Social Studies - NZ Racism

Hi Everyone!

For today's blog post I will be writing about what I have been learning in social studies for the past week. 

Recently we have been focusing on discrimination and how there has been a drastic increase in discrimination during the past year. Mainly due to coronavirus, however, major violence has started to weave itself into the discrimination. Now it is not only verbal insults but there are people out there who beat up up others. Do you want to know what the reason is? it's because they are of different races, they think they are superior. But in reality, we are all the same race we are all human. We still have yet to become equal and accept each other, but with this behaviour of the world. We are just slowly starting to repeat history, and we won't be able to change anything. Unless we change ourselves, which is disappointing. 

As an example, here is something I wrote about Arabic.

Can you make any connections to other stories / the wider world? Sentence starters “This reminds me of…” “This is similar to…” (E.g. have you ever seen someone be ashamed of their culture?)

This reminds me of how Arabic or people from Pakistan or Iraq are usually stereotyped as terrorists. For example, they are shown terrorising a high-security building or a city in general. Now, this is just what people assumptions are on people, as everyone watches the news to see what’s going on in the world. Usually, in the news, they show the bad things happening in the world. In the news, they have shown what Arabic have done and how it just shows how much bombing and war there is. Personally when I first saw something like this on the news. I thought that I would never want to visit there. The images in the news just showed bombing, fires, guns and things like that. Everything was just so graphic so I had just thought that in that area it was a complete warzone. But after learning about it I learned that there are also people suffering there. Also how it is not how the news makes it seem, otherwise that this makes people. Misunderstand and assume things about other races but that’s what they think because we are actually all one race.

Social Studies - Germany and The Great Depression

Hi Everyone! 

In today's blog post, I will be writing about Germany and how this nation relates to The Great Depression. This is what links to what we have been studying in social studies which would the Holocaust. 

In the year 1929, the Wall Street Crash produced a global depression, Germany grieved the most out of all countries. As the US wasn’t sending out loans anymore so they had to withdraw a lot of money. Which had caused Germany’s economy to collapse - There was a major increase in unemployment. The number of people in poverty had climbed and Germany ended up being despairing. This led to a link of major events which had concluded j in the destruction of German destruction. A major factor of why Germany was hit the hardest during the global depression. Would be the Treaty of Versailles, which was a treaty that was supposed to. Settle disputes following the discontinuance of hostilities in WW1. 

The Treaty of Versailles was a treaty signed right af3ter WW1 to create peace, which was signed by the allied and associated powers and by Germany. Germany was required to sign the treaty as Germany was thought to be at fault for starting World War 1. However, the allies wanted Germany to compensate. For all the damage they caused to the civilian population of their allies, but also for their property. Germany also had to comply with some unrelenting conditions in the treaty as a consequence.

The crash's consequences were not immediately evident in New Zealand. However, beginning in 1930, export prices began to decrease, falling by 45 per cent by 1933. This was terrible to a country that relied heavily on agricultural exports. Demand for their goods and services decreased, as did their pricing.

Science - DNA Extraction Experiment

Kiwi Fruit DNA Extraction Experiment

Aim: Finding DNA in a Kiwi Fruit

Method: 

1. 
   Cut 1 kiwi fruit in half and scoop it out of the skin into a zip lock bag, add a splash of water and one small teaspoon of salt. Mush together creating a slushy solution.
2. Strain solution through a piece of cloth into a beaker. 
3. One finished squirt some dishwashing liquid in and mix thoroughly. 
4. Pour into a test tube.
5. Place the TEST TUBE into a beaker with WARM water. (Do not pour the solution into the water)
6. Leave for 10 minutes.
7. After 10 minutes pour 5mL of methylated spirits down the side of the test tube.

Discussion: 

DNA is found in cells, but starting from the cell, inside you would find a nucleus and inside the nucleus, you will locate 46 chromosomes and in those chromosomes. You will finally discover the DNA, and sections of the DNA are made of genes. 

DNA is made up of nucleotides these "building blocks" are made up of three components - phosphate, sugar, and base. The structure is described as a double helix or in a less professional term, it would be described as a twisted ladder. 

Conclusion: 

As displayed in the results our experiment did work the bottom was the kiwi fruit solution, the middle was the DNA molecules. The top was the methylated spirits, so we were able to result with a success. Although one thing that I would do different would be to add less water, so maybe that would alter how much DNA we extracted?