Hotel Rwanda Blog assignment

Question 2: According to the sources and the film, how did individuals, groups of people and the world community fail the people of Rwanda?

Individuals, groups and the world comunity as a whole failed rwanda because most people did nothing to help, the forigners all left Rwanda and fled for their own lifes, but what about the people of Rwanda? Nobody cared, the only people that helped were the UN, because it was their jobs. The Camera man in the movie said "Most people will see my news footage, just before they eat their dinners, say "Oh thats terrible" and carry on with their lifes. Why would they do anything other than that, I mean not like anything in that country matters to them, its just a tiny country in Africa, the people in Rwanda, were people, they deserved help, they needed help, but everyone of the people that could help, left. There was little or no help given to the people that needed it most, the Rwandans. In the movie there is a forign lady that you see taken her dog home on the plane with her, and although I belive in animal rights, what about the people in Rwanda? the dog isn't as important as all the people that lost their lives.

I belive that the world as a whole failed rwanda, because when the people of rwanda neede help, their was no one to give it to them.

3rd December 2007 - Feedback

Visual elements:

Africa - BLACK
Big foot print - WHITE

Issue:
I think the image is about the Europeans imperializing Africa.

Position of Cartoonist:
I think that the cartoonist didn't like imperialism

Evidence:
I think that the evidence for that is that the white people (footprint) took over the black nation (black africa),

The scramble for Africa

1. What strategy did you use to claim land?
To the claim teh land we first went straight to where our card wanted to get the most, for us we had to get the suez canal so we went straight to the area we needed then branched out and go the bits that we wanted.

2. What factors did you consider in claiming land?
We considered Population, natural resources and useful things such as most of the coast, useful for getting into a country so we went straight to the coastal areas and therefore we controlled nearly all of the transport in and out of Africa.

3. Who won the Scramble for Africa?
I think that britan won, because they controled most of teh coastal areas, part of teh nile and most of the area where the diamonds and useful natural resources were.

4. Who lost in the Scramble for Africa?
I think Belguim lost because, the controlled pretty useless parts of africa i mean there were no precious gems around that area, so they were not making much money/profit from owning that piece of land and they didn't own any of the coast so anyone could get closed to africa without them having any say in to it.

Feedback 19th november 2007

Movement: How humans, ideas and goods travel
- The trading post. pg 48 chapter 8 paragraph 1

Regions: A group of locations that have things in common
- ?
Human Environmental Interaction: How people act with the environment around them
- A storm. pg 131 chapter 18 paragraph 8

Location: Answers the question where
- Zimbabwe. pg 127 chapter 18 paragraph 4

Place: Answers the question what
- Lake. pg 145 chapter 21 paragraph 3

Feedback 5 November 2007

“Violence leads to more violence.”

The saying is true because, in Julius Caesar, Caesar is murdered, which makes the citizens of Rome angry which leads to them becoming violent and trying to kill the conspirators. This also applies in my family because, If I get angry with my sister and shout then she will shout back, I think this happens because its a natural instinct, no one likes to get hurt or be shouted at so they argue or fight back.

In conclusion violence does lead to more violence.

Feedback - Monday October 22, 2007

* What are the qualities of a good leader?

The qualities of a good leader are, caring, generous, smart and strict. I think these are good qualities for a leader because if you are always mean then people will not like you being a leader, and they might rule against you.

* Who are the student leaders in Grade 8?

SLAMS - Georgia, Avi, Kiara & Rishi

* How do they demonstrate the qualities of a good leader?

Because they care for everyone in the school, they try to make the school better for everyone, and they are generous because they make sure everyone is having fun!

Parent Teacher Conference

I am proud of my interview piece from our Industrial revolution museum because, I received a good mark for it and because, it was the best I could write, I think I wrote it very descriptively which is quite hard for me as I am not an extremely strong writer.

