Humanities Newspaper Article

Sydney Herald

Date: Wednesday 13th 1835

The English government have sent over a man to be known as a ‘British Resident’, James Busby. He has been sent to New Zealand as a response from the letter sent the by the native people. Maori people needed help because they felt they were being treated fairly by the English settlers.

It is said that when James arrived in New Zealand, the Maori people had no respect for him because his lack of firearms. They named him ‘man of war without guns’. James Busby forged a declaration of Independence. It was for the people of New Zealand to become an independent country.

Rumors have spread, saying that a Frenchman by the name of Charles de Thierry has said that he would invade New Zealand with a French army with hundreds of men. James Busby took this as a serious situation and travelled around the top half of New Zealand requesting Maori chiefs to sign the Declaration. The French government have informed us that the French have never actually wanted to claim New Zealand. Therefore Charles de Thierry, who was thought to have an army was a false statement.

New Zealand was now safe from French colonies and other threatening countries. From this we will hope to see New Zealand finally become one as a nation.

English Assignment: Monologue

(Spoken in a Scottish accent)

This traditional ritual doesn't feel right anymore, killing off an innocent elderly won’t help anything. I mean, I know that as we were children our fathers and mothers would tell us to always stay to tradition. But I say nay, the crops haven’t grown, water produce is low, our resources are beginning to become scarce. A ritual that does not help with our needs, is not needed? Lindsay's old man was chosen, killed by the very citizens which once called him a friend. Do we as a village have no heart? The ability to turn on an elderly which once took care of you. It astounds me. People I say lets stand together as one village and wipe this ritual from our memories so that one day we may be able to see our grandchildren. This is my speech to you folks in hope that you have the same passion as I do. So who will stand with me? Who will fight for our future and our childrens and their childrens future? If you’re with me say ay!... Right then a bright future is ahead of us.    

Global Warming: A World Wide Crisis

In my Humanities class, we were all given an assignment to discuss and share "An environmental Issue Facing Society". Here is my presentation and the marking schedule.

Non-Renewable Resources ESSAY

There are many ways to produce electricity using non-renewable sources. Some of these ways include: Coal, Oil and Natural gases. Non-renewable means once a source is used it can not be returned to its original form. I think the best way for New Zealand to produce electricity is by using Natural gases. This is because it can be used for cooking, heating and fuel. Natural gases also do not release dangerous gases or have any harmful effects to the environment. I also believe Natural gases are the best way for our country because it is easy accessible and affordable for people to use.

Coal is an energy source when combined with heat, is used to create electricity. It can be also as a fuel for heat. Coal, when heated releases smoke which  affects the environment and contributes to global warming. Coal is used almost all around the world in factories creating electricity. Most countries do not consider this fact. Coal is found in various places in the world and can be considered as a common resource. Coal is created from animals bones, rotting trees all under the earth which has been compressed and heated over thousands of years. Because of this coal is not a source that can be maintained and humans can not continue to abuse coal.

Oil is an energy source used all around the world to create electricity and many other purposes. Oil leak out in the ocean is around the earth and is pollutes marine life. There are lots of countries which mine oil too. Oil is one of the most important resources. Most of peoples daily needs depend on oil. Oil is created by compressed waste over thousands of years and this is why humans cannot create this type of fuel. As time passes oil will become scarce and its prices will continue to rise. People will have to find an efficient way to replace oil.

Natural gases is a source found in the earth that can be used for heating, cooking and can also be used for electricity. Natural gases do not release dangerous gases into the atmosphere like coal does. Natural gases like all the other sources has been compressed over thousands of years. But Natural gases is not easy to find. People are using it at a fast rate and the original source can be renewed at an efficient pace. Natural gas is good for controlled fires, cooking and heating. Lots of people use a gas heater rather than an old fire place. People also use gas ovens.

In conclusion all these non-renewable ways are not sufficient. But I think the best non-renewable source is Natural Gases because it is partially clean for the environment and is easy to control.

