Graduation^^

yeah, woohoo.

Purpose of "The Corporation"

• Purpose of the film is the paradox
• Paradox: Corporations create great wealth but often hidden harms.
• Main agenda of corporations = bottom line & shareholders
• Purpose of corporation is to make money, regardless of all else
• History: 14th amendment, past meaning, application of steam pump
• Externality
• Collective v. private; feudal v. corporate
• Ethics of 'nagging'
• Definition of branding
• Imperialistic nature of advertising
• Undercover marketing
• Extremes & ethics of ownership (Biopiracy)
  
• Who owns who? Government v. Global Corporation --> Global Aristocracy
• (The 1st) Industrial Revolution = Mistake; unsustainable
• By nature, Corporations can't be socially responsible
  

3 controls on corporations:

• Ability to decline purchase
• Affect the political process
• Protest
  

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Sr. Board Practice Speech(es)

I wanna practice in front of all three of Milhollen's senior classes.

The reason? Listen for invention, innovation, and improvement.
Duh!

Significant Learning: Corporations

Newton asked us today to write things from our memory. I came up with ~80% of these, adding a few scribbles to the paper as he showed us what we should have:

• Gov't structure: checks & balances
• Constitutional amending process
• 14th Amendment sig & meaning
• Santa Clara v Souther Pacific concerning the extension of the Bill of Rights to corporations
• Civil War sig
• Concept: Artificial Person
  
• Punishment: Artificial v. Real Person
• Term: "Precedence"
• Central v. decentralized
• Urban v. agrarian
• Hamilton v. Jefferson
• Business cycle (specifics)
• Sig & meaning of a city ordinance v. corporate personhood
  

Letter to the Judges

Prompts a personal picture of you to the judges
Demonstrates your ability to communicate in writing
Is informative

1. Describe yourself
2. Highlight most interesting part of Sr. Project
3. Reflection on significance of Sr. project Experience
4. Arrive @ a universal idea, conclusion, philosophical idea -- why we are here, what is life about, what is the point -- something significant about the human experience stuff.


Main Parts

1st - Strong lead paragraph - Decision for choosing Sr. Project
Autobiographical incident - narration

• Verbs, adverbs, nouns, adjectives
• Words that appeal to the 5 senses - objective
• Communicates: strengths, passions, talents, interest, achievements, experience, goals, dreams, dreams that brought you to this project
• Honest and personal

2nd - Exploration to arrive @ an epiphany (realizationaboutyourself)
Logic - exposition

• Rhetorical questions
• Wondering
• Series of questions with answers
• Each answer is a small part of the epiphany
• Work your way logically toward an epiphany
• This paragraph communicates your ability to learn from a significant experience - questioning, investigation, curiosity

3rd - Philosophical conclusion of universal theme (philosophical important question answered about life)
Persuasion of authenticity of thread

• Confident statement about life
• Realization that is beyond yourself
• An idea that shows you have moved past your narrow, provincial, close-minded world of Del Oro and Loomis
• This paragraph is aggressive and confident
• This paragraph demonstrates the validity of your Sr. Project exp., not mindless BS, propaganda or immature teenage angst.
  

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Identify in margins the following:

• Words that appeal to 5 senses
• Personal info about yourself (write specific words that describe the personal things you have communicated)
• Rhetorical questions
• Parts of epiphany
• Epiphany
• Universal idea
• Explanation of universal idea
  

Elements of Essay Writing

Significant Learning Quiz
a. yellow: The Definition of power is...
b. yellow: Iraq Essay
c. yellow: Greed is Helping
d. grey: Itchy Blanket
e. green: Midterm Essay

1. Identify the best thread
2. Identify the best thesis
3. Identify the best specific support
4. Identify the best logic
5. Identify the best structure

Thread:
· Relates to everything in the essay
· Dominant thought
· Achieved through repetition, obvious

Structure:
· Cause & Effect
· Reason & Example
· Compare & Contrast

Logic - Every single paragraph must have this pattern:
1. Topic Sentence
2. Specific Facts/Support (multiple sentences)
3. Explanation
4. Transition by connecting to thesis

Thesis:
· Show structure, evaluation, and focus on philosophers/characteristics of democracy

from the board

Monday April 23:

• Typed Speech Outline
• Read quiz on corporate
• notes economic history
• 14th Amendment
• History Corporate Personhood
• Corporate Personhood Contemporary example
• Handwritten notes only on quiz