Voting Infographic | How to Vote |

Today on our power to the people subject, we were tasked to make an infographic about voting. There were 3 main parts we had to learn first before we make the infographic, the first part was about how we can enroll to make a vote. The second part was how to vote and lastly, the last part was how the votes were counted. Making the infographic was pretty easy to make and didn't really take me that long to finish. Anyway, when we finished making the infographic we then had to blog about it. We are blogging this so that other people who don't know about voting will have information on how it works.

End of Life Act | Referendum | 2020

This week on our power to the people subject, we are learning about the end of life referendum. It means, that the person's doctor or nurse practitioner giving them medication to relieve their suffering by bringing on death. This act is made to end a person's life to end their suffering, however, it is not the nurse's or doctor's choice but the person who is suffering makes the choice. If a person helps make the person who is suffering make the choice to end their life, they will be accused of manslaughter.

There are still some requirements that need to be met by the person who would want to end their life.

1. Be aged 18 years or over
2. Be a citied or permanent resident of New Zealand
3. Suffer from a terminal illness that's likely to end their life within 6 months
4. Have significant and ongoing decline in physical capability
5. Experience unbearable suffering that cannot be eased
6. Be able to make an informed decision about assisted dying. 

There are also some pros and cons to this act:

Pro's

• People do not need to suffer
• A choice about your life and how it ends
• Hard decision taken away from loved ones

Con's

• Some doctors might not want to
• It's still suicide
• Goes against people's beliefs and values

What I would vote for:

I support this act because I think that the person should have the right to choose if he/she wants to end their suffering. Plus there are some strict requirements before they can make their decision meaning that not all people can make the choice to have someone assist kill them. 

Cannabis | Referendum | 2020

For this term on our people's power, we are focusing on our topic about the referendum. We simply focused on the cannabis part of the referendum. for of all what is cannabis. Cannabis, also known as marijuana is a psychoactive drug from the Cannabis plant used primarily for medical, or recreational purposes.

The pro's and con's for this topic.

Pro's                                                             Con's

More tax                                                        Drug use can cause you to do bad thing's
Growing + supply                                         Create drug addicts
Create more jobs                                           Damage mental health
Know what you're buying                            Still can't stop illegal selling + growing
No fear of breaking the law                     

What would you vote for + why?

Honestly, I am not that sure whether to vote yes or no to this topic as I will not be a part of the people who are going to be using cannabis for different reasons. But I will vote yes to this topic, as I also know that this will be controlled well.

Hurumanu 6 | Protest Movements |The Springbok Tour Protest (1891) |

For our last Hurumanu 6 topic for this term, this time we focus on several types of protests. We have learned 2 different types of protest, 1 being a peaceful kind and a revolutionary kind of protest. Anyway, for this topic, we had to pick a topic of protest that happened some time in New Zealand. After we have chosen, we then have to answer different questions about the topic that we chose. I chose to do the springbok tour protest which happened in 1891, this topic was mostly about discrimination and what happened.

The Springbok Tour Protest (1891)

What happened: For 56 days throughout July, August and September 1981, New Zealanders were divided against each other in the largest civil disturbance seen since the 1951 waterfront debate. More than 150,000 people who took part in over 200 demonstrations in 28 centres, and 1500 were charged with offences originating from these protests.

Who was involved: Police, South Africa, United Nations, Labour Party, Norman Kirk.  

Why were they protesting: The South African discrimination which has been in policy in South Africa was a cause of the protests against the Springbok tour in New Zealand in the 1980s. 

What was the outcome: The anti-apartheid movement in South Africa was hartened by the events in New Zealand. Nelson Mandela (Former President of South Africa) remembered that when he was still in his prison cell at Robben Island and heard that the game in Hamilton had been cancelled as if the sun had come out. 

Hurumanu 5 | Light | Reflection & Refraction | Refraction Through Lenses |

Aim: To investigate how different types of lenses refract light.
Equipment: Single slit ray slide, lightbox, concave lens, and convex lens.
Method: 

1. Set up the lightbox, single-slit ray slide. 
2. Place the convex lens on the shaded area, place the lightbox at the top of the page and shine the single ray of light at the lens. 
3. Carefully trace the direction of the incoming and refracted rays.
4. Repeat using the concave lens. 

