Jason

1.) Watch the following clip
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Describe what is a person’s ‘conscience’.
Your conscience is the voice in the back of your head that tells you what your doing is either good or bad.2.) Watch the following clip
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Describe how a persons conscience works in making moral decisions. Explain the relationship between religion and conscience.
A person’s conscience helps in making moral decisions because your conscience is like your guide that tells you what to do in everyday life. The realationship between religion and conscience is that in religion you learn about the ‘Moral Development Theory’, which teaches you the stages of growth in making moral decisions. The level that you’re at affects how you make decisions using you conscience.

1.) Define the term “Moral Maturity”
Moral Maturity is the way a person has developed as a person through their whole life. This is in conjunction with the moral develepment theory. There are 3 levels and 2 stages within each level, in which you develop through. Moral maturity is also a term that means to know which is right from wrong and good from bad.

2.) Read the following article:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/knife-arrest-cop-pelted/2008/03/24/1206206967590.html
Discuss the reasons why the 25 year old man mentioned in the article would be regarded as having a lack of ‘moral maturity’.
The man is regarded as having a lack of ‘moral maturity’ because he made many wrong decisions and law breaking actions. Assaulting police, damaging property and resisting arrest, shows how much he lacks moral maturity.

3.) Identify the differences between ‘morality’ and ‘immorality’.
Morality is having a sense or concern (Conscience) about doing good things and tasks and immorality is really the complete opposite, which is to do the wrong thing on purpose.

4.) Watch the following clip and describe the reasons why Governor Spitzer’s actions would be regarded as ‘immoral’.
Governor Spizer actions are regared as immoral because of actions like hiring a prositute and cheating on his wife which affected the public, his job, his reputation and own his family. This is immoral due to him doing the wrong thing on purpose

1.) Which countries have banned the Internet?
There are 15 countries that have banned the internet.
1. Uzbekistan
2. Turkmenistan
3. Vietnam
4. Nepal
5. North Korea
6. Syria
7. Tunisia
8. China
9. Belarus
10. The Maldives
11. Saudi Arabia
12. Burma
13. Cuba
14. Iran
15. Lybia
2.) Describe what the following image is about? (Provide TWO websites to support your findings)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080316/ap_on_hi_te/china_youtube_blocked
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9895277-7.html

This image is China and the banning of YouTube. Along with many other selected sites because of videos on protests in Tibet.
3.) Provide evidence of at least FIVE sources (Websites, newspapers, blogs, videos ect) that discuss the reasons why these countries have taken such a drastic approach.
http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_YOUTUBE_BLOCKED?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-03-16-10-08-59
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3568040.ece
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/662779/china_blocking_youtube_cnn_bbc_and.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0318/p06s02-woap.html
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/because-of-tibet-china-blocks-youtube/index.html?hp
4.) Discuss how you would feel if the Australian government banned the Internet. What privileges would you lose? (2 Paragraphs)
If the Australia government banned the internet here in Australia i would feel robbed. I would not be able to talk and play with friends online or send them cool pictures. I would not be able to find the information i need for day-to-day life such as movie times, homework, etc.

Our whole generation (The Wired Generation) is wholey based on the internet and without it we wouldn’t be able to function as efficiently as we do now. The internet gives us the power to many things we can’t do in real life. The banning of the internet would mean we would have to find alternate sources of information such as library’s, books, etc. Causing alot of frustration.

1.) Using the Internet research and find descriptions for the roles of the following newspaper personnel:

- Editor = a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility for the editorial part of a
publishing firm or of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication.
- Reporter = a person employed to gather and report news, as for a newspaper, wire service, or television station.
- Journalist = a person who practices the occupation or profession of journalism
- Designer = a person who devises or executes designs, esp. one who creates forms, structures, and patterns, as
for works of art or machines.

What i will do is make random acts of kindness. How i will do this? Example if someone needs something as simple as scissors or a pencil if i have one of those spare or if i’m not using them i will lend them to that person. If someone needs money for their recess if i will give them any change i have, etc.

1.) Explain the difference between ’secular’ and ‘non-secular’.
Secular is the action of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests. Non-secular is the opposite.
2.) Provide FIVE links to media organisaions who provide media to the public.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/
http://www.theage.com.au/
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/
http://www.afr.com/home/
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/
3.) Select ONE event current in the news media and provide a summary.
Deaths mount in Albania blasts

A series of explosions rock Albania, where the death toll continues to rise.

A book by John Marsden and Shaun Tan.
The picture book the rabbits creates a range of themes and a
meaning using visual techniques such as Interactive, Representation
and Compositional. This book's meaning is to show the Destruction and
Change that happened as soon as the British settlers "The Rabbits" arrived.
Below i will identify how techniques were used to create meanings and
promote the theme. On the 4th Double Page Spread the theme was to show the
Dominance and Power of the British, Vector Lines as visible around the page shows us
the direction and plane of the rabbits and
Salience (The big golden ship) were used to
show this theme. On the 4th DPS the highly contextualised modality using brigh colours
such as Blues, Golds, Reds also
helped in putting foward the theme along with the social distance and angle
(horizontal) used creating an important significant relationship with the viewer.
Overall this page engages the viewer to judge and observe what had really happened.
Now i will analyse the 12th Double Page Spread. It's theme was to show the
British sucking the life out of the land and how they have dominated and
conquered and multiplied in this newly found land. In this DPS there was a
low modality, with very strong symbols and vector lines directing our reading path.
 Symbols such as the crown on the salient image represents the power of the
rabbits and the clocks on the buildings represent how time is ticking away
for the possums. And the fact that there are so many rabbits and so little
possums symbolise how they have actually taken over the land. There also
was a non exist frame in this DPS as with the previous one symbolising that
our worlds are not restricted from each other and that the world being
portayed in the book is really our world today.
In conclusion the rabbits book has strongly used Interactive, Representation
and Compositional visual techniques to teach us and convey the intended
meaning/message and themes of the book. And if you haven't figured it out
yet the message is about how the British settlers Destroyed and Corrupted
the once Aboriginal owned land and the changes that made the land a stranger
to its former people.

1.) Describe the Australian Governments NetAlert program?
NetAlert is the Australian Government’s internet safety initiative it has a wide range of activities. Together, these activities provide a comprehensive response to the needs of the Australian community in protecting their families online.
2.) Discuss the reasons why they have implemented such a program?
The Australian Government has implemented this program to provide safety and protection to the families of Australia from innapropriate and harmful content.

1.) Define the term ‘wired generation’.
Todays generation of young teens using Computers, mobile phones and gaming consoles, confining themselves in their room and becoming anti-social.
2.) Provide examples of FIVE different social community sites. (Create hyperlinks).
http://www.bebo.com/
http://yahoo.com/
http://youtube.com/
http://msn.com/
http://myspace.com/
3.) Choose ONE of the list above a describe why it is used and how it could be misused.
http://www.bebo.com/
Used for communicating with friends and making new friends. It could be misused by harassing and cyber bullying others in comments.