What drugs do street children take?

http://www.counselling.cam.ac.uk/drugs.html

1. This was the website that used to find out what drugs street children take. I found out that drugs are placed into categories. Stimulants are types of drugs that give a short, energetic effect. These are just recreational drugs. Drugs such as Ecstasy and Crack Cocaine are stimulants.
2. Depressents are drugs that give a relaxing and sensational feeling, as well as reducing the intensity of pain and of emotions such as fear, anger or anxiety. Examples are Morphine.

Specific question research

Each of you has a specific question that you are researching. Write a brief summary of your findings as a comment on this post. Make sure you cite your sources and mention anything of relevance such as the date of the webiste or any posible bias in the information.

M3A 2007-08 Entry 1

Welcome to your blog. Use this space to post comments on the work done so far. Please use these questions to help you structure your answers. Make sure you respond by clicking the link below to 'add a comment' rather than creating a new post. This is your holiday homework and must be posted by January 7th. Any problems, email your work to me tickle_jennifer@tisa.az and I'll post it for you.
Which issue did you find the most interesting to explore and why?
What will you find interesting about the issues we have chosen as a class?
Tell me two facts you have dioscovered about our issues and tell me where you got those facts from.
Tell me about a useful website for research- what is good about it?
What do you hope to achieve in this unit of study?
We have to create a play which is culturally transferrable - give me one way we might achieve this.

This trust exercise worked very well and I trusted my partner enormously because I knew her quite well except it was at some times very difficult because I could hear the people all around me and I got frightened that I would crash into them but I kept my eyes shut because of the instructions that were given to me. There was some times where we misunderstood each other because the signals were sometimes done to many times making us turn around several times and doubting each other a couple of times. Jenna and I trusted each other once the exercise was started but in the before the exercise stared Jenna had trouble trusting me because she of my usual behavior. I on the other had did not care as much as here if I would bump into another person or a table, but Jenna pulled through and it worked actually quite well.
The reason we did this exercise was because we needed to build trust in each other for future projects that we would do in drama. This exercise is very important because we basically put our eyes in theirs and trust them to guide us if we were blind.
We also did a trust exercise in which we put trusted 2 people to catch us when we fall which I thought worked quite well except the only difficulty was that it was quite hard to fall right on command. But we had to fall like a tree so it would be easier to fall and catch. I trusted the people in my group but they sometimes were caught off guard and they once didn’t catch me but they did try to but I slightly touched to floor.

The reason we did these trust exercises were because if we were ever to do such a thing a project we could trust the people to catch us.

By Riyad Mamedyarov, muhahaha

My First Post

I really wanted to explore the topics about rape and drugs. I would like to do these because i think it is a big problem all around the world. It is also something that should be taken it more seriously. Our classes final choice was to include many global issues into our class project. We chose to do child abuse, street children, drugs and rape. I really like this idea because we are including alot of global issues that effect people all around the world. And we can also explore all of the topics and not just one of them. Which i think will make the project more interesting. I went onto the CNN website to research about Child Abuse. I found some really interesting Information on the site http://www.co.ba.md.us/Agencies/police/community/abuse.html. Two interesting facts that i found out was that 84% of prison inamtes were abused as children. Another fact that i found out was that one in three girls and one in five boys have been and are being sexualy abused by an adult, during their childhood. I found this site very usefull because it was easy to follow and the information was very useful.

Fazizi's posts updated

I would have found it frustrating also. That’s because they haven’t chose the country yet and they just started choosing the names. Why country? That’s because first you should know from where the family is from so you can come up with names. But they had the names which might have not even matched the names of that country. For example lets say Korea. If they family was Korean, I don think they would have named they kids as Dorothy, John or James. The family might have been Turkish and they don’t have such names. The names should be the same as the country would have. They should be careful with the names they choose.
For me the best for developing the plays works the script part. I think when you just start the play you don’t really make sense. For example in our group we just started, and people were laughing in parts where you should be angry or saying nice stuff in a sad part. I think it just works out better while writing it out first. When you write the script you get to think more and decided what you will say next, that way you don’t have to think of things you are going to say. I remember we started just saying the words out, and Samir and I have realized that it just doesn’t work. So we went to SRA and started working there. We as a group came up with the things of what each person must say and when. When we were practicing it helped us a lot. That’s because we already knew what we were doing and we weren’t all messed up. Everyone had their line to read and it said what we were meant to do.



My monologue.

I think monologues are pretty useful. For people who can not speak in front of audience, this is a chance for them to learn how to. I will give an example from mine. My monologue was going pretty well. When I started practicing I kept on laughing the whole time. I tried it like 4 times in front of my friends, and I got much better with all that. When I had to perform it I was not as nervous as I thought I would be. Also monologues help us to express ourselves. When we tell a story we can think of many things to say with all the emotions.

Kmans Stuff

In respons to the homework from february 9th (oops) i think that monoluoge can be very important in large plays. It gives them a quality similar to books. In books whe can see a characters thoughts and this gives us a much better understanding. If we see two people talking and one says "thats just like what happened on sunday". The audience whould have no idea what was happening unless it froze and a character said " last sunday joe got drunk and lost one hundred dollars gambling. " If we didnt have monoluoge whe wouldnt now this. Monolouge gives us a better understanding of characters and why they do things.