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Persuasive Devices This week we learn language of persuasion by watching the video “the story bottle water”. Then i think of the advertisements in our television and think of the persuasive devises which are used to make us buy that particular product. A popular method is using a well-known person such as cricketers, singers, actors, who have an attractive personality. Those people praise and value the product by saying that they also used that product. They are well-paid for persuading people. The people are cheated by their attractive words. Another device is telling that the product is natural and contains indigenous herbs. The toothpaste, soup, shampoo, facial cream and scrubs are the several products which are advertised in this way.  In reality, those products are full of chemicals. Another method is to attract the customer is giving a small token. Most product of milk powder is kept in a cute plastic container to attract the consumer. Somet

TED TALK I listened to an interesting TED TALK done by Michael Botticelli on the “Addiction is a disease we should treat it like one.” This TED Talk is a self-confession. He talks about he is life from the child hood, how he addicted to the bad habits and how he get rid of those habits and became a successful man. He was a gay kid and he began to drink at an early age. His life was rotten. Then he describes how he had lost his friends. The people in society did not accept them. People blamed them by saying “day plague”. Then his decided to change and save is life. He founded way of recovery through love and care and he became a volunteer and show others to recover. Then he gives a message to the society “do not think an addict as an abuser see him as a person, help him, give him the kind ness and confession” https://www.ted.com/talks/ michael_botticelli_addiction_ is_a_disease_we_should_treat_ it_like_one Attachments area

May Day in Srilanka I read some articles on May Day. I learned the origin of May Day and other related details about it. May Day is celebrated to honor the laborer who sacrificed the lives to win their demands. After a painful struggle the laborers could obtain an 8 hours work day. May Day is celebrated in our country too. But I notice a difference in those celebrations. All the rallies are held by different political parts. The main objective of the May Day is forgotten. All May rallies look like propaganda meetings. They were full of heads. The main political parties use the sum of the heads to show their strength and success. The leaders were slinging mud to each other and boast about they ideology. The people who marched in rallies were drunken and behaved rudely. Most of them are bribed. The labors are forgotten I feel this rallies are insult to the labors.

TED TALK I listened to an interesting TED TALK done by Peter Weinstock on the “Life like simulations that make real-life surgery safer.” This ted talk is on the advancement of medical science, it is a new technology which will bring relief for patients, doctors and nurses.  The doctor describes an operation done to a new born baby. She had a rare of disease a hole in the diaphragm the intestines sneak up and disturbs the breath up. The baby was going to die soon. Doctors did an operation and save the life of the baby. Using the model of training called apprenticeship model, Surgery can be done severed times before they do a real one to get better practice. This is called medical stimulation. The new technology is a life like rehearsal it is a practice prior to the game.    https://www.ted.com/talks/ peter_weinstock_lifelike_ simulations_that_make_real_ life_surgery_safer

Plagiarism This week I learn about plagiarism. It’s a great fault. It is done by the students all over the world. According to the guide book at Swinburne University “plagiarism is stealing intellectual material” There are many types of plagiarism. Some students use to steal other students’ work which (may have presented earlier) represented as his own works.  If you need to write an individual assignment, you can have a discussion about the assignment. More ideas such as relevant materials and data collecting strategies can be understood by such discussion.    Plagiarism type two is connected with group work. Some students do not contribute enough to the whole work. But they got equal marks as other students who contribute a lot. This type of plagiarism is happen very often.  Two avoid this fault, all the group members must be given section of the group assignment and complete their section by using correct method and reference. Plagiarism type three is done by usin

TED TALK I listened to an interesting TED TALK done by Jonathan Drori on the beautiful tricks of flower. There are a quarter of a million flowering plants. The duty of the flower is to reproduce their species. Trees need to spread their genes with other genes to make a new plant to adapt to the environment.  For that purpose plants have to spread their pollens to faraway places. Wind is one method to spread pollen but it is not always successful. The insect and the birds are real pollinators. Flowers have many tricks attract them.  The flies, insect birds get nectar. They have nectar as their food, in return they pollinate the plants to reproduce. The birds also have adaptation to suck the nectar with long beaks. Some flowers look like insects to cheat the insects. They are cheated and reach the flower for food but they only get the pollens some flowers are in bright color so, insect can see then clearly. The array of scent emits by some flowers which are bloomed in night. As