DTE project

For my DTE project, we started with laser-cutting a drum emblem, for a drum kit that we were gonna make, before we decided on doing stuff in Minecraft. we ended up making a green elder dragon (or something)

Act of Union 1707

 

The Act of Union 1707, was a treaty between the English and the Scottish that is still in place today.

Population data

 Population data of European and Maori 1836-1901

The graph shows that the population of Maori went down, and European skyrocketed, Probably because the Europeans brought over diseases and sickness that the Maori had no immunity on. And the Europeans population went up because of how many Maori women would stay with European men for food and clothing.

Maori God Poster

 

pepeha

 

The secret life of Walter Mitty

44.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1. In the first box write the definition of the literary device underneath its name. In the second box, find examples of these literary devices from within the text.

Jargon a word used by a certain profession	Obstreosis of the ductal tract
Onomatopoeia, sounds in word form	pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep.
Juxtaposition contrasting something from another one	“I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.” Pandemonium broke loose in the courtroom. A woman’s scream rose above the bedlam and suddenly a lovely, dark-haired girl was in Walter Mitty’s arms. The District Attorney struck at her savagely. Without rising from his chair, Mitty let the man have it on the point of the chin. “You miserable cur!” . . .  “Any special brand, sir?” The greatest pistol shot in the world thought a moment. “It says ‘Puppies Bark for It’ on the box,”
(dramatic) Irony when the reader knows something that the character doesn’t  Situational irony something unexpected	“I was thinking,” said Walter Mitty. “Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes thinking?” She looked at him. “I’m going to take your temperature when I get you home,” she said.  “Why don’t you wear your gloves? Have you lost your gloves?” Walter Mitty reached in a pocket and brought out the gloves. He put them on, but after she had turned and gone into the building and he had driven on to a red light, he took them off again. “Pick it up, brother!” snapped a cop as the light changed, and Mitty hastily pulled on his gloves and lurched ahead. He drove around the streets aimlessly for a time, and then he drove past the hospital on his way to the parking lot. . ..
Symbolism  Symbolism is the idea that things represent other things	“To hell with the handkerchief,”

2a) How are Walter Mitty’s everyday activities and his daydreams linked? (Hint: what transition is used to move between real-life and a daydream?)

They are linked by a small detail that triggers his “daydreaming” but I’d like to believe that he has a mental disorder due to old age. Engine sound, Gloves, Newspaper boy, Magazine, 

3a) Why does Walter Mitty daydream about? And how do those sections add to the story?

Being a doctor, standing in a firing squad, being a Deadshot, engineer. They make it an interesting story. Witness in a court scene, ww2 pilot 

4a) Describe the relationship between Walter Mitty and his wife? Does the answer to this affect your answer to 3a? he clearly doesn’t care about her, this might be because they are old and have been in a relationship for most of their lives. In the court scene, he dreams about another girl coming in and hugging him.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

We’re going through!” The Commander’s voice was like thin ice breaking. He wore his full-dress uniform, with the heavily braided white cap pulled down rakishly over one cold grey eye. “We can’t make it, sir. It’s spoiling for a hurricane if you ask me.” “I’m not asking you, Lieutenant Berg,” said the Commander. “Throw on the power lights! Rev her up to 8,500! We’re going through!” The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa. The Commander stared at the ice forming on the pilot window. He walked over and twisted a row of complicated dials. “Switch on No. 8 auxiliary!” he shouted. “Switch on No. 8 auxiliary!” repeated Lieutenant Berg. “Full strength in No. 3 turret!” shouted the Commander. “Full strength in No. 3 turret!” The crew, bending to their various tasks in the huge, hurtling eight-engined Navy hydroplane, looked at each other and grinned. “The Old Man Will get us through,” they said to one another. “The Old Man ain’t afraid of Hell!” . . . 

“Not so fast! You’re driving too fast!” said Mrs. Mitty. “What are you driving so fast for?” 

“Hmm?” said Walter Mitty. He looked at his wife, in the seat beside him, with shocked astonishment. She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had yelled at him in a crowd. “You were up to fifty-five,” she said. “You know I don’t like to go more than forty. You were up to fifty-five.” Walter Mitty drove on toward Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the SN202 through the worst storm in twenty years of Navy flying fading in the remote, intimate airways of his mind. “You’re tensed up again,” said Mrs. Mitty. “It’s one of your days. I wish you’d let Dr. Renshaw look you over.” 

