tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11255244489057917492024-03-14T02:28:36.048+08:002013 IRS S2-08 :)Group C IRS. Ryan, Emmanuel, Sean and SunnyRyan. ☁ (泟融)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05792537378497622384noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125524448905791749.post-45119880897743001782013-03-11T13:43:00.000+08:002013-03-11T13:43:58.873+08:00IRS Meeting 4 Note Taking <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sean Low W.Z ( 19) 刘文政http://www.blogger.com/profile/13878956923398626665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125524448905791749.post-69541426167117089312013-01-29T12:30:00.005+08:002013-03-26T08:42:47.708+08:00Lit review<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no such thing as a safe cigarette, as all of them are extremely deadly in the long run. Smoking is a troublesome and extremely bad habit, and many teens in singapore smoke. In 2010 alone, about 15 percent of Singaporean teens smoke. This review is going to focus on the factors that cause people to smoke.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although a few websites has shown that smoking has a rather quiet past, SGH and NEA have put up web links on the increase of smoking dramatically in the past few years. It has been theorised by NEA that increase in teen smoking is mainly due to the fact that peer pressure has been high, and that many teens smoke because of their friends. Greenhaven press has published a book (1998 Teen smoking) that is detailed about the problems of smoking and mentions with a lot of elaborations that a lot of students and teens smoke due to the fact that television has made smoking so popular that many teens pick it up. Cigarette smoking is very clearly depicted in The Matrix and the Muppets, which are very popular shows and movies that children like to watch. After they watch it they think its “cool” to smoke.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to livestrong.com and Family First Aid, when teens' family members smoke, teens are more likely to smoke. Parents and family members serve as role models to a teen, who is forming opinions about the world. When parents smoke, smoking can seem more permissible to the teen. For example, 98 percent of smokers have parents who also smoke, according to Family First Aid, suggesting a strong link between parental smoking and teen smoking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Smoking is also advertised wrongly in many areas. Greenhaven (same book above) has written that product advertisement has been widely spread. For example, in the movie Men in Black 2, Marlboro paid to uncensor their products so that they can advertise their cigarettes, but when they open the fridge to get food, the brand labels are censored. Tobacco brands also often want teens to smoke, to take the place of older, more frail smokers. However, it also argues that it might not be the advertising that is the problem. They write that sometimes, anti-smoking ads may have failed. Many messages have an implicit meaning that smoking is what adults do, however not many adults smoke. Sometimes, the font and color of the font failed. There was a poster that said “Think. Don’t smoke.” However, the word “don’t” was filled with a different color, and it was hard to spot, so instead the viewer sees ‘Think smoke’, which explicitly means that you should think with smoking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, Margaret O’Hyde (1995) argues that majority of the smoker smoke due to the fact that many people start smoking in their teens due to the fact that peer pressure to smoke is extremely high in majority of the secondary schools/Jcs. A teenage mother in the USA was missing her old friends and life, and used cigarettes to calm down from the hustle and bustle of daily life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In all, we have found many factors that have increased teen smoking, however, we find that many of the websites and books often mention peer pressure. The teens who are addicted to smoking are influenced by others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THE REASONS FOR TEENAGE SMOKING. Retrieved on 28-1-13 website:<a href="http://www.livestrong.com/article/214124-the-reasons-for-teenage-smoking/#ixzz2JGySp7t9">http://www.livestrong.com/article/214124-the-reasons-for-teenage-smoking/#ixzz2JGySp7t9</a></span><br />
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Emmanuel Kasman (蔡汉熠)12http://www.blogger.com/profile/07462720758559937722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125524448905791749.post-63805969739117899692013-01-29T12:30:00.003+08:002013-03-26T08:32:04.526+08:00Book Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sean Low W.Z ( 19) 刘文政http://www.blogger.com/profile/13878956923398626665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125524448905791749.post-29210441827267863182013-01-14T13:32:00.001+08:002013-01-14T13:32:02.852+08:00literature reviewsHi guys,<br />
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I will be passing you books on smoking tomorrow. Try scanning for parts that we can use and some points that we must note. Can you pass it back by friday? Thanks!<br />
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-EmmanuelEmmanuel Kasman (蔡汉熠)12http://www.blogger.com/profile/07462720758559937722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125524448905791749.post-83353374924795317682013-01-14T11:13:00.002+08:002013-01-14T11:13:44.616+08:00Gantt Chart for IRS Group C Term 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sean Low W.Z ( 19) 刘文政http://www.blogger.com/profile/13878956923398626665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125524448905791749.post-12572776751201436952013-01-07T13:53:00.001+08:002013-03-26T08:41:42.443+08:00Ground Rules<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Everyone shall stick to your roles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Everyone shall be cooperative</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Any misbehaving and we will tell the 'cher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Have fun! :D</span>Emmanuel Kasman (蔡汉熠)12http://www.blogger.com/profile/07462720758559937722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125524448905791749.post-72108334761215955272013-01-07T13:48:00.002+08:002013-01-07T13:48:59.200+08:00To Group MembersTo group members:<br />
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Meet on the 14th to the 18th January for revision of what we did last year. Thank you.<br />
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EmmanuelEmmanuel Kasman (蔡汉熠)12http://www.blogger.com/profile/07462720758559937722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125524448905791749.post-3641913073328612172012-10-03T10:25:00.000+08:002012-10-03T10:25:57.942+08:00IRS proposal video<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li class="li7"><span class="s1">Why is your research important? It should help teens in the future not take up and get addicted to smoking</span></li>
<li class="li7"><span class="s1">How does it contribute to existing body of knowledge? The current body of knowledge has not gone this in depth to find out the root cause of the problem. thus, only solving part of the problem. Our research goes down deep to find out the root cause of the problem. removing the problem once and for all.</span></li>
<li class="li7"><span class="s1">How does your research contribute to/impact the society or community? It reduces the number of teen smokers, reducing the number of teens going astray.</span></li>
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<span class="s1"> We found out that most of the research articles that were on the net said that the causes are due to teen pressure, media, curiosity. But all of their conclusions are based on experts studies, not the teen smokers themselves.</span></div>
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<li class="li7"><span class="s1">How are you going to collate data? We will collate data via graphs and finding out the most common cause of them smoking. </span></li>
<li class="li7"><span class="s1">How are you going to sift and sort data i.e. which data is important? By using graphs and sifting out the important questions and paying more attention to then answers.</span></li>
