Persuasive Writing: "Logging the Giant Sequoia Forest Should Be Permitted"

August 22, 2018

I chose a topic from the Natural Environment (Plants and Animals) section, and it’s about Logging the Giant Sequoia Forest Should Be Permitted.

“Logging the Giant Sequoia Forest Should Be Permitted”

Trees and its wood is one of the most important and useful resources in human history. Trees are also one of the most abundant resources currently, but if we continue our selfish desires and not planning our future, we could run out of this resource. However trees are not just a resource, trees also help us from preventing floods and landslides. It also helps the food chains of animals.

Wood is one of the most important and useful resources in human history. Humans have probably used wood for thousands of year ago. If we ran out of this resource, there would be a worldwide panic of where these trees went. Especially this tree called the Giant Sequoia. But what makes this tree special? The giant sequoia tree is one of the worlds hardest tree, it’s thick bark makes them flame resistant, as well as to fungal root and wood beetles. Giant sequoias are the third longest tree longest-living tree species on the planet which makes them very special and in need of care.

Trees are also helpful for us, not just they give us shade but they also prevent floods and landslides that might occur most of the time because of the threat of climate change. Climate change is the consequence of our selfish way that started 50-60 years ago like gas emissions, cutting down trees legal or illegal that makes our mountains bald, the usage of resources, and many more.

Trees and its wood is one of the most important and useful resources in human history. Trees are also one of the most abundant resources currently, but if we continue our selfish desires and not planning our future, we could run out of this resource. Did you know that giant sequoia trees never stop growing until they die? No wonder why these trees are called ‘giants’.

A Lino Print Went Missing: Reward is up to $50,000 (Art Blog Post)

The Precious One print went missing that was exhibited in the Hornby High School Art Department. Yesterday HHS opened the exhibit to the public and suddenly 2 print went missing! And one of them was The Precious One lino print;

The description of The Precious One;

The painting was printed in black in white.
It's printed in an A3 paper.
The model of this print was a girl.
The person in the print was wearing a hat.
The person in the print is wearing eyeglasses.
The background of the print consists of a bunch of thin lines.
The person had her both hands on her chin.
The person's jacket sleeve has buttons.
The emotion of the person in this print is kind of serious in a way.

Composition Techniques!

What have you learned about composing so far? (Film, advertising, Christmas songs, etc.)

- I learned some different and other techniques on how to make music. For example, if you are composing a song the more simple the notes/chords are, the easier it is for the composer. For advertisement music, I learned that the song needs to be catchy, and colourful.

What is your favourite technique that you have tried and why?

- Trying different chords and notes on the electric piano that I could change to different instruments too. I feel so amused when I do this.

Which type of composition do you want to try for your assessment and why?

- I would love to try the advertisement assessment because I love music and photography. I would try to combine those and film an actual footage that I took for my advert.

Wind Racers

Aim: To build the fastest wind racing sails.

Equipment: 

• Trolley
• Cardboard
• Strings
• Tape
• Scissors
• Pole
• Thin papers.

Method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUpCuwf3JEg

1. We cut the cardboard to do the triangular part on the trolley.
2. Then we tapped it together to the trolley
3. We added the pole for the trolley.
4. We cut the paper sail correctly and mathematically like the other one bigger and one was smaller.
5. We taped a cardboard below the sail to make it stronger.
6. Lastly, we properly taped the paper sail to the pole.

Research:

How do sailboats work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4CQ4T_K8Hw

How do sails work?

http://www.boatsafe.com/kids/033199kidsques.htm

Conclusion: Our wind racer went to a distance of 5 metres, time of 8 seconds and the speed of 0.625.

Persuasive Writing: "Motorsports Add No Value In The Society"

August 17, 2018

I chose a topic from the Sports and Recreation, and it’s about Motorsports add no value in the society.

“Motorsports Add No Value In The Society”

Have you ever wondered on how much money your favourite sport spend for the whole season? Do you think they spend it wisely? Or they’re just being wasteful? It’s okay to be a fan of something like a singer, actress, players, sports, and etc. but have you ever thought that if we never did this and just do a different thing that everyone could enjoy, do we make the world a better place? Because for me, yes.

I’ll take motorsports as an example, let’s just imagine how much materials they use in order to make just one race car, then let’s imagine the process on how these materials are made in order to make a race car which adds gas emissions that affects our climate.

Do you think we are finished? Uhh, no. Instead of using the large amount of land mass that motorsports use to build mega race tracks for them to use and race, we could use it to build more houses for those people in need, we could use it to plant more crops to fight food shortage, or to help other countries who are also in need.

Humans are born with selfish desires, even though we want to control our not so good decisions that make it harder for others, we would pick the choice just for ourselves. I am not saying that all of you would start a hate group with motorsports, but I made this to be an eye-opener for all of us. Did you know that since 2011-2017, the worldwide sponsorship spend is up to about $36.94 Billion? If you want some thrill, just go to your local bungee jump instead of buying tickets for a motorsports championship

CARR Licences

CARR Licences is an experimental system in the English department. Once you've leveled up, you'll get better privileges at school. And I think it's a really cool idea.

Persuasive Writing: Summer Is The Best Season Of The Year

August 10, 2018

I chose a topic from the Community section Part 1, and it’s about Summer is the best season of the year.

“Summer Is The Best Season Of The Year”

Do you remember the times when you were a child and summer was your favourite season of the year? For me, it’s a yes! Because summer is everyone’s favourite season. Especially for the children who want to play forever at the playground or parks. But summer is not just for humans, it’s also for the animals! We can’t determine what’s going in an animal brain, but they must have like it because they could spend much more time at the park and beaches!





Summer was great when you were still a child because you didn’t mind about anything! No responsibilities, no stress, but the only problem you had was how to tie your shoelaces. It’s is indeed my favourite season of the year because everyone could go outside freely without stressing out about raining or storms. One of the coolest things to do in summer is probably hanging out with your family at the park for a picnic.





Summer is not just for humans, it’s also for animals too! Since house animals, such as dogs, loves going outside to have a walk or run for once in a while.





But, since time really does pass by quick, our climate had also changed. Summer was different from 10-20 years ago. Because of climate change, our planet is getting hotter and hotter. Summer is not just sunny anymore. In some cases even though earlier it was 30-35°C, later there’s going to be a storm! During the summer season, nowadays heat stroke is a really big problem, not just for the children, animals, but especially for the older ones.





The hottest temperature in New Zealand was 42°C. This was in Rangiora, Canterbury.


Are you ready to put in your swimming trunks?

Migration

In social studies, we've been learning about Migration, not just in New Zealand, but all over the world.

Electricity : Playing With Circuits

Equipment:
1. Wires (4x or more)
2. Battery
3. Bulbs

At the end of the experiment. After trying all the circuits diagrams

that we were asked to do. We tried some other kind of circuits to

see what will and could happen. In this picture what we did was we 

tried adding 2 ammeters.

Observations:
We've seen and observed that in circuit number 1, the brightness of the bulb was very strong, because it doesn't need to share current with any bulbs. However, when we've tried doing a series circuit with two bulbs, the other bulb started to dim. And that is because the two bulbs were only sharing 10 volts. Lastly, with the last circuit, we were asked to do a parallel circuit, same as circuit no.2 was; the other bulb was brighter and the other one was dim.

Compare Brightness of:

1 and 2 = In the end, circuit 1 was brighter.

2 and 3 = In the end, circuit 3 was brighter.

1 and 3 = In the end, both circuits were in the same brightness.