Hurumanu 6: Political Party

This week we continued on to look at politics. This week and the couple following weeks, we are focusing on creating our own political parties in groups. We needed to include the name of the party, slogan, logo, policies, and manifesto. The people in my group were Skyler, Shiela, Rieya, and Janel. This week we manage to finished some things. Our party leader is Rieya. 

Our party is called the "Constellation Party". Why the Constellation is a group of visible stars, we as individuals represent the stars, because every star is different from each other, although we are all different, we are like a constellation because we are all together and we will fight together as one in order to make New Zealand a better place, where they can look up at us and be inspired, with that, we, New Zealanders are a constellation.

Relating to that, our slogan for our party is "Our individualities can create a constellation". The main colour of our party is Purple. We chose the colour “Purple” because purple is the colour that represents New Zealand’s dignity, pride, nobility, ambition and power. Using this, we can show that we have the ability to show the world that New Zealand can represent these strengths.

Today we created our team logo as well as our party policies and have started on our Manifesto. Our policies and manifesto aren't clear at the moment but our focus next week is to get it done. Also the party leader speech.

Hurumanu 6: Voting Guide Poster

Last week in Hurumanu 6, we began looking at political parties/leaders around the country. In relating to that, we also learned how to vote. If you don't know how yet. Here's a guided poster I made to explain briefly the process you have to go through in order to vote for your candidates. When voting, you are given 2 votes. One for a party and an electorate chair of your town.

Hope you get a better understanding of the voting system.

 Hope you like my poster and have a nice day bye!

Art: The Collage Art Of Photomontage

Hello! This semester in Art we began looking at Photomontage. One of the well-known artists who started this kind of photography art is Hannah Höch. A female artist who invented this kind of photography art with some meanings behind it. Mostly about the equal rights for women. But when she started this collage art she was inspired by Pablo Picasso's collage art and started kind of her own one. But anyways, we were provided with some random pictures and it was up to us to use our creativity to create a photomontage. Here are the things I've come up with. I hope you like it.

It's mostly about statue faces with some cropped out facial features in the other pictures and stick it. There's no special meaning behind this photomontage of mine. But If I have to put a meaning behind it it's probably about how history can be affected by today's society. Especially with the statues. I guess you could say it kinda relates to some drag-queens these days. The second picture on the top right, the one who is wearing some yellow boots, it kinda relates to how people can be insecure about their appearance I guess. Hope you like it and have a great day!

Who made the first 'photograph'?

It's the beginning of the 2nd Semester. For the options subject, I chose Art. It's specifically has something to do with Photography. In every 10 minutes start of the session, we are tasked to make a blogpost about in one of the 'Photography Research slides'. 

The picture above is the topic of what I'm blogging about. 

The person that made the first photograph in the world is Joseph Nicephore Niepce. Nicephore Niepce is a french man who invented the first photography and pioneer in that field. The process of him making the photograph was called 'Heliography' it basically meant 'sun' and graphein invented by him around 1822.

End of Life Referendum

Today we looked to the remaining topic in Hurumanu 6 which is the referendum about Ending of Life act law. End of life law is basically about having a choice to end their own individual life. However, it might sound like suicide but there are some points that say it's not. Here are the pros and cons of this law.

Pros:

- You have to be 18+ and is a terminal illness

- People do not need to suffer

- A free choice about your own life, method and date and time for taking the medication

- Hard decisions are taken away from loved ones

- You can change your mind at the last minute

- You aren't forced to do it if you don't want to

Cons:

- Some doctors might not want to 

- It's still suicide

- Is against other people's beliefs and religion/values

- Can maybe take advantage of it by injecting it to someone else out of hatred

- Your loved ones don't have a choice but to accept your own decision to end your life

- Doctors can be guilty after doing it 

If I were to vote in this. I would vote no, it's because they are going to die eventually in a matter of time. What's the point of taking the medication in advance. If the illness is unable to cure at all they could just take it and end their sufferings early but I say I'd probably just enjoy my last days while I'm still living instead of taking the medication. 

Cannabis Referendum 2020

This week in Hurumanu 6 we began looking onto two types of votes topics and they are Cannabis vote and End of life vote. We first looked at Cannabis Referendum. Cannabis is a type of drug that uses primarily for medical or recreational purposes.

The positives and negatives are...

Positive:
-More tax

-Know who's is growing + supplying

-Create more jobs

-Know what you're buying

-No fear of breaking the law
-Age restriction

Negative:

-Drugs use can cause you to do bad things 

-Still can't stop illegal selling

-Cant add tax growing

-Create drug addicts

-Damage mental health

If I had the choice to vote on this, I'd vote No. It's because having drugs legal can absolutely encourage people it's okay to do it. Sure it does have some age restriction on who can use it, but I think, for example, the father bought these and their child gets curious about what it is and tried it. If the prizes are too high for non-illegal selling, it could encourage people to purchase it in an illegal way. It could also of course affect your wellbeing and mental health.

