Mohamed and Ali presentation report...

Sunday, June 26, 2011
Venue: W113

Time: 1450-1515
presentation by: Mohd Ahmed H00213864 & Ali Hadi H00213873

Topic: Computers

I choose to discuss about this presentation because it was done nicely and neatly. The presentation was illustrated by two of my colleagues about computers. They talked about the history, important developments, improvements in social life and how computers will be in the future. They showed the history of computers very well, especially when Ali supported his talk by including some years like Colossus Mark 1 in 1944. In addition, Mohamed handled his part of the presentation very well where he talked about the future computers and he supported his talk by reference to an animation video.

Overall, their presentation style was quite good with interesting slides. Also, they both introduced the presentation topics very well as I recalled it with energy and enthusiasm. Mohamed was very confident in the presentation and he talked with a loud voice; also he did a lot of eye contact and what really I liked about him is that he has a very special smile. In contrast, his colleague started with confidence but he became shy in some moments when he corrected himself with a loud voice. Both of them were standing at the side of the screen when illustrating their presentation without help of cards. Also, the presentation looked very organized in the way they preformed.

Talking about the power point itself for my colleague it was pretty good with standard animation. The slides had a simple background which was white but it had good text size and it was easy to read and catch up with.

Overall, the presentation was good and interesting to watch and I really regret that I didn't record the presentation because it really was worthy to watch it again especially if you are interested about the computer. However, both of them seemed that they did a lot of presentations and performed in front of many people, and that is why I thought I will never compete with them. In the end, I would like to say to both of my friends thank you a lot to let us go to this fantastic experiment with you and I wish good luck to both of you.

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Reflection on the meeting...

The meeting started at 3:06pm by a group of three persons led by chairman Mohammed Al-Ameri, me, the minutes taker (Ahmed Al-Ali),and the last person is the participant played by Ahmed Al-Katheeri. The chairman started by introducing the agenda and how many minutes we must talk for each part and how we will talk and prepare the report. My part was the minutes taker, as I said, which means like secretaries who must write what they discuss and also join discussion with them. The hard part for me was writing and talking at the same time. I thought in some parts of the meeting I was slow to write them down. The meeting went fine and we agreed sometimes and we disagreed sometimes. However, in the end the chairman made some comments on some points which we need to take into consideration when writing the report.

Meeting re. Smoking effect

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.