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ROSALIN ZEIN13 PIUS

Assignment 4: My three topics for a documentary

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Mind Map

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Topic 1 – The impact of social media on culture

What you would learn:• The diversity and development of social media• The impact social media has already had.• The negative and positive effects • How it has created a global culture.• Social networking sites (Facebook, YoutTube, Twitter, Tumblr)

Debate:• Whether social media has had

a positive or negative affect on society and culture.

• What are the affects it has already had.

• Could it change the way in which we interact and communicate with each other even more than it already has.

• Will its impact grow. • Is there anything we can do

stop it ?

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Topic 1 – Research

Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks.

A social networking service is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections.

According to a 2012 survey report, teens spend an average of two hours a day on social networking sites. YouTube, Tumblr, and LinkedIn rank among the top market share visits of 2013.

http://www.fmhswire.com/studentlife/2013/05/01/social-networking-good-or-bad/

Negative: Privacy

Decreased productivityCyber bullyingA false sense of connectionEndanger children

Positive:The ability to spread information quicklyCan be used to catch criminalsSocial media facilitates political changeGood for the economy

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Topic 2– Does social deprivation cause crime?

What you would learn about:•What social deprivation is•How it could affect people and cause them to turn to crime•The different theorists who agree and disagree•Statistics on the crime rate for those who are socially deprived•Whether it is social deprivation of emotional deprivation that causes people to commit crime.

Debate:For:•People who are socially deprived are more likely to turn to crime in order to satisfy basic living necessities•We acquire knowledge of what is right and wrong through education•People feel crime is the only way for their frustrations to be heard

Against:•Some of the biggest crimes that affect society are committed by huge multinational companies or wealthy individuals•As we live in a consumerist society the primary cause of crime is greed or desperation to ‘fit in’

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Topic 2 – Research

The 2009/10 BCS found that the risk of being a victim of any household crime washigher in the most deprived areas compared with the least deprived areas in England.Trends in household crime in the most and least deprived areas in England have beenbroadly similar between 2001/02 and 2009/10.

After looking at 250 juveniles in prison or in care for the most serious crimes, Dr Boswell found that 40 per cent had been beaten and bullied before they turned to crime and another third had been raped or sexually assaulted by a relative or family friend.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/what-causes-crime-1584969.html

Moving from the small to the large scale, he then looked at young men, the group most likely to be involved in crime and showed that their rate of offending was closely correlated to rises and falls in the unemployment rate. The fit could be tightly measured: every time the jobless figures went up by 1 per cent, there was a 0.4 per cent rise in burglaries.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/what-causes-crime-1584969.html

Social deprivation - being deprived of basic needs such as adequate housing and education.

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What you would learn:•What the affects of cannabis are•What would happen if cannabis were to be legalised•The impact it could have on society e.g on the NHS, the crime rate

Debate:For:People should be allowed to do whatever they wasn’t to their won bodiesAlcohol and tobacco are harmful drugs yet they remain legalIf cannabis was legalised, it could be regulated

Against:We still do not know the affects of cannabis More people will use cannabis if it is legalised as it would be easier to buyCannabis is harmful – studies have shown that it may cause mental health problems.

Topic 3 – Should cannabis be legalised?

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Topic 3 – Research

Britain's drugs policy isn't working and we should consider legalisation, says a powerful committee of MPs, along with the deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.

It has been suggested that possession of some drugs should be made legal. To make them legitimate would make the criminals who deal in them redundant. It would allow the government greater control over use. The drug that causes most damage to society, that contributes massively to domestic abuse, child abuse, road traffic deaths and costs £6bn to police every year is also legal.

But a drug that half of all young people in this country use, which costs the NHS far, far less than either of the above is not.

Source: http://news.uk.msn.com/the-big-question/should-the-uk-legalise-cannabis-777566

There is a danger that any decriminalisation of cannabis would simply open the floodgates and eventually bring in the legal use of heroin or cocaine.

The total number of deaths from drugs throughout the UK fell from 2,182 in 2009 to 1,883 in 2010.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20217967

Alcohol related deaths in the UK have increased slightly between 2009 and 2010, according to official figures.The number of deaths linked to drinking has gone from 8,664 to 8,790 - a rise of 126.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16738405