Connections

 

Philosophy of "the self" (Aristotle)

 The Human Person is a "Rational Animal". The human person is simply an animal that thinks.

The soul is the principle of life.

All living being have souls.

Plants, animals, and humans have souls.

There are three levels of souls. Vegetative soul, Sensitive soul,  and Rational soul. 

The vegetative soul is found in plants.

Sensitive soul and Rational soul are found in animals and humans.

Plants have souls because they posses the 3 requirement to be a living being. Grow, reproduce, and feed itself.

The vegetative soul reproduces, grow, and feed it self. A sensitive soul is capable of all that plus sensation. Rational souls are capable of everything plus thinking and this is only present in humans.

That explains why he thinks that humans are just animals that thinks.

Aristotles Concept of the soul is that the human person is not a soul distinct from the body. It's a composite of body and soul and that the two are inseperable.

Rendering

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At the start of the year, we designed a water bottle with a filtration system. We are rendering that water bottle to see what the different materials would look like.

What did you like?

I liked that we get to explore different materials instead of just doing the same design.

What didn't you like?

I didn't like how I coloured the lid especially the staw. 

Relationship Between Flora and Fauna

There are many different types of flora and fauna in New Zealand. Flora and fauna such as Kiwi, Tui, stoats, supplejack vine and hook grass have a lot of unique features and characteristics. In this essay, I’m going to be talking about the relationship between these flora and fauna.

There are hundreds of different plants in the New Zealand bush. A couple of those are hook grass and supplejack vine. Hook grass can be found all over New Zealand. Their bright green leaves can grow from 15-45cm long. Despite its name, it’s not actually a grass; it’s a sedge plant. Supplejack is also one of the many plants that you can find in New Zealand. It’s a native New Zealand rainforest vine. Although they have a hard stem, they are still flexible. 

New Zealand also has a lot of fauna; both native and introduced. Two of these are Kiwi and Tui. Kiwi is a native bird that can only be found in New Zealand. There are five different species of kiwi; Brown Kiwi, Great-spotted Kiwi/roroa, little spotted kiwi, Rowi, and Tokoeka. Brown kiwi are the most common type. Kiwi is a flightless bird that can grow up to 40-45cm and it has a long beak. Another native New Zealand bird is the tui. From a distance, they look black but looking closely at them they have a blue, green, and bronze iridescent sheen. Tui can grow up to 30cm. An introduced animal that is a threat to native species is the stoat. A stoat is a mustelid that eats eggs, young birds, and lizards.

Some of the animals rely on plants to live and vice-versa. Hook grass is a plant that uses kiwi birds to spread. They hook their seeds to kiwi feathers, animals with fur and even to humans. Animals like stoats also need other animals to live. Stoat kills whatever they can; they part of the reason why some native animals in New Zealand are endangered. The supplejack vine provides a safe perch for forest birds like the tui. Some even build their nest in the knots of the vine.

This shows how important the relationship between flora and fauna. It’s showing how they help each other to stay alive. Having healthy flora and fauna is crucial for the survival of the New Zealand bush. Without some of the flora and fauna, a lot of species may not be able to survive. The only exception for these is some of the introduced species; which endangered a lot of native New Zealand animals. Regardless of the threats they still manage to keep each other alive.

Presentation Reflection

During the first couple of weeks of the term we had to present to the class about something or someone that is important to us. It was only a minimum of one-minute presentation. Even though it wasn't that long, it still made me feel quite intimidated to stand in front of the class. Before and while I was doing my presentation, I felt really nervous. At the same time, it felt nice to think that once you've done it you don't have to do it again for the rest of the year. Although I was nervous, I think I still did quite well. Some things that I think I did well were giving the audience good information about my topic and entertaining them. I think that I also did pretty well at the actual talking part, considering how inexperienced I was at presenting. 

