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For my political science class I have to make a presentation analyzing an article. She gave us a set amount to present on, all related to university, but because of my issues she’s allowing me to present by myself and on a topic I am passionate about as long as it is related to the university. I chose imperialism and how universities can be a weapon for it.

The article I am analyzing is called “Militarizing Education: the Intelligence Community’s Spy Camps,” it’s a chapter from the book the Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent. one of the chapters is actually written by Vijay Prashad but his felt a little less relevant to my project.

For the analysis part I had to find 5 scholarly sources, which you don’t have to worry about as I already found them. One of my sources is literally Lenin’s Imperialism the highest stage of capitalism. During my presentation I am going to talk about the School of Americas and I have some ideas on how to engage the class when that part comes, but at the end I have to do an “activity” with the class.

Previous presentations saw the class answer a series of questions, do group analysis on a few questions, and play a kahoot game. If it were up to me I’d just do my presentation and then sit my ass down. But I can’t do that so I’m asking for help from you.

Do you have any ideas on what I can do at the end of my presentation to fill out the “engagement” part of the grading rubric? I want to do well because I’ve been dying this semester.

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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Maybe you could do a game where you list off a set of events and then the audience has to pick which one they think is real.

[–] bettyschwing@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Good idea, two truths one lie, imperialism style

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

This comment actually helped because I completely forgot about that game lol

[–] SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that could be a possibility, I would have to come up with questions that are relevant to imperialism. I do not know why this is so hard lol

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

deepseek can save some time here :)