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Topic: Impact of Drugs on Youths
Done by: Kenneth Lee
Introduction
More people are abusing drugs today than in any other time in history, and many of those people are youth.
Drugs, a psychoactive substance that people take to change the way they feel, think or behave. Drug abusehas many negative physiological health effects, ranging from minor issues like digestion problems or respiratory infections, to potentially fatal diseases, like AIDS. The effects also depend on the drug and on the amount, method and frequency of use. Some drugs which are very addictive, like heroin, can cause physiological dependence even if the user only uses it for a short period, which means that when the person stops taking drugs, he/she experiences physical withdrawal symptoms and a craving for the drug.
Finally, drug abuse damages the ability of people to act as free and conscious beings, capable of taking action to fulfill their needs.
Resources Used
The global youth network (2007, February 2). “Youth and Drugs” Retrieved July 16, 2008
from World Wide Web: http://www.unodc.org/youthnet/youthnet_youth_drugs.html
Summary of Resource
The website's main purpose is to raise up the point that that more and more people are into drugs nowadays and youths made up a big percentage of those and also to voice out serveral issues regarding the connection between drugs and youths. The website also covers a spectrum of topics in relation to the impact of drug abuse.The links to external sources provides extensive information and are quite useful.
Brief Evaluation of Resource
The website is an authoritative source as it is formed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes. The website also promotes readers to join and comment about their website. If the reader has any queries, he or she can also send an email to the global youth network team.
The facts that the website provides are accurate. There is no political, ideological or biasness in the website. The information they provide does not contain any opinions and the references are at the bottom of the webpage. However, there are a few minor grammatical errors in the website. Although the information provided on the website is not very extensive, the information provided on the website is up-to-date and well maintained.
The website is also easily accessible and does not need prior registration. The website have clear headings to indicate the individual topics which makes the website user-friendly. The side bar also provides easy navigation around the sites.
My overall impression of the quality of the website is average. Although the website is easy to navigate and search for information, the amount of information provided is too little.
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Topic : Impact of Internet on Piracy
Done By : Pour Bao Guang
A glance
Piracy had been a problem when people make duplicates of games and software out of the original and resell them at a much cheap price. However, it does not just end there. The arrival of Internet, and the improvements to the Internet, thus Web 2.0 is born. With the capabilities of Web 2.0, users can watch movies and even live previews from the stadiums. Adding to it, Bit-Torrent came out as well. By enabling Peer-to-Peer transfer, users can now download anything from the web, as long there are uploaders. With this, users can just upload movie into the web, and other users could download and share around with friends, and other downloaders too.
Therefore, the advancement of Internet did really cause the increase in piracy.
Resource[s]
Envisional (N.D).Retrieved July 18,2008
http://www.envisional.com/index.html
Summary on resource
This website is aiming at companies who wanted to protect their products from being copied illegally. They do use some special tools that allows the copyright holders to protect their software or any kind of material. Be it pictures, a game, a movie, even music.
Overall, they use their special technologies to help companies to protect their software against piracy.
Brief Breakdown of resource
BILIOGRAPHY
Done by: Kenneth Lee
Levois (2008, May 12). The NYPD's Secret Crusade Against Marijuana Furthers a Racist Agenda. Retrieved May 28, 2008
from World Wide Web: http://itismymind.blogspot.com/2008/05/nypds-secret-crusade-against-marijuana.html
Stomp (2008, January 4). Discuss the impact of drugs abuse on youths. Retrieved May 20, 2008
from World Wide Web: http://talkback.stomp.com.sg/forums/showthread.php?s=ec05a52d46b0a2550bca964377be6840&t=30829
StreetDirectory (N.D.) Of Drugs and Youths . Retrieved May 20, 2008
from World Wide Web: http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/4783/kids_and_teens/of_drugs_and_youth.html
The global youth network (2007, February 2). “Youth and Drugs” Retrieved July 16, 2008
from World Wide Web: http://www.unodc.org/youthnet/youthnet_youth_drugs.html
Washington State Department of Health (2007, March 21). Alcohol, drugs and violence continue to impact state youth. Retrieved June 7, 2008
from World Wide Web: http://www.doh.wa.gov/Publicat/2007_news/healthy_youth_06.htm
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AnimeNewsNetwork(2007). Retrieved May 18,2008 from World Wide Web:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php
Gaijin1(2008)”Hot Japanese Art Book”. Retrieved May, 14 2008 from World Wide Web: http://www.squidoo.com/japaneseartbooks
Japanime Co Ltd(2008).”Manga University, homepage”. Retrieved May, 14 2008 from World Wide Web: http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/
Manga Helpers(2008). Retrieved July 15, 2008 from World Wide Web http://mangahelpers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1699
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Done by: Pour Bao Guang
Australia Internet Publisher.(N.D). Forum on internet issues. http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/ . Checked on 2008.
