Who Are Bob Geldof and Midge Ure

 Who are Bob Geldof and Midge Ure?

Bob Geldof
In the 70s Bob was the lead singer for the Boomtown Rats. Their most famous song was "I Don't Like Mondays" It's about a school shooting that happened in San Diego. 
By 1978, they had achieved their first UK hit single "Rat Trap", and later achieved a second hit with ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’.

In 1981, Bob Geldof was invited to take part in a concert for Amnesty International and this sowed a seed of future ideas for Bob.

It was in 1984, that Bob moved from being a rock star to an international celebrity for raising awareness of humanitarian charities. In 1984, Ethiopia and other African countries experienced a severe famine which led to many thousands of people starving to death. The plight of starving children was widely seen on TV. Bob Geldof with Midge Ure decided to do something about it – releasing the single – “Do they Know its Christmas Time”. It was a spontaneous event with many of the best-known names in pop music invited. It became an instant bestseller selling a record 3 million copies.

Midge Ure
Midge is a Scottish singer involved in several bands and was the frontman for Ultravox. In 1984 he co-wrote the song "Do They Know It's Christmas" and is the second highest-selling single on the UK chart history. One of the key members of the new wave band Ultravox, guitarist/vocalist Midge Ure began his professional music career with Salvation, a Glasgow-based group that became the bubblegum band Slik in 1974. Upset in the change of direction, Ure left the band to join the Rich Kids, a punk-pop group led by former Sex Pistol bassist Glen Matlock. The Rich Kids only released one album, 1978's Ghosts of Princes in Towers, before breaking up later that year. Ure spent a brief time with the Misfits (not the American band) before forming Visage with drummer Rusty Egan and vocalist Steve Strange; he left the group to replace Gary Moore in Thin Lizzy, who had left in the middle of an American tour. After the tour was finished, Ure fulfilled an agreement to join Ultravox as the replacement for John Foxx.

The Last Post

The Last Post For the past weeks, my class has been working on a blog about ( The Last Post ), it is about ANZAC day, and every 25th of April there is a video posted on the internet about the ANZAC song or as it is called The Last Post... This is commemorated as the day that the war ended and to those that have passed away in the war.

Gallipoli Campaign

The Russians who were fighting on Germany's eastern front wanted the British and French to tackle the Turks to reduce pressure on Russia. The Anzacs Joined the British and French in a dreadful baptism of fire at Gallipoli. The British commanders anticipated that the Gallipoli peninsula would be "open to landing on very easy terms" and Turkey would have a force of only 40,000 to meet them. On 25 April 1915, the Anzacs landed at a difficult and desolate spot on the Gallipoli peninsula and the Turks appeared to be ready for them.

 The Last Post

Music Through Time

In Social Studies we have been learning about Slavery or Music Through Time.

Spirituals are different types of genres. For example Soul, RnB, Rap, Rock and Roll, and Gospel.  Spirituals were used by slaves for a long time since 1600-1895 and are still used today.  Slaves used spirituals to communicate and to help each other out to either escape or even just communicate with each other.

Who Is Harriet Tubman?
Well, Harriet Tubman was a woman born into slavery, she is famous for helping thousands of slaves escape, she used songs to send messages and to help the slaves, she helped the slaves escape through an underground railroad out of the slave states, the underground railroad isn't really a railroad there isn't any trains or roads there are just tunnels that are scattered and some lead to safe areas for the slaves.
 
2. Explain who Harriet Tubman and what the Underground Rail was
Harriet Tubman used "Wade in the Water"  to tell slaves to get into the water to avoid being seen and make it through. This is an example of a map song, where directions are coded into the lyrics. The secret lyrics that have the hidden meaning of the song is "Wade In The Water" because runaway slaves were better to wade in the water so slave catchers and dogs could not sniff them out.

Chorus:

Wade in the Water, wade in the water children.

Wade in the Water. God’s gonna trouble the water.
Who are those children all dressed in Red?
God’s gonna trouble the water.
Must be the ones that Moses led.
God’s gonna trouble the water.

Chorus
Who are those children all dressed in White?
God’s gonna trouble the water.
Must be the ones of the Israelites.
God’s gonna trouble the water.

Chorus
Who are those children all dressed in Blue?
God’s gonna trouble the water.
Must be the ones that made it through.
God’s gonna trouble the water.

Full Lyrics

Music Through Time

Atomic Science: Periodic Table

What does the periodic table show us?

The periodic shows us elements and features of many different things and how or what we do, on the periodic table there are elements, mass numbers, atomic, and different columns or rows of the different elements, the features of the elements-(Alkali metals, Transition metals, Gases) 
The periodic table show elements also including calcium, lithium, copper, helium, and many more other elements/physicals properties, they are all very different and even some are compacted with each other for another outcome and some are mixed with others.

