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I chose the Group 1 article on explanation, justification and perspective. Explanation is seen this this article as the CEO explains the decision to return to a five-day office per week by pointing to the decrease in productivity and engagement seen.

Justification is seen in the article as he justifies the policy change by emphasizing how it’s easier for their teammates to learn, model, practice, and strengthen their culture; collaborating, brainstorming, and inventing are simpler and more effective; teaching and learning from one another are more seamless; and, teams tend to be better connected to one another.

Perspective is seen in this article as the CEO presents a perspective that aligns with the company's long-term interests, suggesting that being physically present in the office is essential for innovation and employee development.

The knowledge producers are the CEO of Amazon and the Cooperate Leadership.

The author of the article is Sanya Jain. The perspective of the content is shaped by the journalistic standards of the publication, focusing on reporting corporate news and trending topics.

Amazon's CEO and corporate leadership hold the most power. They dictate company policies, such as the return to a five-day week. This power influences how knowledge is shared or withheld because employees receive carefully curated justifications for the policy through official communication, such as the CEO's email. The leadership emphasizes the benefits of in-person work, thus controlling the narrative to align with company goals.

I think the information in this article is extremely reliable as it is a newspaper that is the source and newspapers aim at providing factual and to the point information.

-Kimaya Agrawal

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i chose the group 2 article

1) Evidence is manisfested in the article as it is the discovery of the new evidence which is the cause for the entire article.

Objectivity surfaces since the article sparks heated debates of about early social organization, sustainability, and what a city even is.

Interpretation is needed to correctly interpret the newfound evidence to answer the debates mentioned above.

2) The knowledge producers are the archaeologists who discovered and interpreted the evidence

3) The Media holds the power of dissemination of knowledge as they can interpret and spread the knowledge in any way they want

4) Maria Mocerino is the author of the article. Originally from LA, Maria Mocerino has been published in Business Insider, The Irish Examiner, The Rogue Mag, Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, and now Interesting Engineering. Due to her great experience and authority her perspective can greatly influence the content of the article

6) The knowledge presented in the article is very reliable since maria mocerino has great experience and since the Euromaidan Press and Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung have also published about it.

7)There are both positive and negative consequences of spreading this knowledge. These findings challenge previous assumptions which placed urbanization later in human history. The Ukrainian settlements suggest that numerous dwellings—and by extension, cities—existed between the end of the Stone Age and the emergence of the Bronze Age. It changes everything archeologists thought they knew. Maybe humans built cities before we even thought it was possible. This can be good and bad as it can help us in finding the truth as well as cause arguments and debates since people dont always accept change.

Jeh Dinshaw

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I read the Group 4 article on cultural appropriation. In this day and age, cultural appropriation is something faced by almost every person of colour. For example, the blackface scandal of Justin Trudeau that came to light during the elections in 2019. In this article, we see that a black woman is portraying an Egyptian woman, misrepresenting history. Here, as the knowledge producers are part of a big company (Netflix) it is reaching a wide audience that could be misinterpreting and misunderstanding the actual role that Cleopatra played as the last pharaoh of Egypt. Mislabelling her as an 'African Queen' instead of an 'Egyptian Queen' has also sparked outrage in Egyptians. We also see that at the same time, Egypt produced a 90-minute documentary on Cleopatra that more accurately described her rule. However, due to the biases formed by mass media, watching Netflix due to easy accessibility, wrong information and knowledge are being spread. Therefore, this information might not be completely valid as factually it is incorrect. Through the spread of wrong information, people might become ill-informed and start believing things that are not true. The article also has some instances of bias as it is only portraying the negative reactions to the announcement of this series. Usually, there are always two sides to an argument, however, this is not portrayed in this article. Therefore, we can infer that there is some kind of bias that the author puts across through his opinions. In conclusion, there are instances of cultural appropriation that are justified by this article, however, there is no proof that this article is 100% factual because of certain biases that come across when writing such articles - Samaya

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Group 4 - Value, Culture, Responsibility

1. How does the assigned concepts manifest or surface in the article you just read? Support with textual evidence.

2. Who are the knowledge producers?

3. Who holds the power in the dissemination of knowledge?

4. Who is the author of the article, and what is their background? How might their perspective or authority influence the content of the article?

5. Who holds power in the situation described in the article? How does this affect the way knowledge is shared or withheld?

6. How reliable is the knowledge presented in the article? What evidence is provided to support the claims?

7. Are there any potential consequences of spreading this knowledge, either positive or negative?

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Is Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra cultural appreciation or cultural appropriation?

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The backlash against Netflix’s documentary asks the question of how brands should take more responsibility when representing other cultures.

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Group 3 - Certainty, Truth, Power

1. How does the assigned concepts manifest or surface in the article you just read? Support with textual evidence.

2. Who are the knowledge producers?

3. Who holds the power in the dissemination of knowledge?

4. Who is the author of the article, and what is their background? How might their perspective or authority influence the content of the article?

5. Who holds power in the situation described in the article? How does this affect the way knowledge is shared or withheld?

