Australia and McCarthyismCabinet records released in 2003 show the Menzies Government stood firm against the McCarthyist tide in 1952 Despite the war in Korea, anti-communist witch-hunts in the United States, and sensational claims by a senior minister of "a nest of traitors" in the public service, Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies blocked proposals to strengthen Commonwealth powers and overturn civil liberties in the hunt for communists.
‘Encountering Conflict’
Context Study Year 12 2011 ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller
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Curriculum and Assessment
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Area of Study 2 – Creating and Presenting
The focus in this area of study is on reading and writing and their interconnection. Students will read these texts in order to identify, discuss and analyse ideas and/or arguments associated with the selected Context. Students will then draw on the ideas and/or arguments they have gained from the texts studied to construct their own texts.
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Outcome 2
On completion of this unit student should be able to draw on ideas and/or arguments suggested by a chosen Context to create written texts for a specified audience and purpose; and to discuss and analyse in writing their decisions about form, purpose, language, audience and context.
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Task
Section B requires students to complete an extended written response. In your writing, you must draw on ideas suggested by the Context Encountering Conflict. Your writing must draw directly from at least one selected text that you have studied for this Context ( The Crucible or Paradise Road for the exam) and be based on the ideas in the prompt. Your response may be an expository, persuasive or imaginative piece of writing.
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Expository Writing
This style of writing is designed to explain, explore, analyse or to give information. Typical forms include an essay, feature article, non-fiction prose, lecture transcript and report.
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Persuasive Writing
This style of writing is designed to persuade, argue, rebut, encourage action or inspire. Typical forms include an argumentative essay, letter to the editor/ opinion article or persuasive speech.
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Imaginative Writing
This style of writing is designed to entertain, divert, describe, reflect, encourage reflection and explore. Typical forms include a narrative, poem, descriptive writing or journal entry.
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WARNING!!!
This task requires a sophisticated response in language, form and purpose. Examples of ‘unsophisticated responses’ include: Love letters Simplistic diary entries Tales of fractured schoolyard friendships Anything more suited to ‘Dr Phil’ or ‘Bold and the Beautiful’.
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Assessment
Produce one piece of writing in response to one of two prompts. Your writing must have implicit or explicit reference to ‘The Crucible’. You may also draw on other material. Your response may be expository, persuasive or imaginative. You must complete a written explanation which identifies your choices in regards to form, audience, purpose, context and language.
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Your written explanation is only a requirement of the SAC. You are asked to explain your choices in regards to form, audience, purpose, context and language. In order to do this, you need to have thought of reasons for your choices.
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Your work is assessed on the extent to which it blends together the ideas of the text, the prompt of the context and a sophistication in writing/ expression. Writing Prompt Ideas
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This means that a response that focuses on one area at the cost of the other two will not score highly. Writing Prompt Ideas
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Conflict
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What is ‘Conflict’?
noun /ˈkänˌflikt/ conflicts, plural A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one; A prolonged armed struggle; An incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests; A condition in which a person experiences a clash of opposing wishes or needs.
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What do you understand conflict to mean? What might it mean to ‘encounter’ conflict? How might one ‘encounter’ conflict?
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Theories of Conflict
The philosophy of the 17th century moved away from the recognition of a divine authority to an exclusively naturalistic account of man. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), recognised as a leading western philosopher, in his work ‘Leviathan’ depicted men as egoistic calculators whose overriding concern was the pursuit of private advantage.
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Hobbes depicted men as being motivated by “a perpetual and restless desire of power after power”. Hobbes goes on to identify another disposition of human nature which, along with the desire for gain, is the most important source of conflict: pride. Pride is makes men ambitious and perpetually inclined to compete with each other.
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Hobbes’ explanation of conflict is simply put: human beings are social but conflict-prone. Given that the desire for power is inherent in human beings, naturalists (like Hobbes) would argue that conflict is inevitable.
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A Christian View of Conflict
Christians believe that according to the Bible, human beings were created “in the image and likeness” of God (Genesis). However, every person carries within himself or herself an inherited weakness - an inner-division, the effects of original sin. We are imperfect, with a tendency to do what is wrong.
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