Alkani Metals: alkani metals are metals that can react with any other element on the periodic table because of how many electrons aren't in them, the alkani metals consist up of different  metals including Lithium(Li), Sodium(Na), and more, they can be found in the 1 column of the periodic table, how they can mix with other elements is because they don't have enough electrons to stay or be stable.

on Friday we had a little experiment, on the day the experiment consisted of lithium (li) and sodium (na) and also cold water + universal indicator, 

Music - Progress

 Questions:

What Genre are you going to be looking at? Alternative/Indie  

Who is in your group? Nature and Annaleise

What is each group member doing? 

Nature = Electric Guitar

Myself = Bass (Drums) 

Annaleise = Piano

What is the name of the song? Jealous

Who is the song written and performed by? Eyedress Band

What is the song about? It is about him being jealous of his girlfriend, or should I say, ex-girlfriend. His old girlfriend must have cheated or got a new boyfriend and he is envious.     

What is going to be challenging about this piece? Playing in the same rhythm. 

Which part of the song are you working on first? The introduction/starting. 

Art - Slinkachu Inspiration

 For a few weeks we have been working on some slinkachu images or to take photos as if in his position, we were inspired to make a story with only a couple of photos or images, we came up with a focal point as well as the backstories within the photos...

So in like the first couple of weeks we came up with the backstory first, made a few sketches to plan out what we were going to do or make but the style or theme was Slinkachu. 

during the middle of the weeks of planning we got to taking photos of what we planned for one of my plans was to picture a few soldiers on a journey...

So Photos Coming Soon...

Focal point as I have tried to make obvious that where most eyes would look at would be that the middle where the people are standing I guess...  

 Well I have Learnt that some perspectives can change how someone can see, or to put it in better words if you cant change what you want it to look like try to change your angle or the way you see...

Leadership Styles

 This week in class we have been working on different leadership styles, I have made a DLO about the leadership styles too.

Hannah Höch - Art

 For the past week or s in art I have been working on a couple of scrap books inspired by Hannah Höch, the learning we did was about Hannah Höch and her artwork, I have made 4-3 but some are or have a little twist of artwork or things I like, we had to make a photomontage of them all connected together. 


We were meant to at least make 8-9 but I cut mine down to 3-4...

I made these because I like the look of how it is aesthetic and kind of my favourite colours. If so can I have feedback on my work, on if its a little too or doesn't have much Hannah Höch's artwork style in it or something. 

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Middle Ages - Hurumanu 3

Medieval Punishment
Many tortures and cruel punishments were used in medieval times. These included…

These included:

• Beheading, believe it or not, but in the middle ages, it would have been the most honorable and quickest execution…

• Burning.

• Hung, strung, and quartered.

• Hanging.

• Stretching.

• Boiling to death.

• The wheel.

But one gruesome punishment that is cruel enough to get the truth out of someone or that is maybe the most painful would maybe perhaps the most brutal of all execution methods is hung, strung and quartered. This was traditionally given to anyone found guilty of high treason. The person who did what they did would be hung and just seconds before death released then disemboweled and their organs were then thrown into a fire - all while still alive.

This punishment would really only come to a person if they have done something very bad, maybe even worse than theft, maybe a crime that could bring you to punishment could be Homicide - (Murder or manslaughter)...


What life in the middle ages was like?

Interestingly, life in the middle ages was mostly divided the rich and poor were separated in how they lived, while the rich-(King, Clergy/Nobleman) lived in a castle they got to have showers every day and having more than enough food, then the poor-(Farmers/Peasants) having barely enough money for food, or couldn’t shower every day.

This was important because it shows how life would suck so much to be poor and how the poor lived, or maybe how it was hard to be a peasant in the middle ages...

Diffusion - Hurumanu 3

What is our focus this week? Our focus is to learn more about matter or how to properly define Diffusion...

Aim: Investigate if particles diffuse faster in hot or cold water.

Hypothesis: I think... I think that the hot water will diffuse or make the Potassium Permanganate will spread faster in the hot water...
Because the hot water would make the particles move faster than the cold water.

Method: Fill up 2 Petri dishes with water, one hot one cold then drop potassium permanganate in both of the Petri dishes, then wait for your result-( Do Not Stir).

Particle Theory:
1. Particles make up everything

2. Particles are always moving

3. Particles are attached to each other

4. Hotter= faster

5. Colder= slower

6. Always space between particles

 



Results: The dish with the hot water spread more because of how fast the particles where moving...

