Journal Entry 1

CONCLUSION:

We can conclude by saying that, when the crystal potassium pertanganate was entered into either the hot or cold water it reacted by creating a convectional current, a different current for each tempreature that it was placed in, as when it was placed in the hot water, the crystal created a circular current, in which it spread around the water, rather then when it was placed in the cold water it created a totally opposite current, which made the crystal give-off sink. These different currents are due to the different densities of the water.

 

Journal Entry 6

 

1. What CST and IST grade what you allocate yourself for this project? Justify your response.

The grade that I would give myself for my CST part of the project would probably be a B, and I would give myself an A for my IST part, as I have went over the individual rubric and have completed everything to get these marks.

     2.   What could you do tonight that would improve your grade?

I wouldn’t be able to anything tonight to improve my individual grade, but as a group grade we could improve by re-doing our synopsis.

      3.   What grade do you think your team will give you for teamwork? Why?

I think that my team would give me full marks for team-work, as I have co-operated and listened to there opinions throughout the whole project.

       4.  Thinking about your presentation on Monday, what do you need to do to score an “A” grade? (hint: Look at the presentation skills). What could you do before Monday, to ensure you receive an “A”?

To score an a on monday, as a group we need to have projected voices, good eye-contact with the audience, to read off palm-cards and not the screen, etc……

To ensure that we will get an A we could prepare our speeches and also re-herse as a group a couple of times before Monday.

 

 

 

Journal Entry 4

1) Likes and dislikes of this project…..any suggestions on how to improve???

 

1.     Likes:

 

The things I liked in this project are such as, creating a prototype of an optical instrument, and the fact that everything was computer based.

 

2.     Dislikes:

 

The thing I disliked the most was that I found that there was insufficient time to complete a proper cross-section of an optical instrument. A way to improve would be to give us more time.

 

2) What areas do you think you have improved in from project 1 to project 4?

 

From projects 1 – 4, I think that I have improved in many areas, such as:

 

·        In using and being able to properly search on the internet.

·        Being able to work scientifically in a group environment.

·        Presenting to the rest of the class and other people.

·        And more…..

 

3) What further skills would you like to develop over the next few projects?

 

I would like to develop and improve in skills that I have started to pick up, in the following areas:

 

·        In using and being able to properly search on the internet.

·        Being able to present even better then how I am now.

·        Learning how to use different scientific tools

·        And more….

Journal Entry 3

1. Analyse why red sunsets can sometimes be more impressive when there is more dust or pollution in the air than usual. From the colors that make a white light, the two colours that have the longest wavelengths are red and orange, which means that they are least likely to be deflected, So dust and other particles, in the lower atmosphere will scatter out the sun’s blue and green light, leaving just the red, orange, and yellow light to survive, creating a sunset. However, pollution, forest fire smoke or even volcanic ash can scatter light even more, leaving just the red light to survive and creating a very impressive red sunset.

       2.  Describe what happens inside water droplets to cause a rainbow and explain how you can tell whether a rainbow is a primary or secondary.

   As sunlight enters water droplets in the atmosphere, its ‘constituent colours’ or wavelengths are refracted in slightly different amounts, while passing from the air into the water. A portion of the light striking the back of each water droplet is internally reflected and then refracted a second time as it merges into the air again. The colour that is refracted the most is Violet.

    

    

SHAKESPEARE TASK

THE ELIZABETHAN SOCIETY:

The Elizabethan society delt with crimes by sentencing the person that had committed the crime to death. Many punishments and executions were witnessed by hundreds of people. Executions by beheading were considered the least brutal of execution methods of the many. The most dreadful punishments are such as, being Hung, Drawn and Quartered.

Society in Elizabethan England was changing and the number of poor people living in abject poverty was increasing. The poor were divided into three categories, which were the ‘Deserving Poor’, the ‘Deserving Unemployed’ and the ‘Undeserving Poor’.

 

                              

 

 THE GLOBE THEATRE:

The original structure of the Globe Theatre stood until 29 June, 1613, when its thatched roof was set on fire caused by a cannon that was fired in a performance of Henry VIII and the Globe theatre burnt to the ground.

The Globe theatre was reconstructed in 1614. In 1642, an anti-theatre regime was put into place closed down all of England’s theatres. Two years later, the globe theatre was torn down.

 

 

                                

http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/shakespeares-globe-theater

 

 THE KING’S CHAMBERLAIN MEN:

The King’s Men were the actors to which belonged to Shakespeare during most of his career.

The King’s Men, Originally called the Chamberlain’s Men, which was sort of like a company, and it was the most respected and financially successful company of its day. Under the support of the King, the company had a major influence on the development of many dramas.

 

                                

http://www.enotes.com/ocs-encyclopedia/chamberlains-men-kings-men

 

 AN OVERVIEW OF MY PLAY:

I along with my group performed the Shakespearean play ‘Macbeth’. Macbeth is a play about power, telling a story about a character Macbeth, and his thriving ‘goal’ of becoming the king, in which he has to murder his friends to get to the top.

Overall, I think my group along with myself did an alright job in re-writing the script so it’s a modern version of the original version, and even in performing our version of the play.      

TRADEGIES, COMMEDIES AND HISTORIES:                                                                                                    

There are many Shakespearean plays, in which are comedies, such as,’ Love’s Labour’s lost’, ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, a later work ‘Measure for Measure’, and the ‘Tempest’.

There are also many tragedies that Shakespeare wrote, such as, ‘Hamlet’, ‘Macbeth’, and more……….

Several of Shakespeare’s historical plays feature ancient characters, but the Greeks he depicted were significantly less accurate historically than the Roman characters.

Shakespeare’s works were based on the Roman past, and he often focused on the philosophies and values by which these ancient people lived.

