Social 30-1
For most of today's class, you watched an excerpt from the documentary "Unconstitutional", and completed the film study guide that went along with this video from your Social 30-1 study booklet. You can find these questions on pages 283-284. I'm embedding the video below. If you missed class today, you should check out this video. I also briefly talked about key members of the U.S. Cabinet at the time (President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Attorney General John Ashcroft), and the USA PATRIOT Act. I also talked briefly about recent developments to go against Section 215 of the Patriot Act called the USA FREEDOM Act, which aims to end the NSA's collection of metadata on American citizens' phone records.
Chapter 10 Test Study Guide:
This test is multiple choice format, with 55 questions. Please review the PowerPoint "Political Challenges to Liberalism". You're responsible for all key terms and questions from the Chapter 10 Worksheet. Please review the following as well:- Democratic Systems (handout notes)
- Non-Democratic Systems (handout notes)
- Structure of Canadian Government
- Structure of American Government
- similarities/differences between the parliamentary system and presidential system
- types of dictatorships
- techniques of dictatorships
- authoritarian systems
- proportional representation concept
- first past the post system
- review political and economic spectrum (again!)
Social 30-1 Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:
Please study the following material:
- make sure that you have read Chapters 9-12 in Perspectives on Ideology
- study all key concepts from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets (see below)
- study all questions/answers from the Chapters 9-12 Worksheets
- "Political Challenges to Liberalism" (PowerPoint presentation)
- Democratic Systems
- Non-Democratic Systems
- types of dictatorships
- techniques of dictatorships
- Civil Rights Movement
- authoritarian systems (China notes)
- review the economic and political spectrum (again!)
- re-read the notes on rights that I put on the board (Charter of Rights and Freedoms to War Measures Act)
- FLQ Crisis 1970
- assimilation
- self-interest
- humanitarianism
- Indian Act
- residential school system
- enfranchisement
- the White Paper
- the Red Paper
- “war on terror"
- authoritarianism
- consensus decision-making
- direct democracy
- military dictatorship
- oligarchy
- one-party state
- party solidarity
- representation by population
- proportional representation
- representative democracy
- responsible government
- democracy
- single-member constituency (first past the post)
- the Senate
- the House of Commons
- the House of Representatives
- the Senate
- mixed-member proportional system
- lobby groups
- American Bill of Rights
- Anti-Terrorism Act
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- emergency and security legislation
- illiberal
- language legislation
- Bill 101
- Bill 178
- Bill 86
- Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
- respect for law and order
- terrorism
- rendition
- the War Measures Act
- enemy aliens
- internment
- the Emergencies Act
- USA PATRIOT Act
- consumerism
- environmental change
- extremism
- pandemics
- postmodernism
- global warming
- Kyoto Protocol
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- drought
Social 20-1
I started showing you a CBC documentary called "Darfur: On Our Watch". Understanding the failure to deal with the situation in Darfur is a case study of how national interests get in the way of international interests. The UN Security Council failed to pass a resolution for years on Darfur to intervene in a meaningful way militarily, and to stop the humanitarian crisis, largely because of the pursuit of national interest. China, being a P-5 country on the Security Council has veto power, and due to their interests in Sudanese oil used their veto power to block resolutions from being passed. China wanted to maintain strong relations with the Sudanese government based in Khartoum (the capital city of Sudan), and didn't want to intervene and stop the genocide. As you know, the UN doesn't really have a strong track record of stopping genocide (see: Rwanda), and it is repeated in Sudan. Please remember that you have your Unit 3 Final Exam on Wednesday, June 3rd, and your Social 20-1 Final Exam Part A on Thursday, June 4th. Please see the study guide below.
Here's an update on what is happening in Sudan and Chad (please skip to 15:30):
Social 20-1 Unit 3 Final Exam Study Guide:
This exam is on Wednesday, June 3rd. Please review all of the Unit 3 PowerPoint presentations (you can find them on the Social 20-1 wiki):
- "Nations, Nation-States and Internationalism"
- "Canada's Foreign Policy"
- "Nationalism and Internationalism"
- know the difference between multilateralism, unilateralism and bilateralism and know examples of each
- know the spectrum of foreign policy: internationalism, nationalism, ultranationalism, and supranationalism
- know the different foreign policy options
- know the 6 themes of Canadian foreign policy/Canada's foreign policy goals
- what influences foreign policy decisions?
- methods of foreign policy
- motivations for nations involvement or non-involvement in international affairs
- how can foreign policy promote internationalism?
- tied aid, bilateral aid, multilateral aid
- examples of INGOs and IGOs
- the United Nations (organization/structure, bodies, etc.)
- peacemaking vs. peacekeeping (and examples)
- different understandings of internationalism (types of internationalism)
- why do international organizations exist? purposes and examples
