All the prisoners in the Program's Journal

Does anyone else think that at least part of the class of 2006 at my school is screwed on the US History AP exam?? I mean we are just about to get to the great depression in my class and have the test on May 6. If that is not a bad thing please notify me on that - as far as i know that is a very bad thing.

kt

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liz_psyko_blond

01:57pm 27/12/2004

mood:

bored

Is it just me, or did this website totally die after class of 04?

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domncroxd

06:14pm 29/09/2004

hey all...was searchin the net for 'TOK presentation topics' when i came across blurty! it's pretty cool...anyways...
my name's yvonne and im in my final IB year. studyin in singapore, and im really freaked now...-.-. i just found out that my assessed TOK presentation went down the drain because my partner's part of the presentation pulled me down, so i decided to do another one. BY MYSELF.

anyways, i'd just like to hear some opinions about the topic i'm thinkin about right now.
How do Western ideals of beauty influence the oriental *Asian* perceptions of beauty?
i'm goin to discuss the 'old' asian perceptions of beauty, such as the art of footbinding, but now it's seen as horrendous and unthinkable. due to globalization, many aspects of western fashion have intermingled with that of asian 'fashion' as well as ideals of beauty. now everybody wants to be thin, etc etc.

what do you think? thanks so much ~~

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fallen_hero

04:24pm 07/05/2004

so math Paper II
was a hell of a lot easier than paper I
finsihed with time to spare and even created my own formulas
"walker's Law of Cosines"
what? you say the formulas were all in that booklet?!?!
Son of a Bitch!!!
good luck to everyone with rest of tests

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OH no

flowingtearsnrw

05:36pm 06/05/2004

How much is paper 1 of math studies worth, from the whole grade of math studies. Is it really bad if you leave four of the questions completely blank for paper 1?

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SL CHEM

flowingtearsnrw

06:55pm 05/05/2004

OK does anyone know how many options you have to learn for the SL chemistry test. please write asap b/c the test is soon and my teacher is incompetent.

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inkwarrior1776

02:24pm 15/04/2004

You are cordially invited to become a pompous asshat at Pompous Asshats International .

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fallen_hero

10:10pm 24/03/2004

I would just like to say
I OWNED MY FRENCH ORAL!!!
wahahha, no more speaking frenhc unless i want to
still have the written exam.... but i dont have to say a damn thing en francaise

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shadow_celeste

10:17pm 18/02/2004

mood:

tired

music: perfect by simple plan

during school today i told myself i would finish my APEH outline tonight that way i would for once not be procrastinating. that didnt happen of course. things came up, so i think i have 2 pages outlined. only 30 left. joy. i think some teachers are deliberately tryin to kill the rainforests lol.

also a question: should i take biology as HL and physics SL or the other way around?? thx 4 advice =)

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Happy Valentine's Day!

liz_psyko_blond

07:27am 14/02/2004

mood:

happy

music: "Friday I'm in Love" The Cure

To everyone who celebrates it, Happy Valentine's Day! (Or for the cynics, Happy Single Awareness Day!) I hope that everyone has better stuff to do today that sit on their computer looking at blogs, lol.

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liz_psyko_blond

08:00pm 11/02/2004

mood:

content

music: Vapors "Turning Japanese"

Hey, anyone else think the Calculus test was hell, as well as a pile of crap? ... Anyways. It's very nice to see an IB thing here. Lol, I actually had nothing to say except Hi. Congrats to all the suma's! My sympathy to all my fellow seniors who will have no weekend due to homework. Ugh!

-Liz

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enidcoleslaw

12:20am 08/02/2004

mood:

pissed off

music: Veruca Salt - Loneliness Is Worse

Blah, I'm so bitter. I had to hand in my final, final copies of world lit one and world lit two. I think I did really good on world lit one, but it could have used more quotes. It's "Introversion in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. World lit two, I did a creative essay, which I think is 2a, I wrote an additional chapter for Allende's The House Of The Spirits. It was a piece of shit. I've never made up so much crap in my life. Then today at 3:25 I had the oral exam *shudders*. The piece I was given was "after apple picking" By Frost. I did so awfull, I think I used the word assonance where it wasn't applicable. Oh, well, I'm an idiot. I think the only thing I really learned writing those stupid world lits is how to spell Dostoyevsky. How pathetic is that?

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eponinenkind

02:52pm 07/02/2004

mood:

thoughtful

music: something from the Creation, inside my head

Hello everyone :)
I'm searching for a topic for my ToK presentation at the moment. I was wondering whether I could write/say something about "His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman. Does anyone here know the books? Parts of them are quite philosophical... and parts of them might be a bit offending if someone who is deeply religious reads it, too. In those books, God did not create the world, but was just an angel who wanted to become more powerful than the other angels. And in the end He dies °_° Well, I'm not religious (in fact I have no idea whether God exists or not), so I have no problems with reading that, but I guess some people might feel offended. It would be good for a discussion, anyway - but for a presentation?
Well, sorry about those ramblings, but could someone give me some advice? ^_^
What are your ToK topics?