Walter Mitty stopped the car in front of the building where his wife went to have her hair done. “Remember to get those overshoes while I’m having my hair done,” she said. “I don’t need overshoes,” said Mitty. She put her mirror back into her bag. “We’ve been all through that,” she said, getting out of the car. “You’re not a young man any longer.” He raced the engine a little. “Why don’t you wear your gloves? Have you lost your gloves?” Walter Mitty reached in a pocket and brought out the gloves. He put them on, but after she had turned and gone into the building and he had driven on to a red light, he took them off again. “Pick it up, brother!” snapped a cop as the light changed, and Mitty hastily pulled on his gloves and lurched ahead. He drove around the streets aimlessly for a time, and then he drove past the hospital on his way to the parking lot. . .. 

“It’s the millionaire banker, Wellington McMillan,” said the pretty nurse. “Yes?” said Walter Mitty, removing his gloves slowly. “Who has the case?” “Dr. Renshaw and Dr. Benbow, but there are two specialists here, Dr. Remington from New York and Dr. Pritchard-Mitford from London. He flew over.” A door opened down a long, cool corridor and Dr. Renshaw came out. He looked distraught and haggard. “Hello, Mitty,” he said. “We’re having the devil’s own time with McMillan, the millionaire banker and close friend of Roosevelt. Obstreosis of the ductal tract. Tertiary. Wish you’d look at him.” “Glad to,” said Mitty. 

In the operating room there were whispered introductions: “Dr. Remington, Dr. Mitty. Dr. Pritchard-Mitford, Dr. Mitty.” “I’ve read your book on streptothricosis,” said Pritchard-Mitford, shaking hands. “A brilliant performance, sir.” “Thank you,” said Walter Mitty. “Didn’t know you were in the States, Mitty,” grumbled Remington. “Coals to Newcastle, bringing Mitford and me up here for a tertiary.” “You are very kind,” said Mitty. A huge, complicated machine, connected to the operating table, with many tubes and wires, began at this moment to go pocketa-pocketa-pocketa. “The new anaesthetizer is giving way!” shouted an interne. “There is no one in the East who knows how to fix it!” “Quiet, man!” said Mitty, in a low, cool voice. He sprang to the machine, which was now going pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep. He began fingering delicately a row of glistening dials. “Give me a fountain pen!” he snapped. Someone handed him a fountain pen. He pulled a faulty piston out of the machine and inserted the pen in its place. “That will hold for ten minutes,” he said. “Get on with the operation.” A nurse hurried over and whispered to Renshaw, and Mitty saw the man turn pale. “Coreopsis has set in,” said Renshaw nervously. “If you would take over, Mitty?” Mitty looked at him and at the craven figure of Benbow, who drank, and at the grave, uncertain faces of the two great specialists. “If you wish,” he said. They slipped a white gown on him; he adjusted a mask and drew on thin gloves; nurses handed him shining . . . 

“Back it up, Mac! Look out for that Buick!” Walter Mitty jammed on the brakes. “Wrong lane, Mac,” said the parking-lot attendant, looking at Mitty closely. “Gee. Yeh,” muttered Mitty. He began cautiously to back out of the lane marked “Exit Only.” “Leave her sit there,” said the attendant. “I’ll put her away.” Mitty got out of the car. “Hey, better leave the key.” “Oh,” said Mitty, handing the man the ignition key. The attendant vaulted into the car, backed it up with insolent skill, and put it where it belonged. 

They are so damn cocky, thought Walter Mitty, walking along Main Street; they think They’re so damn cocky, thought Walter Mitty, walking along Main Street; they think they know everything. Once he had tried to take his chains off, outside New Milford, and he had got them wound around the axles. A man had had to come out in a wrecking car and unwind them, a young, grinning garageman. Since then, Mrs. Mitty always made him drive to a garage to have the chains taken off. The next time, he thought, I’ll wear my right arm in a sling; they won’t grin at me then. I’ll have my right arm in a sling, and they’ll see I couldn’t possibly take the chains off myself. He kicked at the slush on the sidewalk. “Overshoes,” he said to himself, and he began looking for a shoe store. 

