This project was a lot of fun, putting together the power point was a good break from the near endless typing of the milanote. This project challenged my critical and creative thinking to deliver a interesting yet informative documentary. I would say the hardest part of the project was writing the script, as I needed it to be long enough to met the suggested time given, but not put too much information making the documentary dry and boring. Some of the struggles I encountered with this project was finding a good editing software, as my computer cannot download anything that uses “windows” or “mac” but other than that small inconvenience I really enjoyed doing this project.
“He was in a narrow street, with a few dark little shops, interspersed among dwelling-houses.” (pg. 118)
“Winston followed her, he found that they were in a natural clearing, a tiny grassy knoll surrounded by tall saplings that shut it in completely.” (pg. 150)
Emotional Setting:
“In the trucks little yellow men in shabby greenish uniforms were squatting, jammed close together.”
“A long line of trucks, with wooden-faced guards armed with sub-machine guns standing upright in each corner, was passing slowly down the street.”
His heart leapt. Scores of times she had done it: he wished it had been hundreds—thousands. Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope. (Pg 158)
The political spectrum is a system to classify different political positions to others. The Political spectrum is uses an axis to figure out what characteristics the governments relate too.
What is the difference between left and right politics?
Left politics seek better social and economic equality, if a government is far left they are typically communist and socialist. Governments on the right wing typically have more conservative views, keeping the ways they have now, or revert back to an older way of government. Far right is used for governments that have more oppressive and fascist ideologies.
What is the difference between authoritarian and libertarian governments?
an authoritarian government typically run where the government has most or all control over the country or province.
a libertarianism government gives more freedom to the people, and allow for more decisions to be made by the people.
Where does the government of Ingsoc and Big Brother fit along the political quadrant scale? Explain.
I think big brother and Ingsoc fit in the top left, as they control all the information, what you eat, and what you wear, Big Brother fits in the top as they are the government/dictator and have all the power over the people they control. The government in Big Brother can make any decision that they feel like, they have the freedom to do whatever they want.
A dystopian society is a society that wants you to follow their way of life, they will make you feel small and helpless without them. A dystopian society appears perfect from afar, but take a closer look and you will see how incredibly controlling the societies ruler is over the citizens. A dystopian society typically takes place in the future, and has little to no nature. Dystopias have most the citizens equal, or very similar.
b) What are the characteristics of a dystopian society?
Propaganda: used to control the citizens of society.
• freedom and thoughts are controlled.
• A figurehead or concept is worshipped by the citizens of the society.
• Citizens are perceived to be under constant surveillance.
• Citizens have a fear of the outside world.
• Citizens live in a dehumanized state.
• The citizens believe their city, or community is perfect.
c) What are some examples of dystopian societies within popular culture (films, movies, books, etc)?
The giver, The matrix, Blade Runner, The Handmaid’s Tale, ETC.
d) Introduce the short, animated film, “Model Citizens” or “Being Pretty,” by Dead Sound and discuss how it fits the dystopian genre.
In the short film “Being Pretty” we see the town of Autodale, and the citizen that reside in the town. Each person in Autodale must act the same, and are always under surveillance. In the video we see a TSA, where the news reporter shows what happens to the “ugly” and how they deal with them. The ugly are the people in the society that the ruler deemed unworthy or less valuable than the rest of the community.
Reflecting back on this project, I would say it was difficult for me to film, and find information. I encountered continuous hurdles trying to record, and get the right time. I would either mess up the lines, have someone walk in and interrupt, or it would be too short. This project, although difficult, was also a good learning experience. Something that I thought went well was how the words all flowed nicely, and smoothly. Editing the video took a bit of time as my computer wasn’t able to download certain apps, so I had to find and learn a new app. When I figured out how to use the app it was fairly simple to edit. Overall, I believe this project helped me to gain experience making videos and overcoming challenges. If I were to do this project again, I would try to go more in-depth with the editing, make my words more expressive, and expand the length of the video.
Hello, I’m Nathan Donnelly and today’s topic is
Technology, making society lazy?
