23/04/13 Research Project sample

[Mr. Hendrick]

Please post a paragraph (or more) of your work so far in this topic. 

[Michael Calvey]

Is democracy the best course for action for africa and in what ways is it holding African countries back?

In recent years there have been revolutions toppling many dictators in northern Africa. Their aim was to make the country free and allow the people to earn money and start companies without constant pressure from the government. Africa has been steadily rising on many fronts: social, political and economic.

Democracy in African countries has given rise to small businesses and people living without fear. According to Robert Kiyosaki the most successful way to earn money is to start a business and invest. During periods when African countries were controlled by dictators their people were repressed to an extent, meaning that they either did not have the means or were kept away from starting businesses. This is the main change that has affected North African countries

[Matthew Bailey]

This is my opening paragraph:

Over the past century nanotechnology has become a major part of millions of people’s lives across the globe. This has given them access to resources that before were previously only available to the military and the extremely wealthy. Today, there is more processing power in a smart phone than there was in a super computer during the 20^th century. As a result of this rise in quality and demand of technology, scientists are beginning to adapt it into different areas of society. Cars and housing were the first to be effected with new media systems that people can watch films on and surf the internet, and alarm systems that can identify a person from just seeing their face. Now as the nanotechnology has progressed even further, the medical industry is becoming a very important branch of it. New nanotechnologies are being tested every day in the medical industry to try and eliminate the epidemics and life threatening conditions of the modern world.

[Tom Probert]

In the UK 60.8% of adults and 31.1% of children are obese (2011). As many as 30,000 people die per year in the uk prematurely due to obesity or obesity related diseases (2011). Some experts argue that obesity is responsible for more ill-health than smoking. The UK is in the top 5 for most obese nation (2012), yet from all these facts the government has still failed to produce a method of successfully limiting these numbers. I’ve seen films from 1970’s - 80’s London but I noticed something amazing, only a small portion of the people were overweight. With the progression of modern technology and the advancement of medical research the percentage of obesity should be going down, it makes sense, but they're not. So what went wrong? The increase of mass production and cheap labour from China has led companies like Mcdonald's a gold mine of profit and customers, too lazy, to buy and cook their own food. So how, as a country and a government, can we limit the number of obese people in the UK.

[Alexandra Russell]

America. Land of the free, home of the brave, a ‘dream’. Well, maybe not. Firearm ownership has increased dramatically over the past 15 years (with 100,000,000 more weapons in the country since 1995), and by the end of the decade the United States could accommodate more guns than people. Scary, isn’t it? Yes. But not in a society that is constantly terrified, constantly inundated with fear, where many don’t feel safe without a loaded gun beneath their pillow. This is just normality.

[Lewis Symonds]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YFrBAK0Nnk7b93X2sYS-_f4poEoA_RVlm2g-51VDqEQ/edit

[maxwels]

Lance Armstrong is an amazing man. Because of what he believed in, not what he did. He stood against cancer even after being given less than a 40% chance of living. He was dropped by his cycling team, therefor loosing his health insurance. he had been diagnosed with late stage metastatic testicular cancer that had spread to his abdomen, his lungs and also his brain. One team of doctors told his mother to 'prepare to lose her only son.' After four terrible chemotherapy sessions and many surgical operations that helped to remove the cancerous lesions from his brain. He then went on the win 7 Tour de France titles. Unfortunately he was later proved to have been 'doping' and using the new at the time enhancing hormone Erythropoietin or ECO as it is otherwise known. At the time in the cycling 'game' there was a huge amount of 'doping' happening and a lot of the the cyclists performing in the Tour de France and other events like it were using it to enhance their ability. This is why now that he has been proven to be 'doping' it is still unfair as the probability of the runner up to be 'doping' also is high

[Alberto TG]

The bigot Sport: Racism in Football and how it has to end 

In recent years, one of the main problems in football has been Racism. Racism seems to be in a never-ending circle and has been a problem in humanity for hundreds of years, but never has it been such a big problem in the sporting society.  In the last couple of years racism has become more and more common in football especially. With not just fans, but also professional footballers being charged and punished for racism on the field. There have been many incidents, but racism doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Why has racism increased its prevalence on the football pitch, but nearly vanished from almost every other part of the first world? 

[novisc]

The Freedom of the Grave: Finding your Philosophy Amidst a Controversial Battleground

After rising up into controversy in the late 19th century, euthanasia has become one of the most widely debated and segregated topics in medical philosophy, with powerful supporting and opposing arguments and a spread of viewpoints across both religious and secular audiences. But with dispute and altercation at every turn, how will you ever find your views amidst this anarchic contention?

[Georgie Hockenhull]

In the last century Britain has changed immeasurably, the survey in 2012 showed that ‘White British’ living in London were no longer the majority; there is now a plethora of different religions and cultures and an increasing percentage of the population who have no religion at all. This was proven when the Prince of Wales announced that when he becomes King he wants to be declared “Defender of Faith” rather than his predecessors who were declared “Defender of the Faith”. This religious diversity and the increasingly non-religious demographic means that the Church itself and those who attend regularly are becoming an anomaly. This is not just Britain the Church is in a, some fear terminal, decline around the world. Perhaps this is due to an inability to accept change, to continue to discriminate against, to shun, to reject those do not fit with the ancient ideals proposed when these religions were founded.

(one of the middle paragraphs) 

 

 

[jack ingall]

first two paragraphs...

Stereotypes are common beliefs made on people based on their stature within society or just a group. They can be negative, positive or neutral however i will focus on mainly the negative stereotypes and the effects they have on people and society as a whole. From my research and past experiences the actual word stereotype has become a word which gives strong negative connotations and for justifiable reasons. Negative stereotypes on different people or groups can have a very strong influence on people’s lives. Can stereotypes be beneficial to society? Yes, stereotypes can also be beneficial in everyday lives, when people make generalizations about groups of people being dangerous and avoid them, others would say that individual is being sensible and I would agree, even though he/she still used a stereotype in the progress of making that decision.

 

Stereotypes can unite people and divide people within society. From an evolutionary perspective humans have evolved to stereotype. Some evolutionary psychologists say that xenophobia, intense of irrational dislike or fear of strangers who are different to oneself, can have genetic roots. Some psychologists argue that to an extent humans are programmed by their genes to respond positively to people who are genetically similar to them selves and negatively to people who are genetically different. This indicates that stereotyping is a subconscious action and only extreme stereotyping leads to important consequences. 

[Eliza Cudmore]

Newstateman.com is looking for a guest journalist to investigate and report on the British Prison system, your aim is to inform, educate and persuade your readers on the difference between reforming and punishing inmates.

The Ministry of Justice assures us that crime rates are at an all time low, but why do we feel the need to double lock our doors at night? In October 2012 David Cameron insisted that ‘criminals can be punished and rehabilitated at the same time’ but as younger people are sentenced to longer years, we doubt this probability.  

Following David Cameron’s outlandish remark I pose these questions, does the increase of reoffending inmates contradict him? Is the Conservative government aiming to reform inmates? And can an alternative to prison create better results? In 2007 the Ministry of Justices reported that reoffending rates for prisons around the England varied from 26.7% to 76.6% for inmates who had served for less than a year. A survey taken showed that roughly three-quarters of inmates who didn’t find a job after release were reconvicted in the same year.