Discussion Question: Is competition inhumane?
What’re some other ways to say “competition”?
What are the benefits of competition?
What are the disadvantages?
What is praise?
What is humiliation?
What makes you want to do work?
What makes you want to be your best?
What do you need to do your best work?
What is ‘motivating somebody’?
What motivates you?
What tends to discourage you from doing things you want to do?
What tends to encourage you to your best work?
What tends to encourage you to be your best self?
What is ‘getting ahead’?
What does ‘competitive’ mean in these sentences.
“Some say women aren't aggressive and competitive enough for the sport.”
“We need to make our company more competitive.”
“Competitive prices”
“Easy Scholarships and Grants - Success in Today's Competitive World “
“competitive disadvantages”
2011/05/26
2011/05/19
5/20 (五) 思，英語討論會 9: Words and Deeds
Discussion Question:
Is there a difference between saying something and doing it?
Questions to Think About:
1. What is an action?
2. What is a threat?
3. What is a joke?
4. What is an insult?
5. Is it possible to say something without meaning it?
6. Is it possible to do something without meaning it?
7. How do you feel when someone makes a joke in which one of the characters gets hurt?
8. How do you feel when someone makes a joke about someone being made to have sex they didn’t want?
Is there a difference between saying something and doing it?
Questions to Think About:
1. What is an action?
2. What is a threat?
3. What is a joke?
4. What is an insult?
5. Is it possible to say something without meaning it?
6. Is it possible to do something without meaning it?
7. How do you feel when someone makes a joke in which one of the characters gets hurt?
8. How do you feel when someone makes a joke about someone being made to have sex they didn’t want?
5/20 (五) 思，英語討論會 9: Words and Deeds
Discussion Question:
Is there a difference between saying something and doing it?
Questions to Think About:
1. What is an action?
2. What is a threat?
3. What is a joke?
4. What is an insult?
5. Is it possible to say something without meaning it?
6. Is it possible to do something without meaning it?
7. How do you feel when someone makes a joke in which one of the characters gets hurt?
8. How do you feel when someone makes a joke about someone being made to have sex they didn’t want?
Is there a difference between saying something and doing it?
Questions to Think About:
1. What is an action?
2. What is a threat?
3. What is a joke?
4. What is an insult?
5. Is it possible to say something without meaning it?
6. Is it possible to do something without meaning it?
7. How do you feel when someone makes a joke in which one of the characters gets hurt?
8. How do you feel when someone makes a joke about someone being made to have sex they didn’t want?
2011/05/14
Videos Explaining Monetary Systems, including Ripple
What is Ripple?
Understanding Money on the Social Network pt 1
Understanding Money on the Social Network pt 1
2011/05/06
5/13 (五) 思，英語討論會 8-3: Ripple Monetary System
We're continuing to explore the idea of Time Banking. This week we're going to read the Wikipedia entry for the Ripple Monetary System, and explore the links or do our own searches.
Here's some videos explaining the Ripple System.
Here's some videos explaining the Ripple System.
2011/04/28
4/29 & 5/6 (五) 思，英語討論會 8: Time Banking
Discussion Question: Do you think this could work in Taiwan?
http://www.timebanks.org/get-involved.htm
2011/03/31
4/8 (五) 思，英語討論會 7: Ownership addicts
Discussion Question: Are we too concerned with material possessions?
Questions to Ponder:
1. Do you own a lot of stuff?
2. Is it hard to manage?
3. Does organizing your stuff take a lot of time?
4. Do you like buying stuff?
5. Do you use all the stuff you buy?
Questions to Ponder:
1. Do you own a lot of stuff?
2. Is it hard to manage?
3. Does organizing your stuff take a lot of time?
4. Do you like buying stuff?
5. Do you use all the stuff you buy?
4/1 (五) 思，英語討論會 6：Home
Discussion Question: What is home?
Questions to Ponder:
1. Are you emotionally attached to one location on this planet? Or more than one?
2. Do you feel attached to one place as home? Is it related to where you grew up? Is it different than the place you live now?
3. Is your city your home? Your country? The world?
4. How do you decide what you are attached to?
Questions to Ponder:
1. Are you emotionally attached to one location on this planet? Or more than one?
2. Do you feel attached to one place as home? Is it related to where you grew up? Is it different than the place you live now?
3. Is your city your home? Your country? The world?
4. How do you decide what you are attached to?
2011/03/18
2011/02/23
3/18 (五) 思，英語討論會 4：Eve Ensler on Security
(press 'view subtitles' button for English or Chinese subtitles)
Discussion Question: How do our concerns about security affect our lives? As women (or men), as citizens, as human beings?
3/04 (五) 思，英語討論會 3：Wael Ghonim
Discussion Question: Today we’re just going to go through the questions and statements one by one and discuss our reactions to the statements.
2011/02/12
2/25 (五) 思，英語討論會 2：Waste = Food
The Video: Waste = Food
Discussion Question: Today we’re just going to go through the statements one by one and discuss our reactions.
Statements made in the video:
1. Waste is food for growth.
2. All waste from a factory should be safe to go back into the soil, so it can literally be used to grow food.
3. Design everything to become a nutrient.
4. Materials that don’t become food for the biosphere should become food for the technosphere.
5. We don’t actually recycle products. We downcycle products, they lose quality as they’re used. True recycling means they can be used to make the same thing, or something higher quality.
6. It’s time for humans to think of themselves as one of the species on this planet, and make the other species on the planet happy that we are here.
7. Less bad = no good. Defining environmental protection as destroying a little less, is misusing the term ‘protection’. Destroying less doesn’t protect anything.
Discussion Question: Today we’re just going to go through the statements one by one and discuss our reactions.
Statements made in the video:
1. Waste is food for growth.
2. All waste from a factory should be safe to go back into the soil, so it can literally be used to grow food.
3. Design everything to become a nutrient.
4. Materials that don’t become food for the biosphere should become food for the technosphere.
5. We don’t actually recycle products. We downcycle products, they lose quality as they’re used. True recycling means they can be used to make the same thing, or something higher quality.
6. It’s time for humans to think of themselves as one of the species on this planet, and make the other species on the planet happy that we are here.
7. Less bad = no good. Defining environmental protection as destroying a little less, is misusing the term ‘protection’. Destroying less doesn’t protect anything.
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