Humanities

__ Wordpress __ __ [|my plate tectonic blog] __ __ Humanities video reflection. 7-2-12 __

The assignment was to create a video with the two topics you were given. I was given the topics of; Long shore drift and headlands and bays. Now personally I love the sea and the beach but this was something very new to me. I thought this would be a good topic to learn about, this gave me a chance to learn about how a costal process works. I found this very enjoyable and this made the whole assessment even more enjoyable. My video turned out how I thought it would turn out, this was down to my plan. Overall I think that my project turned out how I wanted it to and I only came across a few problems, which were the editing and the information going onto the video. It was a fun assessment to work on and this knowledge I learnt will stay with me when I think about this topics. It was a great assessment to learn about. :)

__ Can we build a perfect society? 7-2-12 __

The essay I did was very intriguing; the task given was to answer the question on how to build a perfect society? I choose to focus on three main systems. They were Democracy, Communism and Fascism. I found this type of assessment is a great thing to do because it involves the research process and also your own knowledge on the topic. This made the assessment different to the other ones we do because, I really felt that this assessment was a good way of summing up the learning we had got. We were given time to prepare for the essay, in which we researched about the question we need answering the questions. We then made a sort of spider diagram to puts facts under main topics. This helped us to make our three points, and then we can have explanations and case studies and opinions and even quotes for each system we focused on. But overall I think that this essay showed how much we had learned. We came across some problems which were case studies of the system and even when the system started and were it came from. But overall I think that this was fun to learn about and I will always remember what we learnt.


 * __Longshore drift & headlands and bays__**

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 * __Australia's Government system powerpoint__**


 * __PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION__**


 * __Marxism powerpoint__**


 * __Humanites write up for 15/06/11 Oli and Freddie__**

On the 15th of June, MYP4 and 5 went on a jointfield trip. The two classes went to visit 2 farms and to end the field tripthey went to Arial Trek.

First we went below Codington College, towards an organicfarm. On the way down towards the farm, we visited a Tabernacle, which was runby Ras Mike. It was a cultural sight that seemed to be very peaceful. He alsoran the farm that was close by, just down the road. This farm started by anUNDP (United Nations Development Program) and sponsored him for two years, nowhe sells his produce to the cheap side markets.

The second stop was to a farm which was run by Linda Herbertwho took a slightly different way of growing her produce. She grew fruit treesand some vegetables and herbs. She grew her crops by giving the produce byusing hydroponics and tried to use as little amount of fertilizers possible.Their idea is to either make the fruits into juices or jams to either sell inher own market that is in the farm on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. If shemakes enough to sell in her market and some to spare, she will try to sell themin different market or she will sell her lettuces to the local supermarkets in Barbados.

On the last stop we decided to go to an eco friendly tourist attraction, called Arial Trek. Barbados wanted tourists to have other reasons to visit the country other than tourist who just want the sun, sea and sand, this was the main goal of Arial trek. We were put into these safety harnesses which kept us fromfalling when we were on the zip line. We were with a group of guides which camewith us to put the safety belts that were attached to us with on the zip line. Wewent through seven different zip lines some longer than others. After we tookof the safety harnesses and had a refreshment to cool us down after goingthrough the zip lines.

To conclude, I think that it was a very fun and enjoyablefield trip to seal of the end of the year, it was also very educational,finding all about the types of farms and eco friendly production in Barbados. Howsome people had organic farming and the other had Hydroponic farming. On top ofthat, the eco friendly tourist attraction was fun and education, because of thelow cost and how they made it out of a gully, showed us all about how you canmake money with creating huge area of construction but instead you can usenatural resources for location and some usage for construction. I also think iswas very interesting how Ras Mike createhis own pest asides by old farming stories and just looking for plants which have no insects. It was also cool how Redland is trying to pollinate thePaw-paw tree which hasn’t been done before. The farming industry is always grownand is all about trial and error.
 * __Food Shortages document.__**


