journal 7

Journal 7

1.) Watch the following clip:

 

Describe what is a person’s ‘conscience’.

Conscience is a person own sense of right and wrong

2.) Describe how a persons conscience works in making moral decisions. Explain the relationship between religion and conscience.

A persons conscience works in making moral decisions by making what their conscience is, what the moral decisions should be

A religion can change what their conscience is, if a religion says something is wrong their conscience will think that thing is wrong

journal 6

Journal 6

1.) Define the term “Moral Maturity”

Moral Maturity is the term given where something is Moral and is Mature
2.) Read the following article:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/knife-arrest-cop-pelted/2008/03/24/1206206967590.html

Discuss the reasons why the 25 year old man mentioned in the article would be regarded as having a lack of ‘moral maturity’.

The man in the article is regarded as having a lack of moral maturity is because he did resist arrest and this just gave him more jail time

3.) Identify the differences between ‘morality’ and ‘immorality’.

 Morality is when someone who doesn’t break the rules and someone who uses his/her brain and immorality is the opposite

4.) Watch the following clip and describe the reasons why Governor Spitzer’s actions would be regarded as ‘immoral’.

He would once campaigned aganist all of the hookers and prostitutes in NY but he has been caught paying call girls for sex

Journal 4

Journal 41.) Using the Internet research and find descriptions for the roles of the following newspaper personnel:- Editor

Newspaper editors have overall responsibility for the quality, accuracy and tone of their publication, or a section within it. Their main responsibilities may include:

• deciding on which stories to run
• interviewing and writing
• editing other writers’ work
• designing layout
• recruiting and training
• meeting distribution and advertising targets.

- Reporter

Reporters are the people who go into the public and the report on the news.- Journalist

Journalist are people who right articles on the newspapers from the reporters
- Designer

Designers are the people who work on the design on the mag

Journal 3

Journal 3

1.) Explain the difference between ’secular’ and ‘non-secular’.

Secular is not being involved with any sort of Religion and non-secular is being involved with any sort of religion.
2.) Provide FIVE links to media organisaions who provide media to the public.

au.tv.yahoo.com/tv/seven/
channelnine.ninemsn.com.au/
www.ten.com.au/
www.sbs.com.au/
www.abc.net.au/

3.) Select ONE event current in the news media and provide a summary.

Heather mills finally get the divorce settlement of 52 million dollars Sir McCarthy 

 

Journal 2

1.) Describe the Australian Governments NetAlert program?
Netalert is THE Australian Government’s internet safety initiative which consists of a wide range of activities. These include
A filter
A new website and national helpline to provide advice about protecting children online

2.) Discuss the reasons why they have implemented such a program?
To stop the internets  from showing as inappropriate thing

Journal 1

1.) Define the term ‘wired generation’.The wired generation is a generation of people who know more about technology and how to use it then the last generation
2.) Provide examples of FIVE different social community sites. (Create hyperlinks).

Myspace
www.myspace.com/

Bebo
www.bebo.com

Facebook
www.facebook.com/Flickr
www.flickr.com 

Tagged
www.tagged.com/

3.) Choose ONE of the list above a describe why it is used and how it could be misused.

Flickr
The website is used to share photos and it can be misused