Even though I passed the presentation, I think that I can still improve on a lot of things. Some of the things that I think I can improve on is the way I talk. Specifically, talking too fast. I may need to slow down a little bit. I also need to take pauses in between so the audience has enough time to process all the information that I gave. Another thing that I think I can improve on is my body language. I feel like I was just staring at nothing instead of my audience. 

With all the scary part of it, there are still some things that I enjoyed. It was fun to talk about someone that is important to me and for the audience to know more about an important person in my life. Some things that were challenging was standing up in front of people and actually opening up about someone important to me. I'm also not a very confident person, which made the presentation more challenging.

Introduction to Connections

1. How does viewing this text through a child’s perspective change the way we experience it? Explain using an example from the text.

Children see the world in a different way than adults. What might seem like a small problem for adults can be big for children. Children are more oblivious we can see this the movie where Jojo believed the propaganda about nazis and blinded by his obsession with nazism.

2. How would this text be different if it were told from the perspective of an adult? How would the audience’s experience be different?

The film would be a lot less light-hearted. We would see a significant difference in how adults handle different situations. If the film was to be filmed trough Rosie's perspective we would most likely see a lot more people who oppose nazi beliefs.

3. Why did the filmmaker or author decide to tell this story from a child’s perspective?

To make the film more light-hearted compared to most of the film about wars and nazi Germany.

4. How are children represented in the text? How are adults represented in the text?

Some of the children were shown as naive and they are not able to distinguish right from wrong oftentimes. They were also seen as someone they can use and 

5. Does imagination help the young hero to cope? How so? Provide an example.

It helped him cope with some of the stressful situations.

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Throughout the movie waititi uses the aspect of camera shot very well. An example of this is the scene where elsa was asking Jojo if it's safe to come out. The director used mid close up shot to show the audience Jojos emotion. In this scene it's showing that Jojo is scared and distressed. This makes the audience feel sorry for Jojo beacuse his mother has just passed away and he had just been in a middle of a war so he doesn't want to also loose Elsa. the director did this to make the audience feel sympathy for them. This worked well with the music, which was also used in an earlier scene where he found his mother hanging. It's a gentle piano music which makes the scene a bit sadder.

Songs with Metaphor/Similes

Metaphor and Similes

Stitches - Shawn Mendes

"I thought that I've been hurt before

But no one's ever left me quite this sore

Your words cut deeper than a knife

Now I need someone to breathe me back to life"

"You watch me bleed until I can't breathe
I'm shaking falling onto my knees
And now that I'm without your kisses
I'll be needing stitches"

"Just like a moth drawn to a flame

Oh you lured me in I couldn't sense the pain

Your bitter heart cold to the touch

Now I'm gonna reap what I sow

I'm left seeing red on my own"

A Thousand Years - Christina Perri

"I have died everyday, waiting for you"

Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

Time stands still
Beauty in all she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything, take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath, every hour has come to this

One step closer

I have died everyday, waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed, I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me, I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

One step closer
One step closer

I have died everyday, waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

And all along I believed, I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me, I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more

Similies and Metaphor

Metaphor and Simile are a figure of speech. Similes highlight the similarity between two things without directly saying it. Metaphor is when something is referred to as somethings it's not.

Character Strength

A News Item That Interest Me

The news is about a Helicopter accident which killed 9 people. One of the people that died because of that accident was Kobe Bryant. Kobe Bryant was a professional basketball player in America. He died on Sunday morning on 26 January 2020. Along with those nine people that died is his 13-year-old daughter Giana Bryant. The crash happened on Calabasas, California, United States.

I found this news interesting. After all, his death was something that I don't think a lot of people expected because he uses a helicopter regularly and was his prefered way of transportation. another reason why I found this interesting was why they still flew the plane even though the weather condition is bad.

Kobe Bryant's death at the age of 41 stunned his fans across the world. People were devastated about his death because they looked up to him as their role model and someone that they aspire to be. Because of his legacy and his impact on others, a lot of people respect him. Therefore when a media outlet has published the news about the crash a lot of people were angry because the families of the victims haven't been notified about what happened.

