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The topic of my presentation is going to be bullfights, but I cant think of a good question. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot.
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Bad science
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According to this article how is bad science being used? I do not get it..Your inputs are greatly appreciated. Christmas is a time for harmless lies, the chocolatey indulgences of the thought world. We know when to stop, because if we all acted on our belief in Santa there would be no presents: and then Christmas would be meaningless.My favourite Christmas traditions are the “red wine is good for you” and “chocolate is good for you” stories, which have become a festive science tradition of their own. Red Heart Wine, from Sainsbury’s, with extra antioxidants, is “a red wine that is actually good for your heart”. Drink it down with new Choxi+, milk chocolate with “extra an…
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Hi! So I have my TOK presentation next week and I have thought about talking about how the unknown prevents us from actually learning growing as human beings. I will explain myself: For example, shocking images in art, we are blinded by the "shockness" of it all, and truthfully, we are only "blown away" because as a society we are not used to that type of experiences. All our day to day life is very bland and basic, both visually, sonically... So when we are exposed to "shocking" images, sounds, experiences we are unable to see past the initial "view". So we are afraid. I suppose you could relate it to phobias... I will be explaining it by relating my idea to: 1. Art 2. S…
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Our knowledge issue for our TOK presentation is ; Can we know whether or not an individual is competent enough to make rational decisions on their own if they have a psychological illness? but we are having issues finding good arguments that are relevant to the knowledge issue, does anyone have a good idea?
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DHMO
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http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html what are some knowledge issues on this site???
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Hey I have to present my tok presentation in a few weeks and I'm not quite sure what all to do mine on, I was thinking of doing something on the recent stuff about Stephen Hawking saying that theres no heaven, cause there's obviously some tok stuff there, but I don't know where to start?
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I'm thinking of doing: To what extent can reasoning be unaffected by emotion?. I would talk about the effect of emotion on reason. I would research if it is possible to use reason with absolutely no emotion involved. I’m really not sure if it is a good topic, what do you think?
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Nov10/May11 #10 "A model is a simplified representation of some aspect of the world... search for knowledge?" 1 2
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Hi there, I have decided to do the above topic for my TOK essay. I just want to run a few ideas past you to see if they will be ok. Semi structure: Define Search for Knowledge Newton/Einstein (Science) Newton old Eintsein new Newton low speeds Einstein everything Geographical Models (Social Science) Boserup/Malthus DTM Changed to suit newly evolving patterns Time dependant English Rules (Language) Always exceptions So diverse hard to have simplified model Maps (Language/Social Science anyone know???) Simplfied but not precise To have full precise 1:1 scale needed Christianity (Religion) BIBLE <- Controversial Way to 'perfect' live life - not real always Comm…
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"Some people have argued that science is the only road to knowledge, and if you cannot prove something, then you don't really know it at all. Discuss the this claim with reference to the 'scientific method' and its application to an issue of global concern." Any ideas?
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I would appreciate someone to tell me the question or a just a few of them. thanks I am taking ib world lit hl ib biology hl ib 20th cent (just too the test yesterday) ib math hl tok
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Hey people, I've gotta do a TOK presentation on "Does the number of words for a certain idea in a language represent the core values for the culture that speaks it?" I've done a bit of research, it's below, and now I just gotta find a few decent KI's, and somehow link it to other AoK's Help would be greatly appreciated! The research I've done: Does the number of words for a certain idea in a language represent the core values for the culture that speaks it? Example 1: In Gujarati, there are many more words for family members than in English. For example, you have a different word for your father’s brother and your mother’s brother. In English, these would both be uncle. …
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So I was given the Japanese Nuclear Crisis as a real life situation from my teacher and I was just wondering if the knowledge issue i extracted from it was alright. So as I did research on the topic I realized how people were coming to conclusions on Nuclear energy when they seem to know nothing about it, coming to generalizations simply because of the Nuclear Crisis and the label "Nuclear". They assumed that the acquisition of energy through nuclear power plants was somehow directly related to Nuclear weaponry, which is not the case at all. Because they both carried the label Nuclear and due to the connotations of it, people that lack knowledge automatically assumed that…
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Does anyone find it strange that the TOK course is made to broaden your mind etc. However, in the syllabus we are told to at the end define Art, define culture etc. I believe that TOK has tought us that these are not simple answers and there is really no answer. However, if we wrote "art is many things and cannot be put into words" we would fail outright. What are your thoughts? Does TOK actually limit you in some ways?
