Reflction

 The towers seem to be reflected on the side of a building as Spider-Man climbs it. Yet spinning the camera around reveals that there are no buildings there they're ghosts. The theory was that the reflection of the World Trade Center was a tribute to 9/11. Peter Benjamin Parker is a high school student who gained spider-like abilities, fighting crime across New York as the alter ego Spider-Man, hoping someday, he will live up to his heroes in the Avengers. While Parker juggled all his continued superhero duties with the demands of his high-school life, he was approached by Tony Stark who recruited Spider-Man to join the Avengers civil war, putting Spider-Man into the brief conflict with his personal hero, Captain American Parker then agreed and was given his New Suit as well as brand new Stark technology in exchange for all his help, although Stark still did not make him an official member of the Avengers and instead returned Parker back home to continue his own hero work.

Neutralization

 Aim: To observe a neutralization reaction.

Equipment: A test tube, test tube rack, 1 mol L-1 Na2CO3 (sodium carbonate), 1 mol L-1 HCI (hydrochloride acid), dropper of dropper bottle, Universal indicator solution.

Method: Add approximately 1-2 mL of Na2CO3 and place the test tube into the test tube rack. Add 3-5 drops of Universal indicator solution. Using a dropper bottle, add HCI drop by drop. Be careful because adding even small amount of extra acid can mean you'll miss the neutralization point.

Results: when we added the universal indicator to the acids it either changed slowly to green and then turn blue because added to much universal indicator. But if we added a few drops it would either turn yellow or orange, with the base it kind of stayed the same but it started to change after a lot of drops but overall it had to take a lot of drops to make the base turn neutral and a few drops to make the acid neutral.

Discussion: There's not much to say about what does it mean but all I know is that we always had to use universal indicator to turn the acid and base into a neutral.

Conclusion: In the end our rack that had base and acid were red, orange, and green we had no base I because me and my friend were trying to turn the base into the color purple by adding a lot of universal indicator to the base but when we added one drop of acid it turned red so fast it was very cool. I think next time I wouldn't add acid to make purple I think maybe if I keep adding drops of base and universal indicator to make.

My Culture

 

Give Peace a Chance

The song Give Peace a Chance is pretty easy to understand what the song is about, it is about asking people to give peace a chance. He also made this song because the Vietnam war just ended and Yoko Ono also said in a interview that we all just need to give peace a chance.

Ev'rybody's talking about
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism
This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

C'mon
Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers
Sinisters, Banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes
And bye bye, bye byes

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Let me tell you now
Ev'rybody's talking about
Revolution, evolution, masturbation
Flagellation, regulation, integrations
Meditations, United Nations
Congratulations

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

Ev'rybody's talking about
John and Yoko, Timmy Leary, Rosemary
Tommy Smothers, Bobby Dylan, Tommy Cooper
Derek Taylor, Norman Mailer
Alan Ginsberg, Hare Krishna
Hare, Hare Krishna

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance

In the music video you can see that John Lennon and Yoko Ono were in bed and it was suppose to represent them protesting the war so they go to war and just have peace and giving at shot.

People's Perspectives of The Beatles coming to New Zealand

 Perspectives - For Tour

The main people who wanted the Beatles to come was young women, when they first landed the fans were surprisingly silent but when they went to Wellington the fans were very high spirited. Every time the Beatles had a concert in NZ, there shows would usually gets sold out but since the Beatles were famous a lot of people would try to break into the concerts. Some people said that they didn't like how some of the fans were screaming because they couldn't hear the Beatles singing so they were a bit mad. A man who lived in Foxton drove from Foxton to Wellington which is a 1hr 39min drive  there and then he has to drive 1hr 39 mins back so the concert started at 6pm. So that just show how may people liked the beatles and what they would do to get into the concert. So I think a lot of people loved the Beatles but some people don't and I understand both why they like them and why they don't, in my personal perspectives I really don't care for or about the Beatles. I think that were wrong for some of the things they did like treating women like trash but overall I would have to say I don't care for it.

Perspectives - Against Tour

Not a lot people in New Zealand were Against the tour but the people who were against the Beatles coming, it was usually done because their religion or people's traditional views. Some people that viewed the Beatles said they were leading the youth to Sin and trouble making. I think they thought that because most of the Beatles songs were about drugs I'm not saying all of them were about drugs but some of them were. So I think that's why some people viewed the Beatles as bad people cause they were talking about bad things, but on some of their songs they sing about loving and caring things like this one song they made. The song was Hey Jude, the song was about comforting a boy who's parents split so they made it for him I think that is very cool. At one point when the Beatles where in New Zealand some haters started throwing eggs and tomato's at the Beatles. Some people also hated the Beatles because they made song about peace and love but behind the scenes the Beatles treated women like trash especially John Lennon because he started hitting his wife and he was a bad father. The song Hey Jude is actually about John Lennon son when he split with his wife to go out with someone else.