6. How reliable is the knowledge presented in the article? What evidence is provided to support the claims?

7. Are there any potential consequences of spreading this knowledge, either positive or negative?

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Fulfilling one of the five conditions that protesting doctors had laid before Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the West Bengal government transferred IPS officer Vineet Goyal as Kolkata Police Commissioner on Tuesday. While Manoj Verma has replaced him as Kolkata Police chief, Goyal has returned as the head of the West Bengal Police's Special Task Force (STF) as Additional Director General (ADG) and Inspector General.

This comes a week after Banerjee said Goyal had twice expressed his desire to resign following intense criticism of his handling of a doctor's rape and murder at Kolkata 's R G Kar Hospital on August 9. Five days after the incident, as people hit the streets across the city in protest against the incident and to "reclaim the night", the hospital was vandalised by a mob. Afterwards, Goyal admitted to a "failure of assessment" and clarified that initially registering a case of unnatural death did not imply a predetermined conclusion of suicide. This brought him into the crosshairs of the protesters.

"The Police Commissioner came to me to tender his resignation... How can I accept that before Durga Puja? He knows all the roads of Kolkata and how to control the situation. After the festive season, we can think about it," the CM said at an administrative review meeting at the state secretariat last week.

Twice awarded the police medal for gallantry and a recipient of the Chief Minister's Medal for Outstanding Service, Goyal is a 1994-batch IPS officer. An alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kanpur, Goyal has served in various roles in Kolkata and the state police since joining the police service in August 1995. He was leading the STF when, in June 2021, it gunned down gangster Jaipal Singh Bhullar and his aide Jaspreet Singh, who were wanted for the murderers of two policemen in Punjab, near Kolkata. Months later, as Soumen Mitra retired as the Kolkata Police Commissioner, Goyal took charge on December 31.

In June, Governor C V Ananda Bose submitted a report to the Union Home Ministry alleging that Goyal and another officer were "functioning in a manner which is completely unbecoming of a public servant". Bose highlighted various incidents, including what he alleged was the officers "promoting and encouraging concocted allegations" by a woman employee of the Raj Bhavan against him.

This is the second time in 17 years that a Kolkata Police Commissioner has been removed because of public pressure over a death. At the time, it was Opposition leader Mamata Banerjee who was at the forefront of the demands. In October 2007, the TMC chief hit the streets following the death of 30-year-old computer graphics trainer Rizwanur Rahman. Then CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee transferred five top police officers, including then Kolkata Police chief Prasun Mukherjee.

Verma, who has taken over from Goyal, is a 1998-batch IPS officer and a crisis manager for the government. He served as the Superintendent of Police of Paschim Medinipur, playing an important role in countering Maoist activities in the late 2010s. He led the Counter Insurgency Force that killed Maoist leader Koteswara Rao, known by his nom de guerre Kishen ji, in November 2011. During the months-long strike in the Darjeeling Hills in 2017, the government deployed him in Darjeeling. After the Lok Sabha elections in 2019, as political violence flared up in the Barrackpore parliamentary constituency area, the government appointed him the Commissioner of Barrackpore.

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Keeping its promise to R G Kar protesters, Mamata govt moves out Kolkata top cop: Who is Vineet Goyal?

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Twice awarded the police medal for gallantry and a recipient of the Chief Minister's Medal for Outstanding Service, Goyal is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IIT Kanpur.

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Group 1 - Explanation, Justification, Perspective

1. How does the assigned concepts manifest or surface in the article you just read? Support with textual evidence.

2. Who are the knowledge producers?

3. Who holds the power in the dissemination of knowledge?

4. Who is the author of the article, and what is their background? How might their perspective or authority influence the content of the article?

5. Who holds power in the situation described in the article? How does this affect the way knowledge is shared or withheld?

6. How reliable is the knowledge presented in the article? What evidence is provided to support the claims?

7. Are there any potential consequences of spreading this knowledge, either positive or negative?

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Amazon tells employees to return to office 5 days a week. Full text of CEO’s email

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Amazon employees will be required to work from office five days a week starting next year, CEO Andy Jassy announced.

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Group 2 - Evidence, Objectivity, Interpretation

1. How does the assigned concepts manifest or surface in the article you just read? Support with textual evidence.

2. Who are the knowledge producers?

3. Who holds the power in the dissemination of knowledge?

4. Who is the author of the article, and what is their background? How might their perspective or authority influence the content of the article?

5. Who holds power in the situation described in the article? How does this affect the way knowledge is shared or withheld?

6. How reliable is the knowledge presented in the article? What evidence is provided to support the claims?

7. Are there any potential consequences of spreading this knowledge, either positive or negative?

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By employing geomagnetic techniques, researchers unveiled structures beneath the earth's surface, discovering Trypillia megasites that span over 100 hectares.

The Trypillia megasites, identified as the first planned cities in history, bore no resemblance to contemporary urban centers.
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World's oldest city was not in Mesopotamia, hint 6,000-yr-old sites

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New archaeological evidence suggests the world's first cities emerged in Ukraine, not Mesopotamia, rewriting history.