Bakar.S. (2006). Will Piracy Kill the Author?
in http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com/2008/04/will-piracy-kill-author.html. Checked on 2008.
Envisional (N.D).Retrieved July 18,2008
http://www.envisional.com/index.html
MSN news.(2008). Game Piracy runs rampant on the Internet. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18665162/ . Checked on 2008
Music Industry Music Investigation. (2006). Impact of internet music file sharing & CD burning.http://www.mipi.com.au/reports/internetmusic.htm.Checked on 2008.
Open Source Blog.(2008). http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/piracy/.Checked on 2008.
Rockista. (2006). Piracy and its Impact to Philippines in http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com/2008/04/will-piracy-kill-author.html. Checked on 2008.
Done by: Kenneth Lee
Introduction
More people are abusing drugs today than in any other time in history, and many of those people are youth.
Drugs, a psychoactive substance that people take to change the way they feel, think or behave. Drug abusehas many negative physiological health effects, ranging from minor issues like digestion problems or respiratory infections, to potentially fatal diseases, like AIDS. The effects also depend on the drug and on the amount, method and frequency of use. Some drugs which are very addictive, like heroin, can cause physiological dependence even if the user only uses it for a short period, which means that when the person stops taking drugs, he/she experiences physical withdrawal symptoms and a craving for the drug.
Finally, drug abuse damages the ability of people to act as free and conscious beings, capable of taking action to fulfill their needs.
Resources Used
The global youth network (2007, February 2). “Youth and Drugs” Retrieved July 16, 2008
from World Wide Web: http://www.unodc.org/youthnet/youthnet_youth_drugs.html
Summary of Resource
The website's main purpose is to raise up the point that that more and more people are into drugs nowadays and youths made up a big percentage of those and also to voice out serveral issues regarding the connection between drugs and youths. The website also covers a spectrum of topics in relation to the impact of drug abuse.The links to external sources provides extensive information and are quite useful.
Brief Evaluation of Resource
The website is an authoritative source as it is formed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes. The website also promotes readers to join and comment about their website. If the reader has any queries, he or she can also send an email to the global youth network team.
The facts that the website provides are accurate. There is no political, ideological or biasness in the website. The information they provide does not contain any opinions and the references are at the bottom of the webpage. However, there are a few minor grammatical errors in the website. Although the information provided on the website is not very extensive, the information provided on the website is up-to-date and well maintained.
The website is also easily accessible and does not need prior registration. The website have clear headings to indicate the individual topics which makes the website user-friendly. The side bar also provides easy navigation around the sites.
My overall impression of the quality of the website is average. Although the website is easy to navigate and search for information, the amount of information provided is too little.
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Topic : Impact of Internet on Piracy
Done By : Pour Bao Guang
A glance
Piracy had been a problem when people make duplicates of games and software out of the original and resell them at a much cheap price. However, it does not just end there. The arrival of Internet, and the improvements to the Internet, thus Web 2.0 is born. With the capabilities of Web 2.0, users can watch movies and even live previews from the stadiums. Adding to it, Bit-Torrent came out as well. By enabling Peer-to-Peer transfer, users can now download anything from the web, as long there are uploaders. With this, users can just upload movie into the web, and other users could download and share around with friends, and other downloaders too.
