* Gang killing kangaroos, wallabies
* More than 100 cornered, clubbed to death
POLICE are hunting a gang of killers after the ruthless slaughter of more than 100 kangaroos and wallabies at one of Hobart's most popular parks.
Tolosa Park ranger Barry Hosking made the grisly discovery earlier this week, The Mercury reported.
"I open the gate and the crows alert me to where the carcasses are," Mr Hosking said.
"Whoever is killing the animals is doing their business under the cover of darkness. It is sick.
"There are hundreds of kangaroos in the bush here at night. But why would you want to kill them just for the sake of it?"
Glenorchy police inspector John Arnold yesterday said they were closing in on whoever has killed the marsupials near the Glenorchy tip and within Tolosa Park over the past few weeks.
"We are not ruling out the use of firearms but it is also apparent that dogs are being used to entrap the animals," Insp Arnold said.
"They are then killed or later die of capture myopathy being frightened to death."
Some of kangaroos have been clubbed to death.
Others have dog bites and some have been shot.
"We believe they are being rounded up with dogs and clubbed to death, by either a group of people or an individual with a lot of dogs," Insp Arnold said.
"It's more likely to be a group. The kangaroos are quite tame so it's easy to get within close proximity of them."
RSPCA Tasmania president Paul Swiatkowski hopes the culprits are caught soon.
"This is aggravated cruelty and serial slaughter over a period of time. Those responsible need to face justice," Dr Swiatkowski said.
Mr Hosking said the dead animals he finds are X-rayed by a vet to see if there are bullets in the carcasses.
Anyone with information about the death of the animals is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Toddler killed at train level crossing
* Two-year-old boy goes missing
* Hit and killed by freight train
* Dad finds son's body
A YOUNG family's dream of a new life in the country was shattered by the death of their two-year-old son yesterday.
And it was the boy's father who made the heartbreaking discovery of his son's body after he was hit by a freight train, 200m from their home.
The toddler was playing on railway tracks at the Nantawarra Crossing - about 12km north of Port Wakefield - when he was struck by the train, which was unable to stop in time.
Sgt Jim Tappin said the toddler wandered from the family's nearby home and is understood to have been playing on the tracks with his scooter when he was struck, just after 1pm.
Remnants of the scooter were strewn along the tracks for up to 100m.
It is understood the family - parents believed to be in their late 20s, their four-year-old daughter and the two-year-old son - had moved from Adelaide to Nantawarra late last year.
The parents were at home at the time of the accident with two grandparents and an uncle.
The boy had been playing with his sister and two young relatives when he wandered away.
"The kids were playing and when (the parents) went looking for him for lunch, they couldn't find him . . . and then they were alerted to the fact that the train had stopped," SgtTappin said.
He said the boy's father and uncle were first on the scene.
"The family, obviously, are extremely upset as is everyone else who has been here today," Sgt Tappin said.
* Hit and killed by freight train
* Dad finds son's body
A YOUNG family's dream of a new life in the country was shattered by the death of their two-year-old son yesterday.
And it was the boy's father who made the heartbreaking discovery of his son's body after he was hit by a freight train, 200m from their home.
The toddler was playing on railway tracks at the Nantawarra Crossing - about 12km north of Port Wakefield - when he was struck by the train, which was unable to stop in time.
Sgt Jim Tappin said the toddler wandered from the family's nearby home and is understood to have been playing on the tracks with his scooter when he was struck, just after 1pm.
Remnants of the scooter were strewn along the tracks for up to 100m.
It is understood the family - parents believed to be in their late 20s, their four-year-old daughter and the two-year-old son - had moved from Adelaide to Nantawarra late last year.
The parents were at home at the time of the accident with two grandparents and an uncle.
The boy had been playing with his sister and two young relatives when he wandered away.
"The kids were playing and when (the parents) went looking for him for lunch, they couldn't find him . . . and then they were alerted to the fact that the train had stopped," SgtTappin said.
He said the boy's father and uncle were first on the scene.
