TOK Presentation - Initial Thoughts

AS my class and teacher will know, I am doing my TOK presentation with Brad. We had a meeting on Friday, went over the criteria for the presentation and brainstormed some topics. Because we got sidetracked into a 2 hour discussion about religion, we decided to think about the topic over the weekend.

I went to see Brad on Monday night to further discuss our topic, and after some discussion we decided that we wanted to focus on World Poverty.

Resource shortages and starvation we feel is a global issue that we can apply a great many different TOK perspectives on. We could look at the morals and ethics that people use in developed countries to deal with the situation - do we, as humans, have a moral and ethical obligation to help other humans?

Or, we could look at the ways of knowing - logic, sense perception, emotion and language. What do we see and hear about poverty? How does the media address it, if at all, and how does this affect the way we view it? What language is used to describe poverty and how does this affect the way we percieve poverty? What logic or reason do we apply to the world poverty situation?

There are many TOK-related things we could explore, countless possibilities. Brad and I will be meeting before Friday to at least narrow down our area of focus, if not fully decide on a topic.