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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