{"id":332595,"date":"2026-09-17T15:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=332595"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:05:17","slug":"dp-english-students-debate-ethical-dilemmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2026\/09\/17\/dp-english-students-debate-ethical-dilemmas\/","title":{"rendered":"DP English Students Debate Ethical Dilemmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the past few weeks, DP2 English Language and Literature students have begun exploring the content and concepts portrayed in Japanese author Naoki Urasawa&#8217;s graphic novel, <em>Monster<\/em>. This literary work explores many archetypal conflicts such as the battle of good and evil, but does so in ways that force readers to grapple with more nuanced ethical dilemmas and philosophical questions about the value of life.<\/p>\n<p>Through the study of this graphic novel, students have made connections to Theory of Knowledge concepts like certainty, truth, and values, and have explored them via fictionalized accounts of real-world situations like those faced by emergency room medical professionals deciding which patients get priority treatment. Students have engaged in passionate debate about the value of life, challenged fundamental moral assumptions, and engaged in a thrilling plot full of twists and turns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/09\/monster-scaled.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-332596 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2026\/09\/monster-209x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 209px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 209\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the past few weeks, DP2 English Language and Literature students have begun exploring the content and concepts portrayed in Japanese author Naoki Urasawa&#8217;s graphic novel, Monster. This literary work explores many archetypal conflicts such as the battle of good and evil, but does so in ways that force readers to grapple with more nuanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,194,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-11","category-dp","category-secondary-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}