1. If language creates our reality, as structuralism and post-structuralism suggest, if language creates our identity, as Lacanian psychoanalysis (which is partly rooted in structuralism) suggests, what does the film Pontypool (2008) predict will happen to us if we lose language entirely or our ability to connect language to meaning is completely lost?

2. After watching the video counting down the top ten Canadian Heritage Minute PSAs (Public Service Announcements) and then watching the two more recent Canadian Heritage Minute PSAs, which explicitly acknowledge the deception and violence of Canada's colonial history, what can you say about the relationship between discourses of power and discourses of resistance? 

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