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Hello guys. I was hoping someone can help me with my TOK Presentation. I want to do it on like "Area 51" or "Aliens" but I don't know how to start. I was thinking something like "Can we trust our government to tell us the truth" and use the "Roswell UFO incident as a bases for it. There are a ton of knowledge issues there. Verification/Hard Evidence, Bias, Uncertainties, ect.., And this links to the Area of Knowledge History, But yeah, any other tips, tricks or advice on how to start? Is this even a good topic?? Thanks!
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I did my first TOK paper, just to practice, but got a 70 on it even though i explained 2 AOK thoroughly, what do i have to do in order to write the perfect paper?
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I have been struggling with knowledge issues in TOK. Every time I get my hands on a new topic that has so much potential there's never a good knowledge issue that I can come up with. I tried talking to my TOK teacher but she dismisses all of them for being either too narrow or descriptive. I finally came across Homeopathy and I find it very interesting but I still can't find a proper knowledge issue that I can link to different areas of knowledge. However, I have thought of something in the lines of the methodology used and how it varies in different areas of knowledge. I'm kinda stuck with how to connect the following KI to different areas of knowledge: "How can we test …
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Hello! I'm new to this website, and it's interesting to read all the discussions and posts I will be having my ToK presentation in a week or two, and I've been really interested in investigating the validity of certain analytical essays on Rebecca Black's 'Friday' (about its existentialist themes, etc.) that I found on the internet. My topic is: How is meaning in art/literature formed?, and I want to focus on the author's intentions (perhaps Freud's psychoanalytic approach to literature), the content of the artwork (structuralism?) and the audience's response (reader-response criticism). Is that a valid knowledge issue? I'm not so sure if my approach is appropriate for a…
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I'm currently trying to choose a topic for my first TOK presentation. It has to be on math or art, so I believe I'm choosing math. I was just wondering what kind of thoughts you guys have on presentations or what successes and failures you have had with presentations in the past?
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I'm doing a TOK presentation on advertising and how they use our sense perception to attract. How can I expand on this? I wanted to talk about the ethics - is it moral to manipulate our senses? Advertisements are altering the reality of the acquisition of knowledge. (?) And talk about how some advertisements won't be attractive to some because of experiences; I could then expand into the theories of relative knowledge and truth.
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Hi guys, Im having a lot of issues with this topic. Although it is interesting and something I really want to do. I dont know how to go about doing this. Narrowing it down would be the first thing, but into what? when it comes to the topic of wealth and money, there is too much to talk about.
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Movie For TOK
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My teacher wants us to recommend a good movie that is very TOK based. Got any suggestions? We already watched the Truman show, the butterfly and the dumbbell, gatica, food inc, 12 angry men, and thank you for smoking.
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Hi.. My topic for the presentation is the portrayal of youth in the media. Im having trouble defining the knowledge issues though, and would appreciate some assistance or thoughts. My current KI is: How can emotion be used to convince an observer of a point of view? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.. Thank you!
