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Hi can somebody help me please! I have this knowledge issue with my group, first of all Im not really sure that its good but apart from that I also need a real life situation that is strongly related to the KI. The KI is this: ¿Is the individual who determines reality or it exist independently from him? If anyone can help me that would save my life, thanks!
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So, we really want to work on the whole "is it right to create a system in which self aware humans can be simulated"? Simulation Hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis Please Help! We're in trouble...
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Sorry to have to post this again, I had to get the title right! Hi all, I'm having a hard time figuring out the overall outline of the presentation, I have yet to figure out my real life situation. My question to you guys is, do you know of any real life situations related to a universal concept of happiness? I have started to think about concentrating on Aristotle's pursuit of happiness and Confucius quote "To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content." as my theories or maybe even utilitarianism. In addition, would it be a good choice to explore the 4 AOK's and concentrate on one? Second question, would the structure of my pre…
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what about holding a presentation talking about 2012 "the end of the world" and talk about different aspects, why people do believe in it and why not, and so on. COULD that be seen as a real-life situation? i thought that in this presentation could be included topics as emotion, religion, reason etc.... thogh not sure if the idea would be acceptable, what do u think, or is this a too wide thing to talk about? hmmm
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Hi all, We'll be starting our presentations in the next few weeks and our teacher just basically left us in the dark and threw us in the deep end. I'd like to do my presentation on the safety of nuclear power generation, especially in light of the recent events in Fukushima. However, I'm having some trouble in figuring out in what way I should approach the topic. How should I start?
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Can someone please tell me what the t.o.k. journal consists of, and how to write one please? Thank You, Jessica
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Im having my presentation on whether marijuana should be legalized or not? It would be great if someone could help me come up with questions that would provoke a discussion. And i would also like to hear your opinions on this subject.
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I have a knowledge issue and my real life situation is on population control, but I'm not sure how to get limitations from there. My knowledge issue is about how culture has an affect on what people consider moral. I don't know I thought I was doing well on planning the presentation, but I'm just stuck now...
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Hello all, I have a ToK presentation coming up in about a week and a half. I've chosen my real-life situation as the event when John Brown and his family decided to kill the inhabitants of a home at nigh, and I was wondering if anybody could suggest a knowledge issue for this? I have one and it is 'How does emotion influence our reasoning?' but I don't really know if that is the best one to use. it also has to be an 8 minute presentation.
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How narrowed should my TOK presentation be? and what is meant by a knowledge issue? I thought about holding a presentation talking about human stupidity, thogh my teacher thought it was to wide.. How can I narrow it or are there any other good ideas? what should i think of when preparing for my presentation? Thanks !!
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Hi, I have a tok presentation soon and I am not really sure what it is all about. It is my second one but last time the entire class did really bad (not a single one over 14/20 and most were lower than that). I have a feeling that our teacher knows how to grade but not really to explain. I have a good knowledge issue that has to do with history being cyclical or linear but I am not sure how to approach it. My partners and I were thinking about talking about what historians say are the driving forces of history but someone told me that it would be better to do case studies. I am totally unsure of what he meant, but I'm sure he is right somehow. Did he mean case studies as…
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I do have a few ideas of my own but very little to write a 1200 word essay. So some good feedback would be helpful! Examples following your opinion would help also GRACIAS!!
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I was just wondering how many points you would need for an A, B, C or D in a TOK essay because for some reason our teacher doesn't give us our actual grade...
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I have a presentation to do in my TOK class on tuesday. I was just wondering if anybody could give me a viewpoint on this knowledge issue as I'm a bit stuck and can't really think straight right now. Thank you
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Nearly 20 students at my school submitted the essay onto the IB website by the March 15 deadline, but they were not approved by the teacher in time; he was locked out of the system. Therefore, their status is "pending" on the IB website. Has this happened to anyone before? If so, what happened?
