WSC
KEY AREAS FOR QUIZ
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SPECIAL AREA
• Princess Diana of Thermyscira – Wonder
Woman
• Sociopaths and X-Altruists – do they likely to
break rules?
• Thomas Carlyle – Heroes as King – Nabi
Muhammad
• Beam me up Scotty – Star Trek teleportation
Arts
• Roy Liechtenstein – studio portrait how is his art style
• Le Roy Neiman – briliantly coloured
living images of sporting and leisure
activities
• The Physical Impossibility of
Death in the Mind of Someone
Living is an artwork created in
1991 by Damien Hirst, an English
artist and a leading member of the
"Young British Artists" (or YBA) –
commisioned by Charles Saatchi
Arts
• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain –
materials used to make it (stone, glass,
titanium)
• Oslo Opera House – what will critics
think?
Arts
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Huang Yong Ping - Concise History of Modern Art” after Two
Minutes in the Washing Machine
Prada Marfa -Prada Marfa is a permanently installed sculpture
by artists Elmgreen and Dragset, situated 1.4 miles (2.3 km)
northwest of Valentine, Texas, just off U.S. Highway 90 (US
90), and about 26 miles (42 km) northwest of the city of
Marfa.[1] The installation was inaugurated on October 1,
2005. The artists called the work a "pop architectural land art
project."[2]
The sculpture, realized with the assistance of American
architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello,[3] cost
$80,000 and was intended to never be repaired, so it might
slowly degrade back into the natural landscape.[4] This plan
was deviated from when, six days after the sculpture was
completed, vandals graffitied the exterior, and broke into the
building stealing handbags and shoes
Arts
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Huang Yong Ping - Concise History of Modern Art” after Two
Minutes in the Washing Machine
Prada Marfa -Prada Marfa is a permanently installed sculpture
by artists Elmgreen and Dragset, situated 1.4 miles (2.3 km)
northwest of Valentine, Texas, just off U.S. Highway 90 (US
90), and about 26 miles (42 km) northwest of the city of
Marfa.[1] The installation was inaugurated on October 1,
2005. The artists called the work a "pop architectural land art
project."[2]
The sculpture, realized with the assistance of American
architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello,[3] cost
$80,000 and was intended to never be repaired, so it might
slowly degrade back into the natural landscape.[4] This plan
was deviated from when, six days after the sculpture was
completed, vandals graffitied the exterior, and broke into the
building stealing handbags and shoes
Arts
• Fake Plastic Trees – what does
this song mean?
• FIFA Anthem – inspires unity
• This is just a Modern Rock Song
• Light and Day
• L’Internationale
THIS IS JUST A MODERN ROCK SONG
•
This Is Just A Modern Rock Song"
Emma tried to run away,
I followed her across the city,
She went out to the Easterhouse,
Because she liked the sound of it.
She didn't have a single penny,
She stuck a finger in the air,
She tried to flag down an aeroplane,
I suppose she needs a holiday.
I put my arm around her waist,
She put me on the ground with Judo,
She didn't recognise my face,
She wasn't even looking.
Laura's feeling just ideal,
Her horoscope was nearly perfect,
She's thinking of something to do,
Because she is The Birthday Girl.
She walked out to the edge of town,
She saw me lying in the park,
She took Emma by the hand,
They've got a lot in common.
I'll leave them to do what they want,
I'll leave them to do what they need to,
I'll go and play with words and pictures,
I'll admit I'm feeling strange.
I'm not as sad as Doestoevsky,
I'm not as clever as Mark Twain,
I'll only buy a book for the way it looks,
And then I stick it on the shelf again.
Now I could tell you what I'm thinking,
But it never seems to do you good,
It's beyond me what a girl can see,
I'm only lucid when I'm writing songs.
This is just a modern rock song,
This is just a sorry lament,
We're four boys in corduroys,
We're not terrific but we're competent.
Stevie's full of good intentions,
Richards into rock 'n' roll,
Stuart's staying in and he thinks it's a sin,
That he has to leave the house at all.
LITERATURE
• Read up A Van Jordan’s “The Flash
Reverses Time” – what does Einstein do in
the poem?
• What is the tone of Simon Armitage’s
“Kid”?
• What does the speaker thinks of the
world in All Watched Over by Machines of
Loving Grace? – free from our labours
(work)
LITERATURE
• This Is Just to Say is likely written by (here we
refer to the possible characters in the poem)
• Whose poem collection is called “The World”?
• THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER
AND CLAY – who are Kavalier, Clay, The
Escapist?