The piece of work i found most challenging for me was writing about the roller coaster, because as I said before my writing is not very descriptive, so to have to write a descriptive piece was hard. It helped me to grow because my writing has benefited from writing more descriptively, I now feel more confident when I am writing.


Interview:
He sits down on the sofa, and smiles politely. You can see from is face that he’s secretly analysing everything in the room, after what seemed like five minutes he turns back to me and makes eye contact again.
He relaxes as he thinks back to his long, wealthy life. “I grow up in Belper, Derbyshire, England, it’s a little quiet town in the countryside, Birds singing, children playing, it’s a joyful place, but it’s also was very poor rural place, but you see when I was growing up I didn’t know any different, so I was oblivious to all the poverty, and just a happy child.
A small frown flashes across his face. Thinking hard he finally answers, “I first became involved in the textile industry at the age of 14, I was an apprentice to a man called” he pauses “Jedediah Strutt, he was a kind man, but very strict at times especially if I messed about when I was supposed to be working!” he takes a long breath of air “He worked for a man called Richard Arkwright, he was the owner of one of the first ever mills in Belper.”
“After seven years of working at the mill I decided I could do better than working in a dirty cotton mill, it was a dangerous job, I had to crawl in to the cotton looms to fix the broken thread, so I decided that I would study the cotton loom, memorize it in my head, and then when I had memorized the whole machine sail to America.
It was hard at time to stick to my ideas he admits, “I had a family in Belper and even if I didn’t enjoy it at least my job paid.” He sits still for a moment and closing his eyes he lets out a quite chuckle “I never thought I would actually do it, go against the law, and actually leave Belper!”
“When I thought about why I wanted to leave, it was because I didn’t want to end up like my father, all though I loved him dearly, I didn’t want to become poor and have nothing like he did, I wanted to do something big, I wanted succeed at life. So after eight years of working at the cotton mill, one night I snuck out of our two up two down farm house, where I shared a bed with my Brother and father. I had done it, I had left my home in Belper, snuck in to a large ship, I’m not sure what type of ship, but I got onto it and smuggled myself to America.
I was a stubborn man even if I had come all the way from England I wasn’t going to just build them a cotton loom, I wanted to be fully reimbursed, for my hours of hard labour” He says as if he’s mocking himself “Finally in 1790, I built a cotton mill for the Americans.
“The Americans now call me the father of the American industrial revolution, it’s a title I like, it makes me feel as if I actually have accomplished something larger in my life.” He pauses, “I have been well looked after by someone higher than us all, I’m a lucky man.”
He stands up, smoothes out his shirt, shakes my hand, then says “it’s been a pleasure” and walks out. I sigh, lean back in my chair, and think to myself, another successful and interesting interview.


Roller coaster:
As I took my seat on the long blue, trial of carriage I felt my heart jump into my throat. The safety belts lowered, and several people start checking them to make sure everyone was safely succoured in to the carriages. I looked across to my dad who grinned at me and said "You ready?", before I had time to answer the train whizzed out of the station and up the hill and the corner. I opened my mouth to scream, but the words wouldn't come out. I took a deep breath in, the air tasted sweet and humid. At that very moment I felt my stomach jump up into my chest I closed my eyes and gripped on to the handle bars tight, I felt my stomach jump in to my chest again. I opened my eyes and realised that I had just been around two loops of track I suddenly felt my voice come back and I let out the loudest scream i could so loud I though my throat might burst. As we pulled back in to the station with a Holt, I turned around and looked back. The train stopped i pulled my self out of the carriage and back onto the platform. "So how did that fell, your first roller coaster?" my dad asked "Amazing" I replied.

