Week 9 - Tutorial Task

What opportunities can you find for political participation via the internet? How many of the following can you achieve while sticking to your political beliefs?

* Sign an e-petition.

A. I signed an e – petition for ‘An Australian Republic’.

Via http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/plebicite-for-an-australian-republic/sign.html#se

* What is Barak Obama up to today?

A. Today Friday the 23rd, 2011, Barack Obama is giving his annual back to school speech.

Found on http://ochairball.blogspot.com/

* What are the Australian Government's plans to censor the internet (the so-called "Clean Feed")?

A. The plan is to censor refused classified content, which almost all is legal to view or process.

* When will the NBN get to your place? What are the benefits?

A. We will get NBN in the next 3-5 years and city areas in 5-8 years. The benefits are faster, cheaper and better forms of telecommunications infrastructure.

* Find out who your local, state and federal representatives are.

A. Our local representatives are the Gold Coast CityCountil, Some of our state representatives are Christine Smith, Michael Crandon, Alexander Douglas, Raymond Stevens and Peter Lawlor.

A list can be found via 

http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/attachment/factsheets/fs357_government_members.pdf

Our Local Federal Representatives are:

• Mr Bert Van Manen MP - Electoral Division of Forde (QLD)

• Mr Stuart Robert MP - Electoral Division of Fadden (QLD)

• Mrs Karen Andrews MP - Electoral Division of McPherson (QLD)

• Mr Steven Ciobo MP - Electoral Division of Moncrieff (QLD)

• The Hon Justine Elliot MP - Electoral Division of Richmond (NSW)

• Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig - Senator for Queensland

• Mr Scott Buchholz MP - Electoral Division of Wright (QLD)

Found via http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/t_standard2.aspx?pid=4351#federal

* Look up the Queensland or Australian Hansard to find the last time your local member spoke in parliament.

A. Mr Langbroek's most recent speech was 8th September 2011 on the topic: Correctional System; Beachmere, Police beat.

Found Via  

http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/Speeches/spk2011/John-Paul%20Langbroek%20spk%20Surfers%20Paradise%202011_09_08_82.pdf#xml=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/internetsearch/isysquery/2966931c-3f5f-45ab-8159-90627b358862/37/hilite/

Week 9 - Response to Content

You have been thinking about what topic you will choose for your final essay. Have a look at the questions on the announcements page. You should choose only one of the questions to answer. You may think of another topic but you must have it approved by your tutor during the tutorials.

Post your essay plan: What is your topic? What is your position? Analyse the elements of the topic. Sketch your response to each of the elements. What conclusion does that bring you to? Summarise in 200 words. There you have a plan for your essay.

The topic I have chosen for me essay is 'Does the extensive use of computer/video games have an adverse impact on the health of young people. what are the most recent papers? Clarify what both sides of the argument claim and only then offer your reasoned opinion based on facts'. My plan is to firstly gather information from various academic sources and then build my knowledge on the topic. After I have done this I will begin to structure my essay paragraph by paragraph explaining each concern to young individual’s health. I want to discuss how it may cause obesity and the effectiveness of the WIFIT, violence in real life, its outcome on academic outcomes and behaviour. The conclusion I will most likely come to be that yes computer/video games are contributing negatively to young people’s health and that maybe they need to be moderated by their parents and they need guidance about what is right and wrong and what they should be spending their time doing rather than playing such games.

Below are two links to many of the articles I will be using to assist in writing my essay and I plan to find many more.

http://web.ebscohost.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/ehost/resultsadvanced?sid=7f06b311-bb76-41c2-8d18-5f6b8b0f3048%40sessionmgr112&vid=2&hid=126&bquery=(video+games)&bdata=JmRiPWNtZWRtJnR5cGU9MSZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d

http://web.ebscohost.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/ehost/viewarticle?data=dGJyMPPp44rp2%2fdV0%2bnjisfk5Ie46bFItauvSa%2bk63nn5Kx95uXxjL6urUuupbBIr6eeT7irt1Kwqp5oy5zyit%2fk8Xnh6ueH7N%2fiVauqr021prJIsaekhN%2fk5VXj5KR84LPhhePa6z7y1%2bVVv8SkeeyzsEmxp69Lsq6kfu3o63nys%2bSN6uLyffbq&hid=126