For the past while we have been studying the renaissance. We’ve looked at novels, art, great men, and what those men have done. Because the world then was filled with great men like Leonardo da Vinci and all those other people that did cool stuff.
So the big thing at the end of it all was that we had to fill out a triple Venn diagram comparing and contrasting an artist, scientist and thinker.
Now, i chose Baccio D’Angelo, Marcus Antonius Antimachus and Jean Baptise Denys
The other piece of work we had to do was to draw a picture that described what parts of the renaissance have had an affect on modern worldview. Now, mine may be simple, but sometimes, simple is best.
Art led to the great works of today, viewed by the masses
Nobles lead to business leaders, who hold economic power over others.
Trade led to today’s economy, resulting in people being able to provide for themselves.
Scientific process led to mathematics, the sciences and technology.
These are what is represented.
Thank you Very much for reading, and I’ll see you again. (Probably)
Hi, this is Marcus. And the blog is about the field studies that we’ve gone through In the past little while.
The first of of the Visits was to a Hindu temple.
When we walked in, the y told us that we had to take off our shoes to go in. Then we proceeded to go to the prayer room, where the woman that was guiding us told us about the gods of the Hindu religion. There were a lot of them, so I can’t remember all of them, but they were cool. They gave us some of the food that they use in offerings, and that was it. But it was fun.
The next temple we went to was a Buddhist temple, where, same as the last one, we had to take our shoes off. It was very big and decorated, with a big Buddha sitting in the back. The priest that was guiding us told us about Buddhism and Buddha, which was cool, then we got to take pictures, and then we left.
Hello, Marcus here, today we are going to be looking at my worldview.
This is a Project that I am long overdue on, and I’ve finally got it finished recently. So, what we had to do for this project was, First, Write a script that expressed our understanding of worldview, perspective and point of view. Second, we had to animate our script with Explain Everything, an app that allows you to copy and paste pictures and draw and write slides. It also lets you record them, so that’s how we do the third part – Narration. We read our scripts while recording to tell the listeners what our worldview was, that’s all.
Thanks for reading, the recording and script will be below.
Now, Worldviews are not static. They constantly changing. For instance, someone could see the world as a boring and dull place, but then do something fun and exciting. That might change their worldview. In another way, people almost never have exactly the same worldview. This is because of perspective. For instance, from someone’s perspective they might like sushi for the fish, and from another’s perspective, they might like it for the rice.
Now, onto my worldview. Let’s start off with the world as a whole.
From my perspective the world is a very large place, with many unknown mysterys. And I don’t believe there is or is not a god. Maybe someone is up there. May there’s no one. I think the world is fun, but at the same time dangerous.
I enjoy the community around me, mostly everybody is nice. School can be a bit repetitive sometimes, but that doesn’t mean it’s boring. I enjoy eating most things, and I like to play all sorts of games, so no problems there. Overall, the world is a good place
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Hello, it’s Marcus, and this is the first blog post in a while. Yeah.
Lots of cool stuff happening lately, and I want to share. Our cell projects were due, and it ended up preeetty cool. The cell I chose was an internueron. And not because it was easy, but because it was pretty important in the body. It basically translates the signals sent by your CNS (Central Nerveous System) into signals for your muscles and other body parts, and translates them back int signals sent by your senses like your eyes and fingers. Also, I had Two days to make this, so I think it was pretty good. And it’s made out of wire and clay.
So on Sunday, I had a band concert! No, not a school band, My own band, called the Stormbreakers. We come from DCM studios and have been going for 3 years now. And every year we take part in a tribute and a showdown show. For the tribute, we are told a band, or company, or time we have to take two songs from and play at the concert.This year, it was an 80’s tribute, where we took songs from the 80’s and practised them for a while, then played them at the concert. My band played “livin’ on a prayer” by bon jovi, and “still haven’t found what I’m looking for” by U2. We played them quite well and the crowd enjoyed them a lot. We also played “We are the World”, which was done by a lot of different old 80’s bands, for a couple of other groups DCM has got together, In fact, my dad took a video I can share with you! My band consists of Me, Marcus Whitehead, who is the dancing pianist. Quinn Helgason, the lead singer. Everett banks, the drummer. Alec the Bass player and Charlie Calla, the Guitarist and Other Pianist. We all dressed up real cool for this show, and here’s a picture!
