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  • This House Regrets the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate

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    The Ottoman Caliphate (1517-1924) was a hereditary spiritual office with symbolic authority over the global Sunni Muslim community, overseeing religious matters and unifying Sunni Islam under a single leader. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Türkiye, abolished the Caliphate as part of a series of secular reforms aimed at modernising Turkey and establishing a distinct Turkish national identity.

    LSE IV 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-11-02

  • In a bid to honour the legacy of actors who pass away mid-production, This house believes that movie industries should retire their roles, rather than recasting those roles with new actors.

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    After Chadwick Boseman, the original actor for T'Challa (Black Panther), passed away in 2020, Marvel Studios decided not to recast T'Challa. Instead, the sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, honored Boseman's legacy by integrating his character's death into the storyline, allowing other characters, particularly Shuri (played by Letitia Wright) to take on more prominent roles. In Peaky Blinders, Polly Gray, played by Helen McCrory who was a central character in the Shelby family, died in April 2021. Before her death, she had completed some initial work on the sixth season but passed away before filming could be completed. In Season 6, the writers chose to honor both the character of Polly and McCrory’s legacy by writing her death into the storyline and retiring her role.

    Emirate Word War VI · Novice Semi Finals · 2024-11-01

  • This House, as an author from a minority background writing science fiction and fantasy media, would choose to write using the reinterpretive approach rather than the transformative approach

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    For the purposes of this debate, there are two approaches to writing fantasy and science fiction media. The "reinterpretive approach" directly reinterprets or draws strong parallels to real historical events (e.g. Outlander, The Poppy War, Belisarius). Conversely, the "transformative approach" takes inspiration from real world cultures but builds an otherwise unique world (e.g. Avatar: The Last Airbender, Dune, The Wheel of Time)

    KNUST Debate Open 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-10-19

  • Assuming Netflix renews the series for a 7th season, this House supports Meghan Markle being cast to play Meghan Markle on 'The Crown'

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    _The Crown_ is a historical drama series that chronicles the life of Queen Elizabeth II and the British royal family. Spanning decades, it offers a fictionalised glimpse into the personal lives and political challenges faced by the monarchy, blending historical events with dramatised interpretations of their private moments behind palace doors. (_Real World_ rules apply)

    UQ Fictional IV 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-10-12

  • This house prefers to have been born as a Baby Boomer rather than as Gen Z in Greece.

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    According to Strauss and Howe's generational theory, in the Western World, the Baby Boomers are the generation born between 1946 and 1963. In Greece, this generation experienced events such as the Junta of the Colonels and the Polytechnic uprising during their youthful years, and later on, the Metapolitefsi (political changeover) and the economic boom of the '90s and 2000s as adults. They are called Baby Boomers due to the significant increase in birth rates, as in most Western countries, it is the generation with the highest number of births. Generation Z (Gen Z) is the generation born between 1997 and 2012. Adults from Gen Z in Greece experienced the period of economic prosperity and the Olympic Games in their early years and grew up during the financial crisis of 2008, having lived through the COVID-19 pandemic in their early adulthood or late adolescence.

    11ο Πρωτάθλημα Ρητορικού Ομίλου Οικονομικού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών · Grand Final · 2024-10-10

  • This house believes that the Operation Anthropoid was morally illegitimate

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    During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak resistance operatives carried out an assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most prominent and curel Nazi leaders. At the time, Heydrich served as the governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The operation, known as ‘Operation Anthropoid,’ targeted Heydrich and led to his death. In response, the SS troops undertook a series of brutal reprisals, which included the destruction of villages and the killing of civilians.

    Prague Open 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-09-20

  • This House regrets the partition of India

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    The original nation of India encompassed modern-day India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. At the time of India's independence, the two major political parties were the Hindu-majority Indian National Congress (INC) and the Muslim League. The options were to either partition the Muslim-majority areas from the Hindu- majority areas or maintain the current borders. Backed by the Muslim population and the British viceroy, the League supported partition. The INC was heavily against this but eventually capitulated in response to riots. The new borders created West Pakistan (modern-day Pakistan), East Pakistan (modern-day Bangladesh) and India in between.

    Australian British Parliamentary Debating Championships 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-09-07

  • This house supports the use of memory laws in post-colonial states

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    Memory laws are legal regulations that govern how societies remember and commemorate historical events, particularly those considered sensitive or traumatic. They often dictate what can be said, taught, or depicted regarding certain historical events, such as genocide or war crimes. Examples include Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code which prohibits insults against Turkish heroes as well as Eastern European laws banning symbols of communism.

    Malaysia Debate Open 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-08-31