Btw, I'm from Germany... so my English might be... er, not perfect sometimes *g*

-Mika-

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IB!

mogs

01:07am 07/02/2004

mood:

amused

music: Star Salzman - Chrono Trigger The Incredible Singing Robot OC ReMix

Looks like I'm in the Blurty IB community now... hey all :-)
Whee, Tok, English, History, Math.
A little about me I guess...
I'm a pretty big fan of math and physics (in HL for both right now), "learning" about matrix vector transformations and kirchoff's laws, respectively.
History IA was on the Chinese Opium Wars (well, the first anyway), and EE was on "The Domination Numbers of n-cube Graphs."
Interests (other than IB, of course) include ocremixes (www.ocremix.org) and planetarium (www.beholder.uk/planetarium even though I'm through with it). Well, back to reading "Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini," funfunfun :D

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theoryoferin

05:24pm 06/02/2004

mood:

angry

How's everyone's exam schedule looking? I'm rather upset with a few things on mine.

1.) HL BIO AND HL HISTORY ON THE SAME DAY?!?!?! (May 12th)
Seriously... is the IBO trying to kill us?

2.) SL Spanish on the day of graduation (May 20th)
Okay, so the exam shouldn't be too bad, but it's my worst subject. Graduation is supposed to be a happy day... not a freaking day to be bummed about Spanish exams...

3.) SL Music after school gets out!
The 24th... I'm not in school anymore!! [I mean, obviously b/c of IB exams, I'm not in school at all in May] This test is AFTER the normal seniors' last day. Wtf?!

GRAH. Life hasn't been treating me well lately.

Turned in CAS on the 2nd of February... feels good to be done with it forever. Unfortunately, a member of our class got caught forging her signatures and was kicked out today. Now we're down to 48 diploma candidates and a projected 4 people [of 31] passing the HL Bio exam. Thank every God you could possibly believe in that I am one of them. *sigh*

Here's a link to a song called "I Hate TOK" by a band of all IB seniors that graduated from my high school last year: I Hate TOK

The song is mentioned in this unflattering article about IB

Have fun. I think this is a record long post in this community. Let's bring this thing to life.

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Personally, i consider myself a facsist

fallen_hero

11:21pm 26/01/2004

mood:

aggravated

music: "Bodies" Drowning Pool

so my TOK teacher shows us this
its bullshit comment as you will

"U.N. influence in U.S. schools
By Henry Lamb

Posted: January 24, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Since its beginning, the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization has been trying to impose an international curriculum to prepare students for world government. More than 500 U.S. schools are now using the International Baccalaureate program, and the Department of Education has just awarded a $1.2 million grant to expand the program in middle schools in Arizona, Massachusetts and New York.
In one of its first efforts in 1949, the UNESCO textbook, titled "Toward World Understanding," used to teach teachers what to teach, said:

"As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism."

In the 1960s, Dr. Robert Muller, U.N. deputy secretary-general, prepared a "World Core Curriculum." Its first goal:

"Assisting the child in becoming an integrated individual who can deal with personal experience while seeing himself as a part of 'the greater whole.' In other words, promote growth of the group idea, so that group good, group understanding, group interrelations and group goodwill replace all limited, self-centered objectives, leading to group consciousness."

The U.N.'s global education program took a major step in 1968, when UNESCO provided the funding to create the International Baccalaureate Organization, a non-government organization, in Geneva, Switzerland. The IBO is now providing the curriculum for 33,000 teachers in nearly 1,500 schools around the world, 55 of which are middle schools in the Washington D.C. area.

UNESCO says the IB curriculum promotes human rights, social justice, sustainable development, population, health, environmental and immigration concerns.

"We're living on a planet that is becoming exhausted," says George Walker, IB's director-general in Geneva. "The program remains committed to changing children's values so they think globally, rather than in parochial national terms from their own country's viewpoint."

Jeanne Geiger, an outspoken critic of the program in Reston, Va., wrote to a local newspaper: "Administrators do not tell you that the current IB program for ages 3 through grade 12 promotes socialism, disarmament, radical environmentalism and moral relativism, while attempting to undermine Christian religious values and national sovereignty."

The IB program was dropped at Woodson High School in Fairfax, Va., when critical parents told local school officials that the best universities in Virginia did not give full credit for the IB program.

The goals and methods of the IB program reach much further than the 502 U.S. schools now officially enrolled. The Center for Civic Education, which, by law, writes the curriculum for civics education in the United States, says:

"In the past century, the civic mission of schools was education for democracy in a sovereign state. In this century, by contrast, education will become everywhere more global. And we ought to improve our curricular frameworks and standards for a world transformed by globally accepted and internationally transcendent principles."

This global influence can be clearly seen in the new mission for the National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies:

"The United States and its democracy are constantly evolving and in continuous need of citizens who can adapt to meet the changing circumstances. Meeting that need is the mission of social studies. Students should be helped to construct a pluralist perspective based on diversity [and] should be helped to construct a global perspective."

A critical review of "We the People; the Citizen and the Constitution," a civics textbook written by the Center for Civics Education, reveals that the teaching of historical facts is replaced with teaching attitudes and values about multi-culturalism and world-mindedness. A review of science, and even math texts, reveals that sustainable development, environmental protection and social justice dominate the material children are taught.

No longer are American children learning about the structure of a federal republic compared to a parliamentary democracy. No longer are children learning the difference between capitalism and socialism. No longer are children being taught why the United States became the most powerful economic engine the world has ever known.

Instead, they are being taught that with less than 5 percent of the world's population, the U.S. uses 25 percent of the world's resources and produces 25 percent of the world's pollution. They are being taught that the U.S. is the No. 1 terrorist nation. They are being taught that the rest of the world is mired in poverty because of the greedy capitalists in the United States.

The effectiveness of generations of this U.N. globalist curriculum is evidenced by many of the talking heads interviewed on the nightly news, and even by some of the presidential hopefuls.

© 2004

Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization and chairman of Sovereignty International."

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