Childhood Favourite Movie

  • Choose a character from a favourite childhood movie and explain how that character portrays masculinity or femininity. (positively? Negatively? What do they do or say? Can you find a clip to show us?) How do you think this character has affected you?

The movie I chose is Pirates of the Caribbean and the character that I chose is Captain Jack sparrow. Jack shows both masculinity and femininity but he is mostly known for his femininity. Jack is known for being scared of anything and always runs away from things. He is shown as feminine by running and screaming like a girl when the moment arises. I personally don’t think this has affected me at all because I never looked at his actions as feminine until now. But overall Jack Sparrow is a feminine like character and the clip truly shows it.

Poco Archives Newspaper Blog post

The source for this picture was a newspaper in the the Poco Archives and it was a newspaper from the 1970s

The significance of this source is that this was the main newspaper from Poco and when you keep a newspaper for so many years then it must be true and be the best possible evidence you can get for topics in the city.

The inquiry question that I have is: What made the government increase the percent of teachers pay and what was the reason for this and how did they afford it.

Further Research: Research why and how this event happened. Also to search how often the pay was increased every couple years. Also search if there was any decrease of the pay any time after that. The last thing that I would need to find out is if any other papers also stated this.

Letter From the Front

Matej Mladenovic

 

1915

Dear Alice,

 

It is a huge relief to hear from you again. I am currently stationed in what remains of Ypres just a week after the terror that has caused too many casualties to count. Death has become a norm and every time someone dies; I squirm like a worm through the ground. Although I have been set to fight on the ground, aircraft warfare has taken the war by storm and has ripped out the guts of so many innocent people. One of my fellow soldiers Arthur was fighting the Germans in the first week he was assigned. He died last night.  The only way I can describe what happened in Ypres is that the Germans brought out an unknown green gas and turned killing to a whole other level. Many friends of mine have died to the green smog they call gas. This warfare has caused us to run from the smog like a cheetah running away from a lion in the jungle. The Germans have taken our soldiers with no regard for human life. I too am afraid of the Germans taking over as our hope is slowly ticking away.

I heard that you started workingwhere I used to work, and I am so proud of you. I’ve also been hearing about some of the propaganda back home. Don’t listen to all that and just keep in touch with me. While Ypres was a struggle, we have to keep pushing the German troops back. I am so tired every day, but I need to make sure shots don’t get fired into my head. The guns Canada has given us have been bad throughout the fights in the mud. They get stuck from even a little bit of mud and turns war into mission impossible. Well sweetie that’s all! I have to get ready for a big day while I have to switch trenches while the trench, I’m in currently has many nasty rats. Our friend Bill developed disgusting trench foot which is when you don’t take care of your feet and was sent to a medical center.

I love you and I will make sure to come back alive.

 

 

Love James

#gratitude

I am thankful. I am thankful for so many things in this world that I can’t list in one single blog post. Firstly the thing I am most grateful for is my parents Gordana and Nenad for making me and putting me into this great world called earth. Without them I wouldn’t be able to be grateful for anything else and I wouldn’t be able to talk about the things i’m grateful for because I wouldn’t be alive. Secondly I am beyond grateful for the fact that I have access to clean water because every year 1.6 million people die of lack of clean water and I am so thankful that I have clean water to drink. Lastly I am grateful for being able to play volleyball. It has brought me so much joy and it is so much fun to play, yet it is also a way to get active. To wrap it all up it is impossible to mention everything that I am thankful for in my life.

Image result for volleyball

Photovoice

 

In my photo, one sees that our communities have more and more litter, and we are doing nothing about it. What I was thinking while taking this shot was that all this news about plastic ruining the earth and killing many sea animals. I took this because the news became reality when I saw that there was plastic on the grass that was growing with plants right behind it. I am deeply concerned about the fact that many animals are dying, and in many places, people are unable to swim because there is so much plastic in our oceans. In this photo someone could see that the plastic and littering was ruining the community by just sitting on the grass and no one taking care of it. Another point someone could see is that there was alcohol sitting the grass just outside of a building that many kids live in, so while people see the littering, they might also see the fact that alcohol is becoming a big problem in the community. The main reason I took this photo was to show people that we need to start saving this earth and can’t let it to be taken away from us. Furthermore, I also wanted to show that alcoholism is a big problem and shouldn’t be around the youth. The government needs to create a program that ensures to keep our parks clean and safe for us and our animals. In addition, we need to find a way to keep alcohol away from youth.

 

Digital literacy has opened my mind by not just judging a picture when your first see it but to look further and to examine the possible views and insights of the photo. It also taught me that photos have many meanings and possible stories you don’t know about. The biggest thing it taught me was that media tries to manipulate us by trying to make us believe what the picture is trying to show. Looking past the photo and digging deeper is the only real way to find more about the issue/picture and getting the most realistic experience. The last thing that impacts photos is composition in the shot. Composition could be the message or manipulate the message as well.

 

I want a change in the community to reduce littering and plastic use. The government should ban single use plastic bags and eliminate anything non reusable. The community and government need to take action before our planet is all done!

Fractured Poetry Blk A

 

 

Sentence: The tennis ball started my career in 2012 but ended it in 2019. The reason I chose this sentence is that it resembles that the tennis ball created my career and ended it.

Phrase: I could feel my career was over. I chose this because it describes that it was all over for me.

Words: Practice(verb), love(verb), crying (adjective)

One big thing I can take from this exercise is that you need to go outside of your comfort level to do well in these types of drills.

Poem:

So much commotion,

For just one motion,

The court was big like an ocean

 

Words that I used in the group circle

Practiced, Love, Crying

Top 5 blog Post

These top 5 are in no particular order.

Legal Moves with tiles

The First of the top 5 are legal move’s. I chose this one because you have to go by the rules to get the answers for every question no matter the length. This type of math question is just to find the variable by itself and what its value is. The rule is, whatever you do to one side, you have to do to the other. As long that there is a way of having the variable by itself you can do the equation.

X and Y graph equations

X and y graphs helped me very much with understanding how charts and how money works. With just one equation you can predict the whole chart to the 1,o00th number. It is fairly simple and works like a charm. So the x value in the equation means how many the number goes up by per section and the plain number is what you add to the number. If you do this correctly you can find any number you want. IF you want to find any number you multiply the x value by the number column and add whatever number comes after in the equation.

Exponent laws:

Exponent laws were a very important thing I learned this year because I struggled with them all year long with getting 63% on the exponents test. But once the test was done I was able to understand the easy topic that I found so hard my whole year. While I too thought it was a complicated equation I soon realized how lazy and fun exponents could be. Exponents is just a repeated multiplication of numbers. You can just add the exponents if the bases are the same, but if the bases are different you have to multiply the bases by each other then add the exponents

Similarity and Scale factor:

Every student in Mrs.Burton’s class did not understand what the 1:4 in the maps meant including me. I loved maps as a kid but I was never able to understand what it really meant. But what I learned was that this is just a way to show what can be drawn or built by using equations and scale factors. It would take a lot of hours and paper to draw a life size version of a house as an architect. The scale factor means that if the number on the left is smaller then the actual is bigger than the picture while if the number of the left is bigger then the real life item will be smaller.

Financial literacy:

When I first learned that we had to do finances I was worried because I didn’t know much about it and it seemed quite complicating. But the most important of the things were surveying and what affects surveys. What I didn’t know is that you can tell a survey is good or bad just by checking the factors that affect survey data. The factors that affect surveys are Cost, bias, language, privacy, ethics, cultural sensitivity and time. These all majorly affect surveys and in order to get a good survey you need to add all of these into it to make it the most effective.

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