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I finished writing up my TOK essay and my teacher loves it. But I'm not sure if I can rely on her. It's her first year teaching TOK and she gave me 36/40. She didn't comment on it much, just saying that I need to fix up my grammar mistakes and stuff. But, I'm not sure if I can trust her marking. I think my essay was over rated... Can someone help me get through this? I'm super worried because I don't know where to fix up..... Someone who isn't in Nov 11/ May 12 and thinks they can help me, please PM me I'm dying of needing help. Thanks in advance
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For my ToK presentation, I wanted to revolve around the topic of Social Norms. At first it was just Culture & Taboos, but eventually it became Social Norms, you know, things you just know to do or not to do; Being courteous, not saying mean things in front of your friends, not saying bad words in front of kids, not standing too close to people you don't know, etc. I wanted to maybe talk about things that are debated as well, such as maybe breast-feeding in public. Any more examples would be helpful =) So, I figured the knowledge issue could be something like "What constitutes a social norm?" Now I'm just wondering if that is a good issue. What I also was thinking of i…
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Hey there! My ToK presentation is in 22 days, and my partner and I are thinking about talking about how schools limit personal development, with particular focus on creativity and how creative subjects tend to be given less importance than, say, mathematics or sciences, as those are the ones which measure "intelligence". Since the Western world puts a lot of value and importance to said "intelligence" (by the use of SATs and such), the creative areas tend to be left behind - and also, since we are taught that making mistakes is wrong, we become scared of trying out new things in fear of getting them wrong, which then limits us to a specific, "inside the box" way of think…
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how could i make a presentation answering this how language influences our knowledge
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I am doing my tok presentation on how illuminati is affecting society's youth. I am dealing with the subliminal messages that are found in music (lyrics and music videos). I am not sure what areas of knowledge i am connecting it to yet, but please tell me if you think this is an okay topic and add any suggesstions on how to make my presentation. Thanks!
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We are planning to have a presentation dealing with the ability to make rational decisions when having a psychological or physical disease, with real-life experiences such as suicide or DNR. But we are having problems thinking of a knowledge issue that can be appropriate for the presentation, please help?
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I want to do my TOK Presentation about the knowledge issue of "what constitutes humor?" however, is this too broad to cover in 10 minutes? Do you think I should somehow make my knowledge issue more specific to the humor in just viral videos?
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Hi guys I'll have my first ever TOK presentation on reasons & emotions in 2 days and I'm struggling with it. I just wanna know if I'm on the right path since my teacher doesn't really help or give us any advice . I'm currently have 2 topics in mind & I don't know which one I should choose for the topic of emotions & reasons. 1/ how emotions play a role in blocking people's reasoning, leading to suicide. For this I think I'll focus on cases in schools like fail exams, fail to get in dream unis, peer pressure, etc 2/ how emotions & reasons play a role in turning procrastination into a habit, or to what extent is it a bad thing. Are these good topics for e…
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I will be doing this presentation as a group, so it will be more than 10 mins. Approximately 30 minutes. I would like to get some ideas to know how to make my presentation interesting and TOK-ish. I would like to have some suggestion or questions that could be asked(TOK type) for this presentation. This is a broad topic where many supernatural topics can be discovered. One of them will be about ghost. Thank You in advance.
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Hi everyone, I'm writing my TOK essay right now and one of my examples is that people who speak languages with masculine or feminine nouns perceive objects differently than those who speak languages that do not distinguish nouns that way. I was wondering what AOK that falls under. Human sciences? or another one? or none of them? Thanks in advance!
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Using history and the natural or human sciences, examine the claim that it is possible to attain knowledge despite problems of bias and selection. Hey guys, could you please brainstorm some ideas for me? Not a hard topic but could use some help, time is running out too. Thank you:)
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‘Through different methods of justification, we can reach conclusions in ethics that are as well-supported as those provided in mathematics.’ To what extent would you agree? Hey guys, this is the question I have to white an essay about for tomorrow. Could you please help me out with some ideas? Could really use some help. Thank you!
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Hi I am planning to start writing my TOK Essay on this topic (#3), and I thought a discussion or a little brainstorming would probably give me and everyone else who has chosen this topic a relatively good start
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I have to do a 2 min presentation on this. Can't really think of any ideas Any help will do guys, thanks
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hey everyone it would be greatly appreciated if someone could help me think of a knowledge issue for my topic..i have one myself but its not exactly the best..my topic is something around the lines of 'Has facebook become our reality?' so i don't know what aok to link my topic with ,please help!
