Philosopher Videos

For each of the philosophers, you are going to watch the videos and determine the important information about them by filling in the slides provided for you. Once you have finished that, we will go through any additional things to add about these men and their ideas and how they relate to liberalism.

Your Last Week of Social 30 - I Know It's Hard to Hold Back the Tears

This is our last week of classes, and we've got four days to fill in a lot of last minute information about economics.

Some important dates to remember:

1. Tuesday afternoon from 1:30 - 4:00 (unless you are in Religion, you can come after Religion is over) - Review class 
2. Wednesday - I have basketball until 5, and a meeting at 7 - please let me know if you want a review session between 5-7.
3. Thursday - PART A of your diploma. You will be getting a free breakfast in the foods lab in the morning before it starts, be at the school by 8:30. You can leave after your diploma, but if you have classes in the afternoon, you still must go to them

Last week, we looked at all the downfalls of capitalism and what makes the system inefficient. From that we saw some of the changes that happened to alleviate the issues. For example, welfare capitalism was introduced to help prevent factory owners and employers from taking advantage of their workers and to pay them a decent wage, have safe working conditions, among other laws that were put in place to ensure all people received a Square Deal (Theodore Roosevelt). Then, we looked at how pure, un-restricted capitalism led to the Stock Market Crash in 1929. For 6 years, the government did very little to try to kick start the economy. Then, Franklin D. Roosevelt, based off of Keynes economic theory of Demand Side Economics, introduced more social programs and initiatives by the government to kick start the economy, which is what shifted the United States into a Welfare State.

This week, what we are going to look at is what are alternatives to the Welfare State and Capitalism (aka: Communism and Socialism), how the Welfare State struggled in the 1970s and the subsequent implementation of Reganomics in the United States and then a looked at two mixed economies - Canada and Sweden.

Monday:  

• Basics of Communism

• Implementations of Socialist Ideals:
• Robert Owen
• Karl Marx
• USSR
• War Communism
• New Economic Policy
• 5 Year Plans
• Perestroika
• The good and the bad of Communism

Tuesday : 

• The Failure of the Welfare State

• Ronald Reagan and Trickle Down Economics
• AKA Supply Side Economics
• AKA Reaganomics

Wednesday: 

• The Welfare State in Sweden vs. Canada's mixed economy

• How Taxation works in different countries and the theory behind them

Thursday: 

• DIPLOMA

Friday: 

• Discussion on aspects of the economy (ie: increasing minimum wage)
• Finish any other notes we haven't yet
• Practice interpreting sources

The Crash Course on Capitalism BEGINS!

As of this week, there are only 9 classes that we have left, as one of those classes will be taken for writing Part A next week - which is your writing assignments. We will be doing a crash course this week on capitalism - it's benefits and its pitfalls, which have caused us to develop new economic theories or modify capitalism to protect the majority of citizens. Remember when we learned about John Stuart Mill and a large part of his theory was the balance of rights - yes, you have the rights but within reason; that being that you are not infringing on the rights of others. Before Christmas, we were looking at the implementation of the capitalist theory in the Industrial Revolution, and many great things came about because of it. Look at this case study:

However, following along with Hobbes' view on humanity, when given complete economic freedom, some people used that freedom to better only themselves and did not think of the repercussions of pursuing self-interest would have on others, particularly their workers. In the early industrial era, it really became about the almighty dollar and the means of getting it were not often questioned. It wasn't until the early 1900s where the ideas of workers rights really started to be considered. Traditional capitalists saw this as an infringement on their rights to run a business as they wanted. This week will be dedicated to learning about the inefficiencies of capitalism and how they have been attempted to be corrected.

Homework: Watch Capitalism: A Love Story by Michael Moore - great documentary about capitalism!

