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  • This house prefers a world in which iconoclasm was the dominant belief in the Christian world

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    Iconoclasm is the belief that the use of religious images (specifically images depicting god, prophets or people) are heretical and should be destroyed. During the 8th-9th century CE, Iconoclasm rose to prominence in the Eastern Roman Empire, with thousands of religious images being destoryed during this time.

    Ottawa Round Robin 2025 · Round 3B · 2025-04-26

  • This house prefers a world in which iconoclasm was the dominant belief in the Christian world

    Infoslide

    Iconoclasm is the belief that the use of religious images (specifically images depicting god, prophets or people) are heretical and should be destroyed. During the 8th-9th century CE, Iconoclasm rose to prominence in the Eastern Roman Empire, with thousands of religious images being destoryed during this time.

    Ottawa Round Robin 2025 · Round 3A · 2025-04-26

  • This house would prioritize capacitating indigenous communities in creative enterprises rooted in their traditional culture as opposed to helping them secure employment in other sectors of the economy (e.g., industry and services)

    Raul Roco Cup XVII · Round 1 · 2025-04-25

  • This House, as the feminist movement, Would create and disseminate a feminist film canon

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    A film canon is a collection of of films that are considered to be the most significant and influential in the history of cinema. Typically, included films are ground breaking or revolutionary, or alternatively they are the quintessential or definitive films in more common genres/styles.

    Imperial Online Open 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-04-19

  • This house believes that the greatest sports stories are those that end in defeat, not victory

    Joynt Scroll 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-04-18

  • This house supports art for no one.

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    City is a massive piece of land art in the Nevada desert. It is 1.5 miles long, took 50 years to build, and is critically and publicly acclaimed. At the artist's request, access to City is extremely limited and only available on a lottery system.

    Joynt Scroll 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-04-18

  • This house prefers a restoration approach to art conservation as opposed to a preservation approach

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    A restoration approach to art conservation seeks to restore pieces of art to how they would have been seen at the time of creation. A preservation approach seeks to prevent damage and alterations to the original piece.

    Joynt Scroll 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-04-18

  • This house believes that BookTok does more harm than good

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    BookTok is a subcommunity on social media where influencers and users share short videos about books, including reviews, recommendations, and emotional reactions. It has significantly influenced reading trends, particularly among young people, and has helped boost sales for many titles and authors (e.g. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, etc.)

    Shanghai International Debate Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-04-17

  • This house regrets the rise of eager criticism in art

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    From David Ehrlich: “I might have hated Wicked. I say ““might” not because I’m unsure of my general feelings toward the film but rather because I’m unsure of what it means for me to hate a piece of art at a time when hair-trigger hostility is so deeply suffused into the air we breathe”.

    Queen's High School Tournament 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-04-13

  • This House, as Johnston, would choose to be posted at Drakenthorn over Virelia

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    Johnston is a career diplomat who finally got his promotion. He is able to chose his next posting form one of the two options: 1) Virelia - a strict island which bans drinking, extra-marital sex, drugs, popular entertainment and even fine-food. Instead it is populated by outstanding orchestra, well-curated galleries and operas. 2)Drakenthorn - on the other hand, was an intellectual and cultural dessert, yet it is filled with the perfect activities for hedonist. It has fine restaurants, thriving comedy and also liberal attitude to sex and drugs. Both islands are identical in geography, and economically.

    Debatable Open 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-04-12

  • This house regrets the dominance of “trauma plot” within contemporary literature

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    Trauma plot refers to literature that centers around characters looking to the buried pain in the past as an explanation of the present.

    Debatable Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-04-12

  • This House Would allow authors to make legally binding declarations prohibiting some or all of their unpublished works from being published posthumously.

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    Many works of literature have been published after their author's death, despite the author asking that they not be published. This includes almost all of Emily Dickinson's poetry, Roland Barthes's personal diary, Sylvia Plath's Ariel, and works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mark Twain and Vladimir Nabokov.

    Glasgow Ancients 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-04-11

  • This House Believes That gangster rap does more harm than good

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    Gangster rap is a subgenre of hip-hop that emerged in the late 1980s, known for its raw, often violent lyrics reflecting street life, crime, gang culture, and disillusionment with authorities such as the police and government. It emphasizes dominance, materialism, and hyper-masculinity. Famous examples include “F*** tha Police” by N.W.A., “Still D.R.E.” by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, and “DNA.” by Kendrick Lamar.

    Nordic Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-04-07