Gambling

I have never done this myself personally but i know that some people can become addicted to it like some people can become addicted to alcohol.

There are many forms of gambling for instants the lottery is a form of gambling but this helps people as the money raised goes into the community to help projects, where as gambling in a casino or bookies is just wrong as you are losing money that you may never get back.

In Las Vegas all they do is gamble this is what the city is there for and its purpose of this city.

When typing in gambling in the search menu on the internet all you get is gambling sites.

why we gamble

http://www.gamcare.org.uk/site.builder/why.html

Lieing

What is lieing does anyone really know and does it actually hurt a person when you lie to them to protect them. I do not think if you lie to a person to protect them that lieing can hurt as if you know a friends partner is cheating your not going to admit to knowing when they find out are you.

Look at the film liar liar with jim carey in he protects gulity people and gets them off for crimes they have commited but said they havent commited in court in the end his lies lose him his family and his son has to wish for his dad to tell the truth so he will and he tells his family how he really thinks about them.

here is a site on why we lie

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060515_why_lie.html

Masturbation

Alot of people mastubate and some people see it as wrong where as some people think it is right to do so as they are not getting sexual attention. My view is masturbation is each to the persons own they do as they please no one can stop a person from doing what they want to do. As long as a person is not masturbating in public or infront of another person who does not agree with it then they should not do so and respect peoples wishes.
Masturbation is the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the 19th century it was a disease in the 20th century it is a cure. "Thomas Szasz (cited in sex and sexuality : A Thematic Dictionary of quotations London Cassell 1993)
people use alot of different names for masturbations such as

pulling the pickle
yanking the monkey
pull his wire

Some people say there are cures there is a website below for what some people see as cures.
http://kaos2000.net/backpages/masturbation.html

Assignments

I started this course unsure of what Being Bad would end up to be I knew there was 3 assignments to do

• Weblogs
• Creative Story
• Essay

I did a creative story on Smoking and then my essay was on Betrayal and what people thought it was. I enjoyed doing the weblog and i enjoyed writing the essay as it was interesting to find out what was many thought betrayal was

Questionnaire

Age? 20

Sex? Female

What is your degree subject (both if joint)? Criminal Justice and Social Care

Does ‘Being Bad’ relate well to the other modules you are taking? No not really

If so, how? And if not, why not? The subjects we studied were not related to any of my other classes

Have you found ‘Being Bad’ too demanding, too easy, or at an appropriate level? I found it really easy and enjoyable.

Do you think the list of topics covered on the module was appropriate? Not all of them were i did not like the religion one of the bad cinema topic

Are there any topics not included in the module that you would like to see included? I dont think so i liked most of the topics that have been doen apart from the ones stated above

Do you think that the format for classes has worked well? Yes it was a very relaxed format of teaching

What did you think of the module team? The module team was good and made classes interesting.

Do you think it would have been better to have had more:
Small group discussions? Not really as i do not always think this is better
Discussion and debate among the class as a whole? Yes as it would tell us what other people thought about the lecture being given.
Information and talk from lecturers? Some didnt seem relavant but alot of it helped me to understand a topic




Do you think the list of topics covered on the module was appropriate?

Questions and answers 1

During the class we watched 3 clips to do with doing things that are wrong. The first clip was family guy 'Breaking out is hard to do' 2005 fox

Is shoplifting any different to any other kind of theft?
No as you are still taking things that do not belong to you, you may not be hurting one individual by stealing from a shop but it is still stealing.

Why do people who can afford to buy things shoplift them instead ?
It is because of the adrenaline rush and the fact they could be caught at any time. When they get away with the crime it is more exciting
Those were the answers that I thought of.

http://search.msn.co.uk/images/results.aspx?q=family%20guy%20breaking%20out%20is%20hard&FORM=QBIR&mkt=en-gb#focal=cb68d010c49e61a685560f8a0cc81038&furl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.planet-familyguy.com%2Fpfg%2Fimages%2Fepisodes%2F4ACX12_tn.jpg
that is the site i found the picture from and the picture is from the actual clip.

Bad cinema 2

Kids (1995)

Larry Clark must have been a sick man to be doing this film he may think it was art but the film is far from it. I was asked to answer some questions but I decided not to and decided to write my opinions instead.

I recommend to anyone not to watch this film as if you have morals and ethical reasoning or if you are easily lead by stupid things best not to watch this film as you could end up going out there contracting HIV and passing it around to unknowing young ladies.

Bad cinema

Kids (1995)

This film was not just bad cinema it was disgusting I found it disgraceful how a pimply little teenage boy is going round and sleeping with all these young girls, where were the parents when their child was out all night getting high and drunk and sleeping around.

The Plot Outline was an amoral, HIV-positive skateboarder sets out to deflower as many virgins as possible while a local girl who contracted his disease tries to save his next target from her same fate.
The girl trying to save his next victim was to busy getting high and drinking to be saving anyone. The director and writer of this film must think this is how teenagers act now a days or even in 1998 I can tell you I would never act this way and know no one who would act this way either it was just ethically wrong.

As for the rape scene in this film it made me think about how much you don’t actually know what your doing when you have been drinking or smoking and taking drugs. There were even young children in this film taking drugs what moral does that show.

http://www.larryclark.us/index.html

Comments on Francesca Finnegan's Blogs

Francescas blogs were very informative and went into alot of detail about the classes she has reported on she does not have that many blogs but the ones she does have, have alot of comments in and what she thinks in them i wish i had got into alot more detail with mine like she did.



link for Francesca F blogs

http://ffinnegan.blogspot.com/

Comments on Marlenes Blogs

I like marlenes blogs alot as she comments on and puts her opinion in to the blogs she also gives blow by blow recaps on what happened through out all the lecturers so if you missed anything from the lecturers read marlenes blogs they will help you catch up which is good, I like the amount of information she has put into the blogs and the amount of detail she has gone into.

link to marlenes blog

http://marlene26.blogspot.com/

Body modification 2

Tattoos were started in Maori tribes they had lines and patterns put onto their face each line meant a part of there life, people who copy these designs now are taking away the signicantes from the Maori tribes.

There are many ways of body modification there is non invasive practice which means that you are only changing the colour of your hair or adding make or or body paints where as invasive is adding something that can not be removed from your body and it is permantly there.
http://www.uniquelynz.com/maori_intro.htm