Final Exam Questions Updated

Hey everyone. I've received a couple of suggestions and put the options that have been made so far. Pleas have a look at the lifestyle, media, and relationship topics and continue to make suggestions in the comment section. Additionally, the ethics questions need a lot of work and we need to start to make questions for arts and culture. You can choose from these plus from next weeks class:

1. To what extent should art represent reality?
2. Should art be funded with public money?
3. Should art which is controversial or offensive be censored?
4. What was the purpose of the film Exit Through the Gift Shop in your view?
5. Was the Thierry character real? What was Banksy trying to satirise through his character?
6. Is there such a thing as good or bad art? Who is able to decide this?
7. Are illegal forms of art such as graffiti and street art genuinely art?

Hey, here's the list for final exam questions up to now. I've marked a couple of places where changes still need to be made plus we still to make questions for arts & culture, please feel free to comment below or bring ideas to class. Before that though, I've been asked for a class list by the exam committee, please ensure your name is below and is spelt correctly (feel free to add Polish signs:

Martyna Grygier
Magdalena Wolanska
Krysia Kulak
Marta Makos
Magda Lytka
Dominika Konicka
Justyna Zaleska
Joanna Cieslak
Aleksandra Sznabel
Izabela Michniewska
Patryk Stefanowicz
Juliusz Dereszewicz
Marcin Kowal 
Joanna Gil

Lifestyle

1. How does consumerism influence family life?

2. Why is consumerism so important for a country's economy?

3. What do you think about shopping on Black Friday?

4. What are the techniques used by companies to encourage people to buy their products?
(or: Do you think that such phenomena as hoarding, vampirism etc. could have occurred 70 years ago? Why? Why not?" ?
5. What are some interesting subcultures you know?

6. What is the role of the media in the increased popularity of vampirism?

7. Why do people become hoarders?

8. Should local authorities help hoarders and what could be done?

Travel & Tourism

1. Why do you think people decide to spend their holidays in very strange and
unconventional places?

2. What are the most frequently visited places/countries and why? What are the trends?

3. What are the advantages of traveling?

4. In what way has the development of technology transformed tourism?


5. What are the reasons to travel?

6. What are the differences between 'glamping' and camping?

7. Why do people take pictures during their holidays?

Technology.

          1. How has technology changed society? Has it made our lives easier and better?

2. Does technology help to prevent crimes or the other way round, does it encourage criminals to commit crimes?

3. What kinds of cyber crimes do you know?

4. Why do people become body hackers?

5. What kind of computer hackers are there and what are the differences?

6. Can you think of any ways of preventing people from committing cyber crimes? How can people protect themselves from becoming victims of it?

7. Is 'sextortion' an immediate effect of technological advancement?

Media -

1. Why did the "Golden Eagle Kid" video become so successful?

2. How can the mass media be useful in spreading propaganda?
(or: "Are any circumstances in which mass media censorship can be justified? Does the freedom of media still exist?")
3. How important is television in your life? What kind of TV programs do
you watch (if any)

4. Does televisiom generally have a positive or negative influence?
(or: Explain the term 'Honey Trap')
5. Can the Internet fully compete with television?

6. How can the television bring people together?
(or: What was meant by Chris Bauer when he referred to the democratization of the news?)
7. Why has it been said that TV is a social killer? How can watching TV be
addicitve?

I think there are too many TV questions here and that we need a question or two from the obligatory set material. Please choose 1 or 2 to remove and a couple from below to add:

1. Explain the term ‘Honey Trap’. 

2. What arguments does Louise Mensch give to support the idea that publishing the photos was in the public interest?

3. How does John Prescott argue the opposite point?

4.Explain Jeremy Hunt’s description of Rupert Murdoch as a ‘Marmite proprietor’?

5. Does Hunt believe the photos should have been published?

6. Why was it so important for Rupert Murdoch to publish the pictures?

7. How has the digitalisation and globalisation of the media rendered regulatory frameworks obsolete?

8. What is the ‘grey market’? Give examples of news stories where the ‘grey market’ has operated?

9. What does the author mean by the ‘democratisation’ of news? 

10. What is the underlying thesis of the article?

Business & Finance

1. Is income inequality only a problem for the 99%
2. Describe how the level of inequality in the US has evolved over the past century.

3. Should the super rich be taxed at a higher rate than the poor? Justify your choice.

4. What is meant by the term fiat currency and what gives it value?

5. What are some of the causes of the current financial crisis?

6. Describe the origins of the crisis in Cyprus and its consequences

Politics & Society

          1.Would you ever take part in a protest?

2. Is protesting an effective way of expressing dissatisfaction with the government?

3. How do you feel about the techniques used by the police during the UK tuition protests and the sentencing of the rioters in the UK riots?

4. Is violence, as a part of protests ever justified?

5. What's the difference between riots and protests?

6. What options do people in non-democratic states have to express their dissatisfaction?

7. What was the trigger for student protests in Quebec and what do you think would happen it happened in Poland?
8. Why does it seem western governments have been seemingly less enthusiastic about intervening in Syria than they were in Libya?

Relationships – There are too many similar question here. Which should be removed/reworded?

    1. Are polyamorous relationships long-standing?

       2. What are the legal obstacles to polyamory?

       3.  Polygamy vs monogamy – which is better? Why?

       4. Why do people start polyamory relationships?

       5. What benefits of monogamy/polygamy can you think of?

       6. Would you date a convict? Why? Why not?

       7. Why would people want to have a long-standing relationship with a
           death-row convict?

    8. Is it possible to have a satisfying relationship with a convict?

        9. Could you present possible societal and personal benefits from
            dating person from a different culture?

    10. What kind of problems in intercultural marriage can you think of?

The suggestion has been made to remove questions 2, 6 and 8 

Ethics - Definitely still needs work

1. Who is responsible for the financial crisis?
2. Explain the term 'revolving door'. Give some examples.
3. Why do rich people quite often get away with punishment?
4. Are rich people less ethical?
5. How does a person get their notions of right and wrong?
6. What is meant by the term 'moral hazard'?
7. What is TARP? Describe its consequences.
8. Should employers employ the family members in their company?

Arts & Culture –

1. To what extent should art represent reality?
2. Should art be funded with public money?
3. Should art which is controversial or offensive be censored?
4. What was the purpose of the film Exit Through the Gift Shop in your view?
5. Was the Thierry character real? What was Banksy trying to satirise through his character?
6. Is there such a thing as good or bad art? Who is able to decide this?
7. Are illegal forms of art such as graffiti and street art genuinely art?