CLASS - April 15.
You have to watch the video (linked below) and answer the 10 questions.
You can work in groups (maximum of students per group: 3).
Format: Word or PDF.
Deadline: Sunday, April 19, at 11: 59 PM (23h 59m).
Please send your work, as always, to upecenglish100@gmail.com
REMEMBER: sending your work to my yahoo address is NOT VALID.
Please answer all these questions. (Find the video linked below)
- How does Chomsky define “democracy”?
- Explain why, according to Chomsky, concentration
of wealth yields concentration of power.
- “The constitutional system has to be set up to
prevent democracy”: explain this sentence in the context
of the Constitutional Convention of the United States. (1787)
- How does Chomsky define the 1960s? Explain.
- (Human Rights, Women's Rights, Environment, Opposition
to Aggression, et cetera).
- What was the reaction against the democratizing movements
of the 1960s during the 1970s?
- How was the economy re-designed during and after
the 1970s? (Explain: financialization of economy,
off-shoring, redesign of the tax system ).
- According to Chomsky, why does the neoliberal system
criticize the idea of solidarity?
- Why do the American elites have an anti-union
sentiment?
- What does it mean, for Chomsky, “manufacture consent”?
- What is the purpose of marginalizing the population?
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