Discussion: I think it happened because when particles are in a hot environment it tends to move faster than when it is in a colder environment...

Hurumanu - Evaporation, Condensation, Distillation...

Introduction: Today we did an experiment on Distillation, Evaporation, and Condensation, and it was also a really good day...

Aim: To separate a solute from a solvent in a solution using distillation.

Equipment: Solution Of Coke, Conical Flask, Heat Proof Mat, Delivery tube, Bunsen burner, Tripod, Gauze Mat, Bosshead & Clamp, Boiling tube, Retort stand.

Method:
1. A mixture of coke and water was heated in a conical flask…
2. The water evaporates leaving the coke behind…
3. The water vapor flows through the delivery tube…
4. Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated. Turn off your element…

Results: We saw that the coke started to bubble because of the heat of the element, then at the end of the experiment there was syrup at the bottom.

Discussion: What or how we did for this experiment... We used a Conical Flask to hold our Solution Of Coke, then we boiled it with an element we then evaporated the Coke, and we got vapor out of it, then we used a delivery tube to get the vapor to travel into a boiling tube because the delivery tube was connected to a conical flask and a boiling tube, we then used Condensation, we got ice and put it in a beaker and put it just below the boiling tube, to cool it down, the coke then turned into a syrup-like substance, it as the leftover sugar from the coke, The boiling tube was then filled with water from the vapor...

Conclusion: Did it work? In conclusion, it did work and we ended up with a dark like syrup on the bottom of the Conical Flask...

Hurumanu - Evaporation Experiment - 2020

Introduction: We have been learning about
Evaporation is... It is when a liquid is turned into a gas.

Aim: The aim is to Evaporate Copper Sulfate- (blue liquid)...
To separate the mixture...

Solute? Solvent? Solution? Mixture...

Hypothesis: I think what will happen is the (Blue Liquid) in the Copper Sulfate will somewhat disappear a little, there will probably...

Equipment: Copper Sulfate Solution, 250ml beaker, Heat Proof Mat, Evaporating basin, Element.

Method:
1. Set up Element...
2. Add 100ml of hot water to the beaker and place it on the element...
3. Add Copper Sulfate to the evaporating basin until it is quarter full...
4. Carefully place the evaporating basin on top of the beaker...
5. Turn on the Element to 2, maybe in a while bumping the element up to 6...
6. Heat the Solution until most of the Solvent ha been evaporated and crystals of solute forming...
7. Turn off the element- be careful of the beaker, it will be hot for a while...

Observation: As time goes by we see that inside the beaker there where bubbles forming, and maybe a few drops of water & you can slightly hear the small bubbles popping or the sound of boiling happening...

Conclusion: In conclusion, our experiment did not work, but we think we have an idea for the next time around...

Evaluation: It was fun but, it didn't go as planned but now we see that we may need to adjust some things next time around...

Hurumanu - Dilution Experiment...

For science this week I or my group did an experiment on Dilution -(Meaning: Making a liquid less concentrated or weaker)
We did this dilution experiment because or to explain or learn how dilution works, we were doing something or using a method called Serial Dilution...
It means we repeated this process for a while...

Aim: To make a dilution series to investigate concentration...

Equipment: A Potassium Permanganate crystal, Six large text tubes, Tweezers, A plastic transfer pipette, A test tube rack, 10ml measuring cylinder, Spatula...

Method: 
1. Place the six test tubes in the test tube rack, Label the rack with numbers 1-6
2. Using the measuring cylinder, fill test tubes 1 with 10ml of water, fill the other test tubes with 5ml of water.
3. Using your tweezers, add a single crystal of potassium permanganate to test tube 1.
4. Gently shake the test tube until the crystal has dissolved.
5. Using the transfer pipette, carefully remove 5ml from test tube 1 and pour it into test tube 2.
6. Rinse the transfer pipette thoroughly to ensure that no purple solution remains.
7. Gently shake test tube 2 and repeat the transfer process, transferring exactly 5ml of the solution to test tube 2 to test tube 3.
8. Rinse the pipette again and repeat the transfer process for test tube 4, 5, & 6

Health Hurumanu 8 - Online relationships vs Real life relationships...

In Health Hurumanu we discussed this week about a statement: -

Online Relationships vs In Real Life Relationships and to be more clear, we are talking about them because we don't know if they are important or not...

We are making a statement or debating about what is more important, Online Relationships, or are Real-Life Relationships more important...

Some people might think...
They might think that Online is way more important because of how people can react on social media, about how it could change the moods on others, It also could be important for people could get hurt emotionally or mentally...