HISTORY
(all materials on our POWIIS
wikispaces)
• Steps in which Martin Luther King identify as nonviolent revolution
• Aung San Suu Kyi – addresses Burma
• President of India, Jawaharlal Nehru – delivered his
speech “A Tryst With Destiny” to who?
• Who is the Communist Manifesto addressed to?
• What is the beginning of Vaclav Havel’s speech?
• Haitian Revolution – which crops does Haiti produce?
• Which form of government did Czech Republic have
after Velvet Revolution?
• How did Mohamad Bouaziz spark did Arab Spring?
HISTORY
(all materials on our POWIIS
wikispaces)
• What did Nelson Mandela say he admires of
African tribes?
• After 2015, the only country which women
cannot vote is - VATICAN CITY
• The Zong Massacre leads to what event?
• The Prague Spring
• The People’s Power Revolution similar to the
ideas of Vaclav Havel
SOCIAL STUDIES
(all materials on our POWIIS
wikispaces)
• Jean Baudrillard – what does he see as cultural
ethnocentrism?
• East Pakistan – now called Bangladesh
• Meaning of symbolic action
• Geert Hofstede - a society with hierarchy and large gaps in
compensation is a society that is..
• Humberto Eco – hyperreality – which superhero did he
discuss?
• Emile Durkheim – characteristics of mechanical solidarity
and organic solidarity
• Cultural pluralism
• Enculturated
SCIENCE
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A barrier to block social networks – FIREWALL
Myoelectric prosthesis – how does it work?
Mind uploading – humans are seen as machines
The newest form of light bulb is called…LED
Edison invention of lightbulb is like Prometheus
bringing fire to humanity
• Effects of the rise of the printing press
• Which part of the world where women has lowest
fertility?
• US nurse Margaret Sanger tries to promote what idea?
WSC KEY QUESTIONS
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SUPERHEROES
• Beowulf
• The Dark Knight
• William Moulton Marston’s idea for Wonder
Woman is inspired by…
• The Hero’s Journey – which stage does most
of the excitement take place?
• Comics Code 1954
• Superman, Batman and Goku
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Hamartia, Achilles Heel, Hubris
What is a Golem?
Characteristics of a Byronic hero – narcissistic
Criticism of female superheroes
ART
• Which form of art is Warhol’s Campbell Soup
Cans trying to challenge?
• Who originally created the Look, Mickey panel
in Roy Liechtenstein’s Artist Studio work?
• Listen to Redemption Song by Bob Marley –
what instruments did he use?
• What does Guggenheim Museum (bilbao) and
Dancing House (prague) have in common?
ART AND LITERATURE
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What inspired the song Fake Plastic Trees?
A Rubber Ball Thrown into the Sea.
What style of architecture is Sydney Opera House?
The Human Condition
The History of Western Art and Chinese Art Washed Up
in a Washing Machine – what does it criticise?
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
The Red Wheelbarrow – what does the tone feel like?
Simon Armitage’s poem KID – what superhero does it
refer to?
Who published Astro City?
ART AND LITERATURE
• Which insect did the narrator of the Amazing
Adventures of Kavalier and Clay refer to when
dreaming of a fabulous escape?
• Midway – what form of poetry is it?
HISTORY
• Ellen Page – Time to Thrive – for whom was this speech
delivered to?
• US Civil Rights Movement protested a set of laws
referred to as ….
• Which category of people led the Haitian Revolution?
• In 1893, which country can women vote?
• Similarities between Vaclav Havel and Ellen Page’s
speech
• Which country was the last to ban slavery?
• Which country did Arab Spring begin?
HISTORY
• Communist Manifesto – what do communists
support?
• Henry David Thoreau – first step to a
revolution
• Causes of the Arab Spring
• Russian Revolution in 1989 eventually leads to
what?
• Outcome of People’s Power Revolution in the
Philippines?
SCIENCE
• Miasma theory – theory that diseases were caused by
bad air – BLACK DEATH PLAGUE IN 1300’s ENGLAND
• Sousveillance – surveillance of the authority by general
people
• Vacuum cleaners and washing machines – symbols of
female liberation
• Uber – a ride-hailing app
• Measles – making a comeback in developed countries
in Europe and USA
• Online voting in Estonia since 2011
SCIENCE
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Home automation
Alternating current/direct current
Contraception and its effects towards society
Phonograph and movie projectors –
comparison
SOCIAL STUDIES
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Partition of Yugoslavia
Partition of India
Sociobiology
Michel Focault’s Theory
Emile Durkheim – mechanical solidarity vs
organic solidarity
• Enculturation
• Vaclav Havel’s Speech
• Anarchy – read James Scott’s article available on
POWIISWSC Wikispace