PGC -Sample Paper

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International Relations in the Legend of Korra - 3Pol2

Please post your

Legend of Korra IR descriptive scenes along with equivalent real life samples.

5 pts for the film scene description (1-5 for clarity)
5 pts for the real life scene facts (1-5 for clarity)
5 pts for match (how the scene and real life matched)
5 pts for identifying what IR phenomenon was the scene (1-3 pts for basic concepts, 4-5 for complex concepts)

Nation States Paper

Basic Format: 10 marks

Font style and size, margin will be your choice.  The choice to not justify the alignment of paragraphs should be to make it look better, not just because you did not choose any alignment.Requirement on this is that the size and font should be creative and visually attractive without sacrificing content space. I do not want a bloated paper because of excess sizes and spaces that do not accomplish anything.

Top part of the 1st page should display
Title (make your own), name, section and course (Introduction to International Relations Theory)
Arrange it however you choose, but title should go first.  Again lay it out to make it look good.

Content: 30 puts


Should have Introduction, Discussion, Conclusion.
Must follow 3rd person PoV.
Must discuss based on facts plus experience.  Refer to yourself as author, writer or researcher.

Introduction must be 1-2 paragraphs. Tell the reader what NationStates is.  Then tell the reader why you are writing.  1) to illustrate how NationStates is used to simulate comparative political experience.  2) how NationStates simulates international relations.  Tell about your state and when it was created.  Give proof.

Discussion must be around 4 to 6 paragraphs. Will show how you understand comparative politics elements as different w international relations as previously discussed and as you've read in your readings.

It should talk about the two topics mentioned in introduction.  Each topic should talk about 2-3 sub-topics.  E.g comparative political experience can talk about a. Institutions, and b. Political behavior.  Use specifics.  Behavior can have voting, activism, and other sub-topics.

Talk about how these sub-topics belong the each topic.  And how they might be mistaken or used as part of international relations. And vice versa.  Talk about how particular sub topics are for international relations, such as foreign policy and international organizations, alliances, and power.  Again, show how they can be mistaken or used in comparative politics. Support your discussion w clipped pictures from the game.

Conclusion must finalize the main points of your discussion. Summarizing it in an organized manner. This should only be 1 short paragraph, w statements said directly.

Note: proofs (10pts) are based on pictures from the game.  Pictures should be just right in size to let the reader see important data, again without exacting too much space.

Readings: International Relations

Prelim Period

Week 1

(History of IR and basic concepts - lecture)

Week 2

(using the simulator and differentiating IR from Compa - In-Class Educational Technology Assisted Learning)

Week 3 (Start of Recitations)

Knicl (2014) - The Black Rose

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/black-rose-2014-05-21

Slaughter (2011) - International Relations, Principal Theories

http://www.princeton.edu/~slaughtr/Articles/722_IntlRelPrincipalTheories_Slaughter_20110509zG.pdf

Tamaki (2015) - Levels of Analysis of the International System

https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/17287/3/Tamaki%20Ashgate%20Textbook%20Chapter%204%20v2.0.pdf


Week 4

Morgenthau (Politics Among Nations) -
"A Realist Theory of International Politics"
"Political Power"
"The Balance of Power"

https://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjryYmI_MfOAhXEn5QKHd6UAEsQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.1.sqspcdn.com%2Fstatic%2Ff%2F1385000%2F21639490%2F1358198233217%2F327ESSEssentialReadingsI&usg=AFQjCNH4usYfEltOL89yIqbGgx3SIL_j1A&sig2=DXwdyf-HYZUqIjDxhfHwnA

Note: The previous link "Essential Readings in World Politics" will contain majority of readings, many of them are permitted reprints of the originals.  Subsequent topics can be found in this ebook.


Week 5

Jervis - Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma -  (see Link Week 4 above)

Kant - Perpetual Peace (Sections 1 and 2 / see Link Week 4)

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/kant1795_1.pdf


Week 6

Doyle - Liberalism and World Politics (see Link Week 4 above)

Wallerstein - The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System (see Link 4 above)

Week 7

Krasner - Sovereignty (see Link Week 4 above)

Huntington - The Clash of Civilizations
http://users.metu.edu.tr/utuba/Huntington.pdf


Week 8

Game of Thrones (episode to be announced in class)


Post Prelims (Finals Period)

Week 1

(Lecture on International Law)

Week 2 (Start if Recitations)

Hard Power
https://www.cfr.org/interview/japans-hard-power-play

Soft Power
http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/content/articles/speakers/detailed/erkki-tuomioja/erkki-tumioja_-_the-role-of-soft-power-in-eu-common-foreign-policy.pdf?Interview-with-Erkki-Tuomioja-Former-Finnish-Foreign-Minister

Week 3

Just War Theory http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3192&context=facpubs


Week 4

Geopolitics - Maritime Power

https://www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/e7dabb3b-333d-4af1-8eb3-b98d311c470d/Command-of-the-Sea--An-Old-Concept-Surfaces-in-a-N

Week 5

Political Economy

Hardin
http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles_pdf/tragedy_of_the_commons.pdf

Ostrom
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/5876/Coping%20with%20tragedies%20of%20the%20commons.pdf


Week 6

http://www.c-r.org/downloads/Accord16_13Therelationshipbetweentrackone_2005_ENG.pdf

https://www.arcjournals.org/pdfs/ijmsr/v4-i7/1.pdf


Week 7

Economic and Political Cooperation

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mercosur-south-americas-fractious-trade-bloc

https://www.cfr.org/blog/president-trumps-unlikely-effect-us-eu-tech-relationship

Week 8

The Legend of Korra

Modern Political Theory Stills - Petition Pol Thought 2

For your creative performance task.

