Tok Presentation Help

[cherrydaisy]

I have my ToK presentation coming up soon and I am having difficulties in forming my KI. My RLS is about how some countries banned parents from naming their children certain names, and some children were even taken away by the government when their parents didn't conform to this law.

 

Since names are a form of freedom of expression, is it ok if I use this as my KI: How does our freedom of expression affect other people? 

 

Also, one of the AOKs that I identified this RLS with is Ethics. But most of the tips on TOK Presentation that I read here say that I should try my best to avoid discussing Ethics as a main AOK. But is it ok if I still put it in my presentation as one of the main AOKs along with Human Sciences (Law)?

[Tiffato3]

Your question is probably the most 'ethical' question. You can use Human Sciences (Law) if you change your question a bit, "How does the law affect our freedom of expression?" or something like that. You just need to put more 'law' into the presentation. Good luck!

[Utah IB Student]

cherrydaisy,

 

For your presentation, you need to have multiple knowledge issues that branch off of your main knowledge issue.  While I think that your main knowledge issue is good as it is now (IB sometimes likes the words "in what ways" instead of how, but your way is fine), you need to have more KIs to discuss.  I would recommend trying to go into the WOKs and other AOKs in addition to ethics and human sciences.  For example, you could have something like: to what extent does emotion influence laws and/or freedom of expression?  Not that, obviously, but something of that nature.  Then you can add on to your main question and impress IB people     Good luck.  I hope this helps.