Case+Study+(Chapter+7)

Note: Some of you have been changed to a different group. We will have 4 discussion groups on Tuesday. If you are a discussion director, please make sure that you have your questions ready on Tuesday.
Group #1 Chen, Po-Nien**
 * __Connector__

In chapter 7, it gives examples and instances on both smoking and suicide. It shows that people will do something that they know are wrong if others are doing it since people will get the “permission” from them. I think I kind of had the same experience on it. Once, I was waiting for the red light to cross the street, even though there was no car pass by. But suddenly, there was a guy just walk through the street, so I just follow what he was doing because I think if someone do it, I could do it too. That is the connection for me with this chapter.


 * Group #2 Lee, Dasol

__Travel Tracer__** 1. Page 218 Paragraph 2 It gives a specific example and explains the suicide in that time, also quotes other's words for making more clear. 2. Page 221 Paragraph 2 Is starts with a conclusion of the prior smoking talk and ends by posing questions associated with both smoking and suicide. 3. Page 223 Paragraph 2 It transmit the smoking epidemic to wider area and make a end and also a new start.
 * Group #1 Li Luosi**

(The location is following the red arrow. ) Micronesia is the first case from **Page 216 to 220**. The example of **suicide** happened on these tiny islands.
 * Group #2** **Huang, Sisi**
 * Micronesia**

Starting event: A seventeen-year-old boy named Sima hanged himself after failing to find a bamboo pole-knife that his father needed. The sorrow of suffering his stern and demanding father pushed him to end up his own life. That was in the early 1960s, suicide on the islands of Micronesia was almost unknown. Tipping point : In November 1966, the charismatic scion of one of the island's wealthiest families.R. hanged himself in romantic despair. The reason of his death was that he was so confused after being informed that he would father two children for two different women. Consequence: The rate of suicide tipped. By the end of 1980s, there were more suicides per capita in Micronesia than anywhere else in the world.


 * __Word Finder__**
 * Group #1 She, Wu Suk

__1. stern__** firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.

a large heavy knife used esp. in Latin-American countries in cutting sugarcane and clearing underbrush and as a weapon.
 * __2. machete__**

to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand.
 * __3. rebuked__**

growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
 * __4. adolescent__**

the avoidance of reality by absorption of the mind in entertainment or in an imaginative situation, activity, etc.
 * __5. escapist__**

of great interest or attraction; enchanting; charming; captivating: a fascinating story; fascinating jewelry.
 * __6. fascinating__**

a disaster resulting in death. a death resulting from such an occurrence: a rise in highway fatalities.
 * __7. fatality__**

to call up or produce (memories, feelings, etc.): to evoke a memory.
 * __8. evoke__**

strikingly bright or intense, as color, light, etc.: a vivid green.
 * __9. vivid__**

the act or an instance of seizing. the state of being seized.
 * __10. seizure__**

__baffling__ totally bewilder or perplex
 * Group #2** **Alyousef, Hassan Qassim**

__phenomena__ a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, esp. one whose cause or explanation is in question

__suicide__ the action of killing oneself intentionally

__striking__ attracting attention by reason of being unusual, extreme, or prominent

__evoke__ bring or recall to the conscious mind

__sophistication__ a person with much worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture

__crinkly__ form small creases or wrinkles in the surface of something, esp. the skin of the face as the result of a facial expression

__elegant__ pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner __Passage Picker__

1) P217 Par2 This is an very interesting paragraph, it said by the boy who suicided because his dad was mad of him. 2) P219 Par2 This paragraph points out the the boy is the beginning of suicide ideation among adolescents. They thought that suicide was cool. 3) P227 Par2 The smoking followed the same logic with suicide. Teens want to be cool, or they see somebody smoke and think that is cool, so they stared to smoke. 4) P233 Par2 The smoking experience is so memorable and powerful for some people that they cannot stop smoking. This is same as stick factor.
 * Group #1 Bai, Lirongzi

Group #2**


 * __Discussion Director__ (You must have the discussion questions on Tuesday)**
 * Group #1** __**Ko, Ah-Ra**__ **,** **Xie, Jiehao** **( There will be two discussion directors for each group because we will split up into smaller groups this time)**

Ah-Ra Ko

1. Why do people committed suicide? 2. Why do people stated smoking, when they were young? 3. What is the result of the nicotine examination with the mice? 4. What causes people stio smoking in terms of genetics? 5. How gene influences smoking in family?

Jiehao Xie

1.How did suicide tip in Micronesia? 2.How did the newspaper affect the people who wanted to commite suicide? 3.What's the relation between the logic and the smoking? 4.What rules did the media play in the tipping of suiside and smoking? 5.Why is the cigarette unsticky?

