Hi everyone, welcome back to another blog of mine. Todays post is going to be covering the most recent project of mine Called Ology of Apology. Ive have been to many tourism cites in my life, Disneyland, Seattle space needle, the volcano In Maui, but little did I know that the ost impactful of them all are memorials.
Memorials are usually some kind of structure or building designed to remember a person or an event in it own unique way. Another type of memorial is a one that’s purpose is to raise awareness. For example my favourite memorial is the gun violence memorial in the United States. I like it because it raises awareness for an ongoing issue and could possibly make America a safer place.
At the start of this project we were told the definition of a memorial. After that we were tasked with researching, in a group of three, a memorial given to us by our teacher. The first notable assignment for me was making a memorial put of lego for any character we wanted. I chose to make a memorial on Anakin skywalker and how he was a great leader and man before he turned to the dark side.
Next we each choose a memorial we like and we had to make a slideshow with voice narration. My memorial was the motherland calls statue in russia. These two assignments were very fun because we got to create and research memorials we were interested in.
We then proceeded to learn about three groups of people in Canada that were heavily discriminated against. These groups were the Chinese, the Japanese, and the sikhs. This was a group project. There were nine groups, three groups were assigned Chinese, three groups were assigned Japanese, and three groups were assigned sikhs.
I was part of the Sikh group. We then spent many class days listening and taking notes. The incident our group covered was the Komagata Maru. Canadians at the time didn’t like that sikhs were moving to Canada and dominating the lumber industry. So they made a rule that your journey must be continuous passage. What this means is that if you were a Sikh you would have to sail from India to Canada without stopping in other ports. Sailing from India to Canada at the time was not possible. The Komagata Maru tested this law by sailing from Hong Kong. When they arrived in Vancouver they were denied entry. Eventually they were forced back to India and many passengers on the ship were killed in India because the Indian government thought that the passengers on the ship were causing trouble.
Our group choose to memorialize the ship by making it out of bones. We did this because it shows that people died that sailed on the Kamagata Maru. We worked on this and it turned out great. It was exhibition time.
We had a people vote for whose memorial was the best out of each group of people.
Unfortunately ours did not win, but I am still really proud of me and my groups work. I do think we could have made the boat more detailed, but I am still happy.
Thank you for reading.