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Hi, Im doing a TOK presentation in natural sciences.. and I just came up with this question Do you think its a good knowledge issue question? To what extent is reason a reliable way of knowing in search for scientific knowledge? Im going to go over scientific method and point out the successes of the reasoning and problems of the reasoning.. Please comment [Add] I just came up with a new question because the question about seemed a little bit problematic How is this question? To what extent does reason aid the acquisition of scientific knowledge? I might keep the organization the same
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Greetings fellow IBers! I've been having trouble with wording my knowledge issue correctly. I want the topic to be the use of information and communication technology and its impact on social interaction. My real life situation would be Facebook addiction or something like that, how all of us practically depend on facebook and texting for social interaction. So far my knowledge issue goes something like this: To what extent does the use of information and communication technology limit or enhance social interaction? or limit or enhance language in social interaction? My teacher says I should incorporate ways of knowing directly into my question, however I dont think they …
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At the moment I would like to do my presentation on the creation of synthetic life and do we have the right to 'play god'. However, I am really struggling to word my knowledge issues and incorporate ways of knowing. I have arguements that its beneficial for science, its financially beneficially, but there are possibilies where it could become dangerous and destroy what good it does, etc. but these really arn't really ToKy enough. Any help to get me thinking about this topic in a more ToK way will really help me right now.
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I have my first TOK mock this monday and our teacher hasn't given us any clue so as to go about our presentation! I've been reading online about knowledge questions and all that but I have no idea how to incoporate my AOK and WOK in my topic! My topic is Killing Mary to save Jodie: is killing justified if it saves a life? My AOK is ethics and science and my wok is perception and emotion ( i think, i really have no idea!) could you please tell me how i'm supposed to incoporate my AOK and WOK PLEASE?! thank you! xoxo
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and why has it been able to adopt this position as the explainer of life's mysteries? Cannot find any knowledge issues nor am I able to explain the second part of this question? any help/ ideas
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I am having trouble thinking of limitations for deductive reasoning. My presentation is about how reason would affect what people consider moral.
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Can anybody help me think of a knowledge issue for Hitler and his decision to implement the 'Final Solution to the Jewish Question?'
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Hello everyone I am just having difficulties of going about finding a topic to talk about and present. I wanted to do something with the effects of soccer, but in general I am having difficulty wording my question -Thanks!
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Hello everyone! Two of my classmates and i have been given the following question to discuss in front of the class: How do our own perspectives affect our understanding of history? Our teacher also told us that watching spartacus and gladiator, two movies from different years about the same era and event in history, might help - but i'm not really sure what he's trying to get at. Any ideas of a good direction to take with this? Thank you in advance!
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Hi, so I am going to have my first TOK practice presentation few days later, and its going to be on natural science. I was asked to think of a knowledge claim in the field of natural science and also a knowledge issue relevant to the claim. So far,I have a really vague knowledge claim, which is like "Back in the renaissance period, "the world is flat" was the truth to the people.", then my knowledge issue is like "to what extent can sense perception limit us from perceiving something as scientific truth?"I don't even know if it makes sense, but I also thought of another issue that is related to how "the world is flat" was actually true based on their reasoning and sense p…
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Hi. I am currently working on a practice OP. I just need a little help. Could someone post a short description of each WoK and AoK? It should be easy to understand, but I am having trouble. My OP is due tomorrow. If I get past this hurdle, then I should be fine. Please help me.
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Hey guys! Newbie here. We've recently been assigned a ToK presentation, and we only had a week to do it, i'm presenting next week and I am worrying a LOT. I just wanted to ask about the WoK, any idea how to relate arguments to the WoK? My Area of Knowledge is Human Sciences. My KI is: "To what extent is it ethical for a state to take away a person’s right to Euthanasia?" Here are my arguments, i'm thinking they're all somewhat related to language, reason, and emotion: For: -Ease of burden to both the family and the patient -If animals are allowed to be treated with Euthanasia, why can't humans? -Basic human right to be able to decide between wanting to live or wanting to …
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Hi guys, I'm gonna have my TOK presentation in a week. I decided to talk about same-sex marriage. So anyone could think of a good and appropriate knowledge issue? I'm thinking of "Why is same-sex marriage so controversial?", or "Why should same-sex marriage be legalized or illegalized?" I'm not really sure if those ones are good enough, but I'd really appreciate some ideas. And also some advice on how to structure the presentation would be really great as well. This is my 2nd presentation, I never got to know how I did in the last presentation i.e. good or bad, my teacher wouldn't tell us. So I don't really know what I'm good at and what I need to work on to improve. Any…
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