When he came out into the street again, with the overshoes in a box under his arm, Walter Mitty began to wonder what the other thing was his wife had told him to get. She had told him, twice, before they set out from their house for Waterbury. In a way he hated these weekly trips to town—he was always getting something wrong. Kleenex, he thought, Squibb’s, razor blades. No. Toothpaste, toothbrush, bicarbonate, carborundum, initiative, and referendum? He gave it up. But she would remember it. “Where’s the what’s-its-name?” she would ask. “Don’t tell me you forgot the what’s-its-name.” A newsboy went by shouting something about the Waterbury trial. . .. 

“Perhaps this will refresh your memory.” The District Attorney suddenly thrust a heavy automatic at the quiet figure on the witness stand. “Have you ever seen this before?” Walter Mitty took the gun and examined it expertly. “This is my Webley Vickers 50.80,” he said calmly. An excited buzz ran around the courtroom. The Judge rapped for order. “You are a crack shot with any sort of firearms, I believe?” said the District Attorney, insinuatingly. “Objection!” shouted Mitty’s attorney. “We have shown that the defendant could not have fired the shot. We have shown that he wore his right arm in a sling on the night of the fourteenth of July.” Walter Mitty raised his hand briefly and the bickering attorneys were stilled. “With any known make of gun,” he said evenly, “I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.” Pandemonium broke loose in the courtroom. A woman’s scream rose above the bedlam and suddenly a lovely, dark-haired girl was in Walter Mitty’s arms. The District Attorney struck at her savagely. Without rising from his chair, Mitty let the man have it on the point of the chin. “You miserable cur!” . . . 

“Puppy biscuit,” said Walter Mitty. He stopped walking and the buildings of Waterbury rose out of the misty courtroom and surrounded him again. A woman who was passing laughed. “He said ‘Puppy biscuit,’” she said to her companion. “That man said, ‘Puppy biscuit’ to himself.” Walter Mitty hurried on. He went into an A. & P., not the first one he came to but a smaller one farther up the street. “I want some biscuit for small, young dogs,” he said to the clerk. “Any special brand, sir?” The greatest pistol shot in the world thought a moment. “It says ‘Puppies Bark for It’ on the box,” said Walter Mitty. 

His is wife would be through at the hairdressers in fifteen minutes, Mitty saw in looking at his watch, unless they had trouble drying it; sometimes they had trouble drying it. She did not like to get to the hotel first; she would want him to be there waiting for her as usual. He found a big leather chair in the lobby, facing a window, and he put the overshoes and the puppy biscuit on the floor beside it. He picked up an old copy of Liberty and sank down into the chair. “Can Germany Conquer the World Through the Air?” Walter Mitty looked at the pictures of bombing planes and of ruined streets. . ..

“The cannonading has got the wind up in young Raleigh, sir,” said the sergeant. Captain Mitty looked up at him through tousled hair. “Get him to bed,” he said wearily. “With the others. I’ll fly alone.” “But you can’t, sir,” said the sergeant anxiously. “It takes two men to handle that bomber and the Archies are pounding hell out of the air. Von Richtman’s circus is between here and Saulier.” “Somebody’s got to get that ammunition dump,” said Mitty. “I’m going over. Spot of brandy?” He poured a drink for the sergeant and one for himself. War thundered and whined around the dugout and battered at the door. There was a rending of wood and splinters flew through the room. “A bit of a near thing,” said Captain Mitty carelessly. “The box barrage is closing in” said the sergeant. “We only live once, Sergeant,” said Mitty, with his faint, fleeting smile. “Or do we?” He poured another brandy and tossed it off. “I never see a man could hold his brandy like you, sir,” said the sergeant. “Begging your pardon, sir.” Captain Mitty stood up and strapped on his huge Webley-Vickers automatic. “It’s forty kilometres through hell, sir,” said the sergeant. Mitty finished one last brandy. “After all,” he said softly, “what isn’t?” The pounding of the cannon increased; there was the rat-tat-tatting of machine guns, and from somewhere came the menacing pocketa-pocketa-pocketa of the new flamethrowers. Walter Mitty walked to the door of the dugout humming “Auprès de Ma Blonde.” He turned and waved to the sergeant. “Cheerio!” he said. . .. 