That news made me think about the fact that everyone's going to die one day. It makes me think about what I would have done if I was in that situation. That also made me feel sad for the family of the people that died.

Business Studies

Reflection

Things that I think went well from our market day is that we sold out all our product, we finish our business plan early, and we brought all the ingredients and materials that we need. There are also
things that I think didn't go as well as we wanted them to. The first thing is that we weren't able to cook some of the stuff. Some of the stuff wasn't cooked when the people started to come. Another thing that I think didn't go as well is that we ran out of bacon near the end and the cheese on the fries started to get hard. The things that I would do differently if we did it again are to cook the fries earlier. I would also maybe buy more of the ingredients needed. Another thing is to bring more containers and the number of things that we need to use to cook the food.

Ideal world

My ideal world would be a clean world and doesn't have any pollution. That's because a lot of people are getting sick because of it. One thing that I could do to help make this a reality is to reduce my use of things that can lead to pollution.

Natural Phenomenon

Aswang

Aswang is an evil shape-shifting spirit in Philippine mythology. This creature originated back in the 16th century. Aswang is one of the scariest myths. Aswang likes to dine on fetus and small children. There are different types of aswang such as vampire aswang (manananggal aswang), waredog, and witch.  Surprisingly, aswang are able to feel emotions just like a normal person. During the day Aswangs still have some powers. Healing potions and casting spells are some of the powers that they have; they use them to help people in their town. Forced to hide their children, parents hide them before the sunset has finished. A person is able to turn into aswang if they chose to—you’re sick if you want that—by tying a fertilized chicken egg to their stomach. While women are sleeping, some of the aswang eat the baby inside her stomach. Aswang, one of the most famous Myths which came from the Philippines, has scared people for hundreds of years.

Treaty

Maori and European Population changes in NZ.

1. What does the graph show us?
As the population of European people in New Zealand increased the population of Maori people decreased.

2. Why do you think the numbers of Maori change?
Because of the musket war that killed a lot of people and the new diseases that the European brought to New Zealand like STDs.

3. Why do you think the numbers of European changed?
I think it's because of the trading and some people found New Zealand a good place to live.

Pepeha

Ko mount arayat toku maunga.
Ko Philippine sea toku Moana.
Ko Pampanga river toku awa.
Ko Airplane Toku waka.
Ko Pampanga Toku rohe.
Ko Juanito, Leonora, Wilfredo, Lucia toku iwi.
Ko Lorna, Lowie Toku hapu.
Ko Loishane toku ingoa.

Creative writing

When I was a kid I woke up because there were people screaming on the road. When I was about to go to the
kitchen to get a drink, I saw a guy sitting there with a bloody hand. I ran back to my mums' room because I got
scared of him. Later on, I found out that that guy has just shot someone. I told my mum and my grandfather
about what I just saw and my grandfather told us to stay in our room just in case the guy is dangerous. We were
in our room for about an hour until the police came and they told us to get out of our house because the guy
there is armed.

Volcano

Mount Pinatubo

Mount Pinatubo is an active volcano located in Zambales Philippines. The height of the volcano before it erupted in 1991 is 1,745m and its current height is 1,485m. It erupted in 1991 after being dormant for 600 years. The volcano erupted again in 1992. The volcano erupted four times from June 12 to June 16, 1991, which released more than 20 million tons of debris into the stratosphere.

It killed 800 people and left around 50,000 people homeless. It affected around 215,00 acres of farmland and destroyed fishponds, river valleys, bridges, and villages. Volcanic ash silted river valleys, causing extensive flooding. The silting of river channels and trapping of rainwater in an area of 300 km2 that formed a lake called lake Pinatubo, now 10m deep. There are 500 structures permanently submerge under this lake including houses, churches, and schools. The 1991 eruptions are believed to be the major reason why temperatures dropped globally in 1993.