REVELANCE OF PLAYS TO THE 21ST CENTURY:

Shakespeare’s plays, apart from being humourous or sad, and enjoyable, have very intelligent and relevent teachings to them, these teachings weren’t just relevant to the people back when Shakespeare was alive, but are still relevant today, as these teachings are still able to teach young people and even adults, about many things, including, power isn’t everything, if it means losing your friends and family, to be forgiveful to anyone that has been hurt or has hurt, and more.

TYPICAL FEATURES OF A SHAKESPEAREAN PLAY:

There are many features of a Shakespearean play, such as:

• All of his plays are very dramatic, and emotional plays, whether these emotions are sadness, happiness, anger, etc….
• There is always a meaning or teaching behind his plays.
• There is always a main charcter that the entire play is concentrated on.
• His plays were written in ‘ye old’ english.
• His plays were written in iambic pentameters, which is a rhyme scheme in which each line consists of ten syllables. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet.
• and more…….

http://shakespeare.about.com/od/faqshakespearesworks/f/iambic.htm

 

                                

Journal Entry 5

1. What influences your values about issues relating to your life?

The things that influence my values about issues related to my life, are people, more specifically my parents, friends and family.

    2.   Do you ever compare images/values presented by the media to those of the bible? If so why?     why not?

Yes, I do compare images or values presented by the media to the those of the bible, because the way that the media present and explain the images, make them seem like they are in the bible, representing either Jesus or the Devil.

   3.   Has this project challenged you to examine your values? Why / Why not

Yes, it has challenged me to examine my values, because this project asks us to evaluate the values of topics in the current media, which makes me think of mine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Journal Entry 2

1. what causes the defect?

• Short-sightedness occurs when the focal point in the eye drifts away from the retina.
• Long-sightedness occurs when the focal point drifts behind the retina.  

    2.   the symptoms displayed.

• Close objects appear fuzzy or blurry, while distant objects remain in focus.
• Headaches or tired eyes. In young people with long sight, the eyes can still focus on near objects, for example when reading a book. 
• Squints.

     3.   propose what sort of lens may be used to correct each vision.

• Short-sightedness could be corrected by using glasses that have concave lenses so that the focal distance will increase in your vision or sight.
• Long-sightendess could be corrected by using glasses that have convex lenses so that the focal distance will decrease in your vision or sight.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Journal Entry 4

How do you feel the media portrays social justice issues?

I feel that the media portrays social justice issues as issues that are the most relevant and important topics that they concentrate on, as they are talking to and informing the people that are affected and therefore get more views or ratings.

Has it been difficult to find articles on social justice issues why/why not?

Not really, because as I stated in the first question, the media portrays social justice issues as issues that are the most relevant and important topics that they concentrate on, as they are talking to and informing the people that are affected, which would make it very easy to find these sort of issues in the local newspaper or even the internet.

Do you think that the media operates from a moral framework? Give evidence by using your research.

Yes, I do think that the media works from a right or wrong framework, as I have found during my research that they have taken a side, which in this case was the ’right’ and ‘fair’ side, and that they have claimed throughout their articles that they think that the “death penalty is the cruelist form of punishment yet”, “the death penalty should be abolished throughout the world”, and more………

JOURNAL ENTRY 3

1. Open and read the “How to write a critique” document in the resources menu.

Describe what a critique is.

A critique involves identifying the critical things about an article and resisting the temptation to describe rather than analyse. A critique is also made of four parts.

2. Outline the FOUR stages in a critique.

The four stages for a critique are such as,

·         An introduction

·         A summary of the article

·         Your analysis or critical commentary on the original text

·         Your evaluation or conclusion

 

3. Can a critique be positive? Discuss.

 

Yes, a critique can be positive, because the whole point of a critique is for the reader to analyse and discuss the accuracy of the piece of work, which doesn’t necassarily have to a bad analysation due to the fact that the information in the work could be accurate and very correct.

 

4. Critique the accuracy of the following articles:

The Beijing Olympics:

 

This article was very inaccurate, due to the information that they gave, like ‘that at the beijing olympics they are digging huge holes, and coveirng them with leaves, so that when the americans come they will fall in the holes’.

So from that, as I have said before, this article is very inaccurate.

 

2-year-old donkey basketball:

 

This article is inaccurate, again, due to the information that they put forward, such as, “a legendary donkey basketball legend has assurred that he would keep the donkey in ‘tip top’ condition as he would keep in the stable where the other donkeys are so he gets use to the smell, and more…”.

So from that, as I have said before, this article is very inaccurate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Journal Entry 1

a.     describe how optical fibre may be used in medical applications

 

Optical fibre is contained in medical instrument called an ‘endoscope’, which is a flexible tube. Optical fibres can come in use of medical applications because it can be passed through the mouth into the digestive system to provide doctors with images that can be magnified up to four times the original size.

 

b.     Identify the traditional medical techniques that optical fibres might replace.

 

Optical fibres could replace healthcare monitoring for patients that need continuous medical assistance, due to the fact that these optical fibres are able to measure vital physiological parameters such as respiratory movements, cardiac activity, pulse movement, and the temperature of the body without any harm to the patient. Laser surgery is also a new technique that has been invented through the breakthrough of the invention of optical fibres, which allows surgeons to operate deep inside the brain and ear. The laser beam vaporizes unwanted tissues and has the added advantage of being bloodless. 

 

c.      Evaluate the benefits of fibre optic technology to medicine 

 

Fibre optic technology has advanced all medicine, so that there is use of minimally invasive surgery, which has made procedures less painful and has improved recovery times, by being able to get a better and more accurate diagnosis of the medicine to improve it.