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Emmanuel Kasman (蔡汉熠)12http://www.blogger.com/profile/07462720758559937722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1125524448905791749.post-73464553422865281822012-09-12T10:58:00.002+08:002013-03-26T08:34:05.353+08:00IRS justification<br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH STUDIES</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">RESEARCH JUSTIFICATION</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Research Topic: Health</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chosen Area Of Focus: </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teens Smoking In Singapore</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Framing our research topic</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Our research topic is the factors that cause teen smoking in Singapore. The reason we chose this topic is because in recent years there has been increase in the number of Teens smoking in Singapore. </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smoking</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a practice in which a substance, most commonly</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tobacco</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cannabis</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, is burned and the smoke is tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practised as a</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_of_administration"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">route of administration</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_drug_use"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">recreational drug use</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, as</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combustion"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">combustion</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> releases the</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_substance"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">active substances</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in drugs such as</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nicotine</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and makes them available for absorption through the lungs. It can also be done as a part of rituals, to induce trances and spiritual enlightenment. (Wikipedia)</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Essential Questions </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a. </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why Do Teens Want To Smoke? </span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We would like to find out why teens smoke, what are the main reasons why they smoke. Is it because of the feel of it or could it because of another reason?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">b. </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What Are The Consequences Of Teens underage Smoking? How would this affect them?</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How would underage smoking affect the teens? What are the effects of smoking, what will happen to them in the future?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2.</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reasons for choice of topic</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We want to find out why teens are influenced into such an act. To find out the root causes of this act. By finding the root cause, we would be able to know the reasons why teens decide to do this. Knowing what the root cause is, we would be able to find ways to prevent teens from smoking. </span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Feasibility of the research</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Feasibility studies aim to objectively and rationally uncover the strengths and weaknesses of an existing business or proposed venture, opportunities and threats as presented by the environment, the resources required to carry through, and ultimately the prospects for success. Feasibility of our research is rather high, as many teenagers in schools smoke.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Accessibility of the research</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- We will get the information that we need by asking people from different ages, eg. Teenagers, Young Adults, Adults and Elderly on their views about this situation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- We will find online articles about cases that cases have happen to people and how smoking at a young age affected their life eg. their family, friends, education... </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Manageability of the research</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It would be rather easy to conduct this research. But we do expect some problems along the way, such as problems conflicts among members and time management. This research provides sufficient opportunity for group work as we will need to discuss a lot of matters regarding the project e.g who will be assigned to do which part of the project. We are able to contact each other through sources like facebook, twitter, google plus, etc. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I began smoking as a very young teen.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I had low self-esteem and despite knowing the dangers, I started smoking to fit in. It's a common story, played out the world over. For some reason, a rolled-up paper with tobacco and nicotine inside is supposed to make you popular, or confident, or cool. It doesn't.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By the age of 15, my addiction was so strong I was smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day. Soon my ex-smoker parents found out (my dad once worked for the company that made Marlboro cigarettes, and each of my parents smoked between 40 and 60 a day in their early twenties!) and despite their intense disappointment, I continued. It was my rebellion, along with with alcohol, drugs, skipping school and fighting. I had so many internal issues going on, I thought acting out would distract those I loved (and myself) from them. Smoking was the main distraction though, because it soon became all I thought about, day and night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I was 19 years old, I was smoking up to 30 cigarettes a day at University, and with a night out, it could easily reach 40 a day. I switched to a stronger brand, yet still smoked more and was in constant pain. A University doctor told me I had the </span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lungs of a 40-year-old smoker</span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (own bolds) and I wasn't even 20. Yet still, the strongest part of my addiction lay within the need to feel "adult." I felt smoking made me mature. How wrong I was.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I remember moving my dormitory room around so that my bed was next to my desk. First thing in the morning, all I had to do was sit up in bed and I was at my desk with a cigarette checking out the news on the Internet. If I didn't have my cig within a moment of waking I felt the veins in my arms and legs throb -- I </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">needed</span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that cigarette. What a disgusting thought, but one we can all relate to, I'm sure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I tried to quit in 2005 and lasted a week when the doctor told me how bad I might feel (I already did) from nicotine withdrawal I tried again in 2006. My second quit was unsuccessful but the best attempt so far, as I joined this wonderful forum. However, within a few weeks away from the forum I was back to 30 cigarettes a day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As the year 2007 started, I was looking forward to turning 21. There was to be a big party thrown in my honor, I was getting set for a career, school was going better than ever and I was engaged to my wonderful girlfriend Ashley. What should have been a great time of transition ended up as a painful and demoralizing (there are no other words) period that I think will always be known as the worst months and year of my life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I spent months dealing with treatment and still am, with ongoing recovery. I should stress, this was almost certainly not linked to smoking; however, cancer is cancer, no matter the cause, and it is no easier to deal with, whatever the circumstance. The negative impact of the word "cancer" feels like an immediate death sentence regardless of the cause, type or stage. It is a word that embodies death, misery, suffering and, very often, regret. </span></span></div>
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