Technology has made a whole lot of difference in our society today
But it has also transformed people into lazy bones
These days, people don’t need to run errands no more
they push a button on their phones
We call it convenient, or are we just hiding the fact technology makes us lazy
Everything we used to be able to do in person
We can do online
Technology has made life easier for lazy people
And is making every person lazier
Suppressing our abilities to do stuff hands on
Technology is creating an environment where we don’t need to leave our houses
Technology is also affecting people’s activity levels, as more and more people stop doing sports and activities, the more and more time people spend online
I will admit
Technology has also done a lot of good for our society
being able to contact family and friends around the world
Being able to promote your business on social media
Look up any information on an encyclopaedia
Catching up on any news media
And much, much more
It’s crazy how good technology can be
But if your time on technology goes unmanaged
It will turn you into
A lazy, and unhealthy person
Sitting inside all day, not moving
Removing ourselves from society
Our lives run out of variety
Each day we spend on our phones
The longer we postpone our life
Take it from me when I say technology “can” make us lazy
My brother is lazy
Driving our parent’s crazy
Spends all day in his room
If you take away his device
It’s like you stabbed him with a knife
When our parents ask him to do a chore
It’s like someone broke his leg and he can’t move no more
Spends all his time on his device
The mess in his room is enough to attract mice
I give this example as advice
For what technology can do to
People like you and me, you can disagree
But it’s a fact that technology “can” make us lazy
Most of us go home to our rooms
watching videos, and playing games
Not doing a thing, except checking your phone when you hear a ding
Wasting time on things that have no meaning
Spending our hours watching people do what we can’t do
But that’s not true we can do whatever we set our minds too
But we have become so lazy
We no longer have a clue
On what we can and cannot do
Facts show that people
spend on average 5 hours
A day on technology
That number is only going to keep rising
Unless we decide to make a change
It’s time to rearrange
Try and occupy our lives with different things
At first it will be strange, but keep working hard
Get active, interactive with people on and off the screen
So put away those devices
And get out there, make connections
Not to WIFI but with people and recreation
Thank you all for listening hope you have been informed on how technology can turn any of us into lazy people – goodbye
Riverside’s soccer team looks for there first win this season after rocky start
By Nathan Donnelly
The Riverside boy’s junior soccer team wouldn’t have a team if it wasn’t for Dave Sherle, the new coach. So far, the team is off to a rocky start and are looking for their first win.
Ms. Lundgren, the organizer of the soccer team at Riverside, has brought some of the best up and coming soccer players to her team.
When asked on how the team is performing, Ms. Lungren said that she thinks the team had a rough start, but are getting to know each other and are starting to improve.
Riverside nearly didn’t have a junior boys’ team, if it wasn’t for Dave Sherle who volunteered his time to make the junior team a possibility.
Sherle provides excellent training and strategy.
During the school year the players on the team get to compete against other schools in the SD43 school district.
Managing can have a few bumps along the way. “There are always players that need to be reminded to register by the deadline, arrange rides to games, or pick up uniforms, it begins to run smoothly after a few weeks,” said Ms. Lundgren.
Dylan Mueller one of the best players on the team, said the experience has been good, he has made new friends and has learned skills from the coach.
Covid 19 stopped all school sports from happening last year, so the team is excited to finally get back to competition.
Unfortunately, due to Covid 19, the team is not practicing currently, but they are playing games twice a week.
“Overall, a good experience, the students are excited to enjoy school sports again, and I can see this group growing together as they move into their senior years at Riverside,” said Ms. Lundgren.
Riverside’s soccer program is a great place for students to start a soccer journey.
nOur project is about the story of a woman named Bella Marie Laboucan-Mclean. This project is completed by Lucas Bailey, Nathan Donnelly, Oliver Mcloughlin. The podcast talks about one of the many unsolved cases of missing and murdered indigenous woman in Canada. The steps we took to create this podcast include researching the person, writing the important information about them, recording it, and finally editing it. Our goal of this podcast was to bring awareness to the missing and murdered indigenous woman so that cases like Bella’s do not happen again.
Script
Lucas
Hello, you are listening to Cold cases, brought to you by Lucas Bailey, Oliver McLoughlin, and Nathan Donnelly, where we are going to be talking about the missing and murdered indigenous women of Canada
In today’s episode we are going to look at the case of Bella Marie
Laboucan-McLean’s story, and her mysterious death.
Early Life
Bella Marie grew up in Sturgeon Lake, with a family of eight, Bella lived with her mom, dad, three older sisters, and 2 younger sisters.
In her early life she was taught the importance of her culture and traditions. As she grew older, she became very talented at both dancing and artwork. Her goal was to blend the Cree culture with modern fashion into one.
Bella had a thorough education. She attended Portage College to fine-tune her skills in tanning hide and beadwork before pursuing a degree in Textiles at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In 2011, she would transfer to Humber College in Toronto and started to work toward a Fashion Arts degree. Her goal upon graduating was to apply to a graduate fashion program in London, England. To earn money, she worked in retail store while looking to move into design or merchandising
One of her older siters Melina Laboucan-Massimo, is an indigenous rights activist, who speaks against the environmental degradation caused by the Alberta tar sands.
