Debates About Countries In Auditorium

On November 29th, the World History and World Geography’s classes at Lake Hamilton High School got together in the auditorium to debate the situations of countries all over the world. Starting with countries most involved in the world situation actually: United States and North Korea. The debate was conducted by Mr. Webb, who exposed the topics to students who defended their countries and showed to all group their countries’ version of the subject discussed. Mr. Shane Aitken’s students and Mr. Bernard Rusert’s students were responsible to expose between them many aspects of theirs countries’ situation as economic, political, religious, pirates, AIDS, drugs, immigration and nuclear weapons. The purpose was that each student represented a country, trying to defended it and expose this countries’ point of view about actual problems in all over the world.

The first debates’ discussions started with what happened between the North and South Koreas and the possible involvement of the United States. Subjects like the economical crises in Europe, drugs in Mexico, the emergent countries’ possible economical position in the future was also discussed.

Of the issues placed on the table, the one which took more than 70% of time and involved all present countries was the topic of nuclear weapons and the countries’ right to keep them or not. The class determined one more action of U.S. imperialism. They concluded that America tries to impose power over other countries’ right of having nuclear weapons. And actually U.S. own government and army would never give up on having nuclear weapons.

The debates had three days, starting on November 29th, and ending December 1st.  Through debating, it was possible for students and teachers to interact with each other about world problems, informing all people involved and enabling them to be informed and make their own opinions about all things discussed.

Paulina Valamiel Lopes