group project update two

1 hour and 15 minutes

My group and I got together last night to work some more on our project. We began by looking up things we could do. We know Professor Dighton told us we could not make a PowerPoint but we are using the program to make a commercial/slideshow. We start off by showing the 1950s and move into the present time. One of our pictures might be controversial but it goes along with our idea we state a fact about how 30% of homosexual males try to attempt suicide and then show a picture of someone cutting their wrist. We feel like this really puts the message out there about how hurtful a few words to someone might be.

1st group meeting

We got together for almost an hour and 45 minutes to discuss our project and get the proposal done. I also started the facebook page. We began to look at videos and other ways we are going to communicate our project.

final project

I am so excited about our final project! I feel like this will give us an opportunity to show our creativity besides just writing a paper. How does everyone else feel about this?

Walk for Pride

My group and I decided on gay pride. We are targeting the 18-30 age group. Our current ideas include:
- A walk for gay pride and how we would promote it.

Ways of promoting
- Picture slide show (take pictures from the 50s then show now and how times have changed)
- Talking to SPECTRUM and getting interviews/video clips
- Posters to promote walk
- Youtube videos
- Facebook fan club about walk

Snow Cap Disappearing from Kilimanjaro

Mt. Kilimanjaro a famous mountain in Tanzania is rapidly losing its crown of white snow and ice. This is happening because of the Earth’s increased surface temperature and the increase in the mid to upper-tropical troposphere. Between the years 2000-2007 the glacial icecaps thinned by 6.7 feet. Researchers are now mapping older glacial sediments to see if this has happened before

World Health Organization declares TB an emergency in Africa

August 25, 2005

The World Health Origination (WHO) declared tuberculosis an emergency in Africa. This disease since 1990 has quadrupled in the annual number of people contracting the disease. It kills more than half a million people a year. Tuberculosis is second to HIV/AIDS as a cause of illness and death of adults only 11% of the world’s population has this disease but more than a quarter of them live in Africa. The Regional Committee called for specific actions to address this emergency they included:

•improve the quantity and quality of staff involved in TB control;
•rapidly improve TB case detection and treatment success rates with expanded DOTS coverage at national and district levels;
•reduce the combined TB patient default and transfer out rates to 10% or less;
•scale up interventions to manage TB and HIV together, including increased access to anti-retroviral therapy for TB patients who are co-infected with HIV, and to chemoprophylaxis against TB for people with HIV;
•expand national TB partnerships, public-private collaboration and community participation in TB control activities.

These specific actions came off of the website http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/africa_emergency/en/index.html

No crucifixes for Italian schools

Today November 3, 2009 the European court announced that crucifixes will no longer be allowed in Italian public schools. The ban was put into effect because crucifixes violate religious and education freedoms. A Vatican spokesman said “the crucifix was a fundamental sign of the importance of religious values in Italian history and culture and was a symbol of unity and welcoming for all of humanity - not one of exclusion.” The court made its decision by saying, “the crucifix could be disturbing to non-Christian or atheist pupils, rejecting arguments by Italy's government that it was a national symbol of culture, history, identity, tolerance and secularism.”

Tobacco ban wafts into Amsterdam pot shops

“Tobacco ban wafts into Amsterdam pot shops -- but joints still legal” is an informative newspaper article written in USA TODAY, by Jeffery Stinson. He wrote his main idea around that fact that you can still smoke a joint inside a coffee shop in Amsterdam but you had to go outside to smoke a cigarette. The intended auidence would include people who think all smoke is bad for you along with smokers who did not know about the ban. “The new law prohibits smoking in bars, cafes, restaurants and clubs to protect people from secondhand tobacco smoke” and "Under our system, these are two different things," these are both claims to support the evidence. “Amsterdam has 236 of the country's 720 coffee shops, says Mark Jacobsen, chairman of the Amsterdam Union of Coffee Shops.” This shows evidence of field study about the claim given. The article is broken up into single lines broken up by spaces to break up many major points that the author has listed.