I have to give a PowerPoint presentation on a "political figure" for school, I figured no one else in the class would think of Snowden so I went with him.
Flood me with information?
How long until it's due?
I'd suggest watching "Citizenfour", "Terminal F" the NDR interview and NBC's "Inside the mind of Edward Snowden" (it can be hard to find the latter two because they can be blocked on YT in certain countries). No particular order, although this one is how I'd watch it. It's a couple of hours of viewing, but that'll give you all the info that most of us have.
John Oliver's interview might be funny, but doesn't add anything for anyone who is already a little familiar with Snowden or the whole issue of privacy.
Or you could read his Wikipedia page, where it's all written down already. I'd suggest watching it yourself tho, so you can piece everything together on your own and truly understand the subject.
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iv got awhile 2 maybe 3 weeks but the presentation only has to be 5 minutes long
citizenfour, the new movie Snowden sucked scrotum
PowerPoint is just for outlining brief points (eg bulletpoints or cues) to prompt you give a presentation.
As CaptainChaos alluded to 'digest' as much as you can on Edward Snowden, and then utilise PowerPoint to highlight important points pertinent to Edward's timeline.
Haven't watched "Snowden" myself yet, but I suspected as much. Hollywood should avoid modern reality-based movies altogether because it never turns out well.
Citizenfour was good especially if you consider that it wasn't scripted at all. The hotel room stuff was just filmed by Poitras as the story was developing.
Don't, it'll ruin you, and there are no facts throughout the whole movie until the last ten minutes, the edward actor is terrible
Make that shit 20 minutes long and educate everyone in the room. Make them wake the hell up and realize what they're all holding in their hands. (a digital slave collar)
retreats back into his nest of tinfoil
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lol I would love to really peel the onion, but ill get a lower grade if its longer than 10 minutes.
wait what
yeah this school makes no sence
I wrote a 3 page paper for a different class and got points off because it was supposed to be 1 page
The other children have to have time to talk about their less important topics
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Your teacher is endeavouring to get you to 'condense' information in a presentation (and this comes in handy in the workplace)
The last thing anyone needs in any workplace scenario / workplace-presentation is a overly long PowerPoint presentation that becomes boring, and puts people to sleep ('Death by PowerPoint' is an oft used phrase)
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with the power point i understand the "condensing"
but the paper was supposed to be the first 1/3 of a book that i read and it had to be chapter by chapter so how the hell am i supposed to summarize 5 chapters in 1 page (double spaced) with out being like its a good book go read it your self.
It's very easy to do, once you've performed this task it becomes easier.
Go watch Citizen Four
there u go
If you have only got ten minutes to use why not keep it specific;
Edward Snowden - Traitor or Patriot?
Then you can work through why to some he is a traitor and to others a whistle-blower who should be pardoned.
You might find this Op-Ed on arstechnica.com helpful; http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/09/op-ed-why-president-obama-wont-and-shouldnt-pardon-snowden/
You could do a full 30 minutes on his testing a encryption key/deadman switch, then going silent for 2 weeks alone.
That whole stunt was to show that the numbers of snowden searches on google would rise exponentially during the time, so that when the CIA requested the search statistics their balls would shrink into raisin size.
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