Journal Entry 3

What is an oxide, a hydroxide and a carbonate?

a) An oxide is a chemical compound containing at least one oxygen atom as well as at least one other element. Most of the Earth’s crust consists of oxides. Oxides result when elements are oxidized by oxygen in air.

b) Hydroxide is a common name for the diatomic anion OH, which consists of oxygen and hydrogen atoms.

c) Carbonate is salt or ester of carbonic acid. To know of the presence of a carbonate in a salt, the addition of a dilute acid e.g. hydrochloric acid will show  carbon doixide (gas).

Individual Task 3- Maximillian Kolbe

1.) Define the term ‘moral integrity’

 A) Moral Integrity can be your values, beliefs, & character put together to form a set of ideals that you follow. This set of ideals that you have with you determine what kind of conscience you might have, and what decision you will take when you come to a choice. If you have a belief that stealing is a good thing to do, you will not think before you do it. However, if you believe stealing is wrong, you will consider before you do it. Your moral integrity determines how you react under certain situations and under pressure from other people or factors influencing your life.

2.) Describe why Maximillian Kolbe is regarded as a Christian of exemplary moral integrity.

 A) Maximillian Kolbe is regarded as a Christian of exemplary moral integrity becuase of his selfless thinking and extraordinary brave actions. He did not look at the fact that he was throwing away his life for a person he did not know, instead he saw the fact that he was doing an hounarable duty by saving a life. Also another reason to justify Maxmillian’s high level of moral integrity is the fatc that there are very few people in this world who will sacrifice their life to save another person who they don’t know.

3.) Outline Maximillians ethical actions/principles that he demonstrated in Auschwitz.

 A) Maximillian was a priest and was firm about his principles as a priest. He spread hope by saying that their suffering would but only take them to God. His actions like the removal of the bodies, the spreading of hope and his sacrifice of life clearly showed that he was a man of strong principles and ethics. Him being a priest increased his responsibility of consoling others and to save a life. Ethically, everyone should accomplish what good they can do and Maximillian did without hesitation.

4.) Evaluate whether you think he made the right decision and provide research to support your answer. i.e. Catholic teachings.

 A) I think that Maximillian made the right decision. The significant decisions he made were:

1. Moved bodies in a depressed state.
2. Spread hope and joy.
3. Fulfilled duties as a priest in such conditions.
4. Gave up his life to save someone else.

According to the Catholic Church’s teaching’s all the decisions Maxmillian made were correct:

1. He moved bodies even after he was tortured and physically dead. The Catholic Church teaches that when others are down & out, you should work as an inspiration to lift them up. Also you must not neglect the dead and shold treat them them with respect. In this case you should give them a solemn funeral or respectfully bury them.
2. The Catholic Church appoints the role to priests that they must be leaders for others who are lost and have no one. They have to play a Christly role for the people of today by being out there in the front. In this case Maximillian reassures the other prisoners that the final destination is heaven.
3. A priest is selected in order to do his duties in whatever condition, just as Christ did in the face of death. Maxmillian played his role as a priest by hearing prisoner’s confessions.
4. The Catholic Church strongly promotes the sacrifice of one self or something to help/save others just like Jesus did sacrifice his life for his followers. Maximillian gave up his life to save a fellow prisoner.  

 

       

Journal Entry 11

1. Interactive TV, the limit to of having control over television has increased over the time. At the start, you could just increase or decrease the volume, change the channels and turn the TV on and off. Even this was without the use of a remote controller. It evolved to the world we have today in which we can record TV and rewing it, pause it or play it according to convienience. Interactive TV is in a way the amount of control you have over how you watch TV and the featues you have. Also real time voting has become a great feature in today’s TV shows.

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Journal Entry 10

1. YouTube has been used as a source of digital media advertising as it gets forwrd to a much larger number of people. Also due to YouTube being a very popular site, many watch the videos and therefore advertisements on it.

2. sites have changed the boundaries of advertising as you can watch anything from any part of the world as long as you have the internte. You can also watch the news online, TV shows etc. This gives the viewer a much higher access to such media

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Group Task 2- Moral Development Theory

Group Task 2     This is my group moral development theory task.   

Journal Entry 9

1. Digital Media: refers to electronic media that work on digital codes. Today, computing is primarily based on the binary numeral system. In this case digital refers to the discrete states of “0″ and “1″ for representing arbitrary data. Digital media can refer to anything that is technologically presented and simulated.

2. Evolution: The history of digital starts with the development of the number 0 by the Babylonians about 2000BC. Early use of something like zero by the Indian scholar Pingala (circa 5th-2nd century BC), implied at first glance by his use of binary numbers, is only the modern binary representation using 0 and 1 applied to Pingala’s binary system, which used short and long syllables making it similar to Morse code. Around 1620, Francis Bacon researches the first binary alphabet for representing numbers and alphabetic characters. The intended use was to establish secret communication for e.g. cities under siege and armies abroad. Leibniz was the first mathematician to develop calculations in the binary system. Around 1830, first electrifies binary information in his telegraphy experiments. He replaces “1″ with “+” and “0″ with “-” and thus translates binary information into electric currents.

3. Digital Newspapers are popular because: the program will make available bibliographic records and holdings information for some 140,000 newspaper titles from the 1600s to the present. Further, it will include scope notes and encyclopedia-style entries discussing the historical significance of specific newspapers. Added content will also include contextually relevant historical information. “One organization within each U.S. state or territory will receive an award to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort.” In March, 2007, more than 226,000 pages of newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910 were put online at a fully-searchable site called “Chronicling America.” Digital newspapers are popular as they can comprise a lot of data together.  

Journal Entry 8

Scenario 1: You are on a train coming home from a day at the beach. The train stops at a station and a group a youths get on the train and start bashing an elderly ethnic man. You notice people getting off the train.

1. In a senario like this, I would alert other people and go to help the old man.

Scenario 2: You get a message from a girl that you are interested asking you to come over her house. When you get there a number of her friends are present and they say they are bored. One of them promotes the idea of going for a walk and causing a riot. At first you tell them “No way”. However, the girl you like states that “she will like you more if you go”.

2. In this situation, I would just go home.

Journal Entry 7

1. A person’s conscience is like an ability of concluding whether an action of his/her was right or wrong. If the action goes against his moral values and beliefs, a person will have a sense of guilt and remorse. It is compared to the metaphor “the voice within”.

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Journal Entry 5

1. This lesson I want to complete my journals and update my previous journals.

2. It can be done with me going on to my wordpress and writing and/or editing previous journals.

3. I am responsible for part of the interview.