Mt Tarawera

The New Zealand Herald

10 June, 1886 a tragedy occurred in the North Island of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Mt. Tarawera has erupted all three of its peaks which had sent clouds of ash and smoke, meters into the sky. People have said the explosion was heard as far as Blenheim and the effect of the ash had blown all the way south towards Christchurch. It has been reported that the smoke and ash have destroyed many villages including covering Te Wairoa in ash and mud. The famous pink and white traces were lost during the event. An estimated 120 people died during this natural disaster.

The Birds

In the novella "The Birds" by Daphne Du Maurier, the author explores the subject of hubris. The greediness of mankind, thinking that we're superior and that nothing can harm us. She suggests that human beings suffer from hubris, which makes them unprepared for possible threats from the world.

In the exposition, Du Maurier shows how Nat, the protagonist, is clam and confident and not concerned about the strange behaviour by the birds.

In the inciting incident, Du Maurier shows how Nat is unprepared for an attach by the birds, and becomes panicked.

Because Nat, the protagonist, is arrogant and tries to use different excusees like " a message comes to the birds in autumn", like a warning. This shows he is pretentious.

The protagonist (Nat) becomes frightened and afraid as soon as the birds begin attacking him and his family. After the endless attacks by the birds he begins to feel a little impressed by the birds and there sense of organisation.

Nat the protagonist becomes afraid and organised this is shown when " The blanket became a weapon of defence" this shows that Nat was not ready for the possibilities that he was unprepared.

The World's Worst Natural Disasters

For Humanities at St Peters College we have been learning about Natural Disasters. Here is a graph to show my findings and learning.

St.Peters College

A new year, starting a new school it does feel weird. St.Peters college an all boys school, private, right next to Auckland Boys and Catholic. That’s my new school, that I would be attending from now onwards. It sent a shiver up my spine even thinking about a new school. Orientation day, the day where I got to meet some of the other year 9’s that were starting at St.Peters college this year too.

“Good Morning Boys!” exclaimed Mr Neville. Mr Neville is our Dean (which means he’s in charge of all the students in year 9 level) “Good morning sir!” We answered. He told us all about the college and its principles to follow by. We followed him around the school and saw most of the classes which we were going to be in. It was a junkload to take in, I was still trying to figure out which classes I would be in?

My favourite subjects include, Maths, French, P.E, Art, Humanities (History and Geography). Some of the other subjects I find a little more challenging like English and Science. This year has taught me to become more independent and organised for example catching the bus to school, learning to move class by class and getting my stuff ready for the next day.

This year one of my goals is to do well in school academically and also in sports. I hope that this year will be a good year.  

Prize Giving 2013!

Every year we have an annual event called prize giving. It’s when parents and their children comes together to celebrate this year and hand out awards to kids who have done well in some subjects this year. “These are the awards for Team 4!” Mr Burt announced, everyone was clapping and cheering for the kids who went on stage. After the awards were handed out Mr Burt said “Now it’s time for the Team 4 Item!”

After Team 4 had finished it was time for our awards to be handed out. “These awards are for Citizenship, 100% attendance and effort” Mr Burt said. As some people were going on stage parents and older siblings were coming up to the stage. More awards were being handed out and as time went on it started to heat up and my back was starting to ache. Then I heard that Mr Burt was handing out the sports awards.

“These are the awards for rugby rep” Mr Burt said. I knew I was going to get an award because I played for Bill Mclaren. My name was called and I walked to Mr Telea to get my certificate and medal. Then the Academics was announced 3rd place was Shoal, 2nd Makerita, 1st Vivienne. After all the awards were finished Mr Burt called up the Team 5 Item.

“Stand by me! Ohhh Stand by me!” We all sung. That was the last part to our Team 5 item. After everything was done Mr Burt said a prayer then everyone was free to leave. I went around talking, chatting and taking photo’s with people. At the end of the night I was really happy.

