Week 3 Blog Questions

• how has food changed in the last 100 years and what have been the big reasons for this change? Food has changed in New Zealand so much over the past 100 years. 100 years ago, there was minimal variety in savory items, there were lots of vegetables and now if you compare it to this time period we have things like fast food, KFC, McDonalds exc... there are loads of sugary items and things to buy, there is so much more variety in food and options.

• what could you see happening to food in another 50 years time More variety and more accessibility to items to make you own crations. i think that New Zealand food has changed so much in the past 100 years and i think it is going to continue doing that for a long time.
• what could you invent or change that would create a large impact on how we gather, produce or eat food. I would invent a now type or storage that after the items like vegetables have been picked they can still be stored in a refrigerated area that could keep them fresh for longer so when we buy them from the shops they are more premium quality.

Storked - Workshop Discussion

If i was in Connors position, i would have saved the baby because if we also had a back story like what he has, it would just emotionally get to me and i would be full of regret if i didn't. 

• Storking is a legal process, but does that make it the right thing to do?

Yes storking is a legal process, but in my opinion i don't think it is the right thing to do. in my thought of mind, if you decide to have a baby, you shouldn't just throw it away onto someones doorstep to look after for you. Also i don't thing it is good because doing that can just make the baby sick and unhealthy. one last thing is you don't know ho\w that family is going to treat that baby so it is a potential threat to the baby's life by doing that.

• Is it the mother’s responsibility to care for the child?

I think it is everyone responsibility to care for the child. as i said before you have brought a baby into the world so you have to do everything to look after it and care for its well being. and it should be more than just one person looking after it.

• Can Connor offer the baby a better future than it would have if left there?

In my opinion if Connor end up getting away, the baby has a better future with Connor and Risa than it would if it was left out on the doorstep or with that family. If it goes with that family it has higher chances of being unwound due to the fact that they have been storked before so they already have a few kids to look after.

• What risks does picking up the baby put on Connor, Risa and Lev?

The risks are that they now have to look after that baby and it will make hiding a tonne more difficult and they also now need more resources than what they needed before because they have to look after an extra person. and it also puts a lot of pressure on them and they have to make smarter decisions.

• What impact does Connors past have on his decision? 

Connors past has a big impact on his decision because he has been in that boys situation before when the kid says they have been storked again. But Connors family then passed it onto another family even though it is illegal but it got passed around the neighborhood but after two weeks the same baby came back but it was so sick it died. He doesn't want the same thing to happen to that baby.

Unwind Part 1

1.  How much brainwashing do you think has happened for teenagers to make this sort of claim as they’re being led to their "death"?  

I think they have gotten a lot of brainwashing for them to fully believe it. These kids are all being brainwashed and told things by their parents and they they are going to a place like school and then telling other kids things there

2. Why, do you think, has Shusterman chosen to have three characters tell their story?  

Because it gives the reader three different perspectives and three different upbringings and it also makes it more entertaining.  It makes the story so much more interesting as it gives a view of two people facing the unwinding and then it shows 1 religious person and their view on an unwinding. 

3. Lev is a tithe. This means that he is the 10% that his family will give back to the church as an offering. What are your thoughts on this?  

I don’t think that is all round a good thing because there are many other things they can give as their “10%” but they are choosing to unwind their child and use that as their 10% offering. 

4. Rita is a state home kid - she was unwanted at birth, and now the state has decided she is no longer useful. Do you think that the state should ever be able to determine if one life is more useful than another? 

No. I think it should be a person that knows her that decides it because they know more about the person than the state people.

5. Connor's parents have chosen to unwind him due to his difficult behaviour. They have then booked a ticket to the Bahamas. In your opinion, how do parents view their children? Why do you think this? 

In my opinion every family's parents treat their children differently depending on things like the gender of the child, the gender can affect what their parents expect of them and what they do for a career exc. There are also things like the age of the child. Younger children tend to get more attention than the older ones.  

6. Pastor Dan presents as being conflicted. What reasons might he have to encourage Lev in his journey as a tithe? Why does he encourage him to run?  