On another note, the DI competition is next weekend, so fun things then!
Marcus here. So a little while ago we made these paper bodies of people that were important in rome’s history, my team consisted of Me, Adam, Aiden, Quinn and James. Oh and the person we did was Gaius Julius Caeser. So yeah, here are our notes.
Notes:
He was born in 100 BC and died in 44 BC.
Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed a political alliance that was dominant in Roman Politics for many years.
Gaius Julius Caeser was a Roman politician, general and known author of Latin prose. He played a important role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.
In 60 BC, Caeser and other statesmen formed a political alliance that dominated Roman politics for many years.
These achievements gave him unmatched military power.
Turned the Roman Republic into the powerful Roman Empire.
Was eventually assassinated.
When Caesar died, the empire grew from Southern Europe to West Asia and Northern Africa.
father of Augustus, Ceasarion, and Julia Ceasaris
During his time in office, Caesar had to deal with many civil wars, where he won every single one.
He once said “men freely believe that which they desire.”
So those are the small notes we made on him. Sorry they are so separated, but that makes it easier for you to distinguish them from one another. So, the next part will be the representation, so I will add a picture of the body.
Colour- Crimson Red because of his success in wars and his death by assassination.
Placement- Text will appear inside and outside of the body, and the images.
That was the representation part of it, so I will now put in the thing we said for our presentation of the body.
Adam
Our topic is on one of the most powerful rulers of all time, Julius Caesar. Caesar was born in 100 BC to a patrician family. When he was born, Rome was still a republic and was just turning into an empire, which meant the senators ruled. He grew up as a politician and joined the consul in 59 BC.
James
Caesar worked hard as part of the consul and became commander of two provinces in Eastern Europe for five years. Shortly after that term, he became a military leader.
Quinn
When he was in the military, he led a numerous amount of campaigns, which led him to fame. He wrote a couple of books to spread the word about his name and soon became a Roman hero.
Marcus
While in pursuit of Pompey, Caesar fell in love with Cleopratra. They met by a dramatic introduction which cleopatra set up. Although he was 51 and cleopatra was 21, they both showed affection towards each other. Caesar led cleopatra to become queen of Egypt.
Aiden
Soon after he became a military general, he became ruler of Rome. When Caesar was ruler, he conquered almost all of Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. After being in command for around 5 years, many people became very worried about his power, so he was assassinated by his friends. Today, Julius Caesar is one of the most well known rulers of all time
We just had a big shock….. The re-Application was due yesterday…. But they’re gonna change the due date because they didn’t give us any info on the re-application. Hoorah! Oh, now they’re telling us about the student led conferences…. Now THAT has ruined my day…
Onions. Yup, onions. Marcus here with a cruel discovery that was already discovered… Onions hurt. A lot. So, that being said, when you get a piece of onion IN THE EYE, it is Super painful. Like. Super super painful. Lesson here = Don’t go near chopped onions. It’s VERY PAINFUL. Brrrrrr. I didn’t know you could cry out of a single eye before.
Marcus here with the Star Wars project work blog. Well, this is mostly going to be copying and pasting all my work files together, so don’t expect it to be very personalized….
Right, here we go.
How Does Cloud City Float?
A Question Asked By Marcus Whitehead.
How does Cloud City float? Well, we know the answer to that: Gravity Generators. The second most ultimate Sci-Fi excuse. Because Time Travel is OBVIOUSLY the first. Guy comes back from the dead when you’ve just buried him? Time Travel. Floating City? Gravity Gen. the MOST, OVERUSED Excuse that has EVER existed. Standing in a space station? Gravity Gen! Standing on a flying space ship? Gravity Gen! Somehow making a giant city that weighs QUADRILLIONS OF KILOS fly? Gravity Gen!
But seriously. You get tired of it. So, we came with a whole bunch of ways you might make a giant city In a gas giant, float, that might actually work. Or not. But this is an intro, so I’m not going into what we did. :7)
So, whoever is reading this, READ ON! Because it gets much better!
Project carried out by
Marcus Whitehead, Chief Enthusiastic, and David Whitehead, Head Mathmateer and Equipment Supplier.
