Greenhouse Effect

What is the greenhouse effect?
Earths atmosphere acts like a blanket around the Earth. In 1896 the chemist Svante Arrhenius suggested that carbon dioxide acts like the glass in a greenhouse which does not let heat out.

Effects of global warming?

Disease.
Higher temperatures and rainfall may mean tropical pests and diseases are able to survive and breed in New Zealand.

Weather patterns.
Global warming may lead to dramatic changes in regional and seasonal weather patterns. This may lead to more intense and more frequent storm events such as tropical cyclones.

Sea-level rise.
Rising sea levels would flood coastal towns and communities. New Zealand's ports would be swamped. Coastal railway routes and roads would be flooded

Rainfall
More frequent and intense winter rainfall is expected to increase the likelihood of flooding rivers, as well as flash flooding.

Agriculture
Changes in climate may affect the viabitily of crops in some areas. Crops that are typically grown only in the North Island may be able to be grown in the South Island.

What is the solution to climate change?
There are 2 solutions called Migration and Adaption. 

Migration is reducing and stabilising greenhouse gasses. Less driving means fewer emissions. Besides saving gasoline, walking and biking are great forms of exercise. Explore the York Region Transit system and check out options for carpooling to work or school.
When you do drive, make sure your car is running efficiently. For example, keeping your tires properly inflated can improve your gas mileage by more than 3%. Every gallon of gas you save not only helps your budget, but it also keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Adaption is adapting to climate change that is already occurring. Humans need to adapt to the impacts of climate change, for instance through technological solutions such as coastal defences and changes in consumption habits. Humans are already adapting to climate change, and further adaptation efforts will be necessary during the coming decades. However, adaptation alone is not expected to be able to cope will all projected effects since the options diminish and the costs increase with rising temperatures.

Greta Thunberg

Her approach towards this issue can be taken as very aggressive but some people will take it as moving. To most people, she will be taking anger but the way she is approaching this is very effective towards others who have caused an issue in the world but then those people will not clean up their mess.  She is right that she should be in school learning about the future not fighting for her future.

What does the presenter suggest?
He suggests " the end of the world" isn't actually the "end" of the world and that this young child is rude, arrogant and should not be talking the kinda stuff she is.

How are children constructed?
They are being shown as rude and children and that children should not be apart of this issue. The presenter makes us feel like following her is the worst mistake we can make and that children do not need to be involving themselves into this sort of political issue.

What is the viewer's position?
After watching this, most people will have a negative approach to her due to the way that she is being shown off in this presentation.

English: Music videos

In this period we were watching music video which was directed towards a specific gender. I have learnt that most songs we listen to are very very derogative. Most of our songs go towards females but in an inappropriate way. Females are shown as very sexual people. They get projected as people who want to be open about everything.

E-asttle Practice Writing - Persuasive

I am aiming to improve my writing in the following 3 areas: Organisation, punctuation and spelling.

I will do this by: I will reorganise my work into paragraphs instead of a big grouping of words. I will add more vocabulary such as " ! ? to improve my writing. I will also try to add in better, harder to spell words to make my writing a higher level.

Essay:
Motorsport encourages road users to drive dangerously. I disagree with this statement. Do you agree with my point of view? Motorsport is a form of entertainment that, I do have to agree, can be dangerous but most of the time drivers know what to do with their vehicles so that everyone else is safe.

I do not think that motorsport encourages people to drive dangerously because not all dangerous drivers watch motorsport. Motorsport is a professional sport which takes many years to master so you can drive/ride your vehicle to the best of your ability.

Motorsport does not encourage dangerous driving because people can learn their driving skills from family and friends when they watch them drive. Most motorsports are teaching people to drive because of the ways that you have to drive vehicles. It has been proven that race car drivers are more cautious on the road. With the way that you have to drive a race car, you are always checking your surroundings to make sure that if you have an opportunity to defend or gain a position so it teaches you that we need to watch how we drive.

People do not learn dangerous driving from motorsport because when you watch motorsport people have to make sure they do not hit another driver or car because each driver has a set of rules they must follow or they can be penalised. With the rules for some motorsport classes, they do not allow contact between cars so each driver must make accurate, pin-point moves to ensure that they do not lose positions or gain a penalty. A penalty in motorsport is like a ticket on the street because if you get a penalty for contact you could lose your position or even get a fine. Drivers in motorsport have to be very careful with the way they place their car/vehicle just like on a road every driver must be aware of their surroundings so that you do not hit another vehicle. Some people may watch some forms of motorsport such as Derbys and say "This encourages people to drive dangerously so they can keep to the rules" but that is the only time those people will drive like that. Some forms of motorsport hate the idea of dangerously driving so at some points you can get banned from the track.

So this proves that motorsport does not encourage people to drive dangerously. I race a car and I feel safer in my race car the I do in a traffic jam mainly because people at the track keep themselves at a safe distance but on the road, some people drive erratically behind me or in front of me.

Key:
Organization: I have made my work go from a big blob of work into an organized, paragraphed essay.
Punctuation: I have highlighted the added speak marks that I have used.
Spelling: I could not find any hard words to add to my work.

Essay Pre-Planning:

Describe a relationship between 2 or more characters in the text. Explain how this relationship helped you to understand at least 1 of the characters.

Wind powered land boat class project.

Aim: To create a land boat that can go 10 meters while gaining velocity.

Method: We will use paper to create our sail which will attach to the metal rod. The metal rod will be screwed into the trolley/ base. The sail will hopefully catch more air and turn that air into velocity. We will use a leaf blower to create more airflow while we are outside.


Equipment list:

• 1m of Paper.
• 2m of Tape.
• Cardboard Square.
• A Metal Rod.
• Trolley with Wheels.

Research:

Results:
Our land boat went 16.89m with a time of 14.7sec which means that our velocity was: 1.1489ms1

Discussion:
Our land boat was a bit different from everyone else's because of our shape and our design because our one had a backwards sail. Our one could have been better if we put more thought into it and created a better land boat but we decided that our one was fine.

Conclusion:
In conclusion, our land boat did not do the best in the class so we could make some small improvements but for us, our land boat was a success and went very well.

Essay Pre-planning: Children of Blood and Bone.

My key event is going to be when Inan is sent by King Saran to burn down Ilorin. (Zelie's home town). My important character is going to be Zelie because she is the main character in this book. My character has changed from being cool, calm and collected to being very very upset, and rage-filled. My character has also changed from being scared to fight and not wanting to hurt too many people to wanting vengeance and trying to kill Inan at every chance she gets. Zelie also changes from being a scared little girl and being thought of as just a maggot/ slave to being able to scare all the guards off and causing the world to realise that maji can be scary but can also be very very nice people.