In my opinion, i think pastor Dan told Lev to run because pastor Dan has seen Lev as an amazing individual and doesn’t want to see Lev get killed (unwound). Another thing could be that pastor Dan might have had a friend in the past that got unwound and he doesn’t want the same to happen to Lev. 

Lawyer paragraph

Technology has changed the world so much by making it so much easier to do everything. The improvement of technology has made everything so much easier and it makes it possible to access information quickly using google, but if you use a book it could take forever. The creation of the internet has changed research forever. With this it makes everything so easily accessible and it makes it more straightforward and in depth. Another good invention was cars. Making cars has given people the option to travel a long distance in a quick amount of time. This is helpful because it is a lot quicker then walking and quicker than using for say a horse and cart. One last piece of technology is weaponry. Weapons from back then compared to now have made a big change and I can't decide if it was good or bad. But guns have helped people that are going hunting or people in the military because it gives people the choice to fight from a distance and without putting themselves in danger while trying to attack someone. These three examples have been helpful and have made life so much easier for people. 

Unwind Literature and Book Cover

Three synonyms for dystopia

1.  Fools Paradise  
2. Catatonia 
3. anti-utopia

Antonym 

1. Utopia

Which dystopian books have i read?

The giver

How many others can i name

Maze runner

Unwind

the hunger games 

If you have ever viewed or read some dystopia, what are some key elements you have noticed. 

Government control. people get tricked into going to somewhere nice but in reality they are going to die. 

How do you thing this story will be written?

I think this story will be written in a first person view. 

Why do you think the story was entitled as it is?

because it is very catchy and it sounds interesting. 

Where do you think the story will take place?

America

What time period do you think the story is set in?

the future. 

Construction

Job Title: Building and construction laborer                    

What do you do in this job? 

In this job you do a lot of physical work working on different things like building sites, roads and other civil construction projects. For this job you help build or demolish buildings, help put up scaffolding, level off the ground and dig up trenches to install pipes or cables underground. They also do a lot of other things like  cleaning up a worksite, or helping maintain things like footpaths, roads or railroads. 

   

Income:                                                    Work per week:

Annual salary: $52,000                                      40+ hrs  

Gross monthly income: $4,333

Monthly deduction: 

Income tax: $718 

Kiwi saver:  $260

Street Painting

1) Why do we look at street art? Why do we stop when we see it? What is our reaction?

We look at street art because it is eye catching and is most of the time “out of place”.

We stop to look at it because it is eye-catching and it is interesting to look at and it helps us understand the real picture when we stop and have a good look at it.  

Personally, my reaction is fascinated because of the scale of a lot of the paintings including these ones below. 

2) Why do we need and use visual symbols around us?

Having visual symbols helps people so much, in ways that it helps everything flow well in form of traffic lights or it can help communication between everyone and it also makes people's life so much easier and makes everything so much easier to understand. Having paintings everywhere brightens our city up so much and it makes it look so much more colourful.  

3) What are examples of common visual symbols in our environment? (collect examples for the drawing - think about what you might be able to use in making artworks later on as you do)   Stop light stop sign bathroom no go exit sign  give way bike line bus line  

What kinds of mural images add interest to the city? 

Most of the murals add interest to the city but to me the ones with bright and high contrast colours that pop the most and also the ones that look just out of the ordinary, like the one of the elephant and the big BB-8 painting add the most interest to me. Also there are the ones that take up a large scale like ones that are put onto big walls that covour the whole thing and catch attention. 

Interpret how they express different ideas than other visual signs and/or advertising. What does good street art do for the community?

All of the murals have different visual signs like the one of the wolves facing each other added with the background gives me the feel that they are friends (friendship) and there are many others with different meanings like that. And good street art is good for the community because it makes the place more bright and all of it is painted in good places where you could say needed colour because a building was lost there or it was dull. 

• What were you meant to learn? 

About different street art and were and how they look.

• What did you enjoy about this process? 

Learning and seeing or the other street arts around Christchurch. I have seen a few but these ones are cool.

• What do you think you will do next?

Sketching and drawing some street art