"The family, obviously, are extremely upset as is everyone else who has been here today," Sgt Tappin said.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Television Viewing #Final version
The Effects of Television Viewing
As said by Dr Thomas Alexander, television programmes are tailored to demand for continuous attention (Leigh 2001). His statement is proven to be true when American Times Use Survey (2003) reveals that men and women spent approximately 2.8 hours and 2.4 hours per day watching television respectively. Furthermore, full time workers spent majority of their time on TV, video and radio as compared to other activities (UK Time Use Survey 2000). This extensive television viewing has become a habit in our life and has raised worries among societies that this new habit of us might affect us in many ways. I strongly believe that extensive television viewing influence us in negative ways more than positive ways such as it influences the cultivation of behaviours, affects cognitive development and imposes negative impacts on health.
Excessive television viewing influences the cultivation of children’s behaviours. Research has shown that prolonged viewing of violent programmes will make children more responsive to violence. Children might form the impression that problems can be solved through violence. In addition, some poor behaviour can be attributed by imitating characters that doesn’t portray good examples. In many movies, men and women are portrayed in a specific and narrows role which leads children to think in a stereotyped way (Sharif 1991). To add on, television viewing made it difficult for children to focus on things such as homework (Leigh 2001). Children become lazier they are tempted to use their time watching television instead of doing homework (Rutherford 2002).
Moreover, extensive television viewing might contribute to poor development of children’s thinking skills. Programs like ‘Friends’ in which problems are sorted out in a short span of time encouraged children to think that problems can be solved easily (Sharif 1991). This makes children mentally weak as they become pessimistic and frustrated easily when have to deal with complex situations. Besides, imaginative skills remain undeveloped as television viewing is a passive activity. This leads to poor development of problem solving skills and organisational ability (Leigh 2001).
Lastly, watching television is a sedentary activity (Rutherford 2002). This time consuming activity eats the period set aside for exercise which is detrimental to health in terms of mentally and psychically. Lengthen periods in front of the television indicates that the children are not being physically active (Sharif 1991). The problem is made worsen when children indulge themselves with snacks during television viewing which can cause obesity and related disease (Rutherford 2002). Besides, too much exposure on television viewing deteriorates children’s communication skills. Children will become unsociable which is bad for their health as they will grow up to be passive.
Television viewing does bring positive influences in life too such as enables viewers to be refreshed and de-stressed (Rutherford 2002). However, we human tend to pick up bad habit more readily than good habits. Thus, I strongly believe television viewing brings more harms than good to us as extensive television viewing causes underdeveloped thinking skills, imposes negative impacts on health and prevents the build up for positive behaviours.
As said by Dr Thomas Alexander, television programmes are tailored to demand for continuous attention (Leigh 2001). His statement is proven to be true when American Times Use Survey (2003) reveals that men and women spent approximately 2.8 hours and 2.4 hours per day watching television respectively. Furthermore, full time workers spent majority of their time on TV, video and radio as compared to other activities (UK Time Use Survey 2000). This extensive television viewing has become a habit in our life and has raised worries among societies that this new habit of us might affect us in many ways. I strongly believe that extensive television viewing influence us in negative ways more than positive ways such as it influences the cultivation of behaviours, affects cognitive development and imposes negative impacts on health.
Excessive television viewing influences the cultivation of children’s behaviours. Research has shown that prolonged viewing of violent programmes will make children more responsive to violence. Children might form the impression that problems can be solved through violence. In addition, some poor behaviour can be attributed by imitating characters that doesn’t portray good examples. In many movies, men and women are portrayed in a specific and narrows role which leads children to think in a stereotyped way (Sharif 1991). To add on, television viewing made it difficult for children to focus on things such as homework (Leigh 2001). Children become lazier they are tempted to use their time watching television instead of doing homework (Rutherford 2002).
Moreover, extensive television viewing might contribute to poor development of children’s thinking skills. Programs like ‘Friends’ in which problems are sorted out in a short span of time encouraged children to think that problems can be solved easily (Sharif 1991). This makes children mentally weak as they become pessimistic and frustrated easily when have to deal with complex situations. Besides, imaginative skills remain undeveloped as television viewing is a passive activity. This leads to poor development of problem solving skills and organisational ability (Leigh 2001).
Lastly, watching television is a sedentary activity (Rutherford 2002). This time consuming activity eats the period set aside for exercise which is detrimental to health in terms of mentally and psychically. Lengthen periods in front of the television indicates that the children are not being physically active (Sharif 1991). The problem is made worsen when children indulge themselves with snacks during television viewing which can cause obesity and related disease (Rutherford 2002). Besides, too much exposure on television viewing deteriorates children’s communication skills. Children will become unsociable which is bad for their health as they will grow up to be passive.