Therefore, the advancement of Internet did really cause the increase in piracy.
Resource[s]
Envisional (N.D).Retrieved July 18,2008
http://www.envisional.com/index.html
Summary on resource
This website is aiming at companies who wanted to protect their products from being copied illegally. They do use some special tools that allows the copyright holders to protect their software or any kind of material. Be it pictures, a game, a movie, even music.
Overall, they use their special technologies to help companies to protect their software against piracy.
Brief Breakdown of resource
| Purpose Yes, clearly in the homepage. About how their products would protect against piracy. |
| Coverage It wants to let consumers that is in the IT industry, to prevent their work from being taken without permission, and tells them how good is their software and services. Pointers are set to videos and external references, and also internal ones, to show future clients how wonderful and user-friendly are their products. |
AuthorityNot really, it is a company website advertising about their products. |
| Accuracy It tries to link between external sources to proof that their products are fool-proof, and also have videos on how good their products are. It also includes client feedbacks that are posted on their website content. The language is near perfect without any errors. |
CurrencyYes it is, external links that tells about how bad the effects would be under piracy is constantly updated with latest news. |
AccessibilityYes it is, the layout is constant, and they navigation bar is always above, easy to navigate around. |
Presentation and ArrangementThere are no search devices; however their site map is useful. And the layout allows the content to be displayed clearly on the screen, and important content is placed right in the middle. So it is easy to allow users to find for information. |
UsabilityYes, the site map is one of them. |
OverallIt is good but it lacks a search engine to allow users to view specific articles they want to. But basically, it is user-friendly and easy to access around. Topic:Manga Art Done By:Ong Yong Sen Introduction Manga or also known as Japanese comics has came a long way ever since it was introduced. The art has also varied from artist to artist and each person has their own personal way of drawing the characters and the way of how the characters like the hair or facial expressions are always changing. It is still very popular among fans who like Japanese manga and their are distinct artists who dedicate themselves to this and their are fans who does things like doujin and translation of the manga from Japanese to English. Yes, Manga has affected most of us and it is here to stay for a very long long time Resources Used Manga Helpers Community(2007). Retrieved July 14, 2008 from World Wide Web: http://mangahelpers.com/ Summary of Resource The source is rather informative as it focuses on the new famous manga titles chapters.They also do a translation of Japaese text into English and they have a portion of how to improve on their language speaking, drawing of certain characters, certain techniques on how to get certain effects and many more. Brief Evaluation of Resource As the site is a fan made website. There are a lot of reviews and certain posts might not be correct at all and that includes on how to draw the characters and stuff. The site is also rather difficult to find as it has almost no links to link in over here. Also the user is required to read a lot of posts before getting what they might require. There might be a search box but some of the post might not be helpful at all. Overall this site is quite good, however the user is required to do a lot of digging in order to get a topic on the drawing |
BILIOGRAPHY
Done by: Kenneth Lee
Levois (2008, May 12). The NYPD's Secret Crusade Against Marijuana Furthers a Racist Agenda. Retrieved May 28, 2008
from World Wide Web: http://itismymind.blogspot.com/2008/05/nypds-secret-crusade-against-marijuana.html
Stomp (2008, January 4). Discuss the impact of drugs abuse on youths. Retrieved May 20, 2008
from World Wide Web: http://talkback.stomp.com.sg/forums/showthread.php?s=ec05a52d46b0a2550bca964377be6840&t=30829
StreetDirectory (N.D.) Of Drugs and Youths . Retrieved May 20, 2008
from World Wide Web: http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/4783/kids_and_teens/of_drugs_and_youth.html
The global youth network (2007, February 2). “Youth and Drugs” Retrieved July 16, 2008
from World Wide Web: http://www.unodc.org/youthnet/youthnet_youth_drugs.html
Washington State Department of Health (2007, March 21). Alcohol, drugs and violence continue to impact state youth. Retrieved June 7, 2008
from World Wide Web: http://www.doh.wa.gov/Publicat/2007_news/healthy_youth_06.htm
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Done by: Ong Yong Sen
AnimeNewsNetwork(2007). Retrieved May 18,2008 from World Wide Web:http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php
Gaijin1(2008)”Hot Japanese Art Book”. Retrieved May, 14 2008 from World Wide Web: http://www.squidoo.com/japaneseartbooks
Japanime Co Ltd(2008).”Manga University, homepage”. Retrieved May, 14 2008 from World Wide Web: http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/
Manga Helpers(2008). Retrieved July 15, 2008 from World Wide Web http://mangahelpers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1699
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Done by: Pour Bao Guang
Australia Internet Publisher.(N.D). Forum on internet issues. http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/ . Checked on 2008.
