Mohamed and Ali Hadi presentation report...

Presenting students: 1- Mohd Adnan         H00099357

                                      2- Ahmed Abdulla     H00049464

Venue: W113

Date: 2011/6/26

Starting time: 4:00

End time: 4:20

I am going to write about Mohammed Al-Ameri and Ahmed Al-Ali presentations. The topic of the presentation is about Industrial Revolution. They introduced the topics very well and they didn’t forget to mention all the main points in their presentation. Their eyes were contacted with the audience; they were not just looking at the teacher or one student; they were looking at all the class. Also they didn’t stand in front of the screen they were standing at the side and they didn’t use the note cards. They didn’t use the screen a lot to read from they just looked at it very quickly just to remind themselves. Their speech was very nice and their voices were clear and loud enough to hear them. They were very organized when they were talking. The best part is that they were feeling confident and they didn’t look like they were afraid.

About the presentation, it was clear and organized. They didn’t use a lot of notes in the slides; they preferred to use pictures only, which was very good. So they didn’t depend a lot on the power point, and I think that it is a bad thing on a presentation. Also they didn’t use animations and transitions.

Finally, in general the presentation was very good and we learned many things. Like for example, when they were sharing the points in the slides they were perfect because they worked as a pair and each one of them knows what they will say. Also at the end they answered all the questions that we asked them.

Reflection on the meeting

I had a meeting with a group of Ahmed Al-Ali, Mohammed Al-Ameri and me (Ahmad Al-Katheeri). We started the meeting at 3:06 pm. Mohammed Al-Ameri was the chairmen, the minutes taker was Ahmed Al-Ali and the last person is the participant played by me (Ahmed Al-Katheeri). My job as a participant was to get new ideas for our subject. Our subject is about smoking. We chose this subject because it is one of the main problems that the world is facing today. We started the meeting by getting ideas about how smoking affects our world and why the people smoke and how we can implement our solutions in our world. I shared the ideas with them and some ideas they agreed with and some ideas they didn’t agreed with me.

Meeting re. smoking effects

Date of meeting:   21 June, 2011 

Time of meeting:  3:06 pm last for 1 hr

Venue:  ADMC Room W106

Group members: 

Chair:  Mohamed Al-Ameri

Minutes taker: Ahmed Al-Ali

Participant:  Ahmed Al-Katheeri

Agenda:

1          The effect of smoking physically.

2          The effect of smoking psychologically.

3          The effect of smoking on society.

4          What is the reason of smoking (why people smoke).

5          Recommendations (How we stop this madness).

6          Action to be made (How to apply the recommendations).

Objectives:

This meeting is to look at the common problem in our life as the group decided to talk about smoking. We will discuss about how the smoking affects the smoker physically, psychologically and the effects on society. However, after looking to all problems caused by smoking we will look at some solutions to this bad habit; also how to apply it on the society where we will discuss about easy way to stop smoking and to reduce the smoking.

Minutes:

The discussion started with the body problems which are affected by smoking. One of those effects was cancer. The smoking habit puts the smoker at 90% of risk to one of the cancers for the smoker. Another thing about the body effects was mentioned by Ahmed Hamdan which was the skin cancer. Also the chair Mohamed talked about the fatal diseases which are mainly the thrombosis whether coronary or cerebral.

Then we transferred to look at the effects on the mind of the smokers. We started our discussion by a small story mentioned by Mohamed about a person who tried to stop smoking and he resisted for 12 hours then he became crazy. After that Ahmed said that they think that they can’t do any work properly without smoking and we all agreed with his point of view.

Smoking has many effects as we mentioned above but this time we will discuss the effect of smokers on the society. The first point we discussed is the money problem where some smokers spend all the money on cigarettes and his family don’t have food to eat or water to drink. Also, that money can help poor people where they are really in need to survive. The second point we illustrate is that the smoker spits after smoking which is an unpleasant habit to the children which they will copy and spit all over the place. Finally the participant gave a very good point about the problem when he said that some of the scientists discover that the smoker when he discard the smoke it has a very bad effect on the surrounding area or the people around them.

There are some reasons why the people want to smoke. First it lets them feel that they are cool or they feel that they are men. Also the free time when they don’t have anything to do they may think about smoking. People act like their favorite famous player, singer, or actors and they like to copy his action without thinking about the consequences, especially if he smokes they will smoke.

After all of the reasons we have to put some solutions and we have found many. First of all make a special area for smokers to smoke to not bother the others. Another recommendation is give some lectures regularly for the teenagers to know the bad effects about the smoking. One final recommendation was to make a special day for smokers to help them stop smoking and it should be a global event.

After we discussed about the recommendations we talked about how we can apply them. The first idea was Ahmed Al Katheeri who said that we have to build a special company for the smokers by taking charge of advertisements and helping smokers without charge; also fine the people who smoke in open areas where it is not allowed to smoke. Try to apply taxes on cigarette boxes; also make it above 18 or 21 years old to be able to buy it. Mohamed says that we must stop the cigarette companies from advertising on the TV but Ahmed Al Ali disagreed because we can’t stop the companies to advertise their item; they have the right but what we can do is ensure they must show that it is dangerous to smoke.