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I wanted to make my presentation about the events occurring in the Middle East/North Africa.I wanted to focus on the role of language in how the media's cover of these events is manipulated and interpreted, but I'm not sure what my question should be. any suggestions? Can i just say: What is the role of language in Media interpretation and manipulation?
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1. Consider the extent to which knowledge issues in ethics are similar to those in at least one other area of knowledge. 2. How important are the opinions of experts in the search for knowledge? 3.“Doubt is the key to knowledge” (Persian Proverb). To what extent is this true in two areas of knowledge? 4. To what extent do we need evidence to support our beliefs in different areas of knowledge? 5.To what extent are the various areas of knowledge defined by their methodologies rather than their content? 6.“There are no absolute distinctions between what is true and what is false”. Discuss this claim. 7. How can we recognise when we have made progress in the search for knowl…
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Again, Is reason purely objective and universal, or does it vary across cultures?
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How is it unreliable? It's for a debate, for TOK in which I have to consider point of view that says intuition is reliable. UPDATE: I've got an idea....could I highlight the distinction between instinct and intuition? Could you help me with the difference? Or are they essentially the same? Thanks!
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My knowledge issue is about culture and what we perceive as right or wrong. I thought it'd be pretty simple, yet my teacher was pretty harsh on my scaffold. The biggest problem were the derived knowledge issue. It turns out that my derived knowledge issues were too off topic. I was talking about along the lines of animals/eating animals, etc, but my derived knowledge issues went from right and wrong of sex before marriage to right and wrong of physical punishment, because I completely read the scaffold instructions wrong. Now I am a bit loss. my DKI has to be related to my real life situation and KI? If yes, could anyone give me a bit more detail on this, or some examples…
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My Real Life Situation is on the Preah Vihear Temple conflict between Thailand and Cambodia... What could my Knowledgew Issue be?
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What are some knowledge issues i can form based on the War on Terror?
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Hello I'm doing my IB diploma in french at school, I have not had any pre-IB courses, nor any of those pre-Tok/Philo classes either We were just thrown into the Lion's Den and expected to live in the IB world-- not such a great transition, I must say Anywho, my ToK teacher always stresses about using proper "IB/TOK" terms, such as the ones in the "Areas of Knowledge" (Domaine de la connaissance), and the "Ways of knowing" (modes de connaissance). So, for instance, I guess I'd talk about how I am using LANGUAGE to communicate my ideas and such (so PEARL) and then the 6 areas of knowledge (the 6 "big" groups). But what other IB/TOK vocabulary exists?? It would really hel…
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I was just wondering if somebody can give me a couple of knowledge issues and corresponding real-life situations. I'm not planning on using any of these, I just need some help developing one and I don't really know what one is. Thank you
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Hi I am doing the tok presentation in 3 days with one other person!!!! And I dont know how are we doing it!!! My topic is the effect of differeces in appearances caused by different races on job acception. So we have decided to start with Mickeal Jackson as a real-life example. We have thought the knowledge issues like "to what extent is workplace discrimination ethical?" I am soooooooooooo confused now... Can anyone help?!!!!!!!!! Lots of thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hi, so i have to write about “What separates science from all other human activities is its belief in the provisional nature of all conclusions” (Michael Shermer, www.edge.org). Critically evaluate this way of distinguishing the sciences from other areas of knowledge. My main question is, what exactly is human activities in this context. Thats the confusing bit, and that is the main part. Please help me, Thank you:D
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hey I would like to have look at some examplar essays.Where can i find them? link....?
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I need to submit my essay, and I have my code but I can't remember the website. Does anyone know?
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I have chosen tok number 9 discuss the roles of language and reason in history and wanna know if any one will be willing to help me with it and check out what i have done so far
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we are a little confused (to say the least) about out TOK knowledge issue project. Our topic is Wikileaks and our knowledge issue is: How do we know if it is wrong to censor information and at what point do countries have an obligation to protect humans by censorship. Now .... we are very confused about how to present and develop this topic. We have really good thoughts and ideas on this topic because we are well informed, however we do not know how to approach this project. How have people presented in the past, and how do we tie this knowledge issue into the ways of knowing? Any help would be greatly appreciated. We are completely lost Thanks so much!!
