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Week 12 [25.01.21-31.01.21] Best presentation

Dear Students, Vote for the best text presentation written this semester. Justify your choice please.
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Week 12 [25.01.21-31.01.21] How does the stock market work?

Have you ever wondered how the stock exchange works? How is it that some people earn millions, and some lose their life savings? I recommend watching the video that describes the basics of the stock exchange. 1. Have you ever invested on the stock market? If not, do you plan to do it?  2. Do you consider the stock market a good place to save money for the future?  3. Do you know any Polish companies that are highly valued on the stock market?

Week 12 [25.01.21-31.01.21] The duality of the Promethean archetype

    Dirck van Baburen, Prometheus Being Chained by Vulkan   The Greek Titan god, thief of fire, creator of humanity. Prometheus has long been a figure capturing human imagination and speaking deeply to us, but the ways in which he does so are curiously split in twain, from almost the very beginning and well into modernity. To some, he’s an almost messianic figure, like to the German romantic poet Johan Wolfgang Goethe. A great rebel against tyranny and injustice, willing to commit the greatest sacrifices for the sake of the common good. To Goethe, Prometheus was a symbol of the coming of a new age, daring to fight for a better tomorrow. It also wasn’t uncommon for the writers and poets of romanticism to draw parallels between the Promethean myth and the French revolution. And yet to some others, like Mary Shelley, he’s an almost satanic figure, a great blasphemer thinking himself worthy to work the divine flame into artificial life in a great example of classical Greek hubris. The fu

7 ways to make a conversation with anyone

  Great connections are important  in our life. Connections help in everyday life and at work.  I want to share a film about it.   Do you have a problem with starting a conversation with a stranger?   Do you think her advice can make it easier for you to start a conversation with someone?    Do you agree with the analogy at the end of the movie?

Week 12 [25.01 - 31.01] What will be happen if we detonate all nuclear bombs at once?

Do you ever think about how many and how powerful are nuclear bombs? Everyone know what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki but these bombs are a lot of less powerful than modern missiles. In the video below you have description scary things – detonation all nuclear bombs in one time. Source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyECrGp-Sw8 Questions: 1.            Do you know before watch this video – how many nuclear bombs are ready to use around the world? 2.        What do you thing about nuclear weapon? Do we need them to keep for human safety or we should    destroy all of them? Why? 3.        Do you afraid about atomic bombs? Do you think that possibility of nuclear conflict right now is high?

Week 12 [25.01 - 31.01] Toyota Mirai - successor to electric vehicles?

  New Toyota Mirai 2021 Toyota release Mirai model in 2014 but first concept was developed from 1992. This car uses electric motors to drive but energy for it take from hydrogen cells. This is much more better solution than electric cars. Filling the cells with hydrogen takes only 3 minutes, for comparison Tesla with supercharger needs 75 minutes for 100% battery level. New generation of Mirai cost less than first edition looks less controversial (in my opinion new model looks familiar to Lexus car). In USA prices starts from $50,455 and you get $15,000 fuel credit, maximum range is up to 403 miles. Tesla model 3 which is the cheapest model cost $35,000 but have only 263 miles of range, 353 miles in Long Range version. In this case scenario with Mirai, you can drive across city with zero emission car or go for a weekend trip and don’t afraid about stops for long charging. But at this moment hydrogen fuel station is not popular as electric charger around the world, so if you want bu

Week 12 [25.01.21-31.01.21] The dangers of surveilance technology

 The world we live in has been tightly and inextricably integrated with information technologies. The Internet has become a part of our daily lives, spanning the world with a huge net which can track our every move by monitoring which wireless network our phones exchange handshakes with, track us using facial recognition technology and omnipresent CCTV cameras, and soon using our DNA. These technologies are developed by private companies, owing no loyalty to a country or a cause, sold to the highest bidder regardless of who they are and what they use it for. How big of a threat to our privacy and safety does this constitute?     Questions: 1. Do you think that surveilance technology is a type of weapon? 2. Should the export of surveilance technology be regulated by countries like the US? 3. Do you think it's dangerous that this kind of technology is currently owned and developed mainly by private corporations? 4. Do you think surveilance technologies have positive uses?