Conscription

Please read the following article “Plans to reduce military service in South”.

Use the following writing prompts to “generate” ideas to best express your viewpoints and reactions to the issues at hand.

- Other countries that also have conscription are Lebanon, Israel, China, Germany, and Finland. How do you see these countries need for obligatory military service compared with Cyprus? What historical elements warrant certain countries an obvious need for increased military numbers?

- What sort of alternative service option might be equally beneficial to traditional military service?

- What sort of advantages does one have to gain through military service and what does a young person stand to lose?

- What is a conscientious objector and under what sort of conscription circumstance could you see yourself as being a conscientious objector. Perhaps in a hypothetoical scenario, what historical example of conscription could you impathize with conscientious objectors?

- Is the current time requirement for military service adequate? Do you find it excessive, or perhaps not long enough?

Also, have a look at the following interactive map denoting countries with conscription.
- as well as this wikipedia entry detailing terms of conscription.

This American Life

A bit about the show from the producers.

"Each episode has a theme. That's mostly because a theme makes it seem like there's a reason to sit and listen to a story about a contest where everyone stands around a truck for days until only one person is left on their feet...or a grown man trying to convince a skeptical friend that not only has he heard the world's greatest phone message, but that it's about the Little Mermaid...or a man who's obsessed with Niagara Falls, lives minutes from the Falls, writes and thinks about the Falls all the time, but can't bring himself to actually visit the Falls because, as he says, "they've ruined the Falls." If you're not doing stories about the news, or celebrities, or things people have ever heard of elsewhere, you have to give people a reason to keep listening. The themes make it seem like you should."

To read more...

You need to go to the archive section of the radio programme and choose one that strikes your interest. Listen to the programme, write a summary and a subsequent critique.

All this will go on your blog.

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