Mentor Series Review
This department works to make sure police are held responsible for their actions
What is the Department of Police Accountability?
This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
How fast you speak
What is rate?
The length of one construction speech
What is five minutes?
Who is Karl Marx?
The speaker for the Department of Human Resources was also this type of attorney
What is an immigration attorney?
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
The method by which people adjust how they present themselves is driven by societal expectations and norms
What is code-switching?
This speech is given to respond to the other side's points
What is a rebuttal?
'Cogito, ergo sum', a phrase Rene Descartes wrote to justify his belief in his own existence, translates to this in English
What is 'I think, therefore I am'?
We did the island activity with representatives from this department
What is the Department on the Status of Women?
This international organization, a precursor to the United Nations, was established at the end of World War 1
What is the League of Nations?
The study of the ways "character and community...are defined and made real in performances of language"
What is rhetoric?
The days we will be debating
What are next Monday and Tuesday? or What are July 20 and 21?
This allegory by Plato describes prisoners who mistake shadows on a wall for reality
What is the Allegory of the Cave?
What is 49 Van Ness?
The phrase 'jus ad bellum' refers to the conditions under which a state may legitimately do this
What is go to war/use armed force?
The reading of this book, aired on October 30, 1938, on the radio, made people think an alien invasion was happening in real time
What is The War of the Worlds?
The amount of time you get to prepare before the second half of the debate
What is three minutes?
This philosophical principle suggests that when multiple explanations for something are available, the simplest one is often the most accurate
What is Occam's Razor?
This effect demonstrates how accommodating a small population can lead to widespread benefits for a society
What is the curb-cut effect?
This book on political and social theory, written by Thomas Hobbes in the 1600s, shares its name with a biblical sea monster
What is 'Leviathan'?
A mode of communication criticism that focuses on understanding the system of beliefs and assumptions that guide a rhetorical discourse in its interpretation of reality
What is ideological criticism?
The amount of time you get for each cross-examination
What is two minutes?
This Greek philosopher, who taught Plato and appears frequently in Plato's works, did not leave behind any records of his own work
Who is Socrates?