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I am a 2010 candidate (MAY), but I take TOK during 2009 year and complete my essay then. When will the topics be out anyone know?
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I have been set a summer assignment to do this TOK essay. I have no examples and no idea how to tackle this question... if anyone could help then that would be so awesome! - can misleading the public be justified, as sometimes occurs in politics or advertising? Consider cases of international misinformation , or cases of the use of fallicious arguments, in these and other areas of knowledge such as science, the arts or history. pleaseplease help its due in 2 days!!!
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My topic is how the human mind limits the physical evolution of the human race. My introduction on the topic is "shocking" the audience, and telling how we can correct the de-evolution that the human race has been going through. I'm saying stuff like we shouldn't have hospitals, we shouldn't have compassion for the sick, we shouldn't have compassion for other humans, we should eliminate obese and homosexual people,etc.... I don't believe all of the above stuff, but it's only an example. Is this too harsh for a TOK oral topic?
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Writing a good TOK essay.
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How do you write a good TOK essay? I keep getting "C"s, and I'm trying my best to explain myself and use relevant examples, etc. What might i do to get a better grade and improve my writing? Any specific tips? Thank you in advance.. Impashence
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Okayy.. So i know there are alot of people that do this, but i've got a presentation coming up and ai need to think of a topic. I've been looking around on the internet, but nothings really come to my attention. I then started to look on the prescribed essay titles to see if there was anything i could do and i found two things, but im not to sure if they can be made into presentations =. The two i found are.. "Are reason and emotion equally necessary in justifying moral decisions?" “Context is all” (Margaret Atwood). Does this mean that there is no such thing as truth? .. but does anyone know how i could make these into a presentation, or link them to a "c…
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What option does one have if he/she get grade E in TOK in grade 11. Can we retake this ?? Pls help in giving proper guidance
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I got an 18.5/20 for my mark. It was one of the highest in the class, and my video was a big hit with my classmates. Thanks for all the help, guys and girls! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alright, so I've narrowed down my topic a bit (to make a better knowledge issue, and to also make sure that I'm keeping within the presentation time limit). Now, this is what I have, with a few examples Does playing video games negatively effect the mentality …
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Does anyone know of any decent TOK textbooks/books? I'll start off by recommending: The Enterprise of Knowledge: A Source Book for Theory of Knowledge John L. Tomkinson Its good for all the TOK you need throughout the course. Of course TOK is about learning as an individual etc etc but I still think people need some guidance?
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just a little something that i was deeply impressed by Reason: the deep grammar of the west generalisation: something that is true at all times [NB: if comething is always the case the logical reason is that it is not never or sometimes the case] logical notation: converting a generalisation into algabre logical implication: what is the out come of this statement? premise: the foundation of a generalisation EG: generalistaion- all australians like cricket [a = all australains, b = like cricket] logical notation- 1. 'a' always 'b' 2. therefore 'a' sometimes 'b' 3. however 'a' never 'b' [negated] 4. 'a' sometimes not 'b' [negated] if you have an alw…
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I have a real hard time in my TOK class. It doesn't help much that my teacher is extremely demanding, but I can't quite think the way she wants us to. Every quarter we have to write four journals and she always tell me that mine are too superficial and that I don't have the proper train of thought, but I don't really know where to start. Help?
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hey guys i'm having serious problems with me T.O.K. presentation my title is: ' Does USA have the right to investigate the worlds' nurclear ambitions? it is contemporary, atleast so i think and we will be linking USA to Iran and North Korea esp. with ofcourse listing out other countries dealing with nuclear power but... i am so lost with AoK and WoK and what and which would relate... PLZ help
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Hi, I am currently taking TOK and find it very hard to analyze issues and statements TOK style...what should we include in a TOK presentation to make it a very good analysis. I understand that we have to use the reason, perception, emotion, language thing along with some other stuff like second-hand knowledge, etc. but what do we need to include in a presentation other than those..?? I also would like to know how do we incorporate the (reason, perception, emotion and language) and relate it to any issues or articles, what is the point of using those ways of knowing?? Thanx
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So, I'm in the first group of IB students going through my school, and therefore we're all noobs concerning the program. I'm asking for my TOK teacher here. Self-evaluation reports (where you write the paragraph+) for the TOK presentation are still necessary, correct?
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Presentation Topics
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For my presentation, I did it on the question/knowledge issue "Is our perception of beauty killing us?" Persuaded to the topic by Dove's video, evolution of beauty, It was an interesting topic, but I am now questioning if it would be acceptable as a real IB topic. For future reference (i.e. my two siblings) what are some non-standard questions/issues that might be actually interesting to research and do for a presentation.
