Transcript of SpringBoard Activity 4.11. Group Assignment. You will now become an expert on one of the characters introduced in chapters 8 and 9; your job is to identify what is revealed about Chris McCandless via your particular comparison.
What people really mean when they say, âIâm going to Davos,â is actually that they are attending the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (or WEF) which takes place each winterâthis year, the 47 th meeting, will be Jan. 17-20âin Davos Switzerland, a usually sleepy ski town some 5,000 feet up in the Swiss Alps, about 90 miles southeast of Zurich.
Two days after the NYT reported that Trump would attend the 48th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this month, making him the first sitting US president since the Clinton administration to attend the annual photo-op boondoggle of world leaders, billionaires, and captains of industry, Bloomberg leaked the people Trump will be taking with him to Davos (one year after the main topic at the Swiss village was how to avoid a Trump presidency and avoid populism).