Parihaka

Kia Ora everyone,

Welcome back to my blog. Today, I'm going to talk about Parihaka. We have been watching a video about Parihaka and reading information. There were some questions that we were supposed to answer. The question is about Parihaka. 

Whenever we do this, the first I do is to watch the video and read the text about the topic, then I put some bullet points to some information I've found out while watching the video and read the text. 

Then I started answering each question one at a time by using the information I found out. 

Here are the question and my answer: 

Q1: What events lead up to Parihaka being established?

A1:  They established Parihaka because they wanted to make a peaceful village. Parihaka was created to make a community for those Maori people who lost their land and to be equal.

Q2: What was the idea behind setting up Parihaka?

A2: The idea was that Maori were self sufficient, that they also have the same rights as the European settlers. 

Q3: Who established Parihaka?

A3: 1866's in Mt Taranaki, Tohu Kakahi and Te Whiti-o-Rongomai was the person who established Parihaka. During the 1870’s, Parihaka had become the largest Maori settlement in the country.

Q4: Where is Parihaka located?

A4: Parihaka is located between the Tasman Sea and Mount Taranaki in New Zealand. It’s a community in the Taranaki.

Q5: When did the invasion of Parihaka occur?

A5: It happened on the morning of November 5, 1881. Parihaka was invaded by fifteen hundred government soldiers and those volunteers. The leaders, Te Whiti-o-Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi were also arrested. Most of the Maori village was destroyed. 

Q6: How do you think the people of Parihaka were feeling when the troops entered the village?

A6: They were probably feeling confused at first because of having no idea what they are doing in the village, but maybe nervous thinking that they would destroy the village. 

Q7: Do you think stories about the events of 5th November 1881 were reported on by the media at the time?

A7: During 1881, media weren’t invented. Media was invented in the 1920's. In 1881, there were only newspapers, in the newspapers it was the Europeans point of view. 

Q8: How long were Te Whiti and Tohu imprisoned? Where? What did they intend to do when they returned to Parihaka?

A8: The leaders, Tohu Kakahi and Te Whiti-o-Rongomai were arrested and spent 6 months imprisoned for forbidding selling their land to those European settlers. Maori people were expelled from Parihaka and their homes were destroyed by the government. 

Q9: What was the impact on Maori when the New Zealand Company and other representatives of “The Crown” confiscated or purchased land very cheaply from Maori? What happened to Maori who lost their land? Where and how did they live? 

A9: The impact of Maori’s land wasn’t that impressive. Maori people didn’t get to eat that much food, which can cause sickness and it spreads.They mostly get illness and sickness which affects the adults but mostly children. Those Maori who lost their land were banned from going to that land. 

Q10: How do you think the New Zealand wars impacted on iwi and groups of people who were no longer able to live on their whenua?

A10: Losing their own land wasn’t that easy for them and it affects their daily life. 

Q11: What does the word PEACE mean to you? What is “passive resistance? What does the phrase mean?

A11: For me, peace means freedom. It’s also calming knowing that you don’t have to worry about anything. Passive means non violence, and a refusal to any requirements.  

Q12: What other ways are there to solve major issues between people/countries that do not use violence as a way of controlling others or solving problems?

A12: Ways to solve an issue between people/country without violence is to have a talk, sort it out using words. And by making an agreement between someone or something. 

Q13: Who are some of the other world leaders who have used passive resistance? What was their cause and how is it peaceful?

A13: In social media, those people who use the ‘Black lives matter’ as their profile has used passive resistance. It was peaceful because they helped to cheer those people who got involved in ‘Black lives matter’ and spread the word all over the world. There were more leaders/celebrities who used passive resistance. 

That's all for today. I hope you learn something new, you can give me some helpful, thoughtful and a positive feedback. I'll see you all next time, bye.

Communication Challenge

Kia Ora,

 I'll be talking about things we have been doing in Science and what we have learn in science about communication. 

During Science, we have been learning how to communicate with each other without using our mouth to talk, without using gadget but with a code. Communication is important in space, you can't just call them from earth to space. They use signals to communicate in space using codes. 

We were in a group of 4, and we were supposed to learn the codding. Then if we've done that, 2 person in each group goes into the side of the field, and the other 2 person in the group goes to the other side of the field. Now there is 2 people in each side of the field, the first 2 person in the side of the field has given a word that they should tell to the other 2 person, but by using the codes that they learn. 

 

There are 3 codes to communicate, using Sign language can be used as one of the code but we wouldn't be able to see what sign we're doing in our hand. First option of the code is Flag sign, the second is Morse code, Binary. then Hexadecimal. There will be a sender, and a receiver. 

 

I was in a group with Rheanne, Cate and Shontai. Me and Cate was in the other side of the field. We were both the sender, Rheanne and Shontai was the receiver. Our group chooses the Hexadecimal code. 

Communicating in a far distance may be hard. The problem that makes it hard is that when we did the code, we weren't able to see it clear because of how far we are from each other. 

This is what the Hexadecimal code looks like: 

Thank you for reading, you can give me some helpful, thoughtful and a positive feedback. I'll see you all next time, bye!

Communication in space

 Kia Ora,

Today, I'm going to answer some of the questions about things that I've learnt about space/Mars.

Here are the questions:

What are some ways we communicate on Earth? 

1. How do these forms of communication work, what do they rely on or use?

2. Why can nobody hear you shout in space?

3. Is radio communication instant? Why/Why not?

4. What does this mean for a space mission from Earth to Mars?

5. Could there be a way in the future to instantly end a message to someone on another planet?

Here are my answers:

1. Some ways that we use to communicate with each other are gadgets. Such as Phone/Telephone, Radio, Television, Internet/Social Media and etc. How the television works is:

   There are three parts of the television inventions. The first one is the TV camera, it helps to turn a picture and a sound into a signal, there is also a TV transmitter, it sends the signal through the air. A TV receiver is set in your home, it captures the signal and it turns back to a picture and a sound.