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Okay, so, I've chosen to present on whether horses should be used in policing. I have just started to prepare for my presentation, but I have some of the basics. What I have done so far is: For •Good public connection •Passive intimidation •Tradition •Can go were patrol cars can’t •Effective for crowd control Agaisnt •Too expensive •Dangerous (to people and horses: horses can be hurt, people can be trampled) •Horses crap •Extremely stressful for the horses •Forced into the work The only problem is, it really doesn't seem very TOKish. I'm having a lot of trouble both finding sources and making it into a real TOK presentation. I was also thinking about do…
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My presentation is due in a few weeks, and I think I've narrowed down my question to either; Essences Of Communism Have Creeped Into The American Way Of Life Or The Era Of Small Government Is Over The real problem is that I'm not entirely sure if either if either are the correct way of going about it. Our teacher didn't really explain what we had to do exactly (Though it is TOk so I should have expected that). Any help would be great.
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I choose [i][b]when we should trust our senses to give us truth?[/b][/i]............. Anyone can help me to do this question.... and someone please tell me what is KI, KP and KC. its very confusing......... uhhhhhhhh
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I've got a good topic for my presentation!
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I was watching a cold case episode about neo-nazis and I thought it would be good to make a presentation about it since not many people know that it still exists (at least here in brazil) but i dont know how to relate that to TOK =/ can some one help me?
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Anyone care to explain? I don't know how to "relate something to knowledge"
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I want to do my TOK presentation about AREA 51, and my knowledge claim that I examined is There is nothing significant taking place at AREA 51. Is it ok ?
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I'm starting mine, and it's on Topic 6: [b]Compare and contrast our approach to knowledge about the past with our approach to knowledge about the future.[/b] Am looking forward to it, but any tips/advice/discussion?
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Well it's the time of the year where the teachers decide that it's time. If it was any other class or teacher I'd have no problem, but this teacher literally wasted our year up to now. Click to read rant -> Spoiler - Click me! Ok so basically the teacher is 1. Bias, 2. has own mindset to our opinions (he failed someone's assignment for disagreeing with him) 3. he jumps all over the place with his notes 4. He just dislikes our class in general [Close] Anyways, so yah..I was just told that our rough draft is going to be due very soon although I've picked my "topic" ("Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks: but an accumulation of facts is no…
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I wanted to do the internet as my presentation. I'd focus on a few aspects like: -ease of communication (e-mail, myspace, facebook, forums, etc..) -Media hubs where creative ideas are shared (youtube, deviantart, etc..) -Access of unlimited amounts of knowledge -Online gaming -How activities online are replacing people's activities and hobbies in real life Could this turn into a good topic?
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November 2007 May 2008, Title 9
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Hey, I'm doing question 9 for May 2008 TOK. I'm quite unsure how I'm supposed to start the essay and the format it's supposed to take? Any help? The title: Mathematicians have the concept of rigorous proof, which leads to knowing something with complete certainty. Consider the extent to which complete certainty might be achievable in mathematics and at least one other area of knowledge.
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November 2007 May 2008, Title 1
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1. Evaluate the role of intuition in different areas of knowledge. I'm doing title one for May 2008. I'm having some trouble defining intuition, because it's an emotion, but it's very different from other ways of knowing. It doesn't require perception to gain knowledge, it's more of an instinctive insight. Also, I'm trying to decide in which ares of knowledge does intuition play the most significant role. :\ Any ideas?
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Well, this is my first TOK presentation. I haven't talked to the TOK teacher yet, but it wouldn't matter much since the presentation is just for practice. What I thought would be a good example of "knowledge issues raised by a substantive real-life situation that is of interest". I believe that computer games do raise knowledge issues and I'm a gamer myself so I'd rather talk about this topic than any other: 1. It creates bad influence with scenes of violence and gore, and sometimes swear words are used 2. It might be highly addictive to players and they end up sitting in front of their consoles for hours doing something that really isn't worth all the time. 3. Video…
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Presentation help :(
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So my ToK presentation is in a week and I was thinking of doing either: the suicides in Bridgend - did the media coverage make the situation worse? (or something along those lines) or something about the hypocrisy of stereotyping. But the only thing is I have no idea of how to start or even if my topics are good. My tok teacher is useless D= Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Hi, I just started tok this semester and our group was the first to present on a way of knowing.Well, we didn't do so well that our teacher is making us sort of represent it because she thought our presentation idea was good but it was too implicit and that we should be more outforward about our issue and real life example. Help plz? ? Our issue that we thought was "To what extent does language affect thought and knowledge?" We decided to present two arguments (Sapir vs. Pinker) on it and then make our own view point on it with the evidence using deaf people who are incapable of attaing verbal language. We presented that Sapir said that language determines our thought…
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Evaluate the role of intuition in different areas of knowledge.
