Merchant of Venice

 For the past few weeks my english class has been working on video making for each group. My group movie was based on The Merchant of Venice. Our short film is all about a heist at the bank and how someone ratted them out to the police but they paid the judge to say they were not guilty so in court they were charged not guilty. Some challenges we all had to face was when some people that needed to be in the shot weren't at school to do it so we had to think outside the box and find a way to still film with one less person to act in the scene even if it was the main character in the shot. We connected this movie to The Merchant of Venice by using elements like betrayal, a court scene and the "villain" getting karma for doing the main cast "wrong". After doing using all the film techniques were had to pick two of our own to put in the film, so we chose to do the High angle and Over the shoulder. If I were to do this activity again and I could do something different I would do everything differently.

Little things matter

Once upon a time there was a wise man 

who used to go to the ocean 

to do his writing. 

He had a habit of walking 

on the beach 

before he began his work. 

One day he was walking along 

the shore. 

As he looked down the beach, 

he saw a human 

figure moving like a dancer. 

He smiled to himself to think 

of someone who would 

dance to the day. 

So he began to walk faster 

to catch up. 

As he got closer, he saw 

that it was a young man 

and the young man wasn't dancing, 

but instead he was reaching 

down to the shore, 

picking up something 

and very gently throwing it 

into the ocean. 

As he got closer he called out, 

"Good morning! What are you doing?" 

The young man paused, 

looked up and replied, 

"Throwing starfish in the ocean." 

"I guess I should have asked, 

why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?" 

"The sun is up and the tide is going out. 

And if I don't throw them in they'll die." 

"But, young man, don't you realize that 

there are miles and miles of beach 

and starfish all along it. 

You can't possibly make a difference!" 

The young man listened politely. 

Then bent down, picked up another starfish 

and threw it into the sea, 

past the breaking waves and said- 

"It made a difference for that one."

What is the main message in this poem?

The message in this poem is that even the small things matter. Small things like saving a small starfish on the beach and throwing it in the ocean can still change a little bit of the starfish population and doing so means that more starfish can be created and the starfish population grows more every day.

The more starfish that die the less starfish are on this earth so every starfish you save means more and more are created.

Show Don't Tell

 Today we are doing "show don’t tell” to write 3-5 effective narrative openings. I will be reflecting on 3 photos that I'm going to "show not tell you". This has to do what image has given, I hope you enjoy it. Here's what I wrote.

1.  As I was sitting down on the step while it was frosty, a man walked past me and gave me this side view that didn't surprise me.

 

2. Is anyone around me? I need to take this luscious meat home tonight for my kids.

  

3. It was just a common day for me as I felt the feeling of boredom once again.

Music post

1. what have you enjoyed about music this year?

- Getting to learn many other different songs that I didn't know about before. 

2. what have you found challenging?

- The piano I found challenging because learning the piano takes some time and only having a certain amount of time to learn was hard.

3.what did you perform for you final assessment?

- I performed When I look at you from Miley Cyrus with a girl named Addyson and the reason we chose this song was because not many people can do this song but me and Addyson wanted people to know that we could do it.

4. how did you find performing?

- Nerve racking because you don't normally perform often in music and this was the first time I did was so it was pretty challenging. 

5. were you happy with your performance

- No not exactly I feel like I could have done better.

6. any comment or questions about music about 2020 

- If we are going to learn an instrument at least give us more time to actually learn.

Women Rights

Introduction

Women rights for the past few years have been confirmed that it has been inequality from men and have been treated completely differently over the years. In certain countries men think that women should not have an education up to the age of 13 years and can not do sports and drive etc. Women have also been told that they should stay home clean and look after the baby and the house while the men are out working and most likely getting drunk. Women have also been thought to be weaker than men and that women have less stamina than men when some women can have more muscle strength and stamina then a lot of men do these days.

Paragraph 1-What causes your topic?

Over the years Men have thought that women should look after the baby and clean the house because the men go to work and make money for the household. It was thought that because of men having to work to get money women should do the work at home. New Zealand was the first country to allow women to have the right to have a political vote. On the 19th of September 1893 a new electoral act was passed into law.

Paragraph 2-what are the impacts of your topic?

Most of the main issues of women rights are freedom of speech and freedom in general , violence, economic and political empowerment, sexual and reproductive health rights. Yes men get sexually assaulted as well which is not fair at all but most of the time police have found women on the streets beaten up naked and have most likely been sexually assaulted and most of the time women can not fight back. Yes men are stronger than most women out there which means some of us women can not stand a chance fighting back.

Paragraph 3-what is the situation of your topic?

Men are still to this day saying girls should stay home and clean, cook, bake, look after the baby etc. Some main situations of women rights are:

• Women suffrage

• Sexual and Reproductive rights

• Freedom and Movement 

• Intersectional Feminism

• Gender inequality

• Gender based violence

• Sexual violence and Harrasement

• Workplace descrimination

• Child Marriage

• Domestic workers

• Labor rights in the garment industry

• Woman and armed conflict

• Underpaid women

These main key points can lead to many riots and many political arguments. Women have already started having major riots about women rights and have made a lot of political arguments and so the situation grows larger and larger as the years go by and the bigger it gets the bigger the problem is to fix. These problems have led to much hate between countries and cities and has almost begun a war.

Conclusion

My conclusion is to stop with the judging of both genders, allow women to get the same amount of pay in sports and work spaces then men, allow women to be able to do more stuff and stop restricting them and making them feel free and allow them to have the same amount of speech as men.

My timeline about Coraline

Today I am learning how to make a timeline about a movie named Coraline and this is what I have made.

By making this it makes others understand and myself to understand what i have learnt and what I now know.

I personally think that making this I can go back and look at it in the future and show people in my family and my friends that this is what I know and this is what I have done with what I know.

Coraline Movie

At the start of the movie Coraline is the most bright object while everything else is a dull dark greyish color. the lighting is cloudy and makes people think as they are watching that something major is about to happen. The real world makes Coraline feel bored and makes Coraline feel lonely as her parents don't pay any attention to her. How ever when Coraline goes to the other world the colors and bright and bold and is very interesting and makes everything look more fun and more alive than they real world as the real world looks dead. The garden in the real world is dark and grey and very unhealthy and looks dead but the fake worlds garden is vibrant and bright but the colors are very unreal and you can tell its fake. The lighting as Coraline walks into the other worlds kitchen is warm and very welcoming as the real worlds kitchen is more of a faded yellow dark type of vibe as the other worlds kitchen is more of a orange peachy warm and welcoming color. 

 

The button eyes are introduced.

After Coraline rejects having buttons as eyes the colors in the other world start getting darker and start getting more scary and the characters as in her fake dad and the fake wybie start acting suspicious and start acting weird and so does the other mother. When Coraline finds out what is going on she heads back home to realise that the other mother has taken her real parents and trapped them so she goes on a mission to save her real parents and the lost souls that were stolen by the other mother. 

    

She then goes through the tunnel to realise that the tunnel is now grey and dark and scary and is way more different then the purple and blue tunnel. When she makes it to the other world the colors are more dark and some bright colors are more of a scary neon type of color. Things start to go down hill and start to fade away slowly but quickly. 

After everything after saving the lost souls and saving her real parents the real world starts to become more bright and starts to grow some color and the neighbours help out with the new garden.