Something struck his shoulder. “I’ve been looking all over this hotel for you,” said Mrs. Mitty. “Why do you have to hide in this old chair? How did you expect me to find you?” “Things close in,” said Walter Mitty vaguely. “What?” Mrs. Mitty said. “Did you get the what’s-its-name? The puppy biscuit? What’s in that box?” “Overshoes,” said Mitty. “Couldn’t you have put them on in the store?” “I was thinking,” said Walter Mitty. “Does it ever occur to you that I am sometimes thinking?” She looked at him. “I’m going to take your temperature when I get you home,” she said.

They went out through the revolving doors that made a faintly derisive whistling sound when you pushed them. It was two blocks to the parking lot. At the drugstore on the corner she said, “Wait here for me. I forgot something. I won’t be a minute.” She was more than a minute. Walter Mitty lighted a cigarette. It began to rain, rain with sleet in it. He stood up against the wall of the drugstore, smoking. . .. He put his shoulders back and his heels together. “To hell with the handkerchief,” said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud, and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last. 

♦ JAMES THURBER

 

Kidnapping of Pearl Button

A lot of clothing during the 1840s-1900s were bell-shaped and dark coloured, a lot of their clothing had floral patterns or "victorian patterns"

The main characters were Pearl being a white young lady with pretty pearly teeth and blonde hair, and two large Maori women, one wearing red and the other in yellow and green while both are green pendants "greenstone"

5 main parts of the story, Pearl was swinging on the gate, the walk with the women, the house with the carriages, the travel in the carriage, the beach.

Interpersonal skills

Therapist

Listening to the client, pausing to listen to their problems because it's not about the therapist it's about the client. Understand the three sides of the story, the truth, the other person perspective and then whoever is also in the situation. Taking turns talking to figure out the problem, they use eye contact and body language to show that they are listening. They have to be a good communicator and use respectful vocab.

Yellow brick road with Tehya

Witi Ihimaera was born in Gisbourne, in the northern islands of New Zealand, with 5 of his stories been made into a film, with my favourite one being Whale Rider. The yellow brick road has no meaning to me, due to me not having heard the saying before, but the story is probably about wealth.

I believe the narrator/speaker believes they are moving due to money problems.

I think the big difference between Waituhi and Wellington is the amount of money that is circulating in the area, so Wellington has better money-making opportunities. The Father wants his family to have a better life and work better jobs. Near the end, he's starting to freak out, due to the signs and the experiences on the way. He made the reference to The Wizard of Oz because the wizard wasn't magical and it was a lie, and they tried comparing Wellington to the wizard.

SocialS Was Kristallnacht Planned or Not?

How does evidence in this document show that “Kristallnacht” was planned in advance of the event actually happening? 

TO ALL REGIONAL AND SUB-REGIONAL GESTAPO OFFICES sent at 1:20AM, November 8, 1938 SUBJECT: MEASURES AGAINST THE JEWS THIS NIGHT That only such measures were to be taken that would not endanger German lives or property (e.g. the burning of synagogues was only to be carried out if there was no danger of fire spreading to the surrounding district).  Businesses and residences of Jews may be damaged but not looted. Particular care is to be paid in business sections and surrounding streets. Non-Jewish businesses are to be protected from damage under all circumstances. Police are to seize all archives from synagogues and offices of community organizations, this refers to material of historical significance. Archives are to be handed over to the SS. As soon as possible, officials are to arrest as many Jews especially wealthy ones - in all districts as can be accommodated in existing cells. For the time being, only healthy male Jews of not too advanced age are to be arrested. Signed by Reinhard Heydrich, SS Gruppenfürer 

The evidence that I found about Kristallnacht being a planned event as this letter was written only a day before Kristallnacht occurred. It is clearly planned, "SUBJECT: MEASURES AGAINST THE JEWS THIS NIGHT." Looking through the text, it is clear that they only wanna damage Jews and their property. Everything stated is an aggressive act on Jews.  

Kiwi-Fruit DNA extraction

Ingredients
1/2 kiwifruit
Access to clean water
Plastic sealable ball
Plastic cup
Shampoo 
Table Salt
Chilled Isopropyl alcohol (90%)
Spoon
Coffee filter
Clear Narrow Tube or Jar 

Method

Put half the kiwi fruit in a bag and put a bit of water into the bag then turn it into a mash.

Put tsp of shampoo, 2 pinches of salt and 4 tsps of water. Stir until the shampoo dissolves.