Bella had a positive outlook on life and always had a smile on her face, she would always tell her friends to focus on and appreciate the little things in life. All her friends say that she was a loving and compassionate woman that was sportive toward her friends and family. Although being an extravert She was known for loving her family and would go home to Alberta to see her family regularly.
Bella was an active social media user; she was known by her friends as the go-to person for when you wanted to put together a playlist for event or party.
On the night of July 19th, 2019, Bella was at a nightclub in Toronto. On the early morning of July 20th, she attended an afterparty at Bellas residence located at Toronto city place. She traveled there with three men and two women.
Her death
At around 4:55 am a Nabor of Bells that was located on one of the lower Flores called the police to report a unknown disturbance, when the police got to the residence what they saw was a 25-year-old Bella Marie Laboucan-McLean, who had just fallen 31 stories, to her death.
Bellas body remained unidentified for 12 hours, while the police tried to identify her.
There was no I.D. on Bellas corpse witch made the police go door to door as king if they knew what happened, if they heard anything, and if they knew who she was. All the residents said no as you would expect.
When they got to Bellas residence there was no answer, so they moved onto the next house, on July 20th, 2019, at around 5pm a man that Bella lived with called to report that she was missing, and hadn’t come home the night before, after this the police quickly identified the body as Bellas and began an investigation.
The investigation started off with an autopsy being performed on Bellas body and concluded that the cause of death was blunt force Trama consistent with that of falling.
They continued to say that the death was suspicious, and that they were going to investigate it as if it was a homicide.
The police got a warrant and searched the condo that she lived in to see if there was any evidence in her condo to support a reason for throwing her thirty one sorties to her death what they saw was, her wallet, purse, and phone all still in the condo, they then went through the surveillance cameras to identify the people that where at the condo that night of her death.
After locating them and bringing then in They interrogated all the people but not as suspects but as witnesses due to the lack of evidence they had.
All the people that were over that night stated that they didn’t see Bella go over the edge, the police found this hard to believe seeing as though there were 6 people in a small condo building.
Due to a lack of evidence, there was no media coverage on her case, and the inability to show any kind of Thery as to what might have happened that night.
We wanted to take a second to thank our sponsor of this podcast. Our sponsor today is Vancity, thanks to VanCity we are able to high quality audio to record this podcast they have also continuously supported the indigenous population in our community’s Vancity believes that the key to success is building trusting relationships, along with 30% of their profits go back into their community’s.
[Nathan]
Moving on, Bella’s story ends on a sad note, due to lack of evidence police have stopped investigating this case. But if you want to help you can call to the Canadian Government and demand these three calls to action to be put in place, because not only do the calls to action lower the chances of another case like Bella’s from happening again, but the calls to action also bring closure to the victim’s family members, here they are.
The first call to action is number 41, and it states.
We call upon the federal government, in consultation with Aboriginal organizations, to appoint a public inquiry into the causes of, and remedies for, the disproportionate victimization of Aboriginal women and girls. The inquiry’s mandate would include. Investigation into missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls.
The second one is number 55, part 6, and it states.
55. vi. Progress on reducing the rate of criminal victimization of Aboriginal people, including data related to homicide and family violence victimization and other crimes.
The third and final call to action is number 39, which states.
39. We call upon the federal government to develop a national plan to collect and publish data on the criminal victimization of Aboriginal people, including data related to homicide and family violence victimization.
Thank you, all for listening to today’s podcast, just to recap, Bella, grew up on Sturgeon Lake, with a family of eight. Fast forward into the future, and Bella is at a night club getting ready to go to an after party at her place, that’s when things turned bad. Bella was found by police at 4:55am, she fell 31 stories from her apartment. All 5 of the people in the apartment have all said that they did not see anything, that the police found suspicious. However, they did not act on that suspicion, as police have no longer investigated this case, as there is not enough evidence to prosecute anyone, making this a cold case.
we hope we were able to explain what has happened to one of many missing indigenous women around Canada, tune in again, goodbye.
Ultra Intelligent Monkey Throws fit at Phillip Johnson Institute!
Nathan Donnelly
Last week, a mechanically enhanced monkey made quite the scene at Phillip Johnson Institute, during a tour, the monkey wrote foul language directed at children.
Mid-afternoon the monkey was using a potter’s wheel to sculpt clay, when the monkey got spooked by a loud BANG, destroying the monkey’s pottery.
Out of rage the monkey hurled the clay at the children from behind a glass window and wrote a slur at the children.
The children’s parents were not happy about Sly the monkey’s behaviour complaining about it to the school board.
In an interview the monkey stated, “that he just wanted to make pottery, but those darn kids just had to bother me.”
The school will decide if Sly the monkey should still be included on these tours.
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