My group work on Traditional Maori medicine

I have learnt that the Maori would have survived with out the Europeans coming into their lives and they would have had every injury fixed in like a week.





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Traditional Maori Medicine

I have learnt that the Maori have created very extensive medical care and that they have been able to heal each other before they were invaded by European's.

Internal herbal treatments were given for:

respiratory ailments like asthma, bronchitis, and coughs.

stomach, bowel, and urinary tract problems.

menstrual and birthing difficulties.

at least one form of tuberculosis.

External herbal treatments were given for:

fractures and wounds

boils.

burns.

eczema.

leprosy.

ringworm.

warts.

Traditional Maori Instruments

I have learnt that the Maori have a very different way of creating instruments.

Info on the Pūtātara: The Pūtātara is used for new arrivals to a marae or the birth of a child. It is also used to summon people for formal learning or as a call to arms. Pūtātara are highly prized. The Triton shell is rarely found in Aotearoa, only occasionally washing up on beaches in the Far North. It is regarded as a special gift of Tangaroa, the god of the sea.

Info on the Pūkāea: The Pūkāea is used to welcome people and announce events or occasions of importance, and was also a war trumpet. Pūkāea vary considerably in length, with some known to be over 2 metres long. The mouthpiece end is the kōngutu. The bell-shaped end is called the whara.

Karanga weka: This instrument was used to mimic the call of the weka. Māori have many instruments for imitating bird calls – leaves and grasses, tubular plant stems, hollow stones, and pounamu (greenstone).

Reflection on Fridays Practical in Food

Scones

Ingredients

3 cups plain flour

6 teaspoons Baking Powder

¼ teaspoon salt

75g butter

1 to 1 ½ cups milk

Method

1. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl
2. Cut butter in until it resembles fine breadcrumbs
3. Add milk and mix quickly with a knife to a soft dough
4. Knead a few times
5. Place baking paper on tray.
6. Press scone dough onto this. cut into 12 pieces.
7. brush with milk
8. Bake at 180c for  10 minutes

What went well on Friday?= Nothing for my group.

What needs to be improved?= Timing.

What was something you learn't?= I learnt my team can not speak up and work with me.

100 word challenge

pure
poetry
gene
conductor
transparent

Today started with pure blue skies like everyday. I started work, im a poetry writer for the newspaper. The genes of this building is amazing, this building has been passed down through many generations of my family. We have a conductor who conducts what our poetry is about today. We have one big problem in this office is that all our wires are transparent so when we try to get one fix we don't know which one leads to what computer or output signal. 

EXACTLY 100 WORD CHALLENGE

The black doll

It was a normal day and I woke up to find my car a holden v8 ute with some upgrades, its rims and brakes where gone and all could see on the seats was a black doll with a number on the bottom of it. The next day I woke up at the same time and went outside to find all the cars in the street had no tires and no brakes. At this point I followed the number on the bottom. The doll looks as ugly as an old lady. The number changed…

TO BE CONTINUED

Floating house

It was 2 weeks after the war and somehow the houses had just floated. I was walking home for school and all the houses were upside down then all I could see was a shadow above me so i looked and all  I could see was myself walking the same way just it was not me it was like it was my twin his face was the same, his body was the same apart from I was down here. Then I noticed that all houses on my street were in the parallel universe. Then I noticed that it was the past time but upside down so that means that in 2 weeks the war will again. One week later I still noticed that at the same time as me, my twin was walking to and from school and this happened till the bombs started to drop all I could hear was all the booms and klangs of metal falling to the ground. After all of that happened all i could see was my twin family died on the ground bleeding because it was my birthday so they wanted to be nice and get me my favorite food and on their way home a bomb hit them and that is why i'm homeless now. Now I know why the street is crumbled into pieces and why all I see on my way to school is concrete and metal all over the disgusting grey ashy ground that is cracked into pieces and why my school is gone into many dangerous out picking pieces of rusted metal. Now I know why my life is so depressing and why my body just says that I have nothing left I should just not move.

THE END