2015年4月29日水曜日

国際教養学部AO入試 news, issues, and points 2015 update



Read the news or issues below and write a one-paragraph essay on the following questions using some of the points given.


1.    NEWS: Slavery Footprint cnn

QUESTION



POINTS $ CASES:






2.    NEWS: Satire Charlie Hebdo 
QUESTION: If you were the editor in chief of an established magazine, would you have reprinted the first cover of Charlie Hebdo after the shooting, which featured a man who looked like Mohammad holding the “Je suis Charlie” under the expression, “Everything is forgiven.”

POINTS $ CASES: violence, satire, freedom of expression, anti-Islamism, feelings of Muslims, hypocrisy of the world leaders who participated in the Paris rally








3.    NEWS: Two Japanese, one of whom a journalist, killed by ISIS (ISL) in a brutal way.
QUESTION: Was the attitude of the Japanese government in this incident proper?

POINTS $ CASES: no yield to terrorism, ransom as funding source, international society (developed countries), PM’s speech to support Israel and paying $0.2 billion, for humanitarian purposes, self-responsibility, life above everything else, 1970’s hijacking of a JAL plane, religious cult, ideology, three straight A female students trying to go to ISIS







4.    NEWS: Kawasaki teen murder highlights hardships faced by single parents in Japan  (http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150305p2a00m0na017000c.html)

QUESTION: What could have prevented the death of this 13-year old and what can society do not to repeat this kind of tragedy?
POINTS $ CASES: poverty line, child poverty, single mother, welfare, community, volunteer, indifference













a.    Are people in Japan losing their moral values?
POINTS & CASES: education, competition, corruption, breakdown of the community, family relations, materialism, public manners, religion, the Internet






5.    NEWS: Noam Chomsky: Greek Debts Must be Written Off, Brussels are Destroying Greece

QUESTION: What do you think of this suggestion that Greek Debts be canceled?
POINTS & CASES: common sense (helping those in crisis), precedents (Germany after WWII, African countries, Burma), history (US intervention of Greek politics - debt incurred under the dictatorship backed by the US which Greek people have no responsibility to pay back), German and French banks’ payments in the form of high-risk loans to Greece








6.    NEWS: New guidelines allow Japan to defend U.S. and other countries  CNN Politics
POINTS & CASES: the Japan-US security treaty, involvement in the “war on terror”, territorial issues with neighboring countries, Japan’s militaristic past, revision of the interpretation of the collective defense,  Article 9

QUESTIONS:
a. In which geopolitical position has Japan been?





a.    What kind of situation related to this change can be expected to happen in the future?





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