Year 8 Highlights From Camp!

The sun glistened through the glass windows as we headed down to Rotorua. It was finally time for our Year 8 camp, we were heading to Camp Keswick down in Rotorua. The bus started up and we started our journey. It felt so long on the way down, two hours had passed and my body ached. We had a short stop for lunch, I got up and went outside for fresh air. Another hour passed and then the smell kicked in the smell of Rotorua was egg. I looked around and I saw a sign that said Camp Keswick, we had finally arrived.

“Okay now get into your cabin and set up where your each going to sleep” Mrs Nua said. I was just about to race into our cabin when I just remembered about grabbing my bags. I did a quick turn and went back to the bus to get my bags. I was the first in my room all my other roommates Waata, Crusader, Kington L, James and Raenan were just arriving.  

The first day we got there  The hike was an hour and a half and it was so hot, my skin was burning from the heat. Sweat covered my face as I ran down the hill, the wind blew into my face. My feet felt numb, but the momentum of going down hill kept me going. I could hear a big group of people below then I knew I had nearly finished. As I got closer I could see that there was a big line just waiting for everyone else to arrive.

My favourite part about the whole trip was going down the Luge. We arrived to see the bottom of the hill it seemed like it was going to take forever just to get to the top. The gondola arrived and we hopped in quickly it shook a little bit and then after a while it balanced out. Going up I looked around and I could tell that some people were scared. After 15 minutes had past we were at the top where we jumped off at the top.

We only had one free ride and when I was going down I was really nervous because I didn’t want to crash. I was going down the track as fast as I could without crashing, we finally reached the end after a long drive.

Yr8 Yearbook

Darius Yr8 Memories from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

This is a short snippet of the main memories I have experienced here at Pt England School.

* How long have I been at Pt England School?

I have been at Pt England for 8 years

* Who were my teachers in each year level?

Year 1 - Mrs George

Year 2 - Ms Wood

Year 3 - Ms Mackinlay

Year 4 - Ms Garden

Year 5 - Ms Squires

Year 6 - Ms Garden

Year 7 - Ms Squires

Year 8 - Mrs Lagitupu

* Who were my friends?

Waata, Crusader, Kingston P, Kingston L, Samuela, James, Starford, Xavier, Raenan, Potaua, Jesiah.

* What was my best memory from school? My worst memory?

Best memory: When we went to Kawau Island in year 6.

Worst Memory: When we had Cross Country in year 7. It was really hard going through the bush walk because the ground was slippery and had sticks and twigs on the ground.

* What was my best/greatest achievement at school?

My greatest achievement was when I became a prefect and in year 4 when I got an academic award for 3rd place equal.

* What will I miss about being at Pt England School?

What I’m gonna miss most is the way learning at Pt England is using digital learning.

* What are my goals for the future?

To go to University and become a Lawyer, or become rugby league player.

* What advice do I have for other Pt England students?

Is to always have respect for your teachers.

SER Self-Explaining Roads

Observation:

What I observed is that younger people have very different answers and sometimes are not very co-operating. When I was interviewing them some were very shy and some were really good at talking. I observed that the younger kids also would mostly say don’t know? So I had to try and change my language so that they could understand and try to answer the best they could.

Hypothesis: 
I predict that

The things that I have learnt from this afternoon was that kids have very different perspectives. The age difference has a big effect because of the response’s

Conclusion:

What I thought about the whole survey was that it was hard sometimes because people wouldn’t answer my survey when I sent it. So what I have learnt is that people do like walking around with the Islands in place.

My Podcast

This Podcast was one of my latest podcast's. With my good friend Kingston.

My Friends

Trouble, its a word that can describe my friends. Alot of my friends are troublemakers but all of them are fun to hang out with. I’ve been with my friends ever since Room 11 (Year 3). Ever since then we’ve all been friends, so of us have left for others schools as well.

