*PLEASE HELP* Peer Discussion and Summary

Before beginning your discussion, you will need to propose a thesis.

During the process of proposing a thesis, you will form a thesis about how literary or other artistic creations and governmental or other social bodies affect one another. You will bring your thesis, along with support, to your peer discussion. You might present a thesis about good or bad ways in which these two entities interact or about how you think they should interact.

Use these ideas to help you formulate your thesis.

Your thesis can focus on one or several genres. (Note, for example, that drama is much more public than other forms of literature, so you might want to handle it differently.)
You can draw from the literary historical examples you've encountered in this course or elsewhere, as well as from any personal experience in which you have seen laws or market forces limit the publication of texts or the presentation of live performances.
You might also incorporate current issues around public displays of visual art or the advantages and disadvantages of government-supported art.
You could choose to explore to what extent, if any, cultural history changes the shape of literature or other forms of artistic expression, or discuss the role that literature and art in general play in people's lives.
For the discussion process, you’ll need to work as part of a pair who can meet for a face-to-face discussion. Your teacher will identify a process for this task that fits your learning situation. For instance, if you’re working primarily on your own in this course with no on-site classmates (self-paced course), the process will be a little different than if you are learning with one or more other students in the same building and on the same schedule (group-paced course). Discussions in those two cases are outlined here.

Part A
Record the names of the discussion participants. If you organized the discussion, record how you know the other person and summarize how you chose and invited him or her and how you organized the time and place for the discussion.

Part B
Record the thesis and supporting statements that you shared with your peer.

Part C
During the discussion, what main points did your peer make supporting your thesis, opposing your thesis, or raising new questions or related observations and thoughts?

Part D
Describe the discussion of the theses. How balanced was the participation? What would you change if you could do it again? What insights did you gain about your thesis from discussing it with others? What did you learn from discussing your peer’s thesis?

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administration noun

the government of a country

affairs

events and activities relating to the government, politics, economy, etc. of a country, region, or the world

the corridors (of power)

the places where people use their political influence and major political decisions are made

government

the process, method, or effects of governing

play politics

to use politics for your own reasons, without caring about the effects on other people

political

relating to politics

political

interested or involved in politics

politically

in a political way

politicize

to bring an issue, organization, way of doing something, etc. to the attention of the public so that it can be discussed

politicize

to make someone more interested and involved in politics

politicking

political activity by someone who is only interested in doing things for their own advantage, not in other people

politics

the ideas and activities involved in getting power in a country or over a particular area of the world

politics

the profession of being a politician

politics

the ideas and activities used by people within a particular group to try to get power

public affairs

political issues that affect most people

public life

work that involves being known to a lot of people, especially in politics, but also in religion and education

public office

a job in the government that you have because you were chosen or elected

public service

work or important positions in the government, or in organizations controlled by the government

representation

in politics, the job of officially people and making decisions for them

sociopolitical

involving a combination of social and political matters

state

the government of a country

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i'm unsure whether this sentence is active or passive voice.

    i want to be there when the final match is played at wimbledon.

when we marked it, the teacher said that it was passive voice, but isn't the subject ("i") doing the action, which makes it active? can someone explain?

passive-voice

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    it's not the matrix clause that is passive, but just the subordinate clause functioning as complement of "when", i.e. the final match is played at wimbledon. it's a 'short passive' in that there is no internalised complement (by phrase). the subject of the subordinate passive clause is "the final match". "i" is subject of the matrix clause. – billj jun 13 '17 at 15: 29

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