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I'm new here, and this is my first post. I think this is a great foum; I just wish I could obtain those PDF samples of IAs. Nevertheless, I have recently finished my TOK paper. I wrote on prescribed title # 1 for candidates graduating in May 2008: evaluate the role of intuition in different areas of knowledge. Is there anyway I could email that to somebody who can give me an idea of how I did? I don't know if that's common behavior here, or if that's completely off limits (or somewhere in between). It's really hard for the faculty at my school to give us their assessments of our work in a timely manner. I've turned in every internal assessment, both world lit papers…
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Hey everyone! I had to create and give a survey recently and since I wasn't able to find over 100 people that would willingly take the survey in person I was just wondering if all of you could just help me out. Here's the survey: Age - Sex - Political affiliation - [1] Did you vote or would you have voted for Bush in the 2000 election? Yes or No [2] Did you vote or would you have voted for bush in the 2004 election? Yes or No Now based on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 to 5, one being the least successful and five being the most successful) [3] How successful do you think bush's presidency was? 1 2 3 4 5 [4] How effective has Bush been in his role as commander in chief? 1…
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November 2007 May 2008, Title 10 1 2 3
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10. “Context is all” (Margaret Atwood). Does this mean that there is no such thing as truth? I'm doing question 10 for May 2008 TOK. I want to first define 'truth', and I need help with that... Then, I know what I want to write, I simply can't order it and make it flow.. I personally believe that context changes interpretation of the truth, not the truth itself... And I can give examples in History, Art, Science, and Math (Statistics)... Also, I can talk about how by definition, perception is our interpretation of the world. And that it may be flawed, and therefore what we assume is truth isn't truth, but that doesn't change the fact that the truth does exist... Also, …
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So, that's the topic I decided to stick with. And I had it all planned out in my head, I figured I knew what I was going to say. But when I actually sat down to put it on paper, nothing (much) came, and I'm left with three quarters of a page. I'm confusedddd. I spoke about how perception and reason are used in answering this question and how they can both be unreliable. And then I kind of stopped. Does anyone else have any ideas? My presentation is in less than 3 weeks, by the way, so I'm kind of panicking.
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I love optical illusions. They're this eternal fascination for me. These are not animated: Looking up or down? This is cool: Some classic ones:
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So... I got my essay returned from a peer, and I got a 28/40. Not bad I guess... However, I want to improve. I wanted to know how to improve the following: - showing cultural diversity - the correlation between ethicss and how it reinforces or undermines reason as a way of knowing - any other tips are appreciated! =] thanks
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Another thing that I love. (Maybe this and the Optical Illusion thread should be in TOK. They're TOKish enough. ) Some of these are kind of lame... 1. You are driving down the road in your car on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three people waiting for the bus * An old lady who looks as if she is about to die. * An old friend who once saved your life. * The perfect partner you have been dreaming about. Knowing that there can only be one passenger in your car, whom would you choose? You can make everyone happy. Your car can only contain one passenger, so whom should it be? Spoiler - Click me! The old lady of course…
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OK, so this website changed my life. http://www.truthism.com I haven't read all of it (skipped some of the middle) My friend Tiffany (theatre_geek) has been reborn and is now a follower of truthism (ha ha, kidding ) I just thought that this could be a good topic for a TOK discussion, especially about source assessment and critical analysis.
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I am doing topic 8 for the 2007-2008 topics which is Are some ways of knowing more likely thank others to lead to truth? this question is divided into 2 parts are ways of knowing i.e emotion reason perception and language lead to truth? 2. do they lead to truth equally? My intoduction would start something like this Humans are curious species attempting to seek the truth, but the truth is rather different form one to another. ( i would be explaining the question and referring to which ways of knowing i would be using/discussing). in the first paragraph as Lc said i would explain the meaning of truth to me which would be that truth is "what we want to believe" for examp…
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Are reason and emotion equally necessary in justifying moral decisions? Just thought I'd make a thread for this topic and see if anyone else is doing it. I'm finishing up my TOK essay today, but I'd be interested to see how other people have handled this one.
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4. Does language play roles of equal importance in different areas of knowledge? what about number 4? i am going to analyse math+arts+history as they all use different forms of language.. but now im stuck with examples and all:( do u mind if i pm u with what i have so far LC? thxx
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Hey, I'm going to have my TOK presentation in about two weeks and was wondering if this topic should do "The effect of the internet on music consumption" and how could I link this to TOK???
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Starting the essay
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I am writing my TOK essay on title 7 I have lots of ideas for it but am having trouble starting it. We have never done practice essays nor have we really examined what makes a good essay. My teacher's main guidelines were one problem of knowledge per paragraph. I am unsure how to start it. Does it need an intro? Should I start with semantics? Any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks
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Hello, I have to have a general idea of what i will do for my TOK presentation by the end of this week. I've been thinking about doing something related to the Korean protestants held hostage in afghanistan , since i'm korean. Obviously i think it would relate to ethics, saying who are they (protestants) to go to afghanistan and persuade their religion? etc. This is the general idea, but can u help me to develop this into a presentation? i've never done one before, so i need alot of help! Thanks!
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