When the bell rang we would all rush out to the fields, excitement rushed through as we were all keen to play. “Touch! It’s final!” Raenan called out. The ball soared in the air, out of no where Starford grabbed the ball and scored the try! “Briiiing!” the bell rang, we all walked back to class holding our shoes.

Even though sometimes we would have beef, in the end we would always end up being friends. In year 6 all of us started to split up because we were in different classes. Going into the intermediate school, even though we were split up we were all still tight. My mains are Waata, Crusader, Samuela, Raenan, James, Starford, Kendrix, Kingston L and P. All of these guy’s are my main friends.

This year (Year 8) were all tight. All of us still do the same thing playing touch, making jokes. We can mock each other but in the end were all still friends. Alot of us are going to different colleges and we probably won’t see each other ever again. Which is why we make the most of the time were still at Pt England school.

Narrative Writing Jungle

My memory slowly came back to me. What happened was so fast and I couldn’t react. Heat immediately surrounded my face. I looked around as sparks flew out of the engine of the machine. Oil leaked, flowing closer and closer towards the fire. An ugly premonition filled my head and I immediately knew I had to get out of there.

I stood up, and felt a sharp pain shoot up my leg. Instantly I fell back onto the ground, leaves and twigs that filled the ground. Helplessly I crawled but every time I moved my leg hurt even more. I grabbed a branch pulling with all my might trying to get as far as I could.

“Boom!” The plane exploded and bits of metal flew across and hit my leg. My ears pierced as I screamed. My body was covered in scratches and burns. Lying there my eye’s slowly started to lower, but I tried to stay awake. I kept crawling toward a tree and grabbed a long piece of wood and wrapped it around his leg

Volley Ball

“Control the ball!” Mr Barks instructed. My heart was pounding, I had no idea what to do? The ball was served the three front line were Starford, Kingston P, Jesiah. Starford bumped the ball, Jesiah set it and Kingston Spiked it onto the girls side. “Whee” Mr Barks whistled and pointed his arm out to our side.

I had never played Volley before which made it harder for me. We had our first practise with the people who made it past the first trials. The group who made the cut were Starford, Jesiah, Kingston P, Hosanna, Dillon, Tana, Raenan, Richard and me. Practice was intense for me, because I had never really played before. To be honest I just copied what the boys around me.

As the game went on I eventually got better, I knew how to set the ball but I was nervous about my dig. We rotated again and I was in the middle, front row. I had sweat dripping down my face the ball was coming my way I set the ball and it went to Hosanna and he hit it over the net.

My favourite thing in Volleyball is spiking the ball onto the other court. Spiking if you don’t know what that means it’s you make contact with the ball and with alot of force. But one thing I don’t like is if you touch the net it’s an instant point for the other team.

One reason why I enjoy this sport is because it’s not to hard on your body and it’s not to easy. Another reason is I barely play the sport as well. I hope to keep playing this kind of sport as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zT7x5jZEfI  Here is a Volleyball clip.

Massive Camp 2013

“Hey are you coming to Massive camp?” Carla asked. I replied “ Yup!” Massive Camp is an annual church event, people aged 10-13 come together and learn about how God can impact your life. The time had finally arrived we were all on the bus squashed like tuna in a can. We were heading down to Ngaruawahia. The ride down was horrible it was so packed with bags everywhere I looked. a

Finally we arrived and got set up in our own cabins, I was in cabin 11 with most of my mates. The first night we were watching movies on a laptop which our cabin leader brought along with him. Waking up was hard because of the time we went to sleep was about one in the morning.

One of my highlights was the water slide that was there, it was so fun and yet so cold. “Ohhh” As I sped down, looking at the mini pool and then I knew I should've prepared first. “ARGGHH” The water was so cold it felt as cold as ice.  Every time, you would enter the mini pool at the end it froze every part of your body.

D.L.O World War 2 (Made by Kingston, Darius, Raenan)

World War 2 K,R,D from Team 5 PES on Vimeo.

