The impact if the impact of media proliferation on youth violence
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Introduction

Nowadays, the more and more people getting violence. Some is because media shows alot of the violence scenes then they choose to learn and try on people in real life. Some is because they already had some personal problem which lead them to be violent. Some youth learn thing and moves they see from the media. There are not people to guide the younger generation what is right and what is wrong. They just simply learn everything they see from the media. This causes them to become more and more violent.

Summary

The website basically talks about the different type of violence. It explains the Link between violent television and movies and aggressive behavior. It mostly talks about researchers have found that children are more physically and verbally aggressive immediately after watching violent television and movies.

As well as, violent music videos and aggressive behavior.Researchers have found that exposure to violent or antisocial rap videos can increase aggressive thinking, but no research has yet tested how such exposure directly affects physical aggression.


Last but not least, violence in video games.The impact of the widespread use of violent video games is a cause of concern for researchers, because they fear that the interactive nature of video games may increase the likelihood of children learning aggressive behavior and that the increasing realism might encourage greater identification with characters and more imitation of the behaviors of video game models.

The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center "Media Violence Facts and Statistics" Retrieve on 23 may 2008, from World Wide Webhttp://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/violence/effects_media_violence.cfm

Evaluation of the resource
I find that the resource is realiable because it did refer to another website that i have came across in my research. Both website are realiable. And the website itself is well organise and presentable.

Their focus is on the different type of violence that happen on youth.

Discuss the development of AIDS research >>By Vivian (0610469I) Introduction According to a recent news reported by Channel News Asia on 18 May 2008, the number of people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS positive has increased from 352 in year 2006 to 422 in year 2007 in Singapore. Health ministry encourages people from high-risk groups to go for regular tests, however, many are reluctant to go as it serves as a ‘death sentence’ to them. AIDS have been around for about twenty-seven years since its first detection which was reported in the United States on June 1981. For over 20 years, it has been the subject of arguments and debates among the researchers. Sadly to mention, the number of people suffering from AIDS has been increasing through the years. Nowadays, even with the rapid development of technology and research studies, there is still no cure for AIDS patients. Current treatments can only make the AIDS patients live longer and less the pain they are going through. Many non-funded organizations volunteer work together to create awareness about AIDS, educate the people, provide information on prevention ways, and research on the treatment methods and vaccines. Summary of the Contents from the Resource The question of whether AIDS can be cured or not has been around for many years to date. Although no evident shows that it can be cured in the near future. Scientists and researchers are continuing to work together to achieve the goal of discover a way to save the millions of people life worldwide who are infected with the disease. According to the resource, the first report of AIDS case was on June 1981 in New York City, United States. Since then, many government or non-funded organizations have work together to find a way to cure the disease. Initially, AIDS was named as gay-related immune deficiency or “gay cancer”. This was because cases were happened on the gays. However, as AIDS progresses, women and infants are also infected with the disease. In year 1982, scientists found out the causes for the disease and came out the name acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). By this time, many people have infected with the deadly disease. The source also stated that, during the early days of AIDS pandemic, treatment was confined to palliative care and management of opportunistic infections. Currently, HIV/AIDS is a global catastrophe. However, researches continue to carry out their mission in a hope to achieve their goals. According to the resource, researches on HIV/AIDs have been carrying out heavily from the early detection to today. Researchers are conducting researches on developing and testing preventive vaccines, preventive strategies and new therapeutic treatments for HIV infection and AIDS infections. They also strive to understand better the basic biology of HIV, thus, developing the most effective therapies to treat and control the disease. Risk factors are now clearly defined, this provide the foundation for prevention of the disease. However, rates of HIV/AIDS infections continue to increase. However, there is still no cure for HIV/ AIDS at all. HIV treatment drugs can only lessen the pain the HIV infected person is having, and also help them live longer. The sophisticated highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is considered one of the biggest successes in the industry. However, these drugs and treatments can cause side-effects to the patients. As the resource stated, “the use of antiretroviral therapy is now associated with a series of serious side effects and long-term complications that may have a negative impact on mortality rates. More deaths occurring from liver failure, kidney disease…”. The studies and researches have been developing with many key accomplishments in the industry. And in the areas of prevention, treatment, vaccines and clinical studies. Examples of each of them are respectively, microbicides, protease inhibitors, a DNA vaccine to slow down the disease progress, and rifabutin as a treatment for Mycobacterium avium complex. Research also shows that the research findings and treatments methods also benefit for people with other type of metabolic diseases. One of such example is the introduction of 3TC drug which was developed to treat AIDS is now widely used for chronic hepatits B infection. Personally I feel that even if a patient may live longer with the treatment of HAART, at the same time the patient’s health is also deteriorating as other body functions started to fail. So in the end, it is still killing people. As the resources stated,” While today’s treatments can significantly improve both the length and quality of life for people with HIV/AIDS, they do not represent a cure. Once started, therapy is a lifelong commitment. A cure, if possible, would represent a more sustainable option than costly, complicated, and potentially toxic treatment regimens.” I believe that the best way to stop HIV/AIDS is prevention. As the saying goes, “Prevention is better than cure.” Resource used: National Institute of Health, USA. (2006, October). “Fact sheets - HIV/AIDS”. Retrieved May 21, 2008, from World Wide Web: http://www.nih.gov/about/researchresultsforthepublic/HIV-AIDS.pdf Evaluation of the resource I think this site is a trustful website as it is a government founded website. The contents are reliable, because its main purpose is to provide education and research information for the public. Thus, the information on the website is mainly facts or research findings. It allows me to gain insights easily on the subject by categorizing the different parts of the topic. Their focus audience are the public and the researchers. Publics like me can gain a better understanding about the subject. And at the same time, they are also working on the research area, thus they also provide very useful and professional information for the researchers around the world. All in all, the website is well-arranged; contents provided are easy to understand way and it provide ease of navigation. At the same time, I trust the information on the website as it does not contain any biasness.

