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Unit 9 P4

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Task 1: Advert 1. Alcohol has been indirectly portrayed as being the influence that causes you to act in this illogical and demeaning way towards your own personal health, being reckless, performing dangerous acts that can and will cause you self-harm. Alcohol is the suggestive reasoning as to why teenagers who cannot control their alcohol intake behave in the manner portrayed by each actor in their separate advertisements despite the alcohol itself never being directly referenced. This plays on the general perception seen by the population of what occurs due to ‘Binge Drinking’ teenagers and risqué behavior. 2. The advert being acted out in reverse would really hit the viewer hard with the reality that alcohol has this effect on people when …show more content…

There are a few differences that are shown in these two adverts. The boy is depicted as being more prone to outbursts and acts of violence/anger (where he kicked the radio and ripped his shirt open with force). This implies that uncontrolled drinking in boys promotes rage, and violent behaviors that are unpredictable and at times uncontrollable. The girl is shown to become more sexually inclined/ being more promiscuous as well as sexually disadvantaged (shown by ripped stockings, shirt). This implies that girls become more loose and vulnerable when drunk and are susceptible to sexual advances made when they are unable to be in control of the situation due to the ‘binge’ drinking. 5. I believe these adverts are relevant to all teenagers and not only to British teenagers, because this is a worldwide phenomenon that alcohol is being abused more and more by underage drinkers, who do not realize/see themselves at the end of an evening and the implications they have brought upon themselves and to those around them. I feel that teenagers must be more aware that alcohol has an age-restriction for a reason. Task 2: Research Negative Aspects Alcohol Has on a Healthy Body • Alcohol can slow down your brain functions so that you eventually lose your sense of balance. • Can stop your gag reflex from working properly and the way it is meant to work. • Affect the nerves that control your breathing and heartbeat and can potentially stop both of these. • Dehydrate your body and potentially …show more content…

These functions range from protein production and blood clotting to cholesterol, glucose (sugar), and iron metabolism to processing what you eat and drink into energy and nutrients your body can use. The liver also removes harmful substances from your blood. As a result of alcohol abuse one can damage his/her liver thus preventing proper cleansing of the blood and other bodily fluids from harmful substances. Alcohol also destroys and damages liver cells. Your liver can also become damaged if you drink more alcohol than it can process. It has been shown that it is very prevalent in South Africans that live in the rural areas of the Northern Province, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal. South Africans brought up in the rural regions are at higher risk of contracting a hepatitis B virus in the first six years of their lives, and are thus more susceptible to liver disease/damage as a result of chronic alcoholism/ alcohol

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