Add 2 tsp of Kiwi-fruit slushie to the soap solution and stir for 5 minutes.

Now use a coffee filter in a plastic cup to filter out all the kiwi chunks

Fill the narrow tube with 2tsp of cold isopropyl alcohol, then very carefully add tsps of the filtered kiwi fruit so that there are two layers of liquid.

let the tube sit for 2-3 minutes

Kristallnacht

This is my blog post on Kristallnacht.

What is meant by the term “Kristallnacht”? 
Night of the broken glass

When did this event occur?

November 9th and 10th 1938

How many synagogues did the programme claim were burned?

267 synagogues destroyed or burned

How many Jews were claimed to have died as a result of this event?

91 jews

How many were said to have been sent to concentration camps? 

30k jews were sent to concentration camps

What was the reaction of the German people to this event?

ecstatic, because they were convinced that Jews were on the bad side

THE NUREMBERG LAW BLOG POST

 THE NUREMBERG LAWS

At their annual party rally held in Nuremberg in September 1935, the Nazi leaders announced new laws based on many of the racial theories common in Nazi beliefs. These "Nuremberg Laws" excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or German-related blood." Additional regulations to these laws deprived them of most political rights. Jews were disenfranchised (that is, they had no right to vote) and could not hold public office. 

The Nuremberg Laws did not identify a "Jew" as someone with particular religious beliefs. Instead, the first amendment to the Nuremberg Laws defined anyone who had three or four Jewish grandparents as a Jew, regardless of whether that individual recognized himself or herself as a Jew or belonged to the Jewish religious community. Many Germans who had not practiced Judaism (the Jewish religion) or who had not done so for years found themselves caught in the grip of Nazi terror. Even people with Jewish grandparents who had converted to Christianity could be defined as Jews. 

The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 was the start of a new wave of anti-Semitic laws that brought about immediate segregation: Jewish patients were no longer admitted to municipal hospitals in Düsseldorf, German court judges could not refer to legal commentaries or opinions written by Jewish authors, Jewish officers were expelled from the army, and Jewish university students were not allowed to sit for doctoral exams. 

Other regulations reinforced the message that Jews were outsiders in Germany; for example, in December 1935, the Reich Propaganda Ministry issued a decree forbidding Jewish soldiers to be named among the dead in World War I memorials. 

Adapted from http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005681 

1. Provide two examples of ways in which the Nuremberg laws affected the rights of German Jews. 

Jew cannot marry any that has "german blood" in them, and from getting reich citizenship.

2. What other actions were taken that discriminated against Jews in Germany? (Remembering)

The holocaust, killing 6 million people.

3. Why do you think that the Nazis passed these laws? (Understanding)

Because they wanted no one to have enough power to stand up to them

4. If a New Zealand government passed a law that provided for different treatment of a named racial group in New Zealand, what do you think the reaction of most New Zealand people would be? Why do you think this might be the case? (Applying) a lot of rioting would occur with a lot of people also protesting against the this new law

5. Do you think these Nuremburg laws were racist? Explain your point of view. (Evaluating) I believe that this is severely racist, anything that is discriminating against one's heritage and race etc is racist

Hitlers anti semitism

TASK: 

Provide two quotes, one from each statement, which shows Hitler’s antisemitism. Explain how these statements represent anti-semitism. 

"The Jews were responsible for bringing negroes into the Rhineland" This shows his Anti-Semitism ways by believing that this is caused due to jews wanting to bastardise the white race "which they hate" 

"He wants to contaminate her blood and remove her from the bosom of her own people"

This shows that he sees jews as a different species, looking down upon jews having intercourse with the whites

The Great Depression

Hello, this is my blog post on The Great Depression.

Research Task: Why was Germany hit the hardest during the depression? Explain what Germany had to agree to by signing the Treaty of Versailles? How was NZ affected by the depression?

The great depression was an economic crisis that happened during 1929-1941 after the stock market crash that happened in October of 1929, this led to sending Wall Street into a wild panic, over several years during the GP, consumer spending and investment dropped, then leading for industrial output and employment to decline. This led to 25% of people to lose their job and stay unemployed, during these times the population of the world was around 2 million people, that means 500000 people were unemployed and couldn’t support themselves or their families.