 You can get addicted to it and couldn't stop yourself from using it even though there is a limited amount that an individual person can get it, you never know what's gonna happen. Not everyone follows the rules of the government and can rebel from it. Overall, It's just not a good thing.

Year 2020 Goal Setting (Term 3)

Hi! The term just started and we are working on our goals for the term. Here I am sharing them with you. Please click at the link down below to view it.

 Have a nice day =)

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ESOL - In the bush (Late post)

Hello, I have forgotten to post this so this one is a late post. It's about Animals in New Zealand bush at night. We were tasked to label and give each animal from Page 8 using short sentences and simple sentences. Here's a simple slideshow I made. Bye! Have a nice holiday everyone!

Women's Suffrage - Hurumanu 6

Hi, This week in Hurumanu 6 we are learning about the types of protest movements. The types of protest movements are Sit-Ins, in protest against racial segregation. Marching - protest against the loss of land. Disruption - protest against parties. Protesters clashing - 2 groups protesting different news. We are tasked to research one of the protest-event in a list and answer some basic knowledge questions about it.

I chose the 'Women's Suffrage' movement. What is it? It's a protest action in the days for protesting about allowing women to vote in politics. It occurred in 1983 on September 19. Back in the days, women weren't permitted to vote. It was certainly unfair. The leader of this protest soon became of the women that created a change in history. Kate Sheppard.

She led the protest fearlessly until eventually the rights were given. Thanks to her, today women are allowed to vote. The type of protest they used was marching and soon disruption. Their voices weren't heard enough so some went hardcore. They cut off the telephone lines, break in a store, etc and some even went to jail for it.

The people that were involved in this protest are mostly women. The outcome of this protest led to a sense of peace. New Zealand was the first country that grant women to vote. Here's a link for more info. Fun fact: Kate Sheppard is in a $10 note in NZ.

They also had a song they sang during the protest. Here are the lyrics of the song.

Bye. Have a nice day again.

Refraction through lenses - Hurumanu 5

Today we did another experiment relating to light in Science - Hurumanu 5. It is about Refraction to lenses. There were two lenses and they are Convex and Concave lenses.

Aim: To investigate how different types of lenses refract light.

Equipment: Triple-slit ray slide, power supply, a concave lens, and a convex lens.

Method:
1) Set up a ray box, triple-slit ray slide, and power supply.
2) Place the convex lens in the space below. Place the ray box at the top of the page and shine the three rays of light at the lens. Make sure the central light ray hits the lens 90-degree angle as indicated in the diagram.
3) Carefully trace the direction of the incoming and refracted rays.
4) Repeat using the concave lens.

Conclusion: 
When light passes through this type of lens, the rays all move away (diverge) from each other. One is of these lenses is in security peephole in a door so that a person inside a room can see who is at the door without having to open it.

1. The lens described in the paragraph above is a Concave lens.

When light passes through this type of lens, the rays all move towards (converge) each other. One use of these lenses is in a camera, to focus the light onto the film or digital sensor. Magnifying glasses also use this type of lens.

2. The lens described in the paragraph above is a Convex lens.

Bye. Have a nice day.

Final Product - Arts Kete

Hi, This week is the final week of Term 2/ Semester 1 and of course, Arts Kete. For this reason, I am finished with my comic strip. The plot of my story was a bit too long so it didn't really fit in those 3 pages. Here's a clear-ish picture of my comic strip. I'm sorry if you can't really read the words on the comic but here you go anyways.

I did my best I could for this Arts Kete. Although the pages were all created by me, if you look closely, the style of the drawing kinda changed between the first page from the left to the right. You can really tell there were time gaps between those two. But overall, I've enjoyed working on this Arts Kete. My favorite part of this Kete was the drawing part and also where we have had to have a story plan before we rushed onto the drawing part. What could maybe improve this Kete next time is that we have some more time to work on this and more pages to fit on our whole story other than that I think it was okay for me.

I think I wasn't successful at my comic strips because I didn't really have the time to visual out the journey of my character and ended up doing it as 'To be Continued'. One of the CARR values maybe I showed in this Kete is to have some resilience. As you can see, my drawings are not really that good at all. Compared to my friend's drawing, their's were far better than mine if you've seen it. However, that didn't let me down knowing that they have better art than me. I tried my best and didn't give up on it. I've finished and well here they are now.

 What I could do better next time to myself is that to have some reference before drawing it out on the paper especially I'm not an expert on doing so. 

Thank you for reading my post and have a nice day everyone.