May 9th: Let them decide!

Dear students,

This is the homework from our last class on May 9th.

1) Prepare a 2m speech with a powerpoint presentation.

- Include a slide with your vocabulary highlights, you'll explain to the audience your list of unusual terms.

- Do not read it!

- Topic: Extreme or unusual sports

Due date: May 16th.

2) Prepare for your 8th Quiz.

a) The political staff members usually consist of:

Campaign manager: will coordinate the team effort, overall performance, and campaign's operations. Besides the candidate, the campaign manager is the most visible leader.

Consultant: will advise campaigns on virtually all of their activities. Ads are usually designed by them.

Activits: are the "foot soldiers" loyal to the cause, perform volunteer activities such as canvassing door to door or making phone calls on behalf of a campaign.

Candidate: is the indidvidual who seeks or is in nomination for an office, prize, or honor.

Identify the common association of colors and symbols:

Red: socialism and/or communism.

Yellow: liberalism, capitalism, and judaism.

Black: anarchism or fascism

Blue: conservatism

Light Blue: peace, United Nations

Gray: liberalism during the 19th century

Brown: nazism

Green: environmentalism

Orange: nationalism, populism

White: pacifism (peace)

Purple: monarchism

Liberalism: emphasizes the individual rights (such as freedom of though and speech; limitations on power of government; and the right on private property.

Conservatism: support for traditions and values.

Capitalism: economic system in which wealth and the means of producing wealth are privately owned.

Socialism: grows out of capitalism it is the first form of a new society.

Communism: is a further development or "higher" stage of socialism.

Fascism: advocates the creation of a single-party  state and promotes the unification and expansion of influence, power or control of their nation

Anarchism: considers the state as oppresive and undesirable and should be abolished.

Environmentalism:  concerned for the conservation and improvement of the environment.