Television viewing does bring positive influences in life too such as enables viewers to be refreshed and de-stressed (Rutherford 2002). However, we human tend to pick up bad habit more readily than good habits. Thus, I strongly believe television viewing brings more harms than good to us as extensive television viewing causes underdeveloped thinking skills, imposes negative impacts on health and prevents the build up for positive behaviours.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Television Viewing #2nd Draft
The Effects of Television Viewing
As said by Dr Thomas Alexander, television programmes are tailored to demand for continuous attention (Leigh 2001). His statement is proven to be true when ATUS (2003) reveals that men and women spent approximately 2.8 hours and 2.4 hours per day watching television respectively. Furthermore, full time workers spent majority of their time on TV, video and radio as compared to other activities (UK Time Use Survey 2000). This extensive television viewing has become a habit in our life and has raised worries among societies that this new habit of us might affect us in many ways. I strongly believed that extensive television viewing influence us in negative ways more than positive ways such as influences the cultivation of behaviours, affects cognitive development and imposes negative impacts on health.
Excessive television viewing influences the cultivation of children’s behaviours. Research has shown that prolonged viewing of violent programmes will make children more responsive to violence. Children might form the impression that problems can be solved through violence. In addition, some poor behaviour can be attributed by imitating characters that doesn’t portray good examples. In many movies, men and women are portrayed in a specific and narrows role which leads children to think in a stereotyped way (Sharif 1991). To add on, television viewing made children face difficulty to focus on things such as homework (Leigh 2001). Children become lazier they are tempted to use their time watching television instead of doing homework (Rutherford 2002).
Moreover, extensive television viewing might contribute to poor development of children’s thinking skills. Programs like ‘Friends’ in which problems are sorted out in a short span of time encouraged children to think that problems can be solved easily (Sharif 1991). This makes children mentally weak as they become pessimistic and frustrated easily when have to deal with complex situations. Besides, imaginative skills remain undeveloped as television viewing is a passive activity. This leads to poor development of problem solving skills and organisational ability (Leigh 2001).
Lastly, watching television is a sedentary activity (Rutherford 2002). This time consuming activity eats the period set aside for exercise which is detrimental to health in terms of mentally and psychically. Lengthen periods in front of the television indicates that the children are not being physically active (Sharif 1991). The problem is made worsen when children indulge themselves with snacks during television viewing which can cause obesity and related disease (Rutherford 2002). Besides, too much exposure on television viewing deteriorates children’s communication skills. Children will become unsociable which is bad for their health as they will grow up to be passive.
To conclude, I strongly believed television viewing brings more harms than good to us. Extensive television viewing causes underdeveloped thinking skills, imposes negative impacts on health and prevents the build up for positive behaviours. However, television viewings do bring positive influences in life too such as enables viewers to be refreshed and de-stressed (Rutherford 2002). We just have to be self disciplined so that we pick up the positive influences and avoid the negative influences.
As said by Dr Thomas Alexander, television programmes are tailored to demand for continuous attention (Leigh 2001). His statement is proven to be true when ATUS (2003) reveals that men and women spent approximately 2.8 hours and 2.4 hours per day watching television respectively. Furthermore, full time workers spent majority of their time on TV, video and radio as compared to other activities (UK Time Use Survey 2000). This extensive television viewing has become a habit in our life and has raised worries among societies that this new habit of us might affect us in many ways. I strongly believed that extensive television viewing influence us in negative ways more than positive ways such as influences the cultivation of behaviours, affects cognitive development and imposes negative impacts on health.
Excessive television viewing influences the cultivation of children’s behaviours. Research has shown that prolonged viewing of violent programmes will make children more responsive to violence. Children might form the impression that problems can be solved through violence. In addition, some poor behaviour can be attributed by imitating characters that doesn’t portray good examples. In many movies, men and women are portrayed in a specific and narrows role which leads children to think in a stereotyped way (Sharif 1991). To add on, television viewing made children face difficulty to focus on things such as homework (Leigh 2001). Children become lazier they are tempted to use their time watching television instead of doing homework (Rutherford 2002).