Leejihyung 1. Why did Sima hanged himself? 2.What happenened in 1966? 3.What lessons did did we learn from the cigarette examples? 4. What is one example of cigarette epidemics? 5. what is one example of epidemics of suicide Bai Xueyin
 * Group #2 Bai, Xueyin, Lee, Jihung**

1.What happened on the South Pacific Islands of Mecromsia? 2.Why atfer the suicide on Sima, there were mor and more children sucide in that island? 3.What actions didi people taken to stop teenages smoking? 4.What Dr.David Phillips do in this research? 5.What could we get from the resarch of Dr.David Phillips and the suicide accidents of Micronesia? this chapter analyze two epidemic cases. First is suicide sample, phenomenon of high rate of comite suicide of the island was contributed by two effect one is the report of the suicide littel boy make some teenager think it is a cool thing which can make their name print on the newspaper, the other is they see the suicide case around them even they are litter. Second case is the smoking problem, the reasons of people smoke can be class into two type. one is influence from outside world, such as parents and friends who seems cool, the other is effect from smoker themselves, emotional factor cause the addiction of smoking. And author give solution of the smoking problem which is making strategy matching the analysis.
 * __Summarizer__**
 * Group #1 Xing, Jia

Group #2** **Kim, Young Joon  ** === Chapter 7, Case Study contains two epidemics which are smoking and suicide. Suicide is not common event in most of the world. In Micronesia, however, suicide is common. Sima committed suicide because he felt no one cares about him. After that, male teenagers committed suicide because their girlfriends stayed with other guys, parents did not give extra dollars for buying cigarettes and brothers rebuked him because of noise. Suicide of unknown person does not affect anything. However peers and people who are famous and popular are different. It means that influence of them is huge. Smoking is same either. Most teenagers started smoke because their friends smoked and they want to look like cool. This chapter shows that these epidemics are also caused by the habit sticks, the stickiness factor which we discussed in previous chapters. ===


 * __Illustrator (Limit pictures to no more than 3)__**
 * Group #1Abdulghani, Rashad Essam**

**Group #2 Zou, Ying**
__**1. The mother who gets her 13-year-old to behave... by giving her cigarettes.

2. A particular set of genes can turn a teenager experimenting with cigarettes into a life-long smoker.



3.Thembi’s AIDS Diary is a 30-minute audio documentary about a year in the life of a teenager living with HIV.

Literary Luminary Group #1**__ **Dai Wei** __1.__ Paragraph from P220-221 Why do teens suicide?

__2.__ P233 "Smoking was never cool. Smokers are cool. Smoking epidemics begin in precisely the same way that the suicide epidemic in Micronesia began or ..." One main factor of causing teens smoking

__3.__ P233 "The teen smoking epidemic does not simply illustrate the Law of the Few, however. It is also a very good illustration of the Stickiness Factor." Comculing the connectors between teens smoking and tipping point

__4.__ P237 "Chippers may be people who have the genes to derice pleasure from nicotine, but not the genes to handle it in large doses/” Definition of Chipper in this chapter


 * __Group #2Tu, Chieh__**

 1. The suicide notes tend to express not depression but a kind of wounded pride and self-pity, a protest against mistreatment. The act itself typically occurs on a weekend night, usually after a bout of drinking with friends ... Death results from anoxia - the shortage of blood to the brain. (p218)

I chose this paragraph because it describes that suicide sometimes could not be a action responded to emotion or mood, it’s an epitome and it is contagious. Basically, people suicides seem like following some kinds of rules.

2. Their suicide attempts appear in the spirit of imitative or experimental play. ... Especially among some younger boys, the suicide acts appear to have acquired an experimental almost recreational element. (p219)

It very surprised me that people suicides by just want to try something that they had never done before. The environments force them to do so.

3. Harvard University economist W. Kip Viscusi recently asked a group of smokers to guess how many years of life, on average, smoking from the age of twenty-one onward would cost them. ... there are few public health programs in recent years that have fallen as short of their mission as the war on smoking. (p221)

It is also very interesting and adjusted my thought that smokers not only understand the consequence of being smokers and have knowledge, but they still keep smoking because it is a process of been adults.

4. The kind of contagion Phillips is talking about isn't something rational or even necessarily conscious....Suicide stories offer another kind of alternative." Phillips's permission-givers are the functional equivalent of the Salesmen. (p222)He said people breaks rule because they see someone else do and they want to imitate them, not the reason because they do want to do. Sometimes, people won’t actually know what themselves are doing, just by following others.