Current Events- FRQ #3 Flashcards
Soup Protests In England Museums –> Spread over the globe
Protests started in response to the UK oil crisis to raise awareness of the overuse of fossil fuels in the UK
Themes:
- going to far
-Using disobedience to raise awareness and stop injustice
-Opposite Perspective: Distracted from the mssion, entire purpose and intention of movement became lost in the very soup thrown on the paintings
Willow Project
Is an oil drilling misson along in Alaska
–> Although supported by officials due to the fact that it increases jobs and lessen reliance on foreign oil, the project unleashes negative effects of surrounding enviornment and communities, as it has been found to accumulate up to 9 million metric tons of fossil fuels/greenhouse gases per year
–> Skyrocketed through social media –> Change.org ammassing millions of supporters/ online signatures –> No avail
Themes:
-Failure of modernity
-Power in the US failing us
-Voices not being listened to
-Online means not being a source of justice
Florida Schools and African American Culture/History
Handful of florida schools have made textbook companies create “revised”/ “abridged” versions of their works that shield students from learning about the plight of minorities in this country –> Books geared towards elementary schoolers revolving around the stories of influencial minority figures such as Rosa Parks have become watered down –> In one of the revised versions simplified Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat at the front of the bus to a white person due to Jim Crow laws/segregation laws –> rewrote the racial segregation component out of the narrative, reducing the event to Parks simply refusing to give up her seat.
Themes:
-Problems with censorship
-Importance of education
-Problem with state laws being given too much power
Samsung Ad being displayed on the front of a Barcelona cathedral
Globalization of advertising –> necessary –> provided funding for reconstruction after facing damage from natural disaster
French Protests/Riots
3 million protest against french officials for raising retirement age from 62-64
President: Emmanuel Marcon –> labeled as a dictator yet still survived a vote of no confidence
-Protested against retirement legislation since people felt as though it is oppressive, particular to those who can only find work in cheap paying and arduous labor work.
- People do not feel heard or valued by public government due to pension reform
-People lit important government buildings such as town hall on fire
Citizens detained as a result
Nashville Shooting
Private Christian school –> past student
-3 children killed and 3 teachers
-Tragedy for nation; further cements need for safety enforcement in the nation
-People used this as an excuse to harp on trans community
-invoked protests for gun control
-Biden passes assault weapon ban
-Florida passes bill that allows permit-less carry of guns
Mexican immigration Jail
Mexican immigration jail at US border –> fire and no effort to save “prisoners”
- 38 dead
-effected lives of families and single mothers
-Lots of the prisoners inside were wrongfully admitted, found near border and taken in
TM Landry Prep School –> Louisianna
-school took great pride in helping minorities achieve Ivy League status and innovative learning techniques
-School was abusive, didn’t learn any real classes, courses were more rooted in learning
-Students attendance/attendence and continuation with the program was controlled through educators instilling fear and abuse –> students didn’t reveal until graduation and they realized they did not have the work ethic
-> cheated out of a college education
–> School would go as far to fake college transcipts and fabricate accademic statstics in favor of the student
–> Demonstrates the power of education; Schools need to focused on building the well rounded, not just on building steps to reach professions through immoral short cuts
Trans-rights
across the US gender affirming car is banned for just around 53,000 of 300,000 indivudlas who identify as transgender
–> American medical association even advises against placing these limits on extending to all individuals regarudless of gender expression
–> having such precautions supporting this minority community will help reduce depression, suicide risks; builds a cohesive community rather than one built on isolating minority groups
–> restricting them from gender affirming care only promotes the stigma
AI Data
AI equipment, version of Chat GPT placed in company noted to –> after adding alongside workforce of staff workers –> observed in increasing worker productivty and income –> Especially when using this Chat GPT bot in the areas of customer service, consumers were reposrted to be more satisfied
–> However workers who had claimed to observe these improvements were mainly lower skilled and less experienced; those higher skill/ more years of training in the industry asserted that the addition of chat gpt did not pose any noticable difference than without it
Writers Guild Strike
WGA staff writers protesting against infamous hollywood studios ranging from Netflix to to Disney
-Protesting against failure of studios to disclose a new 3 year contract that allows writers to earn greater earnings in redisuals –> protesting for better working conditions and treatment from studio department heads
-Through the popularity/globalization of streaming services, eliminatees the ability of writers to get financial compensation when works/episodes are tv are watched by their audiences –> As result, writers unable to attain other jobs are placed in a challenging position in which have to live off checks of 3 to 7 dollars in residual earnings
-Though not in response to the conflict of streaming platforms, simillar stirke for better working conditions and treatment/consideration were protested for all the way back in 2007 and ended up causing a significant fiscal dent in CA economy due to productions that had to be shut down due to the WGA boycotting
–> Result: More keen on fixing the situation
Florida Principal
Principal took elementary students on trip to florence, more specificallyt to the Florence Accademia Gallery –> however, super intenditinets and those at the top of Florida’s educational heirarchy viewed such field trip as an inappropriate endeavor. More specifically, they found issue in the fact that the museum in question housed the infamous Micheangloe’s David, meaning that students attended the trip were exposed to a certain part of the male anatomy.
Tik Tok Court Case
Tik Tok CEO placed in the hotseat by___ after social media platoform accused of stealing
-Asked as rudementry a question as to whether the mere act of opening act required Wifi, and even went as far as to be outraged in the CEO’s confirmation to this question, mistaking the idea of internet connection to being a conduit to preying upon the user’s personal data and information
-A change of times
-down with elders
-chaning pace
-rapidly transofrming society that those more familary with the trandiational values of a “simpler time” are unable to grasp –> Unjust to have said individuals be the figureheads of our soceity –> For how are we to trust the hands behind the wheel if they canoot even distiguish betweent the gas/break pedal?