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I have chosen to do essay title number 9, which states: Discuss the role of language and reason in history. My main claim on this title is that when language is manipulated, it affects the individual's ability to reason. This is by the means of teaching (Canadian teacher will usually mainly teach the Canadian perspective on WWII, so other perspectives unknown) and by the means of propaganda (manipulative language controls the person's ability to reason, such as in North Korea, WWII in Germany, US and Canada). But I am having difficulty coming up with counter-claims without sounding redundant.I am also having difficulty thinking of a third claim I can make. I thought of co…
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Hi, I'm in H3 and am new to TOK. Well, I thought of something that I came across on the internet, a really great topic title/question, a lot better than my original one. "Does emotion cloud judgment or is emotion the basis of judgment?" I began thinking, but could not really come up with a good Real Life issue, and I started to have some difficulties on deciding what I should do. I brainstormed a few ideas, but I am not entirely sure on how I could present this, and some suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated! Suicide bombers – Their religion “justifies” their actions, and their emotions and consensus say it is the “right path” Kamikaze – What rationalizes their…
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I definetely want to do my TOK presentation on medical ethics and wanted to initially do it on "How fair is it to award pro-bono plastic reconstructive surgery to a handful of patients?" The idea was that pro-bono surgery helps the life of one person and drains the resources of the hospital or the "main d'oeuvre" of the doctor. The work of that doctor could go towards helping the general population and not favouring one patient by giving surgery. The person needing cosmetic reconstructive surgery could be turned down because a doctor may have more urging cases to deal, such as those of life and death? I realised that this is isn't so much of an issue because if you think …
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my presentation is in a week. our teacher told us to think of a real life example first and then to find a tok question and KI. My real life example is about a soldier who was excetued for murder about 10-15 years ago. However, a recent confession by the murderer proved that the soldier was wrongly convicted. There are rumors that the government had pressured the military to solve the case quickly and that was why the soldier was convicted very quickly. Im very interested in law, ethics, morals, reason, emotion...but im not sure how to link it to the example...the most important thing for me now is to find a good question but i cant seem to think of one to do with the law…
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I am having my TOK presentation in less than a week, on the topic 'Humanity v. Technology: Crisis of Identity and Values in Todayʼs Technological World' To what extent is scientific reasoning justifiably influencing our value judgements and perception of knowledge about social behaviours? The rationale is that along the rapid scientific discoveries and development of technology, we humans are changing our thinking New weapons are developed; casualties in war have never been as great. Theories about how the way human exploit the resources and the wasteful lifestyle accelerate the eradication of the earth appear more and more frequently. We seem to have lost ourselves in m…
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Sooooo I have a TOK presentation tomorrow and I'm still working on some of the viewpoints and such. I only have about two viewpoints, and it would really help if I had more as the presentation has to be 4 minutes long. Anybody have any viewpoints on how sense perception influences emotion?
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I have this presentation I need to do for TOK even though it's not going to be done in the proper form. Anyway, I need to answer this question :"Is memory the most fundamental way of knowing? Is there knowledge without memory?" I have done some research on this but I need fresh eyes on this one. Anything can be useful Thnx
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Guys, do you know when is the deadline for uploading the TOK essay? My teacher says it is tonight, but he is not sure, and is forcing us to upload it. What should I do? I am not finished jet. I have 1.2k words but is not good enoguh.
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Hi! So I was checking out the different posts there are for the N10-M11 ToK titles and I haven't found any one regarding this particular title: 7. How can we recognise when we have made progress in the search for knowledge? Consider two contrasting areas of knowledge. I wanna write something on this but I'm stuck; I just don't know what to do or how to start. My ToK teacher doesn't teach us anything (we didn't even know we needed to have a journal and we never even had a "discussion" on any topic) so I have no idea on how to approach anything. I read the advice etc but I panic when I see the blank document. HELP ME!