In our D.L.O we were trying to show that world war 2 was a massacre to the people that were involved in the War. A lot people didn’t return to their country they were either lost in action, or killed. What we learnt from this event was that a lot of people were trying to fight for their own countries.

P:

(Positive)

What I thought was positive was that we had finally finished our D.L.O. (Wasn’t on time though, but we had acting for production) We had good animations and a good voice over. We worked together well as a team, we got out tasks finished as well. Our sound track was a good suit for our movie.

M:

(Minus)

What I thought that wasn’t good is that sometimes we would go off task and sometimes not focus on our main objective. Another Minus was that we didn’t finish the D.L.O on time.  We could have focused more on our Storyboard and involved more acting as well.  I think we should show more drama instead next time.

I:

(Interesting)

What I found was interesting is that World war 2 was so big that the events that we chose was the starting of World War 2 and the ending. Another thing that was interesting was we finished the movie.

Eastern Zone Basketball

Drips of sweat, overwhelmed my face as we headed to the ASB Stadium getting ready to play Basketball. Finally we arrived at the stadium, we headed inside. My eyes adjusted to the light and saw that there were a lot of teams scattered around. We set our bags down and had our first game in about 5 minutes.

Walking slowly down the stairs the pressure started to build as we headed out on to the courts. “Okay the starting team jump on” Mr Barks instructed. We were up against St Thomas and then when we were ready the ref blew the whistle. “I got him!” Raenan shouted. St Thomas had the possession and their PG (Point Guard) moved the ball up the court he drove to the basket and drew the foul.

Fortunately we won the first game, I squirted water in my mouth and instantly felt refreshed. My legs were running up and down the court trying to stop the ball from going in our hoop. It was halftime and we were winning by a large amount of points. By the end of the game we had beaten them. So we had won both of our games and only had one team left to beat.

Parnell hopped onto the court they looked like they were ready. Starford won the tip off and we started with the ball first. Raenan our PG brought the ball up, he drove to the basket and scored the first two points. Half time we were losing and unfortunately we did end up with a loss.

We didn’t make it to the playoffs but if we had won our last game we would have gone to the playoffs. So we placed 3rd out of our pool. I had a really good experience playing Basketball, I want to keep playing as well.

Man Up! 2013

Man Up has finally arrived again. Man Up is an annual event where men can gather and hear what mens purpose . This year we headed down to Taupo last year however we went to Rotorua. I was going to head down with one of my close mates Danny, his brother Bishop and their dad Phill  .

My head was filled with the things I had to remember to pack, my stomach was filled with butterflies. I heard my mum call out “Son we’re going now”. Lifting my bag up I felt the weight of how much clothes I had packed. We arrived at church and I saw more men waiting for the bus. We packed everything onto the bus and somehow squeezed everything onto it. The trip seemed like we were driving in circles because it was too dark to see anything until three hours later when we finally arrived.

I looked outside my window but unfortunately the condensation blocked my view. We all made a little queue to get out of the bus, Getting out was easy handling the cold was hard it felt like we were in a freezer when we were down there. I walked into the Recreation Center and saw lights flashing and people just praising God, I instantly knew that Man Up was gonna be AMAZING!

After the service we headed back to the Backpackers where we headed into the our room. My mates that were in the room were Tremaine, Shonbanet, Jamal, Leo and Danny. We had a mini party in our room were we just ate a lot of junk food. Waking up I felt pretty good but I looked at my other mates they looked like they only had a couple of hours sleep.

Pastor Sergio was preaching to us about how the men can never out serve the woman. He also talked about how to treat a woman when she becomes your wife. I thought that Pastor Sergio is an amazing preacher and I wish that he can come back next year.

If you want to come to such an event then just head to a church called Equippers you can search it up online. Next year also we will be heading to Rotorua its going to be amazing as always.

http://auckland.equipperschurch.com/ Click here if you wanna know more.