Stephen Fry - Who do you think you are? - fascinating journey as he explores his ancestry.

Shared knowledge in the records of public documents in Europe become personal knowledge as Stephen Fry explores the fate of his Jewish relatives. He also muses on his public image as he's often described as  'quintessentially English'. Areas of knowledge include history, human sciences and personal identity. In it's own way this programme helps us understand the terrible horror of the holocaust as it swept Jewish families from the homes in Nazi states.

The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Exp...

Poverty USA - the other America - 37 million Americans live on the poverty line.

OUTFOXED Fox News Documentary - is Fox News Biased?

Navajo Presidential Candidate's Eligibility Disputed - Is language a crucial proof of cultural identity?

How protons, electrons and neutrons were discovered.

My thanks to Ms Mou Mati who invited me to observe her Physics Class with TOK aspects last week. - Mr C

Viking Oceans: Turkey's Whirling Dervishes

Labour is blossoming or dancing where

The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.

Nor beauty born out of its own despair,

Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.

O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,

Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Among School Children –WB YEATS

PERSEPOLIS (A video essay from Roger Ebert's Far Flung Correspondents)

Bucket List Campaign by Malaysia Airlines stirs controversy

  In this report we can and should sympathise with the criticism of the airline for using the term "Bucket List" in a campaign. But is it possible that the advertising agency staff were not native speakers and did not fully understand a term they may have first seen on a Hollywood film? WOK here are language, emotion, reason and sense perception. There may be others too. What do you think?

Is Damien Hirst's work art or is it a 'con'?

Hirst provokes extreme reactions both for and against his work as 'art' or as a 'con'.

Con art? In defence of Damien Hirst - UK Channel 4 website - click link below

http://www.channel4.com/news/con-art-in-defence-of-damien-hirst

2015 NEW TOK ESSAY TITLES RUBRIC ASSESSMENT MARKING SCHEME

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MR.C.'s TOK Blog- BD Somani International School -Mumbai -Theory of Knowledge: 2015 NEW TOK ESSAY RESOURCES RUBRIC ASSESSMENT MARKING SCHEME

1. There is no such thing as a neutral question. Evaluate this statement with reference to two areas of knowledge.

2. “There are only two ways in which humankind can produce knowledge: through passive observation or through active experiment.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?

3. “There is no reason why we cannot link facts and theories across disciplines and create a common groundwork of explanation.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?

4. With reference to two areas of knowledge discuss the way in which shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge.

5. “Ways of knowing are a check on our instinctive judgments.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?

6. “The whole point of knowledge is to produce both meaning and purpose in our personal lives.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Syrian Refugees bring message of Peace with Mozart Opera performance

BBC Documentary Thalidomide A Wonder Drug or a tragic mistake in medical history?

The tragedy of the Thalidomide drug's impact on unborn babies led to a strict regime of drug testing by the Federal Drug Administration in the USA. But what are the ethical dilemmas involved with this drug and the wider debate involving new drugs which could be offered to terminally ill patients?

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