Drug Abuse on Youth :-

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Introduction

Drug abuse continouse to emerge among the youth with problems of unemployment, violence and sexual abuse.Almost every region of the world its a serious problem. Lifetime prevalence rates of abuse of cannabis is high in many region.There are high variations in the prevalence of drugs. But its reported that its increasing again among youth in USA. In eastern europe the injection of heroine is expanding.

Summary:-

What are drugs:-

A psychoactive substance is something that people take to change the way they feel, think or behave.Some of these substances are called drugs, and others, like alcohol and tobacco, are considered dangerous but are not called drugs. In the past, most drugs were made from plants. That is, plants were grown and then converted into drugs such as coca paste, opium and marijuana.Over the years, these crude products were further processed to yield drugs like cocaine and heroin, and finally, in the 20th century, people found out how to make drugs from chemicals. These are called man-made, or synthetic, drugs and include speed, ecstasy, LSD, etc. These were initially manufactured for largely experimental reasons and only later were used for recreational purposes. Now, however, with the increased size and scope of the drug trade, people set out to invent drugs especially for recreational human consumption.

What is Wrong with drug abuse ?

Drug abuse has many negative physiological health effects, ranging from minor issues like digestion problems or respiratory infections, to potentially fatal diseases, like AIDS and hepatitis . The effects depend on the drug and on the amount, method and frequency of use.Drug abuse also causes brain damage. Again, depending on the drug, the strength and character of this damage varies. But one thing is clear, drug abuse affects the way the brain functions and alters its responses. So finally, drug abuse damages the ability of people to act as free and conscious beings, capable of taking action to fulfill their needs.



Resource Used:-

Anti-Human Trafficking Unit. (2005, December 6). “The global youth network, homepage.” Retrieved May 30, 2008 from World Wide Web: http://www.unodc.org/youthnet/index.html

Evaluation of the source:-


The Purpose of this website is clearely stated.This website is trying to increase the youth involvment with the international community in developing drug abuse prevention policies and programmes. They hope to create a community of interest among youth and youth workers in the field of drug abuse prevention.This site is a global youth network site. It covers all the aspects of drug and crimes among the youths. It also provide the information about the actions to take to prevent the drug abuse and crime among the youths. The site provide the information on different issues related to drug and crimes all over the world. We can really study and understand the things that leed to drug abuse and crime from these articles. More over the site provide useful links to other websites which are related to drug abuse on youths. This site is an authoritative website. The information in this site is quite reliable and credible. This site is maintained by UNODC(United nations Office on Drug and Crime). In terms of accuracy this site is appreciable. The information provided are quite accurate and relevant. They are not just any opinion of anyone. They are the facts with relevant supporting evideneces. I don’t find any grammatical or typographical error on this website. So In short its accurate in all terms. All in all this website is reliable and very useful to get useful information easily.
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