The Great Depression

At the started of term 3, we have been doing some research about the great depression and how did it affect Germany and New Zealand. We've also did some research about the Treaty of Versailles, why did Germany signed it and how does it link to the great depression. Each question that we needed to answer needs to have at 6-8 sentence or 1 paragraph.

Why was Germany hit the hardest during the depression?

In 1929 the Wall Street Crash collapsed and caused the Great Depression in different parts of the world. Germany suffered more than any other countries in Europe that have experienced this Great Depression. Because of this, it caused a lot of problems resulting in Germany’s economy starting to collapse. This problem led to a chain of events and ended in the destruction of the country’s democracy. There are a lot of challenges that Germany had experienced during the Great Depression such as, factories are shut down, export reduces, farmers are also affected and the speculators took their money back from the market. As a result of this great depression, over 33 percent of  Germans are unemployed. On the other hand, 24 percent of Americans were unemployed. In summary, this can show us why Germany hit the hardest during the depression compared to any other countries. 

Why did Germany have to agree to signing the Treaty of Versailles? 

The Treaty of Versailles is one of the most important treaties that can end the war between Germany and Allied Powers(World War l). The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Allied Powers and by Germany on June 28, 1919. It was signed by Germany in order to end the war and to make peace between them.They signed the treaty because they didn't have any options but to sign it, however they didn’t believe that they started the war. The amount of Germany's troops decreased and some property that they own got stolen by the Allied Powers.  After signing the Treaty of Versailles, the great depression started to happen in different countries and the population of the country reduced by about 10 percent. All of this information tells us how important the treaty was for Germany and how the great depression started. 

How was New Zealand affected by the Great Depression?

The depression also affected New Zealand in many other ways. The depression started in the 1930's and ended in 1933. Exports started to decrease by 45 percent in two years and national income by 40 percent in three. Same with Germany  the percentage of unemployment increased, the price of goods and services also increased. The Great Depression has been described as a traumatic experience in New Zealand. The dairy price index continued to fall until 1934. New Zealand managed to overcome this incident of depression after facing all the problems in unemployment, prices of goods/services and income. 

Music - What does music mean to me?

1. Have you studied music before? Performed? I used to have this subject when I was in the Philippines. We've learned about using different type of instrument like guitar, piano and drums. However, since this is my first time having this subject after almost 3 years, I don't think I remembered all of the things that we've learned before. I've never performed anything about music in our class or anywhere.
2. What type of music do you enjoy listening to and why? I usually listen to any pop, hip-hop, and soft music. I really enjoyed listening to them because I really like listening to music when I am studying or doing my chores. I feel like they really relaxing to listen to while doing something. 
3. Name 3 bands/singers you like and why? Among of all the singers and bands, my most favourite is Lauv, Olivia Rodrigo and The Vamps. I like them because as I said I really like pop. hip-hop and soft playlist. Also some of the lyrics that  they have in their music can make you feel their emotions for their own song. 
4. What would you like to learn in music this term? I would like to learned how to used piano and the chords in guitar. I would like to be able to play some songs using those two instrument. 
5. Why did you chose music? I like to learned something new before the end of this year and to be able to learned different instrument. I also think this is a coold subject because a lot of other students said this is fun so I want to try it.

Speeding Investigation

Aim: To see if any cars are speeding outside school.

Method: 

1. Measure distance...power pole -----> power pole = 50m
2. Time how long it takes a car to travel this distance. 

- "flag" person indicates when car passes their pole. 

- "Timer" person starts when car passes their pole.

- "Writer" person writes down times. 

      3. Collect 10 times. 

      4. Calculate speed in m/s -----> convert to km/hr.

      5. Are there any speeders?

Result: 

Speed	Car 1	Car 2	Car 3	Car 4	Car 5	Car 6	Car 7	Car 8	Car 9	Car 10	Average
Time	4.69	3.59	4.50	4.40	5.40	4.15	6.09	3.77	3.43	5.02	4.504
ms-1	10.6	13.9	11.1	11.3	9.25	12.0	8.21	13.2	14.5	9.96	11.402
kmhr	38.1	50.0	39.9	40.1	33.3	43.2	29.5	47.5	52.2	35.8	46.01

Conclusion: 

After this activity, I noticed that we have a different results showing that not all the cars have the same speed. They all have a different speed base on the time that we got, some are slow and some are fast. After we've done all the calculation we saw that car 9 is speeding because they are travelling 52.2 km hr. The other ones are almost have the same speed. 

This activity show us that not all the cars are following the speed limit in the road and all of them has different speed. However, I think the principal should be worried about this report and do an action before something happen. We all know every after school hours there are a lot of cars, if there is car that are speeding it can cause an accident. But to make this investigation maybe we can do it in different road around the school and try to investigate more car to make our result more accurate. 

Green Peace Research

Who is Greenpeace? It is an international non-governmental organization all over the world. They all have the same mission, which is taking care of the environment and different natural things. Greenpeace investigates and exposes the causes of environmental destruction. Almost every country in the world has this organization to take care of the environment. They are also taking peaceful and direct actions, promoting solution for the green and peaceful future. 

What have they done to make positive change? Greenpeace includes a lot of issues like "protecting our ocean and ancient forest. They are also making moves and solutions to prevent climate change on our planet. Talking about making change, Greenpeace commits Volkswagen to stop producing diesel cars and go 100% electric. They said that because they have been causing air pollution. They also said that Volkswagen lied about their diesel being clean, and they found out that it can be harmful to people's health. Volkswagen sold a lot of diesel cars and affected the environment so, Greenpeace shut them down. These can be evidence of how did Greenpeace makes a change and help our environment to prevent any issues. 

What are they doing now to help protect our ocean? Greenpeace said that oceans and marine life need a lot of help. They said that it's because of those natural destruction like climate change, pollution, or some human activities like mining and even overfishing. As a solution, their organization selects different places that you can't go to or even fishing. They said that it's helpful because they can protect those coral reefs, different kind of ocean species and improve the ocean. 

Resources:

https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/anti-diesel-campaigners-medics-block-hundreds-volkswagen-staff-head-office/

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-we-do/

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/explore/

Wananga Reflection

Yesterday we celebrate our 2021 Salu-Salo. If you didn't know what it is, it's a celebration of Filipino Group here in Hornby High School. You will see a lot of performance from different groups of Filipino students in HHS. Yesterday was really fun because there are a lot of cool performance and games happened during salu-salo. Also, every year in salu-salo we are having a shared dinner. Every family can bring foods for the dinner, also for the guest and staff. Their performance is really great because they spend a lot of time practicing, also they have these cool outfit from the Filipino culture. My favourite part of the event is the fashion show, when the students do a introduction while wearing the different cultural outfit in our country. 

Sustainable Fishing - Prezi

In social studies, we spend some time doing our Prezi presentation. Our presentation needs to be about sustainable fishing. We a lot of different topics that we needed to do some research and reading. For each topics that we have, we need to have at least 1 paragraph. 

Also in our presentation, we need to include the different types of sentences that can make our paragraph more interesting. For my paragraphs, I use "Lawyer Paragraph" since it's very good for our topic. Lawyer paragraph needs to have at least six sentences. Including the introduction, evidence, and the sum up. Our topics for this presentation are by-catch, sustainable ways of fishing, dolphin-safe labels, commercial fishing, and why sustainable fishing important. 

Why is sustainable fishing important? It is important because it will decrease the number of species dying because of by-catch. Also, avoiding the chemicals getting into the water because of those ships trying to get some seafood. 

                                                                    MY PRESENTATION