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My partner and I have a general idea of what we want to do for our TOK presentation - prejudice, more specifically prejudice in racism. We were thinking between asylum seekers, civil wars, or just general racism as our real life situation but we are unsure of how to proceed from there. Can someone suggest something to help us? (: Thank you!
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Hey guys My TOK presentation is in about a week and I had planned to do it on the ethics of gay marriage however, someone before me did polygamy and she essentially covered the same knowledge issues that I was planning to cover. So, whilst I still maintain an interest in sexuality and its morality, I need to find a new topic that covers different knowledge issues. I'm currently considering homosexuality in animals but I'm struggling with the knowledge issues for that one. Basically, my question is what do you think would be a good way to overcome this and could you suggest some topics/knowledge issues related to sexuality? Thanks in advance, Kate
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I seriously need help because I'm so completely lost on how to do this. And asking my teacher has only left me more confused x/ The 'thing' we have so far, since it's neither a specific real life situation nor a knowledge issue, is "How does the media affect self-image?" How do I go about making a knowledge issue from this and how many real life situations can I have? I wanted to talk about from advertisements to movies to tv shows but should I focus on one instead? (two person group) Edit: came up with a knowledge issue question, I think. To what extent do outside forces have an effect on an individual’s perception?
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Heeey, so if you haven't guessed already, I am doing a T.O.K. presentation on animals I'm doing this because I love animals and I feel that choosing a TOK talk idea that I'm truly interested in will allow me to be more successful (hopefully ... but I'll also have a lot more fun researching anyways ) So I have a few TOK phrased questions at the moment (they all need lots of fine tuning, these are just some rough drafts)... I haven't decided which one to choose yet: - Could survival be possible with just one sense? (this topic isn't completely focused on animals, but I am able to connect them into it... as it might not necessarily be for humans but for any animal/being o…
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I hav 2 questions i have to answer and give real life examples, but I dont understand what they are asking me. I am new at tok, and am hoping someone can explain the questions to me? how does emotion hinder our acquisitions of knowledge? how does emotion help us access knowledge?
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Hi all, I am new here as you can see and i'm not sure if there is a topic like this (searched and did not find one). I would like to know your opinions on my tok presentation topic. I was thinking about doing something along the lines of addiction is not only to drugs and mentioning other types of addiction. Appreciate your support.
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Hey I'm in a bind. Can anyone link me to any kind of studies or information on dreams being mistaken for memories of actual events? Just after waking is good, but anything on dreams lasting longer than that would be great. I need it for my ToK essay which is kind of due yesterday.
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I'm doing my tok presentation on one child policy in china but I dont know what knowledges issues I could use please help me!
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What are the disadvantages of the English language? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Hey There all IB'er! Like many IB students, I'm having troubles making out a knowledge issue... and the best part is... my presentation is due 3 days time! :$ Ok... so I have a real-life situation... that is me and my frnd having never ending arguments on "If you have a genetic disorder (Huntington's disease mostly), where 75% chance is that ur offspring would get the disorder... would that affect your decision on having a kid?" So I have all the answers... like different opinions and conclusion and all the other resources... the question is the problem! And trust me.. I've been trying to do this for a month! So pleeeeeeasssseeee.... could you guys help me out!! Thank y…
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Hey! I've chosen to write on the 4th prescribed title for TOK Nov 2010, May 2011. "To what extent do we need evidence to support our beliefs in different areas of knowledge?" I need some help with creating a knowledge issue for this topic. Does anyone have ideas? Also, I'm planning on using the following areas of knowledge: the arts, natural sciences, human sciences, and ethics. Do I need to reference any Ways of Knowing in my paper? Would these ways of knowing count as evidence, as mentioned in the title? Does anyone have a good definition for evidence? I was thinking of saying that it had to be objective empirical evidence just to put some sort of parameters on th…
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