Reflction

 So today for reading we are obviously meant to be reading but I didn't want to do reading so I went on to a site that I could watch shows and movies on. The movie I watched today I haven't finish watching it but I have watched it many times at home before so I already know what happens in it. So the movie is about this group of island boys who are not allowed to go to there friends wedding the guys name is Sione, there are 4 men that are the main characters, 3 of the friends are Sione's friends and the other one is Sione's older brother. The reason why there not allowed to go is because every time they go to a wedding they always get drunk and they ruin the weddings.

So the only way they could go to a wedding is if they could all get girlfriends to go to the wedding with them. If your wondering why they had to take girlfriends is because if they bring girlfriend. Only 1 of the 4 men had a girlfriend but he loses her around the middle and he try's to get her back which he does while the others are looking for girlfriends. They all find a girlfriend by the end of the movie. The guy who had a girlfriend at the start of the movie asks the girlfriend to marry him and she says yes.

If you want to watch the movie you can go on the website tvnz and on there, there are a lot of NZ movies and other movie. There are also shows on there if you wanted to go watch it for the movie I was watching there are two parts they are called Sione's Wedding (the first part), Sione's Unfinished Business (second part).

Making Indicators (Science)

 Aim: To make acid-base indicators using everyday substances.

Equipment: Red cabbage, tea, beetroot, turmeric, cranberry juice, a beaker, water, tripod, Bunsen burner, gauze mat, 1.0 mol L-1 HCI and 1.0 L-1 Na OH.

Method: For Cabbage and beetroot chop the cabbage into small pieces until you have enough to fill 2 cups. Place the cabbage in a large beaker and add water to cover the cabbage. Boil over a Bunsen burner for at least ten minutes for the color to leach out of the cabbage. Filter out the plant material to obtain a red-purple-bluish colored liquid. This liquid is at about pH 7. ( The exact color you get depends on pH of the water.) Place in a small beaker and leave to one side, repeat this method for the beetroot.  Mix 1 teaspoon turmeric in 100 mL cup of alcohol. Place in a small beaker and leave to one side. For the Cranberry Juice Pour into a beaker and leave to one side.

Result: Observations-what did you see?

When doing the turmeric we see that when we added the acid it turned orange and when we alkali it turns light green, when doing it with cranberry juice we added acid and it turned pink and with base it turned dark green. When doing it with Beetroot we added acid it turned pink and base yellow.

Discussion: The reason why turmeric turned light brown and dark brown is because that is how the food reacts with the acid and base.

Conclusion:

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Beatles Hey Jude

 The beatles were a boy band in the 1960s and the 1970s, one of there most hit song that they did was Hey Jude and in the song they talk about Jude. Jude is a reference to a real boy name is Julian the song name was originally going to be called Hey Jules but they called it Hey Jude instead, because they thought it sounded better than Hey Jules. But anyways they were going to make the song about Julian because he was having a hard time at home with his parents. At the time his parents where having a separation so he had some stress so the beatles made the song to comfort him at the time. In the lyrics you can see how they are trying to comfort him for example they say. Hey Jude don't make it bad  take a sad song and make it better, so maybe he at the time Julian was in bad place and listing to sad music so they told him to change that sad song into a happy song. Here are some other lyrics from the song Hey Jude

Hey Jude, don't be afraid.
You were made to go out and get her.
The minute you let her under your skin,
Then you begin to make it better.

And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain,
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders.
For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder.

Hey Jude, don't let me down.
You have found her, now go and get her.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.

So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin,
You're waiting for someone to perform with.
And don't you know that it's just you, hey Jude, you'll do,
The movement you need is on your shoulder.

Hey Jude, don't make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her under your skin,
Then you'll begin to make it
Better better better better better better, oh.

Na na na nananana, nannana, hey Jude...
(repeat X number of times, fade)

As you can see in these lyrics they have said hey Jude a lot but the beatles didn't actually write this song, the person who wrote this song was actually Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney wrote it to comfort John Lennon son, John Lennon is another song  writer for The Beatles and at the time John Lennon left his wife for a japanese artist Yoko Ono so the lyrics and song are made to comfort John Lennon son.

Significance of WW1

 When do you hear this song?

The last post is a bugle call that is usually played before or after the 1 minute of silence at a commemorative service. At 4:55pm the New Zealand Defense Force in a partnership with the ministry for culture and heritage. Marked the first world war centenary each evening with a last post ceremony at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park, everyday at 5pm a Last Post ceremony was conducted on the forecourt of the national war memorial in Wellington.

 What does this song represent?

