Topic recap sheet n°4 : Solidarity or charity ? Content / Documents
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Topic recap sheet n°4 : Solidarity or charity ? Content / Documents
Topic recap sheet n°4 : Solidarity or charity ? Content / Documents : Pictures : cartoon (survival of the richest) / Zell Kravinsky Videos : the Zuckerberg “donation” + the first black and minority orchestra Texts : The trader who donates half his pay / translation : how much should one give ? + Banksy moves Dismaland to Calais Graph : charitable causes / charitable nations Civilisation / Culture : affirmative action Picture(s) (description & meaning) Description: Zell Kravinsky donated all his fortune to charities and a kidney to a young woman. He had also decided to donate more: a part of his liver, a lung and bone narrow but his wife stopped him. He thinks his life is worth the same as other people’s one and explains we all have a moral duty to do as much good as possible, to help as many people as possible. Meaning: Everybody can give a little part of their property even if he isn’t rich. We have to donate to charities that we think will make the world better. But a donation isn’t only money: it can be time, objects or even parts of our body. Graph (description & meaning) Description: There are different ways to help others. A large part of the population of Myanmar and Sri Lanka declared they helped strangers more than developed countries like the United Kingdom and Australia. Nevertheless, more people donated money to charities. Meaning: Even people who don’t have a lot of money and live in poor countries are willing to help others even if it’s not with money. Those people have values of solidarity. Vocabulary : English Effective altruism French Look up to Look down on Admirer Mépriser Let down Abandonner Do away Give a hand Se débarrasser Aider L’altruisme efficace English To be below the poverty line A discrepancy Distribution of wealth To commit oneself to doing sthg Tuition fees Skeptical French Etre en dessous du seuil de pauvreté Un écart Répartition des richesses Promettre de faire quelque chose Les droits d’inscription Sceptique Make up for=Make things right Be up to Be responsible for Affirmative action Réparer The underclass Le quart-monde Etre à la hauteur Etre responsable de Discrimination positive A recipient A volunteer Selfishness Selflessness Un bénéficiaire Un bénévole Egoisme altruisme Recent events, historical & cultural references mentioned in the documents: - Charity is a form of support that implies that a weak person receives help from a powerful one. It is top down. Solidarity is also a form of help, but it takes place between equals. - Chineke is the first black and minority orchestra. They use classical music to make minorities go to concert halls. Music is a universal language for everybody; - Zuckerberg announced that he will give 99% of his FB shares over his lifetime (to his own foundation). He wants to improve the world his daughter will live in. He wants to be a model for others to follow, to set a standard. - A young trader who had studied philosophy with Peter Singer chose his job because it allows him to earn a lot of money that he can give to humanitarian NGOs. But there are other charities and everyone can choose which one they want to give to: there should be no guilt about what causes people donate to. - Banksy decided to dismantle Dismaland, his gloomy “bemusement” park and to send the materials to the jungle of Calais to provide shelter to refugees. - Everybody thinks Darwin’s theory consists in the survival of the strongest and the death of the weakest, but it’s not. The theory of evolution describes the modifications that a species undergoes in order to adapt to its (changing) environment and thus survive, and explains the diversity of animal and vegetal species on earth. Key expressions (grammar, syntax, translation...) - 4000 times as worthy as: 4000 fois plus important que - a 100% chance: 100% de chances - The person whom I have met. La personne que j’ai rencontré. The person whose kidney was not functional. - During+ événement / For+ durée / Since+date (during the concert/ for a long time/ since 2002) - Over the course of ... = not all at once : au cours de leur vie - Set a standard: montrer l’exemple - it has been there for fifteen years: cela fait 15 ans qu’il existe - They have given 21 billion so far: jusqu’à maintenant - To give a hint: donner un apercu - To catch attention: attirer l’attention Document prepared with great care by : Juliette, Charlotte, Anne- Sophie, Justine M., Juliette M.