We continued looking at the
Paris Peace Conference today,and specifically the various treaties that were negotiated with the Central Powers. As you should have seen there were common themes to all of the treaties: disarmament (limitations placed on the size of the military that defeated Central Powers were allowed to possess), loss of territory and recognition of successor states. We started watching
"Paris 1919" today as well, and we'll finish it off tomorrow.
We had a brief class discussion today on genetically modified foods before we got in to a film study on CBC documentary series "China Rises: Getting Rich". We'll finish this video off tomorrow. We were going to have a debate on Thursday, but I'm going to push it to Friday. About half of the class will be
debating on Friday, with the other half of the class determining the winner. Remember the debate topic is
"Be it resolved that the 21st Century will belong to China". This was a debate topic from the Munk Debate series. You can find the
link to the Munk Debate on China here. At the Munk Debate site you can watch video highlights of the debate, and read the transcript from the debate. Another interesting link is to
check out Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years in 4 Minutes. This is interesting to
note the development of China and how there is a disparity between different regions in China. And now for a couple of links to videos and stories from Fareed Zakaria's Global Public Square:
challenges facing China's leadership,
why China's leadership needs a PR overhaul, and another on
China's one-child policy.
I will split you into teams in class tomorrow.
I went through a PowerPoint lecture on
"Latin American Revolutions" which you should have taken extensive notes on. We'll continue with our examination of the wars for independence in South America tomorrow. Please remember to bring your
History of the Americas textbook tomorrow.
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