Amrita Samskriti

Hi bloggers!

Hope you are all working on your blog posts for the first week topics.

Meanwhile we are going to give out your third task!

Smoking Kills

As all of you know, smoking is one of the biggest killers in the world causing lung cancer, heart attacks and other pulmonary diseases.

These are some sad and shocking statistics available regarding smoking :

– About a third of the male adult global population smokes.

– Worldwide, between 80,000 and 100,000 kids start smoking every day.

– Every eight seconds, someone dies from tobacco use. Around five million people around the world die of smoking every year

– About 15 billion cigarettes are sold daily – or 10 million every minute.

– Among young teens (aged 13 to 15), about one in five smokes worldwide.

Today [31st May] is very significant for the anti-smoking effort worldwide as it has been declared as the World No Tobacco Day by the WHO.

Your task for this round is to blog about your thoughts regarding this. It could be about its effects on the individual or society, possible solutions, personal experiences etc.

Submission

The link to your blog post should be emailed to samskriti@amritapuri.amrita.edu or samskriti108@gmail.com

Format of the email :

Subject – Third Round

Content –
Name: Your name
Roll Number: Your roll number
URL to the article on your blog (about Smoking)

Example –

Subject: Third Round
Name: Kamal Krishnan
Roll:    AM105CS078
URL: http://mythoughts.blogspot.com/2009/05/smokingkills.html

Points

1. 50 points for mailing us the links before 7^th June 09.

2. 40 points if you mail before 10^th June 09.

3. 30 points, anytime after 10^th June 09.

Samskriti Team : These are points that you automatically get for submitting the blog posts. Your contest posts will be evaluated qualitatively later by the judges.

Namah Sivayah and Happy Blogging!

Hi Amritapuri bloggers!

It is nice to see that so many of you have joined us for a great summer of blogging 🙂

The topics for the first week are the following two videos :

Video 1: Lead India campaign

Read about the Lead India Campaign here :

http://www.lead.timesofindia.com/

http://www.indiapoised.com/anthem.htm.

There are several such videos and websites about the lead india campaign on the Internet.

You are required to
a) Embed your favourite Lead India Campaign video on your blog and along with that
b) Write an article and publish it on your blog. (You are free to choose the title but it MUST BE related to the  Lead India Campaign, may be your thoughts, comments or your opinion etc)

Video 2: Chicken a la Carte

Original Link : http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1081/Chicken-a-la-Carte

Write your comments about this short film by Ferdinand Dimadura. It could be your opinion about it, your thoughts, what it invoked in you, if it inspired you to do something, if it changed your view etc. You could see if there are other videos that talk about the same theme and link it on your blog.

Submission

The links to your blog articles (two posts, one for each of the video) should be emailed to samskriti@amritapuri.amrita.edu or samskriti108@gmail.com (You may publish more articles on your blog but only TWO articles should be submitted for evaluation, one for each of the videos above ).

Format of the email :

Subject : Second Round

Content :
Name: Your name
Roll Number: Your roll number
URL1 to the article on your blog (about Lead India)
URL2 to the article on your blog (about Chicken-a-la-Carte)

Example :

Subject: Second Round
Name: Kamal Krishnan
Roll:    AM105CS078
URL1: http://mythoughts.blogspot.com/2009/05/leadIndia.html
URL2: http://mythoughts.blogspot.com/2009/05/chicken.html

Points

1. 100 points for mailing us the links before 4th June 09.

2. 80 points if you mail before 7^th June 09.

3. 60 points, anytime after June 7^th.

Samskriti Team : These are points that you automatically get for submitting the blog posts. Your contest posts will be evaluated qualitatively later by the judges.

Namah Sivayah and Happy Blogging!