2. When you talk or shout, you need air or water to travel your voice through, but in space there is no air, so sound has nothing to travel through. The sound wouldn’t even leave your mouth. 

3. Radio is one way that you can communicate.

4. Which means that they should use code, people who travel to space usually use Hexadecimal code to communicate with each other. 

5. It’s possible that there will be a way in the future to instantly send a message to someone on another planet, but NASA would have to find a way to do that. 

That's all for today, I hope you learn something new. I'll see you all next time, bye.

Navigate in Space

Kia Ora readers,

Welcome back to my blog. During hurumanu 3, we are given a question about navigate in space. These questions that we have to search and find out information about it. We must include an explanation about the information we found.  

Here are the questions that we must find the answer, and the answers that I found:

1. What is a solar system?

- A solar system is a consist of a star, sun and a objects that is affected by its gravity. It includes planets, moons, asteroids, comets and a meteoroids. Solar system is a smaller than a universe or a galaxy. 

2. What is the milky way an example of?

- Galaxy is our solar system that is part of. If we lived in an elliptical galaxy instead in earth, we would most likely to see the stars of our galaxy that spread out all around the skies. 

3. What is a star? Describe a Nebula. 

- A star is an astronomical object, it is a luminous ball of a gas. It is mostly hydrogen and helium that is held together by its own gravity. The nearest star in Earth is a Sun. Nebula is a cloud of dust and a gas that is occupying the space, that is between the stars. Nebula is basically made out of dust. 

4. How do stars die?

- A stars dies because the  enervate their nuclear fuel. A enormous stars use up their hydrogen fuel rapidly. At one point that there is no fuel left, the stars collapses, the other layers shatter as a 'supernova'. 

5. Is there an up and down in space?

- There's an up and down in space. "Down" is directly, the direction gravity is basically pulling you, and "up" is just an opposite direction. Gravity is a centrally attractive force. If it's "going down" it means falling or being pulled.

6. How can stars be used to navigate?

- There are two ways that these stars are used by the navigator. The first way to navigate the stars is to obtain a line of a position by using an observation and those techniques of celestial navigation. 

Bonus questions: Find 3 facts about a Black Hole - What does the word "spaghettification" mean? 

In NASA, the recent years, they found a fascinating objects in space. 

- A black hole is a region of a spacetime. It's a black hole where gravity are so strong, that nothing can even escape from it. 

- A spaghettification is an an object that would be stretched and ripped apart by a gravitational forces on falling into the black hole. 

Thank you for reading my blog. I hope you learn something new, please give me some helpful, thoughtful and a positive feedback. And I will see you all next time, goodbye. 

Gold Rush

Kia Ora everyone,

Welcome back to my blog. For today, I will be talking about gold rush. I have read some of the information that is given to us. While reading the text, we have to write information that we found. It must include four or more facts about gold mining and four facts about the Chinese miners who came to New Zealand.

I found these facts in one of the links that we have to read. 

Here are information that I found about gold mining: 

• Gold is valuable because of it’s attractive looks and it’s rare, it’s mostly used in jewellery. 

• They dig to find gold underground but it can take a year finding gold. When it’s found, they use this machine to crush the rocks and it helps to separate the gold that is called stamper batteries.

• They use trucks to help them dig underground and find gold.

• The first person who discovered an amount of gold in New Zealand was by Charles Ring in 1852. He’s a Tasmanian who found gold at a driving creek near the town of Coromandel. 

• Years passed, there were more discoveries found around Golden Bay and Marlborough, Otago and West Coast. Some found nothing, but some found a huge amount of gold. 

• 1867 was the first big discovery was near Thames. The gold was inside in a hard rock and they were expensive to mine. 

Chinese gold miners:

• In 1865, there was a new gold rush happening on the West Coast. Hundreds of Chinese miners were encouraged to come, and asked to rework the Otago goldfield. These miners were mostly from Southern China. 

• Most of the Chinese Miners didn’t speak English back then. 

• During the 1800's, there were many people from Guangzhou province who lived in poverty in Southern China. There was high unemployment, the place was over populated from the effects of the Opium Wars. One way to escape from poverty is to make the families pay for their brothers or sons to go overseas and work on the goldfield that was newly opened up. Many Chinese miners went to Australian, Californian, but most of them came to New Zealand. 

• They used to call New Zealand Sun Kum Shan or the new gold mountain. 

Thank you for reading my blog. I hope you learn something new. You can give me some helpful, thoughtful and a positive feedback. I'll see you all next time. Bai!

Gold Mining

Kamusta,

For today's blog, I'm going to share things that I know about Gold Mining. We are learning to understand our past immigrant community. During Hurumanu one, we have been working on Gold Rush. We had a talked about it.

There are text that we should read relating about Gold Rush, there are also information about gold rush. But the first thing we should do is to brainstorm all of the things we know about gold mining and discrimination before we read the story. 

                                               

 

Gold mining is basically finding gold. They dig underground to find gold, it takes a year to dig down. They use trucks to help them dig and people would spent hours and hours digging to find gold. Gold mine last for atleast about five to 30 years, there are different ways of gold mining. 

Discrimination is basically racism. It's like judging something about them for having what they have and use it against them and make them feel bad. 

Thank you for reading, I hope you learn something new today. And that's all for today, have a great day bye.