Discussions

Discussion 1

Discussion 1

Requirements:

Students must both address the Discussion Forum issue(s), as well as comment respectfully, relevantly and constructively on the posts of a minimum two of their classmates to adequately complete the assignments.

Students striving for a superlative grade should go far above and beyond the minimum requirements of the assignment.

Assignment:

Before completing this week’s forum, please watch the following video(s) and/or read the following article(s):

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After viewing the videos, due a bit of your own research on the activities of ‘Anonymous’ (Also, if you are interested in following their current activities, I would suggest following their numerous Twitter feeds). Discuss whether you view ‘Anonymous’ as bored/disillusioned kids, bullies, terrorists, criminals, a political/social movement or something else entirely. Regarding file sharing/piracy, what are your views on The Pirate Bay and other such BitTorrent file sharing sites? If you are unfamiliar, do some research on the subject and discuss.

Discussion Forum # 2

Requirements:

Students must both address the Discussion Forum issue(s), as well as comment on the posts of a minimum two of their classmates to adequately complete the assignment. There is no minimum or maximum length as long as all the issues are fully addressed.

Students striving for a superlative grade should go above and beyond the minimum requirements of the assignment.

Topic:

Religious Affinity Scams

Before addressing this week’s forum, watch/read the following:

Discussion Forum #3

Requirements:

Students must both address the Discussion Forum issue(s), as well as comment on the posts of at least two of their classmates.

Students striving for a superlative grade should go above and beyond the minimum requirements of the assignment.

Assignment:

Watch the videos:

While support for the death penalty still hovers around 60%, there has been a slow decline in support in the past few decades. How would you explain this slow decline? Also, how would you explain the recent decrease in the U.S. use of the death penalty in the United States? What are your personal views on the governments’ (both state and federal) power to end citizens lives? On what are your views based?