Osmosis Experiment.

 Osmosis:

Osmosis is a specific type of diffusion where it mostly relates to the movement of water through a semi-permeable membrane.

The experiment includes filing 3 beakers with the same volume of water. One beaker must be filled with sugar, another one must be mixed with slate and the last one shall be left in its natural state. All beakers will have one gummy bear each.

Hypothesis: I believe that the gummy inside the saltwater beaker will be smaller than its original size. While the gummy bears inside water and the sugary water will expand in size.

Questions:

1. Was your hypothesis correct for each? Two were correct and one was wrong. The gummy bears are inside the slat water and the normal water. my prediction were right. However, I have not taken into the thought that the gummy inside the sugary water would roughly stay the same.

2. Did the bear get bigger or smaller?

Sugary water - Roughly stayed the same

Saltwater - Decreased in size

Water - Enlarged

3. Does that mean that the gummy bear was

- Hypertonic? The gummy bear was hypertonic of glucose, therefore water went inside the gummy hence why it enlarged.

- Hypotonic? The gummy bear was hypotonic of saltwater, hence why glucose went out of the gummy and the size decreased.

- Isotonic? The gummy bear was isotonic to sugary water, meaning equilibrium. This is why there is hardly no change in size.

East Coast Journey, Unfamiliar text.

 Who is Hine-nui-te-po? 

- She is the goddess of death in Maori mythology.

How would you describe the tone of the poem?

- It started off with an indifferent tone as they drink for happiness. As the poem progresses, it becomes tiring.

Identify where in the text the author uses a simile.

- "hair like kelp,"

What is the message of the poem?

- A welcoming death.

What is the purpose and effect of this use of contrast/juxtopostion?

That death is not always terrifying but can be an embracing grace.

Practice Paragraph - Blade Runner 2049

"Today in English we are writing our practice paragraph for an upcoming assessment"

In the scene where K goes back to his apartment, the director uses lighting together with character to show meaning.

We see this when K goes into his apartment and Joi - his virtual hologram girlfriend - became online. The whole room was filled with grey and dull colours. A negligible room with no signs of life. This then reflects K’s Character who rarely shows any emotions.

The director did this to show the emptiness of K’s life and has a virtual girlfriend to feel more human. This then connects to personhood, he hopes that he would be more human. This is important because we begin to feel empathetic towards K. This means that as K evolves into a more human-like being, this then asks the audience a question in their mind, “What is a human?”

Through the use of lighting and character, we can see that K portrays himself as his room. A grey and bland apartment. The techniques demonstrate that K doesn’t really have friends or families, his only way of happiness was, Joi. 

This connects to the book of “Klara and the sun”. Klara, an AF (Artificial Friend), develops emotions towards. This is connected with K because, similarly to K, Klara began to understand humans and make her own decisions, and throughout the movie, K is also learning to defy his superiors. This means that Artificial intelligence can gain consciousness. 

The Cellist of Sarajevo

For this week's blogpost for English, we are reading an unfamiliar text and writing down our thoughts about it.

Questions:

3 Words that I don't know from the text:

Cellist - A person who plays the cello

Remnants - A part of something that has been used or destroyed.

Fraudulent - Obtained, especially done by criminal deception. FAKE

Identify 3 examples of emotive language

- He would very much like to feel his father's hand on his shoulder again.

- It wasn't always like this

- The fingers on his flesh told him that he was loved, that he has always been loved, and that the world was a place above all else the things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.

What is the tone of the excerpt?

I believe that the author is feeling amazed and also proud that the cellist was brave enough to play his cello throughout the bombardment of mortars and war. Often expose to danger.

Identify an example of imagery from the passage:

"It screamed downwards, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded"

Personal reflections

In my opinion, I believe that the cellist of Sarajevo was super courageous and reluctant. He stood for days playing Adagio. Overall, the passage had a melancholic and sad flow. 

Parents can 'relax', study shows violent video games don't impact youth aggression.

 Text title: Parents can 'relax', study shows violent video games don't impact youth aggression.

Text type: Article

Text creator: Brittney Deguara

Text purpose: To inform parents that violence in-game does not affect youth aggression.

Date: 08/11/21

Summary

This article says that a study shows that violent games do not meaningfully increase the players' aggressiveness. A New Zealand-led study, published in the Royal Society Open Science, and Dr Aaron Drummond found that violent games don't lead to an increase in youth aggression. A meta-analysis experiment was conducted with 28 existing studies, which featured around 21,000 participants who played violent games for longer than three months. In conclusion, with their study they recommend the parents to be more relieved. However, rather than worrying about whether if it's violent or not, he says that parents should look out for the contents of the game. This is because some games need some maturity to be responsible.

Critical Literacy Question: Why are you reading this text?

Study shows that violent games do not affect youth aggression. For instance, the article "Parents can 'relax', study shows violent video games don't impact youth aggression" claims that violent game doesn't necessarily mean they would affect the players' behaviour in the real world. This means that parents can relax about what their kids are playing. However, the author of this article tells that that they should be careful of the content. I am reading this article because I have a similar situation at hand. 

Reflecting on Passion Project

 As for this project, my group was supposed to be doing a manga for our passion and love for anime. However, this changed because we didn't have a lot of time. Therefore, we just made collages full of different kinds of anime. The people that were in my group were Rojan, Tristan, Ian and Daniel.

Group Reflecting:

At first, there was not a lot of productivity and we changed our project midway. However, our second project went well and much more fast productivity rate because we knew what to do. I think, some people in my group did more work than others but it's still ok because everyone participated at the end.

Self Reflecting: 

I learnt that I work well with people that I know and get work much faster. Also, I would plan out the whole entire project before going at it. This is because we didn't really know what to do for our first idea on the project. Therefore, considering other aspects that might hinder us from doing our passion project will help us in the future.

Share and Present: Getting ready for Presenting

Introduction:

What did you do for your project?

- As for this project, my group was supposed to be doing a manga for our passion and love for anime. However, this changed because we didn't have a lot of time. Therefore, we just made collages full of different kinds of anime.

Why did you do it?

- My group did this to show our love and passion for anime.

Who did you do with?

- Ian, Roja, Tristan, and Daniel.

Part 1 

What was your driving question?

We had a driving question which was "How to write a good manga" but we changed our project therefore, we don't have any now.

Part 2

What will you do differently in your planning next time?

- The best option for us is planning our time management and our availability. I also think that each person should have a specific time.

Part 3 

What went well with the creating and implementation?

Reige research all anime and print the photos of anime then me, Daniel, Rojan, Reige, Ian cut all the anime photos. After finishing the cut all the anime photos then put the glue in the back photos. Reige put all anime photos in the picture. Daniel writes the anime quotes.

What didn’t go well for the creating and implementation? 

• Our first idea for the passion project. 

What did you learn about yourself during this phase?

• I learnt how to give each of my friends an appropriate job they could do for the project from their type of person.

What did you learn about working with others during this phase? (Please be respectful here!)

• I learnt that some types of people are not very good at decision-making.

• Work hard

Conclusion

What did you learn about your passion?

• I learnt how to make a big frame with my father over the holidays.