Germany was hit the hardest during the great depression because Germany had to pay a lot of money due to starting the war and all the property destroyed etc. Although Germany had to pay $23b to the opposite side (The Allies.) The money went to constructing and reconstructing machinery and manufacturing plants to help rebuild the world from the war. This was very severe for Germany because of the government not being able to support their citizens, making times in Germany even harder during the great depression. 6 million Germans were unemployed, the number of Germans who had full-time jobs fell from 20 million to 11.5 million. Leaving families in distress and in poverty.

When Germany was signing the Treaty of Versailles they were also signing away territory to Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland. They also had to return Alsace and Lorraine to France and cede all of their overseas colonies in China, the Pacific and Africa to the Allied nations. The Allies goal was to weaken Germany because they were too dangerous to keep them with the power they had. They did this so that they wouldn't be a future threat to them. This postponed any scuffles with the Axis and Allies and may have prevented the third world war from starting, it also could’ve done nothing but actually ruin Germany during the GP.

The Great Depression hit New Zealand really hard, dropping exports by 45% for 2 years and New Zealand’s income by 40%, during this time George William Forbes term as prime minister (1930-1935) coincided with the harsh economic and social climate of the 1930s Great Depression. Unemployment was up by 12%, and people who were able to keep their jobs had their wages cut by about 20%. People being outraged by losing their jobs and having their wages cut led to Protests breaking out, people were protesting against urban and professional businesses. The most prominent manifestation of this protest was a conservative movement named the New Zealand Legion. This didn’t help with the great depression, because a lot of the businesses were also struggling to keep their sales up, even having to put prices down so that they could afford their products. 

Business

Mike Tamaki convinced his brother to sell his motorbike so that they could buy a 16 seater minibus. They do bus tours but it’s no ordinary tour, they pioneered their way into their customer’s hearts, they weren’t the best but they had heart so they kept on improving their “craft”, at the start all they could do. Sometimes they couldn’t even make it up the hill, and the concerts took place in a tent, but people liked that, it had spirit and people loved it. Word spread about the two Māori boys and the vehicle they created to share the untold stories of the Māori people.

Bibliography

Tamaki Village. “THE BIRTH OF TAMAKI MĀORI VILLAGE.” 

“Word spread about the two Māori boys and the vehicle they created to share the untold stories of the Māori people.”

https://www.tamakimaorivillage.co.nz/our-stories/the-birth-of-tamaki-maori-village/, 2021, https://www.tamakimaorivillage.co.nz/our-stories/the-birth-of-tamaki-maori-village/. Accessed Friday, July 2021.

Science how to figure out speed

Aim: To see if people are speeding around schools

Method: have one person at one power pole, while the other person stays at the opposite one and records the time when the other person gives the signal, do this 10 times, calculate it in m/s then into km/hr.

We had a few speeders, but they weren't too far over the speed limit, only around 5 over atmost.

Matariki

In music we have been researching Matariki and music-related things, while also learning the song Counting Stars by OneRepublic, I consider this song very easy to learn even as a beginner, I just need to put more effort into practising the song. 

SocialStudies - Green Peace

Who is green peace? GP is a peace activist group formed by Irving Stowe in 1971 so that they could attempt to stop the US nuclear weapon tests. But now their goal is to use non-violent methods to expose global environmental problems and to force solutions for a green and peaceful future. The goal of this group is to ensure that the earth is able to nurture life. What have they done? in 1972, After Greenpeace's first action in 1971, the U.S. abandoned nuclear testing grounds at Amchitka Island, Alaska. twenty years later after lobbying by Greenpeace and other organizations, the 39 Antarctic Treaty signatories agree to a 50-year ban of mineral exploitation on the continent. GP protects the ocean by challenging industrial fishing companies and other earth damaging companies. They also plan on building marine sanctuaries by the year 2030, hopefully covering 30% of the ocean, which should help our ocean repopulate a flourish with life. if they accomplished this, it would give endangered species time to recover their numbers, hopefully recovering from extinction, this would stop people from fishing endangered animals.

Eco tourism

Hello, this is my blog post on eco-tourism and I had to answer three questions about it.