Each group has 1 modern thinker's selected works as assigned last Wed.

Each group's task is to outline the topics assigned.  Each subheading of your outline will be key points of your particular thinker.

Let's use the film as an example.

If we use Tao Te Ching quoted parts, the outline will be:

I. Will vs. Desire
  A.  Illusion
     1.  The Illusion of serving people whom we love.
     2.  The truth of serving others.
        a.  Serving those we hate.
II.  The paradox of water
  A. Strength, meaning of
  B. Softness, meaning of
III.  Property
  A.  Can a person be another person's property?


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The group will submit their outline in a single long bond paper, properly formatted as per my usual requirements.  Individual names will appear at 3rd line from the top.  1st and 2nd line is reserved for your assigned thinker's reference.

e.g.

Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu

Analysis Outline

Group Presentation:
Names (surname, firstname)


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Then make a picture illustrating the topics/subtopics of your group.  Main topics are outlines in the table of contents. subtopics will show your analysis of those topics.

Pictures will be created by stills made by members of the groups acting out a frozen scene that can illustrate the idea.

These pictures will be placed in powerpoint slides, each slide followed by a quote from the book.
Then followed by a slide showing 3-4 lines summating the argument.

e.g.

On the illusion of serving those whom we love.

     It is easy to serve those whom we love.
     Doing so simply is an act of following our basic nature, our desires.
     Doing so is not really serving others, but serving yourself.
     In reality, it does not really improve us as a person, for ourselves, and as a member of society.


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Be ready to explain your slides in class.


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Marks will be given for:

Proper outline (logical and proper format) = 10
Pictures portray the ideas = 30
Quotes match the topics in the outline = 20
Summative arguments capture the essence of the political idea = 20
Individual explanations = 20

Total of 100 pts

ETAR - 5MUS

Important things to remember.

The flow of money in the macroeconomic cycle can only be controlled through policy - regulations made by the government.

Money cannot be increased or decreased by simply printing.  It multiplies though the macroeconomic cycle of factor payments, interests, expenditures, export payments, and investments.

When people have a lot of money to spend, that is the situation when there is a high amount of money in circulation.  Because people buy a lot, sellers increase prices.  So how can the money be decreased?

The answer can be found in the chapter on money, particularly monetary policy.

Try to provide one method on how the Central Bank can reduce or increase the amount of money in circulation.  Anyone able to provide an answer gets extra credit for quiz scores.   There are only a particular number of methods, so no repetition.

Questions may be posted on the comments box.

Pls sign up for attendance at the comment box.

ETAR 5MUS - List of Songs

Fot the Finals presentation which will be half the Final Exam score:  Choose one from each of the list. Each group will have two songs in total.  Comment it at the comment box along with list of members.  Check out the comments, you cant choose songs which are already chosen.

A. Pick one:

Colors of the Wind (Vanessa Williams)

Sarangola ni Pepe (Celeste)

Bui Doi (Miss Saigon)

Upuan (Gloc 9)

Dapat Tama (Gloc 9)

Do you hear the People Sing (Les Mis)

At the End of the Day (Les Mis)

Weeping (Josh Groban)

From a Distance (Bette Midler)

Fast Car

B.  Pick one:

Bulletproof (La Rouge)

Set Fire to the Rain (Adelle)

Beauty and the Beast (Celine and Peabo version)

Tourniquet (Evanessence)

Anak

Numb (Linkin Park)

Somebody that I Used to Know

Sun and Moon

Defying Gravity

Hold On

Alejate

4Eco Essay Assignment

Hardin (1968) described the Tragedy of the Commons using grazing animals, such as cows, freely consuming grass on an open field.  Greene in 48 Laws of Power and 33 Strategies of War used actual scenarios also to describe the practicality of his ideas.

In three paragraphs of 3-6 sentences each.  Create a scenario applying one of the strategies of war.  The situation is, you are in a situation in one of the issues of the final period (see syllabus).  But you will have to pick an issue that was not the one you wrote about for the newsletter.  Goal is to show how the strategy can be used by a person in advocating for that issue.  E.g. i'm fighting for women's rights in congress, and there is this problem with other lawmakers.  So I apply strategy number x.  And I explain how.

Use your first paragraph to introduce the situation and the strategy. -2pts
Second paragraph explain how the strategy will go (like narrating a story). 2pts
1st paragraph should be clear and informative to a person who does not know what your talking about. -3pts
2nd paragraph should show a good story, not scattered, but flowing narration and not uninteresting  (be like Greene). -3pts
The logic of he scenario should attest to the application of the strategy. -5pts
3rd paragraph should directly state (possible in 2-3 sentences) what political-economic resource was used in the startegy - people, network, opportunity etc... -5pts

20pts total

Those are marks not ranges, hence do the requirement get the pt.

Answers should be submitted via eleap in the assignment area.  Copy and paste the text.  and upload the file.  DO BOTH!  Follow the instructions well.  Not following instructions get automatic 70 for this task.

System will check for plagiarism.  Plagiarized work (exceeded 15%) gets 0.