Also another view on this topic... there also might be some words you could get confusing if someone just says "ok" you wouldn't know their emotions, also there are strangers - (People You don't know) everywhere -(Catfishing)...

People might think that Real Life might be important, it could be easier or to communicate, face to face it would be easier to read their body language, you could express more, you would would be able to communicate more expressively I guess...  

Or one other way of seeing it or on the other hand... 

maybe talking face to face could be scary, or you could be shy something bad could happen...

In Conclusion, I think... That they both are really important because having friends and having a face to face talks with family is very special, while having an online friendship, could also be good...

But I'd have to say Real-life relationships are a lot more important, for a lot of reasons but the main reason I chose real-life is that you could get to hang out with others, or you would be social sometimes, its kind of interesting having others around, being able to read or tell their body language...

Year 9 Hurumanu Chaos - Rats/Kiore

Mouse Plague...
Saying-"Can cause so much Chaos..."

Questions:
1. Where this happens?
AU/Australia 

2. How did this happen?
The rain helped grow crops to grow on the farm, therefore a lot of Mice got hungry, then they would eat from the farm...

3. How much offspring-(Babies) can 2 mice/rats parents make?
2000 could be made...

4. How much wheat did the mice eat?
500,000 tons...

5. How did they get rid of the mice and how many dead mice where there?
they used poison to take the mice down, then they burned them to not have dead mice everywhere - 100Million mice died...

Rat Temple...
Saying-"Sometimes rats can be not so chaotic..."

Questions:
1. Where is this happening?
Northern India...

2. Why is this happening?
The people of Northern India, worship the rats as an old god...

3. What special treatment do the rats get?
Northern India, - Rats temple...
The rats are fed, not killed, prayed to, & worshiped...
The rats are relatives, to the people in Northern India, the belief a lot in reincarnation...
if you stood on one, it would anger the gods... 

Filtration Experiment - Hurumanu 3...

• What are we doing? Today in Hurumanu We are...

In Hurumanu 3 this week we will be doing a Filtration Experiment...

Aim: To Separate a solution from a precipitate (precipitate is the name for a solid that forms in a liquid during a chemical reaction)...

Equipment:

Sodium carbonate, Copper sulfate, Conical flask, Stirring Rod, 200mL Beaker, Funnel & Filter paper...

Hypothesis: what do you think will happen...

Method/Steps: 

1. Pour approximately 50mL of copper sulfate solution into a beaker.

2. Add the same volume of sodium carbonate solution. A reaction will happen, you should see a cloudy blue precipitate form. Called copper carbonate. 

3. Watch demo then fold filter paper to fit inside the funnel

4. Place the funnel with the filter paper inside of it, into the mouth of a conical flask. 

5. Stir the mixture in the beaker, then carefully pour it into the funnel. 

6. Observe what happened.

Observations and Discussion: what you saw happen and why do you think it happened... - What I think happened was that when the -

Sodium Carbonate-(Na2CO3) & the Copper Sulfate-(CuSO4) mixed together & I thought it wouldn't be filtered or couldn't be filtered, but I was wrong, we used a funnel with a conical flask, and we had a special filter paper to stop the Copper Sulfate-(CuSO4) from mixing the into the Sodium Carbonate-(Na2CO3) or it seperated some would say, and it was quiet satisfieying too...

Here are some of the results...

WordArt - Lockdown Emotions...

Today we wrote down a few emotions that we would have felt during the quarantine...
I felt... Bored in the lockdown/quarantine because there wasn't much activity's to do in the house...

I felt... Excited when I heard school would be reopening, because I would have something to do rather than staying home not doing much, and I think I would need to increase my fitness & exercise as well...

Today I feel... quite Tired because sometimes a can't seem to focus sometimes...

Hurumanu - Workshop 3: How does "Lighting & Colour" enhance the story...

Atmosphere - How you feel in a situation/mood...

Shot 1-14.35...
Scene - Auggies first day at school - When Auggie walks into class everyone stares at him, When he asks to sit down Amos says the seat is saved...

Angle/Shot - Long shot/Eye level of class, close-ups of Auggie to see his emotional reaction...

Lighting In Colour -
Palette - Colours used in scene e.g nature palette has colours from nature - green, brown...
Warm/Cold - Warm makes you feel safe or comfortable - Cold makes you feel safe/Stillie

Bright - Vibrant, jumps out...
Dull - Fated, muted, blends in...
Natural - Sun/Moon-light...
Artificial - Man-made light e.g lightbulbs...

Lighting & Colour - Warm - makes the classroom feel safe & welcoming...
- Bright colours - gives the room energy & life...
- Natural light coming through the windows...