What is Ecotourism, Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving responsible travel to natural areas, conserving the environment. While improving the well-being of the locals and the viewing experience for tourists, improving the reputation of the spot. Meaning more people visit, leading to more awareness and it often inspires people to go out and clean the environment. Ecotourism is also about people going and seeing awesome places without leaving a carbon footprint, such as zip line tours in countries like the Philippines, Thailand and Costa Rico, these countries provide opportunities for tourists to observe the fauna and flora of the rainforest without using any non-reusable fuels etc.  

Why is it a growing trend? Being an ecotourist means you respect local laws, does not contribute to pollution, but instead relishes in the natural environment in which you're travelling in, all the while helping to protect and conserve the area. Because of this, more and more international programs are being held to further promote ecotourism.

How can tourism help our oceans? Workers will go and clean the surrounding area keeping the ocean clean and even deep cleaning them by cleaning the trash on the sea bed, while most people who "clean" the ocean just remove the trash from the top, which is a small percentage of trash in the ocean. And since people wouldn't want to see fishing boats near the oceans that they are looking after, fishing boats are being banned from more and more places, reducing the overfishing bit by bit.

English (Merchant of Venice Film)

Hello, for the past two terms we have been reading and learning about the Shakespearian play by the name of Merchant of Venice, and at the start of this term, we started making our own film based on MOV, we had to use elements of MOV, to recreate it in a modern or different way. The short film that we created, is a bank robbery with a mole in the group that rats us out so that he can take all the money for himself. The elements from MOV that we used were the betrayal and the fact that the "villain" gets it worse off. We used the camera shots that we were asked to use plus High angle and over the shoulder. Surprisingly the most difficult thing while recording the film was actually thinking of ideas, everything else wasn't too bad. Next time I would try to plan better so that it would be of higher quality.

Social Science- Future of Fishing

Hello, this is my blog post on sustainable fishing and I need to answer two questions: Is sustainable fishing even possible and how is commercial fishing a threat to dolphins and birdlife (bycatch)?

I believe sustainable fishing is either going to be very difficult or impossible, this is because of how many people are in the world and how difficult it would be to make people fish smarter and to stop overfishing. We overfish 50% of the fish caught.

Sadly every 8 tunas, 45 dolphins are caught by bycatch and this ridiculous, bycatch is causing one death every 2 minutes and with over 300,000 dolphins and small whales being killed by fishing nets and other fishing equipment. Longline and trawl fisheries kill over 300,000 seabirds each year. These accidental deaths, known as bycatch, are the result of birds becoming caught in fishing gear.

While Japan is fishing up tens of thousands of dolphins this is going to cause the population of dolphins to drop down a lot, possibly making dolphins go extinct. And that doesn't even include bycatch, they kill 20 thousand a year on purpose and worldwide fishing operations are catching about 80,000 dolphins every year per 1,000 tonnes of tuna and it's estimated that 174 dolphins on average per that 1,000 tonnes are getting trapped in nets.

Nail Rusting Science Experiment

Nail Rusting Science Experiment

We had to investigate a number of ways that may prevent rusting.

The Tap water did nothing

The Saltwater rusted the nail pretty good
The Nail with boiled water and oil rusted a little bit
The Calcium chloride Nail with a bung did nothing
The Nail with zinc and magnesium did next to nothing
The Painted nail was pretty rusted
The Vaseline nail did nothing

My conclusion is that the results are basically what I was expecting, and I don't think the nail with paint was sealed properly. The saltwater nail had the most rust on it and the Calcium chloride nail barely rusted, because Calcium chloride removes moisture and moisture and oxygen is needed to rust.

Cyber Bullying Poster

 In Wananga, we had to do a cyber bully poster and this is what I did.

Social Science- Shark Finning

Shark finning is a fishing industry that collects shark and skin the fins off the sharks, sometimes they would catch and fin them alive and throw them out to let them slowly die. Sharkfin soup is a delicacy in China that dates back to AD 968, it was created by an emperor and it was created as a sign of the emperors status and wealth.

Finning sharks disrupts the food chain, as the apex predator of the ocean, if sharks went extinct then the next stage of the food chain will be overpopulated and will go extinct and will continue to repeat until there are no more fish left in the ocean.

