Lecture 4 on lying.

Everyone lies. Lying happens every day. There are two types of lies, for example white lies, which do little or no harm or black lies, which can do harm to the deceiver or the deceived when the truth comes out.
Sometimes we can tell when people are lying and sometimes we can’t. There are different ways to find out if someone is lying for example: see if the person is avoiding eye contact. Is the person making eye contact when they are talking to you? Or are their eyes roaming around when they are talking to you and not really focused on yours. Check to see if they are fidgeting a lot for example are they moving around a lot like in a bit of a panic? The person might be moving their hands a lot when they are moving around a lot. Or maybe you might try to see if the person’s story adds up for example remembering what they said. I would probably wait about two weeks and ask them the story again and see if the story fits with what they were saying before. People can also take a lie detector test to see if they are lying. http://www.firehow.com/200905171216/how-find-out-if-they-are-lying.html

A clip was shown in the lecture from Red dwarf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRzNuIvpMUc the character Lister was trying to teach Kryten how to lie and go against his robotic programming. In the video clip Lister says that “lying is vital part of our psychological defence system”.
In my opinion i think when it comes to men and women i don’t think one sex can lie more than the other. I think everyone is the same. A man can lie and so can women.

Sometimes people find themselves in a situation where they are forced to lie for the sake of protecting somebody else for example lying for your best friend. This might mean telling a lie to corroborate the person’s story “yes she slept over my house last night”. Sometimes people take responsibility for something they did not do so that the other person cannot get punished. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A996942
Coming to a conclusion i think that if people did not lie and the world was full of people telling the truth things will still be the same because people will still be getting hurt.

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Shoplifting

ShopliftingThursday, 11 February 2010 lecture on shoplifting was an interesting topic to discuss. In my opinion i believe that theft wrong and people should not try to justify it. Even if someone has stolen the smallest cheapest thing it’s still wrong. A short video clip that was shown from family guy looked at how a mother became addicted to shoplifting. She started off by stealing one thing witch lead to her stealing even more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr0GNRV91zw Shoplifting can become a more serious crime for example the person stealing might want to steal more and expensive thing or even lead to robbery or even scam. Moreover the question asked in this lecture was: Is shoplifting any different to any kind of theft, and why do people who can afford to buy things shoplift instead? Like i said at the beginning i believe that stealing is stealing and there is not any difference what you are doing is still wrong. I also believe that people who can afford to buy things but instead they shoplift them might do this for many different reasons for example to get attention, peer pressure or they might to it just because it fun and they get a buzz out of it.

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Lecture 2 on smoking.

Lecture 2 on smoking.
Lecture 2 on smoking.I started smoking when i was about 14. At first it was because all my friends were doing it and i felt that i had to smoke to fit in and everyone thought it was cool to smoke and made us look older and mature. I stopped smoking when i was 17 because i realised smoking is a dangerous and disgusting habit.The film that was shown in the lecture looked the influences of famous people that smoked films. Some people think that smoking is sexy and worth dying for. Moreover the people smoking in the film that was shown were constantly put in the viewers faces. In addition smoking in films and TV is not an accident it is purposely included because it contributes to the character of the individual smoker.In my opinion i think that smoking has continued to be in the public eye. There are a number of different anti smoking campaigns to encourage people to stop smoking , and web sites that try to support people for example The British Heat Foundation has information on how to get help if you want to quit smoking. http://www.bhf.org.uk/keeping_your_heart_healthy/preventing_heart_disease/smoking.aspxMoreover there has been a total ban on smoking in pubs, bars, work and clubs. But people are still smoking knowing that it is damaging to their health and wellbeing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1510525/Total-ban-on-smoking-in-pubs-clubs-and-at-work.html.an example of the changing use of cigarettes in the movies is in the bond movies this was pointed out in the lecture, the bond character Sean Connery is seen smoking in this picture: http://fatfinch.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bond-smoking.jpg moreover the new James bond Daniel Craig is not smoking in the picture from Casino Royale: http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Articles/20061108/425.casino.royale.110706.jpg. As a result this shows that times have changed and the character of bond has changed to with a different actor taking over the part of Bond. Coming to a conclusion people attitudes about smoking have changed. The government have taken action the number of deaths from the effects of smoking, for example banning smoking in public places. In my opinion i feel that this has made it easier for smokers to give up smoking. There are many TV adverts, radio adverts and websites that give advice to people on how to give up smoking.

first lecture Bad things you’ve done

I found this lecture very interesting, funny and must of the things people confessed to were very disturbing. It was very interesting to find out the things that different people have done. I think the worst confession was when someone wrote that they had sex with their sister. This is obviously wrong, it is incest and illegal. But according to the BBC news website for about 300years a significant proportion of all marriages recorded were between brothers and sisters: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6424337.stm. According to research being in an incest relationship and having children with that person can lead to the child having special needs. Moreover some research shows that some genetics put the risk of producing a disabled child as high as 50% but this is hotly debated.
Some experts say that incestual marriages were widespread at least during part of the Egyptian history like as Naphtali Lewis (Life in Egypt under Roman Rule: Oxford, 1983), claims that many papyri attest to many husbands and wives as being brother and sister: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/incest/history.html. Me personally i think that incest in wrong, this is because I was raised to believe that it is wrong and you should never sleep with your brother or sister. On the other hand this is a hard topic to get around because apart from having children that may have special needs who decided that incest was wrong and why should it be wrong.

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being bad field trip

I think are lesson on smoking was really interesting .It would be interesting to go to a drug work shop and hear people talk about their experiences with drugs and how taking drugs has changed their life. It would be interesting to find out why they started talking drugs, who introduced them to drugs, and when they finally decided to get help. I think this would inspire other people not to take drugs because they would get the chance to speaking to someone who has experienced talking drugs and how it has affected their life.

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