Mr. Thomas Worthington-----Social Studies Department-----Cold War Debate

Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev and
U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon
The Kitchen Debate, Moscow, July 24, 1959


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                     USSR or USA?

     In the upcoming debate, you will be expected to defend one
of the above positions in regard to the role the
country played in creating the Cold War.

Question:  Who was more responsible for the Cold War?

Historical Background:

Opening Statement:

Position #1:

Position #2:

Position #3:

Position #4:

Position #5:

Deference to the opposing side:

Closing Statement:       

                                    

Google Drive on the Cloud

 

The Google Drive logo

Google Drive

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By QUENTIN HARDY

The New york Times

April 24, 2012, 12:30 pm

"Google’s online storage service, Google Drive, is finally out with the expected 5 gigabytes of free storage. While the service has been discussed for months, few people had anticipated all that Google included in the service.
Potentially this is a way for people to easily load and share (and eventually, upload to YouTube) lots of video. It can also be used to scan and store documents that can then be edited through online optical character recognition. It can search personal and corporate text and image files using keywords, drawing off of Google’s talents in online image search.
The company hopes its customers will be able to search and use hundreds of affiliated software packages designed to make life more fun and productive. It is starting out with 18 different third-party packages, including design software from Autodesk, faxing and slideshow software, and video editing tools.
“It’s less about you storing data, than about creating and collaborating,” said Sundar Pichai, senior vice president for Chrome and Apps at Google, who headed up the release of Drive. “Data storage happens on the way.”
That is, it happens if people show up. Google is making pains to get that started, and is thinking of this both as a consumer and a business service. Google will have its competitors and challenges — such as, how well it can explain the offering, and what kind of software applications are written by third-party developers.
First, the basics: Google Drive is a free service for the first 5 gigabytes of storage, and $2.49 a month for 25 gigabytes. There are additional charges for more storage, up to 16 terabytes. Corporate storage also maxes out at 16 terabytes per employee, but carries a surcharge for things like administrative controls as part of the Google Apps for Business program. There is no advertising; this is strictly a subscription business.
It works on the Windows, Mac, and Android operating systems, as well as with Google Chromebooks, the lightweight laptops built to use online services. Google had hoped to have it available for iPhones and iPads as well, but that is probably a couple of weeks away (the demonstration I attended was set up to work in the Apple products, so Google is probably not far off).
You can load documents, pictures and video files into Google Drive, and share that material via e-mail or by allowing others in Drive permission to collaborate. Videos are loaded in the YouTube format; these videos can’t be loaded straight to YouTube just yet, but that will probably happen in time. A consumer can post material from Drive to the Google Plus social network. Google is offering other social networks, like Facebook, the ability to load information from Drive. So far they do not seem to have takers on that front.
The search capabilities, not surprisingly, are impressive. In one demo, a typewritten letter was photographed with a mobile phone, and posted to Drive. From there, I could search for keywords in the letter. I could also port the letter over to a Google Docs format, and have it appear, imperfectly, as text.
As Google gets better at this kind of thing, perhaps even handwriting recognition for search and setting into text will become a feature.
Google may soon be forced to move beyond the 5 gigabyte limit. Five gigs is already the standard at services like Box. Microsoft’s SkyDrive, which has not been able to attract that many users, used to offer 25 gigabytes for free; on Monday, in anticipation of Google Drive, it raised that to 100.
Other Google competitors in online storage were circumspect. “It makes sense for Google to get into this,” said Aaron Levie, chief executive of Box. “I think they are playing ‘me too,’ but Google is at a scale where ‘me too’ can work.” His company will soon announce 50 work-related applications that will be released for Box, and said that “on a continuum from consumer to enterprise, Google is about one-third of the way to an enterprise product.”
“Dropbox does one thing and we do it better than anyone else,” a Dropbox spokesman wrote in an e-mail. “Companies of all shapes and sizes have tossed in their hats over the years.”
Google will be able to get a lot of people on the service immediately, by porting over Google Docs accounts. Google Docs has several million users, and the relatively few number of people on Google’s Chromebooks will automatically move to Google Drive as well. If you are on Google Docs now, you can keep using that service, though over time it will wane. Google plans to offer an “opt in” service for now, and will eventually move people over to Drive on an automatic “opt out” basis.
As with many Google products, from maps to Android applications, the great value of the product will come from third-party developers writing new software to work with all data that people save. Google will be evangelizing heavily, including at its annual I/O developer event this June. Several thousand developers currently working in Google Docs will be encouraged to move over to Drive.
There is also a hazard here that much bad or virus-ridden software will show up on Google’s Chrome Web Store for Drive. It is already a serious problem with Android software.
Mr. Pichai said that Google would exercise more control than it can with Android, which appears around the world on devices from many manufacturers. “Android is more differentiated,” he said. “This is centralized, we can remove bad actors quickly.”"

Mr. Andrew Pelosi-----Social Studies Department-----Use of the Atomic Bomb During World War II

Formal Surrender of Japan, World War II,
September 2, 1945 aboard the USS Missouri

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Use of the Atomic Bomb During WWII  

In the upcoming debate, you will be expected to defend whether

or not the United States shouldhave used atomic weapons against

Japan at the end of WWII.  You may also want to take into account

the role of nuclear weapons and nuclear power in the world post
WWII.

Question:  Should the United States have dropped atomic bombs

on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?  

Historical Background:

Opening Statement:

Position #1:

Position #2:

Position #3:

Position #4:

Position #5:

Deference to the opposing side:

Closing Statement:                                         

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