Debate & Diplomacy in History

Debate & Diplomacy in History Successes, Failures, Consequences

Debate
Disagreement
Two or more sides
Problem or issue
Need for deliberation
Informal kitchen debates: “We deliberated for weeks before deciding to move.”
Formal Court Hearings: “The jury deliberated for three hours before the final vote.”

The Great Commoner

The Evolution Debate

Debate with 60 Million Judges

Women Debate Their Need for Equality Men $ 1.00 Women $ .77 African Am $ .68 Latina $ .58 Today 2010

Demonstration as Debate Anti-Vietnam protest at the Pentagon. Photo by Bernie Boston

Diplomacy
Skill, tact or cunning in dealing with people
Negotiating between nations
Good sportsmanship win/win
Positive or negative outcomes
Manipulated win/lose
http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/hopeforamerica/blurringlines/culturaldiplomacy/Pages/objectlist.aspx

People Meet

What is ping-pong diplomacy?

Success
Favorable outcome… wealth, position, honor
Achievement of someone or something

Civil Rights Act

Failure
Negative outcome
Banks fail, students fail, campaigns fail, athletes fail
May not always be an end but the beginning of something else.
Retreat

Banks Fail

Consequence
Result
Outcome
Caused by a previous event
Sequence of events

No jobs, no food.

Art Sparks Debate

Art and Diplomacy

Music with a Message
Songs are the statement of a people. You can learn more about people by listening to their songs than any other way, for into the songs go all the hopes and hurts, the angers, fears, the wants and aspirations.
John Steinbeck, 194

Singers were asking…
How many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?
http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/hopeforamerica/Pages/default.aspx

The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind

Protest Music
Associated with a movement for social change
American folk music tradition
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/protest.html

Anti- lynching song

John Lennon speaks
The Beatles are more important than Jesus?

Veterans debate memorial

Difficult Diplomacy

You Choose
What interests you?
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Find a success, failure, issue/debate, event, person.

Debate & Diplomacy in History

by Jennifer Hunt on Oct 17, 2010

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