Monday:
ISSUE #1 - MONOPOLIES (Not the board game)

• Notes on Monopolies
• Case Study 1: John D. Rockefeller
• Government Reaction
• Case Study 2: Eyeglass Industry
• Government Reaction

Tuesday: 

ISSUE #2 - TREATMENT OF WORKERS

• Workers and rights movements during the Industrial Revolution
• Chartists, Factory Acts, Luddites, etc
• Case Study: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
• Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Movement
• Government Reaction: The Square Deal

Wednesday: 

ISSUE #3 - UNPREDICTABILITY OF THE MARKET

• Unregulated market growth - The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

• How the Stock Market Crash helped to create a decade of poverty
• First Shift to the Economic Left: Keynesian Economics
• How this would solve the problems from the Great Depression

Thursday:

• The Quickest Rants Ever (ie: limited discussion): Ryan F and Dustin
• Implementation of Keynesian Economics after the Great Depression
• Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal

• The creation of the WELFARE STATE

Friday: 

ISSUE #4 - INCOME GAP

• How capitalism leads to the income gap
• Socialism and communism as a solution to this problem

• How communism works and solves the issues of Capitalism

Finally Starting Economics - a Crash Course!

This week marks our official THIRD LAST WEEK!!! Which means, you should start reviewing things for your diploma over the Christmas break. Our last unit deals with economics, so we will be looking at how capitalism developed (a bit of a review from the beginning of the semester), how it evolved into modern capitalism, how communism attempted to solve the issues of capitalism, and key historical events that have led to the evolution of modern capitalism.

Some things to remember this week:

1. Your Dictatorship for Dummies project is due on Thursday
2. You will be having your Dictatorship and Cold War exam on Friday - probably between 25 and 30 multiple choice questions.
3. Rough copies of essays will be returned tomorrow - final draft is due on FRIDAY by 3:00 pm
4. Dates for doing your final writing assignments (in either a 2.5 hour or 3 hour time setting):
• Monday, January 4 - starting in your spare 
• Wednesday, January 6 - Starting in your spare (you should finish earlier as it is early dismissal)
• Thursday, January 7 - starting in your spare
• PLEASE SIGN UP WITH ME FOR WHICH DAY YOU ARE DOING THIS SO I KNOW HOW MANY COMPUTERS TO SIGN OUT BY FRIDAY!!!!

This Week In Social...

Monday:

Some videos about the Cold War....

Tuesday: 

• Aspects of Classical Capitalism that led to the Industrial Revolution
• How did the British government React to Classical Capitalism? 
• Pros and cons of the ideology
• Case Studies: Henry Ford vs. John D. Rockefellar
• When does self-interest become too much?

Wednesday

• Citizen and government responses to industrialization
• Responses in the Industrial Revolution
• Roosevelt's Progressivism
• Debate: Is it the government's responsibility to check industrial growth and protect workers in a capitalist economy?

Thursday:

• Rants by Corbin, Andrei and Ryan F
• Problem 2 with capitalism: The Roaring Twenties and the Stock Market Crash

Friday:

• Dictatorship and Cold War Exam

Dictatorships. Keeping the Country Efficient by Ignoring You

This week, we will be analyzing how dictatorships worked, particularly in Nazi Germany in the 1930s to 1945 and in the USSR from 1924 to 1991. We will briefly touch upon the economic ideas of communism in the USSR, but in the context that shows how the Soviet Union used it as a means to control citizens. After we look at both rejections of liberalism and compare them, we will look at how these rejections led to a World War (namely World War II) and the Cold War, which lasted from approximately 1945-1990 with the fall of communism and eventual disintegration of the Soviet Union. Liberalism did not, and still does not, stand idly by as other systems reject its beliefs; in the case of fascism, World War II was fought and in the case of communism, it was the Cold War.

So what will we be doing this week?

Monday:

• Test re-take
• Work on projects or good copy of essay. Good copy of essay is due on THURSDAY - this includes people who haven't written a rough copy. I need a printed off copy by Thursday at 3:00 pm.  And when I say printed, I mean I don't want it emailed.

