January 2022

May 2022 TOK essay prescribed title #1 specific example – Indian man killed for cutting down a tree

Text: Muzaffar, Maroosha. “Indian man beaten to death by mob three months after he cut ‘holy’ tree.” The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/india-jharkhand-mob-lynching-holy-tree-b1986976.html Extract: “A 34-year-old man was dragged out of his home and killed by a mob in India’s eastern Jharkhand state for cutting down a “holy” tree in October last year.” This news article Read more…

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May 2022 TOK essay prescribed title #2 specific example – Rohingya Muslim shops destroyed

Text: Dasgupta, Sravasti. “Bangladesh destroys 3,000 shops belonging to Rohingya Muslim refugees.” https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/bangladesh-rohingya-muslim-refugees-shops-b1987162.html Extract: “Authorities in Bangladesh have bulldozed over 3,000 Rohingya shops in the last month calling them “illegal”. In a statement to AFP, the country’s deputy refugee commissioner Shamsud Douza confirmed the figure and said that the “illegal shops” had been cleared as Read more…

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May 2022 TOK essay prescribed title #5 specific example – Pets and divorce

Text: “Pets’ welfare will be considered in divorce battles in Spain.” CNN World. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/06/europe/pets-divorce-welfare-spain-scli-intl-wellness/index.html Extract: “Spain will consider a pet’s welfare when couples divorce or break-up from Wednesday in a legal shift that strengthens the case for couples obtaining shared custody of their animals.The decision follows similar moves in France and Portugal and obliges Read more…

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May 2022 TOK essay prescribed title #3 specific example – research on microbes and pain

Text: “Can a dangerous microbe offer a new way to silence pain?” Science Daily. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/success-fail-why-outliers-people-communities-nudges Extract: “A new study shows that a toxin from the microbe that causes anthrax can silence multiple types of pain in mice. Researchers found the toxin targets pain-sensing cells to alter signaling and block pain. Read more…

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May 2022 TOK essay prescribed title #4 specific example – research on meditation and mistakes

Text: “How meditation can help you make fewer mistakes.” Science Daily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191111124637.htm Extract: “The research, published in Brain Sciences, tested how open monitoring meditation — or, meditation that focuses awareness on feelings, thoughts or sensations as they unfold in one’s mind and body — altered brain activity in a way Read more…

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May 2022 TOK essay prescribed title #6 specific example – Google and Facebook fined over cookies

Text: “France fines Google, Facebook over cookies.” DW.com. Extract: “France’s National Commission for Information Technology and Freedom (CNIL) on Thursday hit Facebook and Google with €210 million ($237 million) in fines. CNIL has determined that the sites facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com do not allow users to refuse the use of cookies as simply Read more…

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May 2022 TOK essay prescribed title #2 specific example – fight against pollution in Kenya

Text: ““Kenya pollution: How air sensors are helping people fight pollution.” BBC.com The article shows the lengths that John Kieti went to get accurate pollution data to help improve air quality: “The results were shocking. The measurement indicator… showed that the air was heavily polluted,” Mr Kieti recalls. The air Read more…

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