Moreover, extensive television viewing might contribute to poor development of children’s thinking skills. Programs like ‘Friends’ in which problems are sorted out in a short span of time encouraged children to think that problems can be solved easily (Sharif 1991). This makes children mentally weak as they become pessimistic and frustrated easily when have to deal with complex situations. Besides, imaginative skills remain undeveloped as television viewing is a passive activity. This leads to poor development of problem solving skills and organisational ability (Leigh 2001).
Lastly, watching television is a sedentary activity (Rutherford 2002). This time consuming activity eats the period set aside for exercise which is detrimental to health in terms of mentally and psychically. Lengthen periods in front of the television indicates that the children are not being physically active (Sharif 1991). The problem is made worsen when children indulge themselves with snacks during television viewing which can cause obesity and related disease (Rutherford 2002). Besides, too much exposure on television viewing deteriorates children’s communication skills. Children will become unsociable which is bad for their health as they will grow up to be passive.
To conclude, I strongly believed television viewing brings more harms than good to us. Extensive television viewing causes underdeveloped thinking skills, imposes negative impacts on health and prevents the build up for positive behaviours. However, television viewings do bring positive influences in life too such as enables viewers to be refreshed and de-stressed (Rutherford 2002). We just have to be self disciplined so that we pick up the positive influences and avoid the negative influences.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Television Viewing #1st Draft
The effects of Television Viewing
As said by Dr Thomas Alexander, television programmes are tailored to demand for continuous attention. His statement is proven to be true when ATUS (2003) reveals that men and women spent approximately 2.8 hours and 2.4 hours per day watching television respectively. Furthermore, full time workers spent majority of their time on TV, video and radio as compared to other activities (UK Time Use Survey 2000). This extensive television viewing has become a habit in our life and has raised worries among societies that this new habit of us might affect us in many ways. I strongly believed that extensive television viewing influence us in negative ways more than positive ways such as affects our development of thinking skills, imposes negative impacts on our health and intervenes the building of our positive behaviours.
Extensive television viewing might contributes to poor development of children’s thinking skills. Programs like ‘Friends’ in which problems are sorted out in a short span of time encouraged children to think that problems can be solved easily (Sharif 1991). This makes children mentally weak as they become pessimistic and frustrated easily when have to deal with complex situations. Besides, imaginative skills remain undeveloped as television viewing is a passive activity. This leads to poor development of problem solving skills and organisational ability (Leigh 2001).
Moreover, television viewing intervenes the building of children’s positive behaviours. Research has shown that prolonged viewing of violent programmes will make children more responsive to violence. Children might form the impression that problems can be solved through violence. In addition, some poor behaviour can be attributed by imitating characters that doesn’t portray good examples. Many movies, men and women are portrayed in a specific and narrows role which leads children to think in a stereotyped way (Sharif 1991). To add on, television viewing made children face difficulty to focus on things such as homework. It cultivates their laziness nature.
Lastly, watching television is a sedentary activity (Rutherford 2002). This time wasting activity eats into the period set aside for exercise which is detrimental to health in terms of mentally and psychically. Lengthen periods in front of the television indicates that the children are not being physically active (Sharif 1991). The problem is made worsen when children indulge themselves with snacks during television viewing which can cause obesity and related disease (Rutherford 2002). Besides, too much exposure on television viewing deteriorates children’s communication skills. Children will become more unsociable which is bad for their health as they will grow up to be passive.
To conclude, I strongly believed television viewing brings more harms than good to us. Extensive television viewing causes underdeveloped thinking skills, imposes negative impacts on health and prevents the build up for positive behaviours. However, television viewings do bring positive influences in life too such as enables viewers to be refreshed and de-stressed (Rutherford 2002). We just have to be self disciplined so that we pick up the positive influences and avoid the negative influences.
As said by Dr Thomas Alexander, television programmes are tailored to demand for continuous attention. His statement is proven to be true when ATUS (2003) reveals that men and women spent approximately 2.8 hours and 2.4 hours per day watching television respectively. Furthermore, full time workers spent majority of their time on TV, video and radio as compared to other activities (UK Time Use Survey 2000). This extensive television viewing has become a habit in our life and has raised worries among societies that this new habit of us might affect us in many ways. I strongly believed that extensive television viewing influence us in negative ways more than positive ways such as affects our development of thinking skills, imposes negative impacts on our health and intervenes the building of our positive behaviours.
