Month: March 2021

TOK essay

November 2021 TOK essay prescribed title #2 RLE – anti-vaccination movement.

Article: Doctor blames Andrew Wakefield and anti-vaxxers for her baby son catching measles “A doctor has said public reaction to Andrew Wakefield’s discredited study linking the MMR vaccine to autism was to blame when her baby son caught measles.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/doctor-blames-andrew-wakefield-son-catching-measles-vaccine-mmr-autism-anti-vaxxers-measles-a7813001.html This case shows potential problems with “direct experience” and how Read more…

By Author, 2 yearsMarch 31, 2021 ago

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November 2021 TOK essay prescribed title #1 RLE – digital poem

Robert Gaskin’s poem “HAIKU ARE LIKE TROLLIES”: Wandering in mist Reaching out to soft sunlight Blue-scaled dragons pause. Moon low over sea Glimpse of discarded cocoon Small fish swimming idly. Prehistoric Digital Poetry an Archaeology of Forms, by Chris T. Funkhouser, The University of Alabama Press, 2007, pp. 58–59. John Read more…

By Author, 2 yearsMarch 29, 2021 ago

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November 2021 TOK essay prescribed title #6 RLE – language deprivation experiments

Article: “What Happens if a Child Is Never Exposed to Language?” “Children learn the language(s) that they hear and see around them at a young age, but what happens if a child just never has any linguistic input, spoken or signed? Although a scientific study around this question would undoubtedly Read more…

By Author, 2 yearsMarch 27, 2021 ago

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November 2021 TOK essay prescribed title #5 RLE – Iroha (poem)

Iroha is an older Japanese poem with deep connections to Japanese culture and religion. There are a number of different versions – the original cannot be read by the vast majority of modern Japanese readers. It has been translated in a number of languages but the translations lose much of Read more…

By Author, 2 yearsMarch 25, 2021 ago

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November 2021 TOK essay prescribed title #4 RLE – origami and NASA

Headline: “NASA’s New Shape-Shifting Radiator Inspired by Origami” “Japan’s ancient art of paper folding has inspired the design of a potentially trailblazing “smart” radiator that a NASA technologist is now developing to remove or retain heat on small satellites. Vivek Dwivedi, a technologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Read more…

By Author, 2 yearsMarch 23, 2021 ago

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November 2021 TOK essay prescribed title #3 RLE – Japanese art protest

Article : “Masked artist makes sticky issue out of radiation in Japan” “Known as 281 Antinuke, Japan’s answer to Banksy has covered Tokyo streets in images depicting politicians as vampires and children being shielded from radioactive rain to highlight the consequences of a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant after Read more…

By Author, 2 yearsMarch 21, 2021 ago

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November 2021 TOK essay prescribed title #2 RLE – gender and scientific research

Article: “A Scientist’s Gender Biases Mouse Research” “Duhaime-Ross reports on a new study, which found that mice are scared of men. When a male researcher works with a mouse, the mouse’s body courses with stress hormones. This doesn’t happen when a woman scientist is doing the work. The difference in how mice respond to male Read more…

By Author, 2 yearsMarch 19, 2021 ago

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November 2021 TOK Prescribed title #1 RLE – border dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea.

Headline: Djibouti asks UN help to end border dispute with Eritrea “UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Djibouti is asking Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to help peacefully resolve a border dispute with Eritrea following the recent end to that nation’s 20-year border dispute with Ethiopia. “ https://apnews.com/cd6cf3024ba24afe9baa58852397d5ab This conflict over a border clearly Read more…

By Author, 2 yearsMarch 17, 2021 ago

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November 2021 Prescribed Titles – basic knowledge questions for prescribed title #5

5. “If all knowledge is provisional, when can we have confidence in what we claim to know?” Answer with reference to two areas of knowledge. To what extent is ethical knowledge provisional? How do changes in ethical knowledge affect confidence in ethical standards? To what extent is religious knowledge provisional? How do Read more…

By Author, 2 yearsMarch 16, 2021 ago

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November 2021 Prescribed Titles – basic knowledge questions for prescribed title #4

4. “Areas of knowledge always rely on a systematic process of trial and error to aid the production of knowledge.” Discuss this claim with reference to two areas of knowledge. To what extent does mathematics always rely on a systematic process of trial and error to aid the production of knowledge? What effect Read more…

By Author, 2 yearsMarch 16, 2021 ago