Feedback - Monday October 15th, 2007 WOW

Week Without Walls is a great experience because, you get to try new things, like sleeping in a tent or showering in a stream, these things are good because it takes you out of your comfort zone, how many times in your life are you ever going to go rafting on the Ganges, not many times. WOW makes you appreciate what you have, like warm showers, clean toilets, some people who are less fortunate may never in there whole life have these luxuries, it really makes you think about how lucky you are. WOW also is a good thing because it’s a great way to end a long quarter of hard work, everyone is always worrying about grades, WOW takes your mind of things like that, just for a week, but it makes you go back to school with a refreshed feeling. Week without walls is also a great way to expand your circle of friends, I never would have never have know things about people that I do now if I didn’t go on WOW. 8th grade WOW is something I will remember for the rest of my life!

End of Quarter 1Feedback

Goals for Quarter 1:
- To improve my writing in the first quarter by using more description.
- To improve my reading, I want to have read at least 5 books by next quarter.

I improved my writing by using description because we learnt about showing vs telling and that helped so for my museum piece my writing was better to read because it had more interesting description.

I did improve my reading by reading at least 5 books but however I didn't read 5 AR books I only read 2 AR books, this would have been helpful.

Goals for Quarter 2:
-Read more than 2 books for AR
-Do better in some of the quizzes/test.
-Write with more even more description.

Samuel Slater interview

He sits down on the sofa, and smiles politely. You can see from is face that he’s secretly analysing everything in the room, after what seemed like five minutes he turns back to me and makes eye contact again.
He relaxes as he thinks back to his long, wealthy life. “I grow up in Belper, Derbyshire, England, it’s a little quiet town in the countryside, Birds singing, children playing, it’s a joyful place, but it’s also was very poor rural place, but you see when I was growing up I didn’t know any different, so I was oblivious to all the poverty, and just a happy child.
A small frown flashes across his face. Thinking hard he finally answers, “I first became involved in the textile industry at the age of 14, I was an apprentice to a man called” he pauses “Jedediah Strutt, he was a kind man, but very strict at times especially if I messed about when I was supposed to be working!” he takes a long breath of air “He worked for a man called Richard Arkwright, he was the owner of one of the first ever mills in Belper.”
“After seven years of working at the mill I decided I could do better than working in a dirty cotton mill, it was a dangerous job, I had to crawl in to the cotton looms to fix the broken thread, so I decided that I would study the cotton loom, memorize it in my head, and then when I had memorized the whole machine sail to America.
It was hard at time to stick to my ideas he admits, “I had a family in Belper and even if I didn’t enjoy it at least my job paid.” He sits still for a moment and closing his eyes he lets out a quite chuckle “I never thought I would actually do it, go against the law, and actually leave Belper!”
“When I thought about why I wanted to leave, it was because I didn’t want to end up like my father, all though I loved him dearly, I didn’t want to become poor and have nothing like he did, I wanted to do something big, I wanted succeed at life. So after eight years of working at the cotton mill, one night I snuck out of our two up two down farm house, where I shared a bed with my Brother and father. I had done it, I had left my home in Belper, snuck in to a large ship, I’m not sure what type of ship, but I got onto it and smuggled myself to America.
I was a stubborn man even if I had come all the way from England I wasn’t going to just build them a cotton loom, I wanted to be fully reimbursed, for my hours of hard labour” He says as if he’s mocking himself “Finally in 1790, I built a cotton mill for the Americans.
“The Americans now call me the father of the American industrial revolution, it’s a title I like, it makes me feel as if I actually have accomplished something larger in my life.” He pauses, “I have been well looked after by someone higher than us all, I’m a lucky man.”
He stands up, smoothes out his shirt, shakes my hand, then says “it’s been a pleasure” and walks out. I sigh, lean back in my chair, and think to myself, another successful and interesting interview.

Feedback September 4th 2007

Good things about the Industrial Revolution.
- Mass Production, Things were made faster, and there were more of them.
- Faster way to make things
- More efficent way of making things
- There were less limited resources, because things were being mass produced


Bad things about the Industrial Revolution.
- People were losing jobs.
- Products were less high quality.
- The machines were dangerous.
- More people were looking for jobs, making it hard to get a job.