Extensive television viewing might contributes to poor development of children’s thinking skills. Programs like ‘Friends’ in which problems are sorted out in a short span of time encouraged children to think that problems can be solved easily (Sharif 1991). This makes children mentally weak as they become pessimistic and frustrated easily when have to deal with complex situations. Besides, imaginative skills remain undeveloped as television viewing is a passive activity. This leads to poor development of problem solving skills and organisational ability (Leigh 2001).
Moreover, television viewing intervenes the building of children’s positive behaviours. Research has shown that prolonged viewing of violent programmes will make children more responsive to violence. Children might form the impression that problems can be solved through violence. In addition, some poor behaviour can be attributed by imitating characters that doesn’t portray good examples. Many movies, men and women are portrayed in a specific and narrows role which leads children to think in a stereotyped way (Sharif 1991). To add on, television viewing made children face difficulty to focus on things such as homework. It cultivates their laziness nature.
Lastly, watching television is a sedentary activity (Rutherford 2002). This time wasting activity eats into the period set aside for exercise which is detrimental to health in terms of mentally and psychically. Lengthen periods in front of the television indicates that the children are not being physically active (Sharif 1991). The problem is made worsen when children indulge themselves with snacks during television viewing which can cause obesity and related disease (Rutherford 2002). Besides, too much exposure on television viewing deteriorates children’s communication skills. Children will become more unsociable which is bad for their health as they will grow up to be passive.
To conclude, I strongly believed television viewing brings more harms than good to us. Extensive television viewing causes underdeveloped thinking skills, imposes negative impacts on health and prevents the build up for positive behaviours. However, television viewings do bring positive influences in life too such as enables viewers to be refreshed and de-stressed (Rutherford 2002). We just have to be self disciplined so that we pick up the positive influences and avoid the negative influences.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Argumentative Essay - Junk Food # Final Version
Should the sale of junk food in school canteens be banned?
Junk food is to be faulted for the increase in childhood obesity (Smith 2005). As such, suggestion for the sale of junk food to be banned in school canteens had been voiced out as a way to tackle the problem on obesity. However, there seems to be contradicting opinions in the society. Nonetheless, whatever decision that the society will choose, I strongly believe that junk food should be banned not only because it is contributing to problem of youth weight gain (Tran 2005) but it also contains minimal or no nutritional value and it contributes to litter problems.
The main reason that junk food should be banned in school canteen is because of junk food’s high contribution to the increasing childhood obesity. Obesity problem arises because children nowadays are lacked of physical activities and are made worsen as children are on high consumption on junk food which is high in fat, salt and sugar (Tran 2005). Statistic by Australian Nutrition Journal (2004) reveals that more than 50% of children consumed sugar and almost 50% of children consumed fat more than the recommended intake. By canteen tenants selling junk food, they are actually contributing to the problem of youth weight gain (Tran 2005). This is all the more reason that the sale of junk food should be banned.
Furthermore, junk food is unhealthy and contains minimal nutritional value. Most junk food commonly contains synthetic flavour enhancer, colouring, and preservative which are proven to cause behavioural problems in children as said by Smith (2005). Students are said to be hyperactive and have poor concentration in class. According to The Food Show (2005), students’ behaviour is seen to be improved tremendously after the removal of junk food in canteen. Moreover, sale of junk food is shown to be indirectly proportional to the dental health of Australia‘s primary school children (Tran 2005).
Besides, junk food is associated with litter problems. Children tend to throw the packaging on the floor rather than finding rubbish bin to throw the packaging away. This resulted more money, time and effort to be spent for cleaning which supposedly can be used to do something more productive such as spending time on maintenance projects (The Food Show 2005). With rubbish around us, our communities’ images may be tarnished as outsiders will view us as unhygienic people (Smith 2005).
To summarize, sale of junk food should be banned in school canteen as consumption of junk food brings plenty of negative consequences such as obesity problem, litter problem and behavioural problem. Undeniably, the sale of junk food generates plenty of money for school which can be used to improve school’s condition however there are other expenses incurred such as cleaning cost and dental payment making it such a way that disadvantages of junk food overrides the advantages. We have to look at the bigger picture such as the effects of consumption of junk food in future, thus sacrifices need to be made. As said by Tran (2005, p.6), “it is a small price to pay, for the future health of our nation”.
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