Bakar.S. (2006). Will Piracy Kill the Author?
in http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com/2008/04/will-piracy-kill-author.html. Checked on 2008.
Envisional (N.D).Retrieved July 18,2008
http://www.envisional.com/index.html
MSN news.(2008). Game Piracy runs rampant on the Internet. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18665162/ . Checked on 2008
Music Industry Music Investigation. (2006). Impact of internet music file sharing & CD burning.http://www.mipi.com.au/reports/internetmusic.htm.Checked on 2008.
Open Source Blog.(2008). http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/piracy/.Checked on 2008.
Rockista. (2006). Piracy and its Impact to Philippines in http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com/2008/04/will-piracy-kill-author.html. Checked on 2008.
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URL : http://mangahelpers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1699
Purpose: The website is stated very clearly however, you are required to click two times before being able to find out what are their aims. Their purpose is to translate manga from the Japanese language to English, and they use quality translators so that reading them is fun. Coverage: The site mostly focuses on the manga translations and the teaching of the Japanese language to users online. The manga translations are rather limited to the very famous one but unpopular ones are not in the site at all but users can use the tool to translate the language themselves so that they understand what the book is saying. They mainly focus on the manga story and translations as well, however they also have a small portion for drawing techniques and just plain talking as well. However there aren’t linked to other sides unless the users post the links on the forum. Authority: I don’t think this is a authoritative source as this site is created out of pure fan desire and this site can be hardly found on any other sites Accuracy: The facts are accurate as they follow the manga the story and they did research on who are the manga artists and what are certain terms mean in Japanese. Biasness is one of the main part of the site as there are people who hate certain manga or those who like them so they either give civisms or opinions about it. The site is a factual and a opinion one as well where they also talk about how the storyline should go or how they should do certain techniques in reading Japanese. However since it is a forum, there are quite a lot of spelling mistakes and so on as they use chatting lingo to talk. Currency: The information is kept to date every week with every new manga out and it is well maintained as well. |
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| Kenneth_Lee | UIR Practical 6 | 0 | Jul 15 2008, 10:46 PM EDT by Kenneth_Lee | ||
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Class : PO5 Title of Internet Resource: Global Youth Network – Youth & Drugs URL : http://www.unodc.org/youthnet/youthnet_youth_drugs.html Purpose Yes, the website clearly states that more and more people are into drugs nowadays and youths made up a big percentage of those. The website also raises several issues regarding the connection between drugs and youths. Coverage The coverage of the site talks about the impact of drug abuse. The website is comprehensive as it mentions different areas regarding drugs like drug trends. It also covers areas like what is wrong with drug abuse and what is wrong with occasional drug use, when people have been using drugs for centuries. However, the website provides very few information regarding the individual areas. The website could have talk more about the impact of drug abuse on youths and what are the harms and challenges that they will face in the future if they are addicted to drugs. The links provide extensive information and are quite useful. Authority The website is an authoritative source as it is formed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes. The website also promotes readers to join and comment about their website. Accuracy The facts that the website provides are accurate. There is no political, ideological or biasness in the website. The information they provide does not contain any opinions and the references are at the bottom of the webpage. It is also free from grammatical, spelling and typographical errors. Citation The global youth network (2007, February 2). “Youth and Drugs” Retrieved July 16, 2008 from World Wide Web: http://www.unodc.org/youthnet/youthnet_youth_drugs.html
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