Composition

Today we looked at the title of our first essay question:

TITLE:

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." (Einstein)

Research current world events and describe in detail the possible causes of the next global conflict. Concentrate on a current situation of tension or conflict, describe the main arguments or events that create a problem, and explain why these arguments or events could cause a world war.

We discussed what we will have to do for this essay: research, describe and explain on an issue that is in the news at the moment.

In different groups, we researched an example (North Korea's problems with the United States) and tried to find out who is involved, what has happened and why the problem started.

Group A are reading, "U.S. officials warn N. Korea after it scraps armistice" by Anne Gearan and Chico Harlan, March 11, 2013
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-11/world/37606561_1_kim-jong-eun-armistice-pyongyang

Group B are reading, "US to reinforce missile defences to counter North Korea 'provocations'"  by Chris McGreal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/15/us-strengthen-missile-defence-north-korea 

Group C are reading, "Learn to live with a nuclear North Korea" by Ted Galen Carpenter.
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/learn-live-nuclear-north-korea

In our own time we will think of a current issue that we are interested in and do our own research. We will start to work on the essay on Wednesday 3rd April.