Social Science- Deeper meaning

Once upon a time there was a wise man 
who used to go to the ocean 
to do his writing. 
He had a habit of walking 
on the beach 
before he began his work. 
One day he was walking along 
the shore. 
As he looked down the beach, 
he saw a human 
figure moving like a dancer. 
He smiled to himself to think 
of someone who would 
dance to the day. 
So he began to walk faster 
to catch up. 
As he got closer, he saw 
that it was a young man 
and the young man wasn't dancing, 
but instead he was reaching 
down to the shore, 
picking up something 
and very gently throwing it 
into the ocean. 
As he got closer he called out, 
"Good morning! What are you doing?" 
The young man paused, 
looked up and replied, 
"Throwing starfish in the ocean." 
"I guess I should have asked, 
why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?" 
"The sun is up and the tide is going out. 
And if I don't throw them in they'll die." 
"But, young man, don't you realize that 
there are miles and miles of beach 
and starfish all along it. 
You can't possibly make a difference!" 
The young man listened politely. 
Then bent down, picked up another starfish 
and threw it into the sea, 
past the breaking waves and said- 
"It made a difference for that one."

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The message of this poem is to show that one small good thing can make a big difference. A small thing like chucking the starfish back into the ocean is a huge thing for the starfish, it would've dried up in the sun but its life was spared. 

GPGP Newspaper

Shockingly The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an environmental catastrophe caused because of poor waste mismanagement by civilization, and it was discovered in 1997 by a yachtsman by the name of Charles Moore. 

Why should we care about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and plastic pollution generally, is killing marine life. 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals are affected every year, as well as many other species around the world because of the food chain. Eventually plastic will heavily affect our food supply making it difficult for food surplus to get out into the public eventually.

The GPGP is the largest island of trash is located near Japan, it contains 1.15 to 2.41 million tonnes of plastic, 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, 652+ surface nets and the GPGP is three times the size of France.

Wellbeing challenge

The site is about taking responsibility and action,

I have picked the physical challenges

HYDRATE

Drink More Water Challenge

Garbage Ocean (GPGP)

Hello, this is my first Blogpost on Trashing the planet. The first two slides are about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

resuxs

Hello, this is my blog post on resilience and tools to help.

Corrosion Blogpost

Aim: To find a number of methods that can prevent rust and finding out factors that cause rust in metal

Equipment: 8 Test tubes, test tube rack, a bung, tap water, vaseline gel, nail polish or paint, zinc pellets or magnesium ribbon, boiled water, salty water, cooking oil, calcium chloride.

Method: Label 8 test tubes A-H

Fill all test tubes with equal volumes of water, enough to cover the nails

Nail + Tap Water

Nail + Vaseline + water

Nail + Water + Nail polish/paint

Nail + Water + Magnesium ribbon wrapped around it, or zinc pellet added to the test tube

Nail + Salty Water 

Nail + Boiled Water + Oil

Nail + Calcium Chloride sealed with a bung (NO WATER)

Nail (NO WATER)

Live Aid Term Final Blogpost

Bohemian Rhapsody was played in live aid 1985, I think he wanted to play this because it's a good song, I don't think there were any other reasons for playing this song, maybe to hype up the crowd. I think it's very possible for a musician to start a big concert like Live Aid. 

Kanye West has been able to support BLM and I feel like it's actually made an impact on some peoples life, a lot of people follow rappers ideals like a moth following a light.

Bohemian Rhapsody

The Narrative final Reflection

Hello, this is my final reflection blogpost for the narrative tasks.

I now have knowledge on how to set up a scene for when I am writing a story, although I didn't learn a lot I did learn how to add more depth for my character, and the other characters in the story, the show don't tell was also very helpful. 

My favorite activities were the show don't tell and writing the narrative openings, although I don't like writing openings it was fun to try something different.

All Summer in a Day blogpost

In this blog post, we will be reading the story: All Summer in a day by Ray Bradbury.

Slackening - Means become lazy or slow, or losing speed.
Tumultuous - Means a sudden loud sound or it could mean being excited.
Apparatus - Just means equipment or machinery.  

The exposition of the story is that earth has developed sufficient enough travel methods, to go from earth to venus and back. In the story they live in, it has been raining every day for 7 years and the children have forgotten what the sun was like, apart from Margot, she seen the sun when she was 2 before she was sent to venus.

"The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun." This includes sensory language, a simile, and a metaphor.

"They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor." for the show not tell.

Vietnam songs

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The song I listened to was Vietnam by Jimmy Cliff, he sang the song because he wanted the war to stop because the families were losing their men and he sang it because he wanted to support the people fighting in the war.