AP CG COURSE OUTLINE: Read and print a copy for
your notebook.
http:/www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/compgov/topic.html?compgovpol
CNN GEOGRAPHY SURVEY: Here's a bit of disturbing news.......Geographiy is
Greek to young Americans. Check out CNN's survey and then test yourself at
your leisure. Email results for BONUS.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/05/02/geog.test/index.html
STREAMING VIDEO (Friedman): View or review (if you went on our fall field
trip to Ole Miss) Thomas Friedman�s ten world �flattners� by listening to
his speech at MIT World. (If you�ve got dial-up, just choose audio and
listen.) OR�.read the book!
In his latest book, THE WORLD IS FLAT, Friedman describes the unplanned
cascade of technological and social shifts that effectively leveled the
economic world, and �accidentally made Beijing, Bangalore and Bethesda next-
door neighbors.� Today, �individuals and small groups of every color of the
rainbow will be able to plug and play.� Friedman�s list of �flatteners�
includes the fall of the Berlin Wall; the rise of Netscape and the dotcom
boom that led to a trillion dollar investment in fiber optic cable; the
emergence of common software platforms and open source code enabling global
collaboration; and the rise of outsourcing, offshoring, supply chaining and
insourcing. Friedman says these flatteners converged around the year 2000,
and �created a flat world: a global, web-enabled platform for multiple forms
of sharing knowledge and work, irrespective of time, distance, geography and
increasingly, language.� At the very moment this platform emerged, three
huge economies materialized -- those of India , China and the former Soviet
Union --�and three billion people who were out of the game, walked onto the
playing field.� A final convergence may determine the fate of the U.S. in
this final chapter of globalization. A �political perfect storm,� as
Friedman describes it -- the dotcom bust, the attacks of 9/11, and the Enron
scandal -- �distract us completely as a country.� Just when we need to face
the fact of globalization and the need to compete in a new world, �we�re
looking totally elsewhere.�
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266/
3 GAME SERIES - PRISONER'S DILEMMA: Learn about �The Prisoner�s Dilemma�
(Appendix, pp. 52-4) firsthand by
playing three successively more complex versions of it at these websites.
Document your performance on each of the three sites and print out or email
results for credit.
STREAMING VIDEO (Zakaria): Here's a link to a "must-see" video. It
features Fareed Zakaria (author of The Future of Freedom) speaking in 2006
at the Aspen Institute about "America in a New World." This topic is very
important because Zakaria is talking about the changes in the world which
led the College Board to change our course curriculum.
It will require use of a QuickTime video player. If you enjoyed Thomas
Friedman, you'll certainly like this! He'll define and explain "synchronous
growth." If you like Peter Jackson (LORD OF THE RINGS) and George Lucas
(STAR WARS), you'll be interested. Zakaria will connect TECHNOLOGY and TAX
POLICY in the context of movie-making! In other words, like Friedman, he
zeroes-in on the convergence around a basic set of economic principles that
is fueling global growth. Then he asks why there are leftists in Venezuela,
authoritarian resurgency in Russia, and Islamism in Iran CHALLENGING these
Western principles! And -- oh -- what an answer he gives! OIL! OIL! OIL!
(And just think...it's now $100 a barrel!) Listen to what he says about the
challenge these "Islands of exception" pose for America.
(By the way, FYI: Brent Scowcroft was G.H.W. Bush's National Security
Advisor.)
If you can, get one of your parents to watch and discuss it with you. Bring
me documentation for BONUS!
http://dl.nmmstream.net/media/aspen/grassroots/fareedzacharia080806.mov
1. PRISONER'S DILEMMA: BASIC LEVEL - Learn about �The Prisoner�s Dilemma�
(Appendix, pp. 52-4) firsthand by playing three successively more complex
versions of it at these websites. Document your performance on each of the
three sites and print out or email results for credit.
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/playground/pd.html
2. PRISONER'S DILEMMA: THE GAME ACCORDING TO PRESCRIBED RULES:
http://www.princeton.edu/~mdaniels/PD/PD.html
3. PRISONER'S DILEMMA: YOU ANALYZE YOUR OPPONENT�S STRATEGY AND RESPOND
ACCORDINGLY: (JAVA applet)
http://www.gametheory.net/Web/PDilemma/
THE PARTISANS OF ALI: A HISTORY OF SHIA FAITH AND POLITICS - The United
States is immersed more deeply than ever in the Muslim world's sectarian
divide. A five-part National Public Radio series explores the split between
Shia and Sunnis, from its origins shortly after the death of Muhammed in the
seventh century to the modern-day upheaval in Iraq.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7346199&sc=emaf
THE TANK MAN - Click here to access the program's homepage. Watch the
FRONTLINE documentary and explore the website.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/