Ahmed


 * __Research project week one__ Monday __30/01/12__**
 * 1) List your interests/hobbies/activities

My interests are, hobbies and activities are playing soccer, hanging around with friends being social. I am a very outgoing person and like to spend a lot of my time outdoors.

The subjects I am doing this year are Maths applications, integrated learning, E.S.L, Bosnian and Research project. The previous year I have completed Certificate 2 in Electro __technology__, Certificate 2 in General construction and Certificate 2 in Retail.
 * 1) What __course__ subjects are you doing?
 * 1) List something you want to find out more about.

Something I would like to learn more about is marijuana and the effects it has on young teenagers. With this question I would like my final outcome to affect teenagers and make them aware of the drug. **__ The effects of marijuana – Research project - Proposal __** 18/02/2012 I have chosen to do my research project on the effects of marijuana. Why I have chosen to do this particular topic is that among many people my age (youths) it is a very common occurrence for teens to be trying marijuana. I have come to a conclusion that for my ‘’final question’’ I will do a poster preaching to teenagers the negative effects marijuana has on __the human body__. Also I will state how you can lose close friends and family over wanting to get “high”. I think this research will __change__ teenagers minds about trying marijuana due to the fact a teenager (myself) will be presenting the harm marijuana can do. I believe teenagers are more likely to listen when being preached to by someone their age. What I hope to learn from my projects is the negative effects of marijuana and what sort of personal and social effect it has on someone. It will also prevent me from trying the drug in the future and I hope that my poster will make teenagers think twice before trying the drug this will address the learning capability. I understand that many teenagers are pressured into trying drugs such as marijuana by their friends that are addicted or have tried it before. The communication skills that I will use in my project are writing on a poster, pictures on a poster and then offcourse my oral speech which I plan to give to the class preaching about the negative effects of marijuana. What I hope to accomplish with this is have self-understanding about the drug and also try to change what other teenager’s thing of the drug so if they ever are in the situation where they are offered or pushed into trying marijuana they will know how to decline it and will know the negative effects of it. At the end of my presentation I plan to conduct a __survey__ on the teenagers that heard my speech asking if after this talk they changed their mind about marijuana. My main sources of information are going to be the internet, newspaper articles, books and interviews with people that have been smoking marijuana. Interviewing someone that is a marijuana user or addict will give me inside information about the drug and a user’s opinion on marijuana. This combined with the research I do online, newspaper articles and books will be very __reliable__ information to present to Mr Street, classmates and SACE. I will start my journal in week four term one and I expect by week four term two I would have collected enough information about marijuana to start building my poster step by step and taking the most important information and putting it together to make a wonderful final poster. . . . . 22/03/2012 How my proposal has changed since i writen it up is, the teachers were conserned about me talking to victims of drug addiction. What the teachers have advised me to do is talk to experts that deal with people that do drugs. I will no longer do a poster but a power point presentation with only one servey at the end asking the students if they would do drugs after hearing the negative effects. 22/03/12 I have added another part to my finishing presentation. i will have a set of 10 statements about marijuana, the class will then answer them by getting a set of the 10 questions and ticking true or false. I will then present my powerpoint and then get them to redo the statments seeing if they have learnt negative effects about marijuana. 22/03/2012 . . . __**My questions for the experts:**__ How does marijuana affect teenagers life? What are the most severe health issues with smoking marijuana? How many teenagers smoke marijuana? Has there been a increaseor decrease in marijuana use in the past few years? Are males more likely to smoke marijuana than females? What suburbs are teenagers more likely to come from that smoke marijuana? In there any cultural groups that are more likely to use marijuana? Is marijuana a so called "pathway drug"? Does marijuana stop people from reaching their full potential? Does marijuana affect teenagers schooling life? What age do you think people are most likely to try marijuana? . . . __**My survey questions for the students (survey monkey):**__ Do you know anyone that has tried marijuana? Do you know anyone who is addicted to marijuana? Do you know any negative effects of marijuana? What age do you think people are most likely to try marijuana? What is your age group?

. . . Did you know that marijuana lowers your sex drive? Did you know that marijuana gives you suicidal thaughts? Did you know marijuana doesnt affect your driving? Did you know that marijuana gives you memory loss? Did you know marijuana gives you mood swings? Did you know marijuana doesnt affect your body? Did you know if you smoke marijuana you are less likely to go to uni? Did you know marijuana increases the males sperm count? Did you know marijuanan gives you faster reflexes? Did you know marijuana makes you paranoid? . . . 22/04/2012 I have done a survey on survey monkey to get some results for my questions: Do you know anyone that has tried marijuana? Do you know anyone who is addicted to marijuana? Do you know any negative effects of marijuana? What age do you think people are most likely to try marijuana? What is your age group? @http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Y8ZZXYH
 * __My statment True or False Questions for before and after my presentation:__**

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