Effect On The Viewer - happy, chilled, excited, educational, inspiring...
Director -  wants to create a happy and safe atmosphere in Mr Brown's classroom. Even though it feels this way, Julien & Amos's behaviour is unkind...

In the scene of August's first day at school, lighting & colour are used to create a safe and welcoming classroom environment. For instance, bright-warm colours are used on the walls and natural light comes through the windows to make the space look lively. This makes the audience feel excited, inspired, and that the space is educational & supportive for learning. This was done to show Mr Brown had created a classroom space that would be welcoming to new students like Auggie. Coinciding with this is the use of body language. The children in the room are sitting up smiling and paying lots of attention; they are learning ready...
This reminds the viewer of the theme of Kindness because the lighting and colour make the room welcoming for all the students...

Wonder film - The impact of Angles, Movement & Shot...

A - Fight... - Jack fighting Julien because Julien called August a freak.

- Teacher pulling Jack off - Mr. Brown.

- Dutch tilt used - Shows something is not right - Makes one person look smaller than the other-Julien looks week & vulnerable...

- Low angle.

- The viewer feels - Shocked, didn't expect his reaction...
Surprised, Concerned, Uneasy...

- Director - Surprised, sad, worried for Jack...
Other techniques - Music - Creates atmosphere, minor -
Slow-motion - makes more intense...

In the film Wonder, low angle shots were used effectively...
This is demonstrated in the scene where Jack attacks Julien because he called Auggie a freak.
In this scene, a low angle dutch tilt shot is used to make Jack look stronger and Julien weak and vulnerable...

This makes the audience feel shocked, surprised, and concerned because we didn't expect a violent reaction from Jack, who has not been aggressive before this point. The purpose of this is to show the theme of kindness as Jack finally stands up for Auggie...
Combined with this is the use of quiet minor music & slow-motion to create an atmosphere and to make the event feel more intense...

This can be contrasted to the nature reserve fight scene where Auggie now shows kindness by standing up for Jack...

B - Fight scene - Nature Reserve - Auggie makes friends, High Five - No plague...
Jack, Amos & others. They beat up & ran away from 7th graders.

- Wide-angle, long shot - makes us feel like we are a bystander watching an important moment, the emotions are the characters, not ours...

- Audience - Joyful, proud, cheerful, ecstatic, relieved -
Auggie is finally included, has friends...
- Director - Shows Auggie is finally fitting in, Shows theme importance of friendship or "Kindness"

- Other techniques - Lighting - use if shadow-silhouette outlining the boys feels like they are all in it together...

C - 

Wonder - Film Studies - Workshop...

Kindness - When people are respectful, caring, helpful & including others...

Example 1 - Fight scene at the nature reserve...

• Amos and the other boys rescue Auggie and Jack from the bullies, at the end they high five Auggie - Shows kindness up onto this point the hadn't touched him or treated him with respect...
  
• The theme of kindness is important because through it Auggie makes friends, is more confident & happier...
  
  Example 2 - Cafeteria scene - where Summer sits with Auggie...

• Shows the theme of kindness because Summer leaves the friends she has been sitting with who were being bystanders & went to sit with Auggie because he was alone...

• Summer helps Auggie build trust in friendship, if she hadn't shown kindness by sitting with him, he wouldn't have learned to make new friends and move on...

Importance of family and friendship - Through these relationships, our characters build trust, resilience, and self-confidence...

Example 1 - Scene where Auggie cuts off his padawan braid...

• Link to the importance of family because of shows that when Auggie is feeling sad/alone/depressed that he has a support network to build his resilience. 

• Home is Auggies' safe & supportive place. He needs this relationship with his parents to help him build confidence to make new friends.

Example 2 -When Jack punches Jullien for calling Auggie a freak...

• Shows the importance of friendship because Jack wasn't willing to let Jullien bully Auggie anymore. Auggie is a real friend to jack, where Jullien is the type of friend that puts you down if you don't agree with him...

•  It is important because it shows how real friends treat each other, they build trust and can forgive each other...

 Being right vs Being popular... 

Doing the right thing, even if no one is watching or when no one else is doing it...

Example 1 - Jullien bullies Auggie...

•  Jullien chooses to do things to be popular rather than doing the right thing, He calls Auggie names, Hides notes in his locker & tells Auggie he should kill himself. Jullien is the most popular boy in his class so when he chooses to be mean that becomes the thing to do...
   
•  Jullien shows the importance of being right over being popular because through his actions he is removed from the school & loses his friends. Juxtaposed to this will. He decided he would rather be kind to Auggie and as a result keeps all his friends & isn't kicked out...