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Assignment #8

October 18th, 2008 · 32 Comments

You’ve seen how candidates compete by looking at their tv ads. You’ve also read about how students in Norway coopered to help save a rain forest in Costa Rica. Elections have a lot of competition, but the election this year will soon be over, and those who are elected will have to cooperate to get [...]

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Assignment #4: Looking at Children in Political Ads

September 19th, 2008 · 26 Comments

Here are the ads we watched:
“Daisy”
Ice Cream Cone
We Will Bury You
Children/Achievements
The Real Threat
Changing World
Please answer these questions:

Why do you think the adults who made these ads used children?
Would these ads be the same without children?
Are they make a factual appeal (an argument based on facts), or emotion?

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Cooperation and Competition

September 10th, 2008 · 15 Comments

First, we’re going to review how blogs work, and how to post on a blog, by looking at this slideshow:
Grade Blog
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: intro layout)

Next, we’re going to learn about cooperation and competition. First, go to either of these sites Visuwords or Lexipedia, to find out synonyms (words with the [...]

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