Conclusion: 

When light passes through this type of lens, the rays all move away (diverge) from each other. One use of these lenses is in security peepholes in a door so that a person inside a room can see who is at the door without having to open it. 

1. The lens described in the paragraph above is a concave lens.

When light passes through this type of lens, the rays all move towards (converge) each other. One use of these lenses is in a camera, to focus the light onto the film or digital sensor. Magnifying glasses also use this type of lens.

2. The lens described in the paragraph is a convex lens. 

Home Economics | Kiwi Baker | Vanilla Cupcakes! |

On Friday our group was tasked to make vanilla cupcakes as part of our kiwi baker. Our group contained Lars, Elisha Mae, Janel, Minseo, and I, we were all comfortable during the making of our product. We were familiar with making the cupcakes because we have made them before.  However, it looked like we did something wrong because when we started creaming the butter and added the eggs, it started to sort of change texture and made clumps of the butter. Anyway, we kept proceeding and get our work done.

When we placed the cupcakes in the oven and finished cooling, it was time to decorate it. Although there was not that much time left so we just put the icing on top swiftly, so it didn't look that nice. When we finished with the icing we tasted 1 cupcake each, the top part of the cupcake was a bit crispy but when we got to the middle part it was very fluffy.

The sweetness of it was on point, it wasn't too sweet nor really sweet. Overall the cupcake was really good, and I also got some feedback from my stakeholder which were my brothers.

All of us worked well together, and carefully did the steps as we have planned. We all communicated well as a team and finished our product on time.

Feedback from Stakeholder:
The cupcakes were really good, and not too sweet. I also liked how there was a bit of crunchiness on the cupcake but, anyway it was really good. 

Our Plan:

Vann - Vanilla Essence, Baking Powder - Method 3 - Method 10

Lars - Butter, Milk - Method 1 - Method 6 - 

Elisha Mae - Sugar - Method 2 - Method 8

Janel - Plain Flour - Method 4 - Method 7 - Method 11

Minseo - Eggs - Method 5 - Method 9 

Vann: Will get the 1 t Vanilla Essence and 2 t Baking Powder. He will also do both methods 3 and 10. 

Lars: Will get the butter and the milk. He will also do both method 1 and 6.

Elisha Mae: Will get the sugar, she will do method 2 and 8.

Janel: Will get the plain flour, she will do methods 4, 7, and 11. She will also help Minseo with the folding. 

Minseo: Will get the eggs and do method 5 as well as method 9 with Janel’s help. 

Estimated time is 30 minutes 

Ingredients:

• 125g margarine/ butter
• 1/4 c sugar
• 1 t vanilla essence
• 2 eggs (Size 7)
• 1 1/2 c plain flour
• 2 t baking powder
• 1/2 c milk

 Method:

1. Cream margarine in a large bowl. Use a wooden spoon.
2. Add sugar and continue creaming until light and fluffy in texture.
3. Add vanilla essence and beat briefly.
4. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after you have added each egg.
5. Sift flour and baking powder onto a large plate.
6. Using a rubber scraper, scrape all the mixture in the wooden spoon.
7. Add 1/3 sifted flour/ baking powder mix and fold in half the milk using the rubber scraper.
8. Repeat step 7 for the next 1/3 flour mix and the rest of the milk. Do not over mix.
9.  Add the last of the flour and gently fold this into the cake batter.
10. Carefully spoon the cake batter evenly in the 12 paper cases.
11. baked at 180 degrees for 7 minutes then turn oven to fan bake for a further 6-8 minutes.

Hurumanu 6 | Power to the People | Winston Churchill Poster! |

This week on hurumanu 6 for activity 3 the last activity for heroes and villains. We again had to make another poster about the person we chose or a different person if we chose to. However, I once again stuck with Winston Churchill. I looked upon the internet for Winston Churchill's slogan, but there were a lot of them, although I saw one which was "You can always take one with you". So I took this text and put it in a poster, here is the final result.

You can always take one with you: https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/slogan-take-one-with-you/