monitor, and search for your TNC on their website for related articles. It's also not a bad idea to search for "worst corporations" on the Multinational Monitor website. We started to look at the advantages and disadvantages of Wal-Mart today as well, so we went back to Chapter 1 in the textbook to look at this case study in greater detail. We started a film study today on the CNBC documentary called "The Age of Wal-Mart". We will finish this documentary next week. Please remember that you have your Chapter 10-11 Quiz is on Tuesday, November 17th, please see the study guide here.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

How many points do you want on the Time line?

Anonymous said...

Should the timeline be graphic (as in have pictures to illustrate it)?

Kevin Gilchrist said...

How many points do you want on the Time line?
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I don't set any hard and fast rules for how many events need to be on the timeline with this assignment.
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Should the timeline be graphic (as in have pictures to illustrate it)?

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It is not a requirement for this assignment. If you check the assignment and the rubric, it doesn't say anything about the timeline being an illustrated timeline.

Anonymous said...

What countries are we supposed to put on the map? The countries that our Corporations sell in (that would be almost every country) or the countries where our Corporation has factories?