II Year Lettorato Inglese -- Group 2E (Peterson-More) -- HOMEWORK -- Reading articles

Dear students,

As mentioned in class during our last lesson, I am posting links to several online newspaper and magazine articles. Read at least one of these articles before our next lesson, on Monday, April 8, and write a brief summary - approximately 150-200 words.

The Washington Post: The first national monument created at the request of Native Americans was downsized by 85%. Here’s why.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/bears-ears/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0549871bae51

How confusing labels contribute to our food waste problem

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-confusing-labels-contribute-to-our-food-waste-problem

5 ways social entrepreneurs are promoting sustainability around the world

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/agents-for-change/5-ways-social-entrepreneurs-are-promoting-sustainability-around-the-world

WIRED UK: How climate change activists upstaged Brexit with buttocks

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/house-of-commons-climate-change-buttocks-protest?utm_medium=applenews&utm_source=applenews

The New York Times: Opinion | The United Kingdom Has Gone Mad

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/opinion/brexit-news.html

 

Brit + Co: Why We Can't Talk About Women's Rights Without Discussing Climate Change

https://www.brit.co/climate-change-womens-rights/

Bustle: 7 Fascinating Things Nobody Ever Taught You About Your Immune System

https://www.bustle.com/p/7-fascinating-things-nobody-ever-taught-you-about-your-immune-system-16998861

The Atlantic: Oil Was Supposed to Rebuild Iraq – Conflict and politics got in the way.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/iraq-oil/555827/

The Atlantic: Why France’s Former Prime Minister Wants to Be a Mayor in Spain

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/04/manuel-valls-europe-barcelona-france-spain/586486/

Curiosity: A Quirk of Quantum Physics Might Mean You Can Change the Past

https://apple.news/A0fOnRgnlQtWdULhpXqMi9Q

New York Times Magazine: How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/magazine/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-trump.html

The Daily Beast: What Rupert Wrought: The 10 Scariest Bits From the NYT’s Murdoch Opus [summary of important points in the article above]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rupert-murdoch-from-fucking-idiot-trump-to-deathbed-scare-the-man-behind-the-fox-news-propaganda-machine-is-coming-undone

Vox: HR experts: We’d nip Biden’s behavior in the bud

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/2/18292732/joe-biden-amy-lappos-lucy-flores-touching

Vanity Fair: Report: Trump’s Weekend Clubhouse Is a “Gold Mine” for Spies

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/mar-a-lago-yujing-zhang

CNN: This Supreme Court ruling is exceptionally cruel

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/02/opinions/supreme-court-cruel-death-row-ruling-filipovic/index.html

Mother Jones: Russiagate Is Ending Like Any White-Collar Crime

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/russiagate-glenn-greenwald-matt-taibbi-denial/

Mother Jones: Nixon Closed the Border to Sow Chaos. Trump's Shutdown Could Be Even Worse.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/04/nixon-closed-the-border-to-sow-chaos-trumps-shutdown-could-be-even-worse/

 

Bustle: These States Are Sick of The Electoral College & They're Doing Something about It

https://www.bustle.com/p/states-against-the-electoral-college-could-have-a-big-say-in-2020-17014217

The Telegraph: Kurt Cobain was not a 'tortured genius', he had an illness

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11515605/Kurt-Cobain-was-not-a-tortured-genius-he-had-an-illness.html

Health Day: Even in His Youth –

When rock star Kurt Cobain took his own life, many fans blamed the death on fame itself. His cousin, a registered nurse devoted to youth suicide prevention, believes it had more to do with his history of depression, and offers advice for helping other troubled young people.

https://consumer.healthday.com/encyclopedia/depression-12/depression-news-176/even-in-his-youth-644949.html