Star Wars Project, Test Landscape: Bespin
Bespin is a gas giant that is rich in tibanna gas. It has a diameter of 118,000 km and a core of 6,000 km. It has a 12 Earth hour day and 1 year on Bespin is 14 Earth years. It Is comparable in ways to Saturn and Jupiter. It has a habitable zone 150 km below the edge of the atmosphere. This zone has oxygen, reasonable tempature and earth gravity. It is 30 km thick and inside it is Cloud City, and all the tibanna gas mining facilities. Bespin rotates at speeds around 30,000 km per hour.
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Star Wars Project Experiment 1: Helium Balloons
How helium/hydrogen balloons work by displacement. They as they push through the air, the air will push back into its place, which is displacement. It’s the same way with boats. As they move through the water, the water flows back into place, therefore moving the boat forward. The volume of the balloon needed to lift Cloud City would need to be at a diameter of 89.9 km. The reason that helium and hydrogen float up is because they are gases that are thinner than air. That means that they get pushed up by cold air, which is dense, and let down by hot air, which is thinner.
How it could work in the Star Wars Universe.
Well, they could, instead of a physical balloon, use a force field to hold in all the hydrogen, that way you could have more lift and less physical materials are needed.
(I wish I could do that :7( )
< Helium Balloons
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balloons-aj.svg Cloud City Balloons
Project Experiment 2: Helicopter
It works on the premise of aero-dynamical lift. The rotating blades are like wings. As the engines turn them the air flows over and under them. The blades are shaped so the air travels further going over the wing than under it. The air on top of the wing forms a region of lower pressure that pulls up the helicopter.
One good example is the mi-26 Russian helicopter. It has 32 m blades and its 40 m long. Its total weight is 28,200 kg and it has a total lift of 56,000 kg. Unfortunately it has a fuel consumption of 3750 l of fuel per hour… that’s a lot. It was able to move a 25 ton block of ice containing a frozen mammoth.
Unfortunately there really is no Star Wars equivalent, since there are no Helicopter Vehicles. They always use rockets for all of them. And I guess since there is no air for them to get sucked up by, it can’t really fly…..
Kites fly using aero-dynamical lift from the air pressure on its wings caused by the wind moving over and under it. Being fixed at one end means the wind can generate lift.
How it could work in the Star Wars Universe.
You could use a tractor beam instead of a rope or string to tether it to the core, but since the core is so far down the beam might not reach cloud city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIZr3R5JnEs.
One good thing is that there should be a lot of wind out by the outer atmosphere, so no problem there.
Cloud City is 16.2 km in diameter and 17.3 km high. It It is located in Bespin’s habitable zone. (refer to Star Wars Test Landscape: Bespin.) It is approximately 50,000 km from the core. It has 392 floors, from housing, to casinos and arcades, to the refineries. It can supply its self from the tibanna gas mined from Bespin, which is the most powerful fuel source in the galaxy, used to power the Star Destroyers. But there are also very high winds, so standing outside is not recommended.
< Cloud City
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And That is the end of the copy’s there. Though, that isn’t all of the work. I just can’t show all the work because it won’t go on the blog. Sorry. But I hoped you liked it.
Yogic flying was also investigated, but was ruled out as it would require too many yogis.
Marcus here. Christmas is over and the new year has started, but I still wanted to do this post because… Christmas.
I had a good Christmas, presents, a bike, some games, good books, chocolate. And I got a really cool video maker called “stick bot studio.” It’s in the bottom middle of the picture below. The blue bags are popcorn, there’s a blanket on the seat, and there are some Star Wars cards behind it. I got a plasma ball as you can probably see, there’s a Star Wars calendar, and you can even see my cactus collection! Not from Christmas though, that’s been there for a while. Ooh! And you can see my Star Wars project in the bottom right!
Overall, my Christmas has been pretty good. I went to the island, I saw the “super pod” of over a hundred dolphins on the way over. I had raclette (melted cheese on bread, meat and veggies) twice. and I got to visit my grandparents, and went to Parksville for a board gaming retreat (yup) with Ryan Leonard’s family. So I’m pretty happy. But I do wish that we didn’t have to go back to school… Oh and here’s a picture of me riding my bike\/.
An great, cool, magnificent work of suffering and lettering (or not)
