Comment on Anneka's Weblog!!

Anneka has thought throughly about what needs to be published from each lecture. She has used relevent images and links which correlate to the post being issued. If she carries on like this, she will create an excellent blog which students studying the subject can relate to very well and use to assist them in there posts.

www.anneka-anneka.blogspot.com

Smoking Countinued

Smokers can be defined in four ways. First there is the regular smoker, occasional smoker, the 'I used to smoke', the 'I have never smoked' and as someone in the seminar shouted the passive smoker!

Did you know that per annum smokers pay a massive £19,000 to the exchequer, this is equivalent to the price of the whole police force. Or as Jeremy Clarkson says in the Sunday Times, every pound we cost the NHS, smokers give £3.60 to it.

There are many films that we discussed in our lecture that involve the use of cigarettes some listed were; pulp fiction, grease, constantine, trainspotting, die hard and basic instinct.

We also discussed a couple of organisations that are related to smoking these were; ASH - action on smoking and health and FOREST - freedom for the right to enjoy smoking tobacco.

http://www.forestonline.org/output/Page1.asp & http://www.ash.org.uk/

We then went on to discuss how smoking in Hollywood was used as a metaphor for seduction.

Smoking Lecture

At first we watched a BBC documentary about the differents type of smoking. The aims of this lecture was not to increase tolerance of non smokers amoungst smokers and vica - versa. But to understand the facination of smoking and to question what makes a smoker so attractive.
We then went through the smoking statistics, apparently there are twelve million smokers in Great Britain and thirteen million ex - smokers. Of which 82% are men this was taken from statistics in 1948 but has now fallen to 28%, 45% are women this was taken from statistics from 1966 this has now fallen to 24%. The highest age range for smokers is the twenty to thirty four age group, this may be due to a higher desposible income or before the smoker starts a family, a mortgage or because they have a tendancy to be reckless .

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=866

Group Activity

Our first group activity was to introduce all the students to the subject was to think about the baddest thing, that you have ever done. Then you were asked to write it down on a piece of paper , put it back into the box a pick another one out and then in groups; work out which order they should go form the most worst to the least.In my group, the worst was 'I killed my frog' and the least was 'I gossip about my friends'. After discussion, my group came to the conclusion that what one may class as bad, another may class as normal.From this exercise, I have now started to think about what actually classes as bad and what doesn't. Do you class it as bad or good if its personal to you, or because others believe one way ov

er another?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:bad&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title&X=1

First Lecture!!

We discussed how Freud linked repression with showing real human behaviour and how selfishness is apart of human nature but this doesn't mean that human nature is selfish. We then discussed how we assume lies are bad and were then asked to question if this is right and whether there are reasons for it being good. We also started to think whether 'bad' is attractive or not, linking ideas to rock bands for example Oasis and the Rolling Stones.

http://www.blifaloo.com/info.lies__eyes.php