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

I actually can talk about my university and local ones as well. As far as I know my university specifically does not invest in anything except an Israeli library program. Other universities do invest more heavily, but mine is very secretive and has refused to divulge any information at all. It is very frustrating.

Thank you for listing ideas on questions, this i quite helpful. I know during my presentation I am going to define imperialism Lenin’s way so maybe that’ll help get them to answer y questions based on that. Maybe I will add some true and false questions there too.