Image from http://mhslibrary.org/Teacher%20Projects/Teacher%20Projects/Social%20Studies/D'Acquisto/Industrial%20Revolution/childworker.jpg

Roller Coaster

As I took my seat on the long blue, trial of carriage I felt my heart jump into my throat. The safety belts lowered, and several people start checking them to make sure everyone was safely succured in to the carriages. I looked across to my dad who grinned at me and said "You ready?", before I had time to answer the train wizzed out of the station and up the hill and the corner. I opened my mouth to scream, but the words wouldn't come out. I took a deep breath in, the air tasted sweet and humid. At that very moment I felt my stomach jump up into my chest I closed my eyes and gripped on to the handle bars tight, I felt my stomach jump in to my chest again. I opened my eyes and relised that I had just been around two loops of track I suddenly felt my voice come back and I let out the loudest scream i could so loud I though my throat might burst. As we pulled back in to the station with a hult, I turned around and looked back. The train stopped i pulled my self out of the carriage and back onto the platform. "So how did that fell, your first roller coaster?" my dad asked "Amazing" I replied.

A Fruit Roll Up.

As I tore open the fruit roll up, i was silent, the sound of ripping from the plastic wrapper was not much, but enough so that is could hear it. The next thing i noticed was the smell, it was like being hit by a bat, the smell over welemed me, the sweet smell driffted from the wrapper and into the air, every breath i took i could smell the sickly sweetness. as i peered inside the packet i looked at the fruit roll up, it was a disgusting blue and purple, like the colour paint goes when you mix it with other colours. I picked up the fruit roll up and touch it, it was cold and clammy, and ever so sticky. i pulled of a bit of the sticky sheet of fake fruit, it was a whole new experience although it looked disguisting, felt disgusting it tasted amazing.

Feedback 13-17 Aug 2007

I learn Best Visually and Kinesthetic.

If i am studying for a quiz/test, i learn best visually. If i am learning about something in science i learn best by actually doing it for myself because sometimes when i'm asked a question i don't actually understand it, until i either look at it written down, or by actually doing what the asks.

To help me learn best in class you could write down the questions on the board because i forget quite easily.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Necessity is the mother of invention
Everything that has ever been made, has been needed by someone. If someone needs something then someone will build it. When people needed to see at night, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. When someone wanted to communicate efficiently and quickly to someone else, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. When people wanted to go abroad and see the world, Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the Aeroplane.

To me the words Necessity is the mother of invention, means that if anyone needs something then, it will be invented, by someone else as soon as possible, especially if the person that needs it, is willing to pay!

My Gang

My gang lives in Hong Kong, although we went to different schools we meet up twice a day ever school day.
My gang members names were, Kyra, Lydia, Oscar, Ankesh And Me.

Kyra was in the Gang because, she was the gang clown, She made everyone laugh all the time and she would be there for you when you needed it most, Kyra and I were also the gang leaders because we were oldest, and it worked with two leaders because Kyra and I were inseperably we were best friends. Lydia is my year younger sister, she was the one who would always have your back, if you needed something sorted out you called for Lydia, she was the brave and tough one, who no one would argue with, except me!

Oscar, was the smart one that could explain absolutly anything to you, but in words everyone could understand, He was also Lydia's boyfriend, so no one argued with him either, except me! Ankesh was the male version of the gang clown, he could make you laugh to the point of crying.

And then there was me, I was the sensible one that NO ONE at all argued with! I made sure that everyone was keeping a level head on things.

Feedback August 6-10

-What were two highlights from the first week of school? -

1. I didn't get to much homework.
2. I was able to find all my classes on time.
   

-What was your first impression of Humanities? -
My first impression of Humanities was that we would be working hard, and thinking a lot.

-What are two goals you have for this quarter in Humanities? (Remember a goal needs to be specific, realistic, and measurable)

1. To improve my writing in the first quarter by using more description.
2. To improve my reading, I want to have read at least 5 books by next quarter.