Today in Metal, our job was to make a drill gauge. We are not yet close to finishing it since we have just started making it today. The first few steps that I did was marked 115mm in the 20 by 3 miles steel flat bar. I then mark a straight line using a ruler and a Sciber. Once that was done I cut it where the mark was with a hacksaw. Afterwards I smooten the edges with a file.
Here is how my Metal look:
This week on social study we have learned about what is Racism in NZ. There is an article about a Muslim girl that is named Zeinab's. She was once shy about his culture and then when the mosque shooting happens she has realised that she doesn't need to be shy about it. She had realise that she need to be more proud of her own culture.
This is the words that she said when she became proud of her own culture:
Today, instead of straightening away my brown frizzy curls I will embrace them.
Instead of shying away from my family when they speak Arabic loudly in public, I will join them.
Instead of saying no to someone when they ask ”say something in your language,” I will say it.
Instead of telling my mum to make English food when my friends come over for dinner, I will ask her to make all the Arabic dishes she can think of.
Instead of denying the roots of my name, I will admit that they are Muslim, I will tell you I was born a Muslim, and I will tell you that no matter if I identify as it or not, I will still die a Muslim.
Today, I will join my mum as she reads the Quran, as she prays to Allah for the people who lost their lives, the people injured, and the people hurting.
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Why was Germany hit the hardest during the Great Depression? Germany was hit the hardest during the Great Depression because of the major factor, the Treaty of Versailles. It was supposed to settle outstanding disputes following the cessation of hostilities in World War I. Germany reeled from the huge burden of reparations payments required of it as a condition of the treaty.
Explain what Germany had to agree to by signing the Treaty of Versailles? The three agreements of The Treaty required Germany to disarm, make ample territorial concessions, and pay reparations to certain countries that had formed the Entente powers.
Aim: Finding DNA in a kiwi fruit
Method:
Results:
Discussion:
DNA is found in the cell nucleus but some DNA is also found in the mitochondria, Mitochondria are structures within cells that convert the energy from food into a form that cells can use.
Most DNA is made up of simple repeating units called nucleotides. The DNA molecule is described as a double helix but is sometimes also called a twisted ladder that is made with base, sugar and phosphate.
Conclusion: Did it work? Would you do anything differently? Our experiments work really well because we have found the DNA In a kiwi fruit. One thing that we might change is to put less water so that it will give us more DNA to take out.
MORAL DILEMMA
Once I'm in this situation, I'll be put under pressure by making me chose if I would sacrifice 1 to save 5 people or save 1 but sacrifice 5 people.
In my opinion, I will save a large number of people rather than one. If I only save one then that means I have sacrificed all of them just for one person. And there will be more family members that will be angry at me because of how many people I have killed.
A dilemma is like a trolley problem, is a series of thought experiments in morals and psychology, involving stylized moral dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number.
A moral dilemma is a situation in which a person is told to choose between right and wrong. A few examples of a moral dilemma include The classic “lifeboat dilemma”, where there are only 10 spaces in the lifeboat, but there are 11 passengers on the sinking ship. A decision must be made as to who will stay behind.
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(You are walking through a rail yard when you notice a runaway trolley careening your way. Directly in its path are five people, bound and lying across the tracks. They will die if nothing is done. There is a lever nearby. Pulling it will divert the trolley onto another track. On this other track, however, is a man who cannot hear or see you or the trolley. You can stand by and do nothing, watching as five innocent people die, or you can pull the lever, directly causing one man’s death. Which is the more ethical choice?)
The Trolley Problem: In this situation what I think I would do is pull the lever to sacrifice one man other than sacrificing all five people.
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(The dilemma is the same, except that you recognize the guy standing alone as the actor and comedian Jim Carrey. And this is “Dumb and Dumber”-era Jim Carrey. In fact, he’s in costume, and has that bowl haircut he sported in the eminently quotable 1994 film. Remembering all of those funny lines makes you smile. What a great movie. The five tied-up people are also Jim Carrey—clones, you assume—but they’re the modern, anti-vaxxer version, with full beards and dead eyes.)
The Jim Carrey: What I would do is not put the trolley and sacrifice Jim Carrey clone. I wouldn't pull the lever to go in another direction since you can make another clone of Jim Carrey if you don't kill him.
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(In this variation there is no second track but there is another man standing nearby, between the trolley and the five helpless people. If you shove him onto the tracks, his body will likely stop the trolley. You know nothing about this man except that at this very moment he’s on his phone composing a tweet that begins with the word “thread.”
Also, he’s vaping.)
The Thread: My only choice is to shove his body so that it will stop the trolley to save the five helpless people.
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(You can’t be a hundred percent sure, but it looks like the person standing alone is actually two small people, one standing on the other’s shoulders, sharing a long overcoat. Could they be children? Who are they trying to fool? And why? In any case, they’re probably up to no good.
Does that merit a death sentence, though?)
The long overcoat: I think that it's a bit suspicious that the kids are playing on the railway, so I think that I will pull the lever to save sacrifice the person with the long overcoat rather than the five people that maybe has no idea about the train coming to them.
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(The lone man is Adolf Hitler. Actually, this one is kind of a no-brainer, isn’t it? Not sure why it’s even listed here.)
The Hitler: What I would do is pull the lever to save the five people because Hitler was a bad guy that has killed 6 million people.
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Text Title: Amulet
Text Type: Narrative, Non- fiction, and poetry
Text Creator: Kazu Kibuishi
Text Purpose: Amulet is about finding the courage and the means of facing one's challenges and fears. It's a series about heroes and responsibility and learning to trust
Date: Friday, July 9
I would say the book amulet comes under the genre´s of:
Gather all your equipment
Set up your trolley and your bamboo stick, by placing the stick in the hole.
Cut a plastic bag into a partially large rectangle a size that would suit the stick.
Repeat with newspaper or paper.
Tape your first rectangle to the rod.
Repeat with your other material.
After use sticks to create a structure for the sail, we used skewers but you can use another material. - Since we used a whole newspaper page, we stuck 2 skewers together from the ends. Making it longer.
Stick one pair at the top and another one at the bottom
Depending on the size of your sail and rod place one or two pairs in the middle too.
After, make sure everything is secure by using tape in places that are weak.
Finally, decorate to make the appearance look more appealing.
