Petition Research

This is a petition that caught my eye, It's to make Male and Female car insurance the same.

This took my interest because I do not believe in discrimination and this is a perfect example of Sex discrimination. I feel Male and Female's both have the SAME rights as each other.

Here is a link to the petition i have researched,

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/equalityins/

My Campaign

My Campaign is about free student travel, for example giving students attending Secondary Schools and Students attending Sixth Form. I have done a fair bit of research and results show that 24 million pounds of tax payers money goes towards giving police free travel on trains. So why should the police gain free travel and Students are left to folk out money to get to college. The link below shows more on the article,

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article4842434.ece

I have also researched that OAPs (over 60s) and the Disabled receive free bus travel anywhere they like like in Britain. I feel this is fair but surely if the government can folk out for Police and OAPs surely, Student travel can't help?

Prices for Bus Passes and weekly tickets are way to expensive, for just 4 weeks to one destination and back it costs £42. Can parent's or even college students afford to pay that much anyway? And for a bus pass for the whole year costs £350 and who wants to folk out that amount of money just to go to college?

The government are telling people to stop using their own transport and start using local transport to save the environment. But I don't see MPs and Government leaders doing so, how can they tell people to use public transport when prices are way to high! No wonder young people are learning to drive, it probably works out cheaper!

The Aim of my campaign is to get enough young people between the ages of 16-19 to agree with receiving free bus travel. Because if you look at the bigger picture 75% of students are paying to go to college and that just isn't right! Also the aim of my campaign is to get the attention of the Government to respond to my idea and approve of it.

People who will stand against me during the process of my campaign are OAPs, Taxpayers and The government itself.

- OAPs have received free bus travel because they either served in the war or can't earn a sustainable living and they will think "Why should Young people receive free bus travel, they are the ones for violence today"

- Taxpayers will not want bills to rise so they can send students to college.

- The Government itself will not allow itself to pay for students unless the campaign reaches them and they start to agree with some of my points

Stop Mill Road Tesco

Tom Woodcock came in today and gave a talk on how he helps the local community and the petitions he does outside his teaching to help improve every day life. Tom Woodcock is secretary of the Cambridge & District Trades Union. He has been involved in many recent petitions for example, Save Jobs at Cambridge University Press, Postal Workers Strike and trying to stop Tesco gaining planning permission for Mill Road.

I gained interest in the last one 'Stopping Tesco getting planning permission for mill road' because it was the most interesting out of them all and I agreed with Tom's points and why it should be stopped.

Spider Diagram

- Free

- Easy

- stress free

- Step on, Step off

- Save pounds

- Hassle free

- Hop On, Hop Off

- Glide To College

- Free Travel, Easy Ride

- Save Your Pennies, Go For Free

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3 Questions

Do You Catch A Bus In The Morning?

Do You feel Buses Are To Expensive?

Do You Think Bus Company's Like StageCoach Should Reduce The Cost Of Bus Travel for students coming in from over 5 miles away?

Do you feel all students should receive a free bus pass to use for college?

30th November, Campaigns and Communications

Yesterday Amber Beeson A Writer/Creative designer came into talk to us about creating Campaigns and attracting the the target audience using a range of techniques. 

Our task for this lesson was to create a poster about 'What could be improved at hospitals' 

We created the poster based on what we thought doctors could do to improve what they do around the hospital to make it better for patients. And we thought spending more time with the patients would improve there mentality because you'd feel the doctor cares about your problem at the time. 

The poster didn't come out as well as planned because we didn't have lots of time to create it and little time to create it. If I could do the poster again I would work faster and ask for more time to create the poster.