In military tradition the Last Post is the bugle call that signifies the end of day's activities it is also sounded at military funerals, which indicates that the soldier has gone to his final rest and at the commemorative services such as Anzac Day and Remembrance day. The Last Post is no longer spans just 45 seconds but it is played for 75 seconds, the Last Post is usually ended with a moment of silent prayer. Then it is followed by the notes of Reveille, a solider's call to began the new day.

What is the history behind the last post?

The Last Post was first played in 1790s, just one of the two dozen or so bugle call sounded daily in British army camps. The inspection would take about 30 minutes and at the end there would be a sounded the Last Post, the name referring simply to the fact that the final sentry-post had been inspected.

Why was the Last Post played/ When Was it first played?

The last Post was first played in 1790s, the Last Post is one of a number of bugle calls in military tradition that marks the phases of the day. The Last Post is believed to have originally been part of a more elaborate routine known in the British Army "tattoo" that began in the 17th century. In the evening a duty officer had to do the rounds of his unit's position checking that the sentry post were manned and rounding up the off-duty soldier's and packing them off to their beds or billets. The officer would be accompanied by one or more musicians. The "first post" was sounded when he started his rounds and as the party went from post to post. A drum was played the drum was played to tell the soldier's to go to sleep if the soldier's were in town the beats told them it was time to leave the pubs. ( The word "tattoo" came from the word Dutch for " turn off the taps" of beer kegs Americans call this tap or "drum taps."

Why is this song important to New Zealand?

The memorial commemorates casualties from the forces of United Kingdom ( who died prior to 16 August 1917) Australia, Canada, India, and South Africa. Inside the memorial, New Zealand are commemorated with a simple plaque, the first daily public Last Post ceremony was held at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park on Anzac Day 2015 and was conducted  every evening until 11 November 2018 in front of the tomb of the unknown warrior. The Last Post is a bugle call with two generally accepted purposes the first implied summoning of the spirits of the fallen to the Cenotaph, the second symbolically ends the day.  

Cyber Security

 So in digital tech 

In digital tech I just finished doing my cospacedu work, so what had to do is we had to go on cospace and make a presentation about the work we did on trello. On trello we had to write how these 5 things on the computer works which is why we called the trello board how computers work. After we have finish working on the trello board we had to move the information from the trello board to the cospace, it was a really easy process but it's taking us like 2 weeks so far to get it done I think it's mainly because people just can't be bothered cause that's what I felt at the start but then 1 period I just finished all my work so basically we all only need 1 period. To finish this project  but the people in this class I think are to lazy including me because it shouldn't have taken this long to finish this project.

In digital tech we have moved on to a new topic that is cryptography, cryptography is about secret coding and sending it to people and people decode it so figure out a secret message.In the old days when wars were happening the military would use cryptography to send messages to other army bases without their enemy finding out cryptography has been used in warfare for a long time now. If any enemy intercept the codes they would have to decrypt it anyways we had to watch a video about cryptography  and go make a info-graphic about cryptography you  can get the information from the video this is my info-graphic about cryptography.

   

Parihaka - Tim Finn and The Herbs

The main message of this song is to the people of parihaka when they were protesting for the rights to their land, in the song you can hear the man singing look to the sky for Te Whiti because Te Whiti is a man who was a spiritual leader to parihaka. Because even though Te Whiti was dead he says he will never be defeated even in it's darkest hour, people looked up to Te Whiti because he used his language of the spirit then stood accused. So the main message is what the British did was wrong and if you are ever in a dark place look to Te Whiti for help.

This affected the people back then very hard and it still affects people to this day even though some of them people might not be there at that time. People family members like their grandparents might have been affected so many people have affected by what the British have done to them it may not be happening today but it can still affect people. Even though parihaka happened a long time ago a lot of people are affected today even though they weren't there at the time but people are affected today by there culture.

Parihaka significant to New Zealand because parihaka was the site of New Zealand's most visible episodes of peaceful protests when the two maori leaders, Te Whiti and Tohu Kakahi used passive resistance methods to occupy maori land that the colonial government had confiscated. In the song he is passive when he says they know that they have been beaten but just pray to Te Whiti instead of fighting back because telling them to passive. They showed so much determination by not giving up on what they were fighting for even though they got arrested they still fought for what was right.

In the song when he says you can't pull out the roots it's because they try to forget about it or they tried to change how the people of parihaka acted. So he is saying that even though they try to change the people of parihaka they can never pull out the roots. This song is significance to New Zealand because it talks about something special to New Zealand parihaka and it also speaks the truth and has hidden meanings to it's lyrics. This affected people around parihaka the most because it was their land they were trying to take and they were fight for their land but other people around New Zealand were also affected because British people tried taking over New Zealand.  

Film and Story Study