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**__ Survey on Communication Devices __** The pie charts demonstrate a survey on communications devices that involved 18 students of Centre __of__ Foundation Studies, International Islamic University Malaysia. __Each pie chart represents for each question.__  __The first pie chart show__s that 83% which is __most all the students preferred phones as their mode of communications__. While, 11% of them preferred web cams and 6 % preferred instant messaging to communicate with others. __The second pie chart shows__ how frequent __they use communication device__ in their daily life. 89% of the students chose always as their answer which is __they use communication device regularly__. Nevertheless, the remaining 11% of students used __communication__ device just once in a while in their daily life.  the purpose of using phone in their daily life is shown in the third pie chart __Most of the students used__ phone for casual conservation which is 72%. Then, 11% of the students __used__ phone for __study purpose__. The remaining students used phone for __business purposes and play games__. The forth pie chart shows __total spending on phone credit every month__. __Students who spend__ RM 20 and RM 50 per month has slightly __the same__ percentage which are 33% and 39%. While 22% of the students spent RM 20 per month and 6% of the students __spend__ RM100 for phone credit each month. The last pie chart represents the opinion of the students about the benefit of communication devices for the developing countries. Majority of the students which is 61% __of them__ agree communication devices improve __life style__. While, 22% of them said communication devices save money and time in sharing information and 17% said that communication devices increase business contacts. = **FEEDBACK** =

** D o social-networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter improve a young person’s social life or serve as a substitute for a real social life? **

Social network’s popularity has grown greatly among teenagers and students. Social networking sites allow the them to view their friends’ profile page, pictures, and activities. This social networking websites is incredibly popular among both youngsters and adults. Social networking sites are loved by many youths because it gives them an outlet to express themselves as individuals and maybe take on different personality than in real life. Most people especially youngsters use the social network sites as their social ladder in their life to fit in better with their peers and to follow what other youngsters are doing.

Younger generations are attracted to social networking websites because the websites allow them to discover who they really are. Every social networking website users have profiles that display information and pictures the users can customize. The profiles allow the user to share with the outside world what is important to them. The other thing also with the Internet there is no real life audiences, in other words, invisible audiences so teenagers love social networking because they can avoid the awkwardness in the real life. Youths love going online because it makes their life more convenient and simpler to show the world about their identity. Most teens are concerned with resolving how they perceive themselves with how they are perceived. To learn this requires trying out different performances, receiving feedback from peers and figuring out how to modify fashion, body posture and language to better give off the intended impression. They keep changing their profile as they continue growing as a person. The online realm, paradigm allows teenagers to have total control over their images and change their images instantly.

The explosion in social networking websites is widely viewed as an exciting opportunity and activity, especially for youth and teenagers. Social network sites allow public to gather. Yet the society’s reaction tends to be going the opposite way. One of the concerns is that the modern generation has many friends online but little sense of privacy and a self-centered fascination. They are exposing themselves through online networking website and updating their activity online. For example, a teen will update his whereabouts constantly to their friends online and they could also exactly put their location. They also would constantly inform their friends online with their daily activities so in a sense, youth today loves to be in a public display without any privacy. The next point is that youngsters who use social network, they want to be viewed by people and have friends as many as possible. They put an elaborate profile on their page and other user who read the profile will put an interest in that profile thus creating a virtual community. The danger of social network that it gives narcissism and an unhealthy belief and exaggerated view.

Teenagers need a platform to help them discover their true selves. Social networking websites provides a place for them to socialize and create their identities in search of approval from their peers. It is a place for socializing, and because popularity and social status are important to teenagers. Virtual communities have become an important influence in the social development of teenagers in the modern world by allowing them to express their personalities. However, with the coming technologies, the Internet has transformed our daily lives. One thing is absolute; the way people interact, communicate and collaborate with each other has changed forever. Eventhough, social network is changing the way people communicate with people without having to have face-to-face interaction, social community values still hold important key factor to drive the user to consume social network more everyday.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. WATCH THIS VIDEO CLIP, AND NAME THE MOVIES FEATURED ?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Godfather
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">King’s speech
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Slumdog millionaire
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Social Network
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Black Swan
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hangover
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mama Mia
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paranormal activity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Matrix
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Inception
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Star wars
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Star trek
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Batman
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">James Bond
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Iron Man
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Transformer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pirates of Caribbean
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Harry Potter
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lord of the Rings

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS :-

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">(a) What is your favorite local and international film?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Favorite local film : Muallaf ( The Convert ) - Yasmin Ahmad
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Favorite international film : Ichi Rittoru No Namida ( A Litre of Tears ) - Riki Okamura

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">(b) What is the worst film you have ever seen?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Awake - Joby Harold ** too horrible because it gives the psychological impact - phobia to surgery, scared if I will encounter "anesthetic awareness" ( awake but paralyzed )

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">(c) In your opinion, who is the worst actor or actress in film?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paris Hilton

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. WRITE A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF A MOVIE THAT YOU HAVE WATCHED.

Ichi Rittoru No Namida ( A Litre of Tears ) also called A Diary of Tears is a dramatic tragedy diary written by Kito Aya. A true story based on her own life. A diary that originally written in first person and then was adopted to a film. The film is about a girl coping with her teenage life along with a degenerative disease, Spinocerebellar Ataxia. A disease causes the person to lose control over their body but the person can retain all mental ability. The disease acts like a prison. Through family, medical examinations and rehabilitations, Kito Aya live until at the age of 25. Kito Aya keeps a diary on what she does, how she feels and the hardships she must endure. Initially, the purpose of the diary was for Kito Aya to chronicle impressions and incidents she had about how the disease was affecting her daily life. As the disease progressed, however, the diary became a medium to describe the struggle that she faced in dealing with the disease, adapting the disease, and to survive with the disease. As she notes in one entry, "I write because this is the evidence that I am still alive". I really admired her spirit.