Tuesday:

• Start with looking at "communist" dictatorships as a rejection of liberalism

• Background to communism
• Russian Revolution

• Notes on what life was like under Stalin - his techniques of dictatorships used

Wednesday: 

• What is fascism

• Jigsaw - Life under Hitler
• How he gained power
• Techniques of dictatorships used
• Go through jigsaw
• If you are really interested in World War II and actions the Nazis took, here is a link that will get you to all of the episodes of Love, Hate and Propaganda documentaries

Thursday:

• Rants by  Russel, Sarah and Julie 
• Compare Fascism and Communism
• Interpreting Sources

Friday: 

• Start of the Cold War - Starts with the end of WWII
• Love, Hate and Propaganda - not only are there episodes about the Cold War at this site, but there's lots of explanations about people, places and propaganda used. If you are interested in the Vietnam War, Kent State shootings, Tiannemen Square incident, the Berlin War....There's a lot of information about it here, not just the documentaries
• How the Cold War started - Notes

Last Part of Democracies and then On to the Cold War!

This week, we will be finishing up the basics of democracies and then we will have about a 2 week stretch of looking at dictatorships and the Cold War. Meaning that we will start on economics before Christmas for about 2 weeks and finish up when we return from Christmas Break. Remember, there is a test THIS FRIDAY. What will be on that test?

• Basic features of democracies (characteristics)
• Know the philosophers and their views that impacting the creation of democracy
• Impact of the Enlightenment and Iroquois Confederacy on North American democracies
• How democracy works to balance will of majority with minority rights
• Individual and Collective Rights
• The ways in which democracy doesn't function well (disadvantages of democracy)
• Illiberalism 
• Balancing safety and security with rights and freedoms
• Dissent
• Imposition of liberalism

You should be familiar with the case studies, but  don't memorize those facts. You will never have straight recall questions on these facts, but you need to know the background knowledge of the case studies because they, or something similar, could show up as a source for questions.

What Will the Week Look Like?

Monday: 

• Finish Up with the Imposition of Liberalism
• White Paper and Red Paper

• What does imposition look like know?
• Source Interpretation
• Video Questions
• Go through what will be on your test (30-40 questions)

Tuesday: 

• Start with Dictatorships

• Different Types and the Techniques they use
• Similarities and Differences between dictatorships and democracies
• What liberal values do they reject and why?

Wednesday: 

• Communist Soviet Union vs. Fascist Germany
• Compare and contrast the two most prominent dictatorships of the 20th Century
• First two videos are on Stalin; second two are on Hitler

Thursday: 

• Rants by Traeton, Allison and Krista
• Review for test
• Continue working on comparing dictatorships

Friday:

• Test
• If you normally write your exam in the library, please just go straight there.

The Difference Between Rights and Wrong

"The USA was founded in the name of democracy, equality and individual freedom, but is failing to deliver the fundamental promise of protecting rights for all."

Last week, we finished class by looking at illiberal practices. As we discussed in class, sometimes a government justifies the means of limiting rights and freedoms to protect the maintenance of that democracy. Like we discussed in class, if you don't have a democracy, then your rights and freedoms are never EVER going to be guaranteed. But do you have a democracy if the government can pick and choose when it "needs" to limit rights and freedoms. This week, we are going to look at how citizens can battle those illiberal actions, and the right ways of doing that and the wrong ways.

Monday: 

• Illiberal practices in democracies
• Legislation for safety - War Measures Act, Patriot Act, Emergencies Act, Bill C-51
• Legislation for morality - Prohibition, Universal Suffrage
• Legislation for responsibility - Cell phone, Smoking Ban    
• Legislation for liberalism - Residential Schools, Indian Act 
• Vocabulary: Illiberalism
• Justification charts are due on TUESDAY
• Practice interpreting sources
• Video Questions on Illiberalism

Tuesday:

• Vocabulary: Dissent, Civil Disobedience
• Notes on Dissent and its role in a democracy

dis·sent

dəˈsent/

verb

1. 1.

   hold or express opinions that are at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially expressed.

   "two members dissented from the majority"

noun

1. 1.

   the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held.

   "there was no dissent from this view"

   synonyms:

   disagreement, difference of opinion, argument, dispute; More

• Acceptable vs unacceptable

• The use of dissent in democracy and it's importance

Thursday:

• Rants by Keaton and Krista
• The use of dissent in democracy and it's importance
• We will be in the computer lab doing research
• Categorizing the events: Acceptable or Unacceptable dissent

Friday: 

• Remembrance Day Ceremony