4. FINAL EXAM
Worth 30% of final grade
You MUST Pass the Final Exam
in order to pass the course.
5. FINAL EXAM
Worth 30% of final grade
You MUST Pass the Final Exam
in order to pass the course.
Part A Short Answers 40 marks
6. FINAL EXAM
Worth 30% of final grade
You MUST Pass the Final Exam
in order to pass the course.
Part A Short Answers 40 marks
Part B Essay Response 60 marks
7. you may bring:
Your textbooks:
•OBD, Little Brother, Frost/Nixon
•an English language dictionary
(paper version, no electronics)
8. format
Part A - Short Answers
Answer 4 of 10 questions.
Each question is worth 10 points.
9. sample questions
What is the Xnet? Describe in as much detail as
possible.
Why is television a poor medium for the news?
What is the significance of the shoes Frost gives
Nixon?
10. What is the Xnet? Describe in as much detail as possible.
11. What is the Xnet? Describe in as much detail as possible.
•Created by Cory Doctorow in his novel Little Brother
12. What is the Xnet? Describe in as much detail as possible.
•Created by Cory Doctorow in his novel Little Brother
•Based on DarkNet model of internet
13. What is the Xnet? Describe in as much detail as possible.
•Created by Cory Doctorow in his novel Little Brother
•Based on DarkNet model of internet
•Closed system of communication
14. What is the Xnet? Describe in as much detail as possible.
•Created by Cory Doctorow in his novel Little Brother
•Based on DarkNet model of internet
•Closed system of communication
•Uses modified X-boxes to communicate
15. What is the Xnet? Describe in as much detail as possible.
•Created by Cory Doctorow in his novel Little Brother
•Based on DarkNet model of internet
•Closed system of communication
•Uses modified X-boxes to communicate
•Messages sent travel through several X-boxes using to
confuse trail so that sender is hidden
16. What is the Xnet? Describe in as much detail as possible.
•Created by Cory Doctorow in his novel Little Brother
•Based on DarkNet model of internet
•Closed system of communication
•Uses modified X-boxes to communicate
•Messages sent travel through several X-boxes using to
confuse trail so that sender is hidden
•Uses encryption
17. What is the Xnet? Describe in as much detail as possible.
•Created by Cory Doctorow in his novel Little Brother
•Based on DarkNet model of internet
•Closed system of communication
•Uses modified X-boxes to communicate
•Messages sent travel through several X-boxes using to
confuse trail so that sender is hidden
•Uses encryption
•Marcus, Doctorow’s main character, uses the Xnet to
launch a movement that is in opposition to the DHS and
the surveillance society
18. Why is television a poor medium for the news?
•visual medium captures action but not good
for political analysis
•sound bites tend to focus on sensational
•emotional response rather than logical
•focus shifted to personality of interviewee,
rather than his argument
•simplifies issues
•news is branded to a particular market
19. Part B - Essay Questions
Answer one of five questions.
Response is worth 60 marks.
20. sample questions
In Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, the X-net is the medium Marcus uses to evade and protest
government surveillance. How does the X-net (the medium) function as the metaphor for the
political movement it supports?
“The finest form of tragedy...has a complex plot in which the protagonist... passes from
happiness into misery. The spectacle of the fall must evoke...both fear and pity and provide a
catharsis or purgation that is pleasurable and illuminating about the power of man.” (Reston
175) How does this statement relate to Morgan’s Frost/Nixon?
“One reason for the drop in the number of close friends Americans count within their inner
circle is that, rather than bringing us closer together, globalization and technology are
undermining traditional forms of community.” Do you agree with this statement? Use
examples from the text in your answer.
“Privacy almost always includes an element of personal/political power.” What does Doctorow
mean by this statement? Use examples from Little Brother in your answer.
21. In Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, the X-net is the medium
Marcus uses to evade and protest government surveillance.
How does the X-net (the medium) function as the metaphor for
the political movement it supports?
Thesis Statement:
The Xnet is both Marcus’s method of revolt and the name
of his revolution: using the Xnet, Marcus creates an
underground resistance that challenges the totalitarian,
invasive, and patriarchal Department of Homeland
Society.
25. What is the
Xnet?
•free speech
•untrackable
•closed network
26. What is the
Xnet?
•free speech
•untrackable
•closed network
•needs key to access
27. What is the
Xnet?
•free speech
•untrackable
•closed network
•needs key to access
•peer controlled
28. What is the
Xnet?
•free speech
•untrackable
•closed network
•needs key to access
•peer controlled
•group effort
29. What is the
Xnet?
•free speech
•untrackable
•closed network
•needs key to access
•peer controlled
•group effort
•decentralized
30. What is the
Xnet?
•free speech
•untrackable
•closed network
•needs key to access
•peer controlled
•group effort
•decentralized
•impossible to control
31. What is the
Xnet?
•free speech
•untrackable
•closed network
•needs key to access
•peer controlled
•group effort
•decentralized
•impossible to control
•leads by appeal to morality
32. What is the
Xnet?
•free speech
•untrackable
•closed network
•needs key to access
•peer controlled
•group effort
•decentralized
•impossible to control
•leads by appeal to morality
•youth culture
33. Next step, pick three or
four points, and use
each point to create a
topic sentence for each
paragraph
E.g. While DHS is controlled by a select group of
top-tier politicians and military officials, the Xnet is
uncontrolled and uncontrollable, with no stable
command centre, a collective of individuals.
34. Than, fill in the rest of
the paragraph with
examples and quotes.
Examples?
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