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A compilation of current event articles by topic (ordered by round):
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An archive of current event presentations (ordered by country):
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Sunday, April 28, 2019
Thursday, April 25, 2019
British Imperialism in India:1757-1857
Great Rebellion (1857)
Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Mutiny
PBS: Queen Victoria's Empire
Crash Course: Imperialism
Crash Course: Asian Responses to Imperialism
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Notre Dame Fire
Historical Kaleidoscope
Theological Kaleidoscope
Architectural Kaleidoscope
Nationalist Kaleidoscope
“It’s not one relic, not one piece of glass — it’s the totality,” said Barbara Drake Boehm, senior curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s medieval Cloisters branch in New York, her voice shaking as she tried to put into words what the cathedral meant. “It’s the very soul of Paris, but it’s not just for French people. For all humanity, it’s one of the great monuments to the best of civilization.”
Global reactions came swiftly including from the Vatican, which released a statement expressing shock and sadness for the “terrible fire that has devastated the Cathedral of Notre Dame, symbol of Christianity in France and in the world.”
https://www.apnews.com/7538fdb8fc8b476b8c442f0c2ac52115
Institutions of the European Union and European Parliament May Elections
European Parliament Explained
This Year's Election
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Monday, April 1, 2019
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Unit 7: Modern Global Economy, Challenges to Liberalism, Irrationalism & Modernist Philosophy
Each unit from now until the Mock EU Council juxtaposes contemporary global current events with their historical antecedents. This unit juxtaposes the global economy of the Second Industrial Revolution with the global economy of today's Fourth Industrial Revolution. Nation states and individuals are asking how they may compete and innovate, while they confront potential ethnical issues and negative side effects of their choices. How can we be thoughtful to the long-term impacts of this third (or is it fourth) Industrial Revolution that is unfolding in front of our eyes?
Interesting current event articles
Check out the future of automation with privately funded and unmanned spaceships, self-driving vehicles replacing approximately 7 million taxicab drivers and truck drivers, globalization of textile markets with microfiber fabrics (e.g., yoga pants) and plastic bags polluting the oceans, the use of algorithms in international finance, debt crises, the raw materials the developed world uses to create and sell finished products worldwide (e.g., like the cell phone), and the refugee crises caused by decades of war and economic instability. On this day last year came word that "Elon Musk[, t]he billionaire entrepreneur now wants to merge computers with human brains to help people keep up with machines." Bad choices of Late Modernity include manufacturers using radium in consumer goods, leading to radium poisoning. But are we really so very different? Our culture embraces smartphone technology, despite evidence it has led to depression in half of all teenagers, a crisis in mental health since 2011. And what of the opioid crisis, with the first reported settlement against a pharma company for downplaying the potency, for that matter?
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