 * __Malaria__**

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Mark Teacher Comment Lots of nice work in this unit. The basics of the information about Pasteur are here, but you have not really looked at it from the right angle. There needs to be a conclusion about what made his discoveries so important in the advancement of medicine. Also there is no mention about his findings for vaccines against rabies. p.s page looks great now.
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**//__ EGYPITIANS __//** **//__ HISTORY OF MEDICINE __//**

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Freddie, Josh and Marius have been looking at the history of Egyptian medicine and we have found so many things that you would have never thought of before, like how they would treat the people that had cuts or problems, such as bruised arm or ear infection. We have made a power point presentation about what we have learned about and what has changed through the time of medicine. Some medicines in the past had things such as a pig’s ear and a dog’s tooth, plus mashed sheep’s skin and then poured or placed on the skin or the problem that they have. We looked at also the ancient Gods and that was the best area that we went over in our power point presentation because it had all sorts of family traits and how the gods would be given their power. But we wondered how they choose what person would become what god, but we found out that one god and goddess had a child and he did not become a god but they gave him a crown of all Egypt. We the group were also very interested in the language they wrote in, because they had letters but instead of a letter it was a picture of an animal or an object. Such as the L was a Lion lying down on the ground and the A was an Owl. The main question we had was, “ how long did they take to draw the single letter, and then how long would it take to make a sentence or a paragraph.” The pictures were big part of our power point presentation because we had to include how they did the procedures in the past times and how the symbols looked like or what the gods had to look like to make their appearance so good and to make the people know what God he was just from the appearance he had or was showing. The sources were another huge part of the power point presentation because we had to get the information about the Nile and the Gods because we were learning as well so we had to learn all about it and then put it in to our own words. I have named some huge sources that have help us a lot during the presentation. 1. [] 2. [] 3. [] 4. [] 5. []

I have learned all about the Egyptian medicines and the cures on how they would cure the sick or heal the wounded.
===The Egyptians had one man that would sit by the river nile that is one of the most famous rivers in the whole world and his name was Anubis and the reason he would sit by the river Nile was because he thought of the river Nile as being like a person, such as if the river got blocked up he would know how to deal with the person as if it was like a river.===

Anubis got given well made instruments out of gold or silver given to him from the king or the pharaoh so that he could help cure the people.
===They use all sorts of instruments to do the surgery or the cures. Anubis would use an instrument that is like a fork and when the people would die they would use the fork to put inside the body and pull out all of the vital organs, and put it in a jar to save for later.=== ===War was not a huge thing in the Egyptian time but when the occasion fight or war would appear all the dead bodies would be taken to Anubis for testing and the wounded would be tested on with the new cures and medicines. Then Anubis would write down the cures to use for later on in history so people could keep the cures around or so doctors later on would be able to use the same medicines or cures that Anubis would use on the people in today lifetime.=== ===The Egyptians would walk around a lot more than today's lifetime but the rich would be able to get a carriage or a way of transport. They did not have any government but the king or Pharaoh would be in control the whole time and they had all sorts of law's like even the poor could get medical attention even though they were poor.=== ===They blamed all their problems on the spirit's and if something went wrong it was the spirit's fault. The Egyptians were a big country that liked to take chances on the medicines or the cures and if they went wrong nobody cared but if the cures or medicine work everyone went crazy and wanted to take it or get the recipe. But Anubis would look after the medicines like it was the most important thing he ever had but he wrote the recipe's down or the cures on a script for that later doctors in life to use or learn how to do.===

I have been very impressed with your work this year so far Freddy. You took over the leadership of this group and forced it to work. There is a lot to be recommended for what you have learnt about Egyptian medicine and the presentation that you made. There are one or two areas of misunderstanding - for example Anubis is not a person but the god of the dead. His role was particularly important during mummification. In your essay, you write as if he were a real person. However, the project, the quiz, reflection and essay combine to show me the best work I have seen from you. Keep up this level and you will progress rapidly. House points (2 for you) Criteria A (knowledge) 5/10 Criteria C (skills) 6/10