Life ED

Friday The 13Th

Friday the 13th is a unlucky day brought from western civilizations. It started off with a man called Rossini who considered 13 to be an unlucky number and Friday to be an unlucky day and just so this man who had this feeling about these two things, died on Friday the 13th November 1868. But this is just one of the many superstitions that people have.

One that my grandfather believes is that four leaf lovers bring good luck so when he has nothing to do and is in a graceful mood he will go out on his farm and look for some. Once he has found one he would put it in his date book and they would remain there.

1. It is told that if you blow out all the candles on your cake with your first breath it is told that you will get whatever you wish for.

2. Or when two people grab a wishbone and both people make a wish and they pull the bone apart and the one with the larger end his/her wish comes true.

3. When a bird comes in your house it brings bad luck.

4. When a fantail comes in your house someone close to you will die in the next three days.

5. A drowned man floats face down and a drown woman floats face up.

6. When you shiver it means that someone is casting a shadow over your grave.

7. To make a happy marriage the bride has to wear something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

8. Warm hands, cold heart. Cold hands, warm heart.

9. To give someone a wallet with no money in it brings that person bad luck.

10. Our fate is written in the stars.

Impressionism

Impressionism is when an artist takes a quick look at a scenery then goes away and paints it using bold colors and had little detail. These paintings include ‘small, thin but visible strokes.’

These types of painting were first created in Paris by a group of artists in the last twenty-five years of the nineteen hundreds.

Impressionists usually of Nature, People, Paris and Still-life.

• Nature: Was a traditional artwork used for many different types of art, the impressionists used canvases and the pieces of art were usually of ‘rivers or fields or of haystacks’ commonly plain things you would see out in the countryside.

• People: These pieces of art were of informal things like ‘a leisure time activities’ in outdoor places Eg: On the local river or anything like that. Or workmen in country communities at work. And also another type of paintings that you’ve all herd of nude paintings which were orderly back then but not too much now.

• Paris: This was sparingly people wearing the latest fashions as a woman wears the newest scarf available that soots her fashion. Maybe the latest buildings or suburbs that were just getting built or the newest cars or sorts of transport.

• Still-life: Still-life was just mainly impressionists working on there shifting of lights and shades and what happens to the affect of the photo when this is done.

Practical task: Wk 7

This is my route that I have chosen, this route is basically around two of my local blocks and the route took me 9 minutes and 34 seconds. From my house I started walking left down Twelfth Avenue, turned right down twelfth ave to Christopher St, I then walked to the end and passed right again onto fourteenth ave then to walked to my house on Edgecumbe Rd.

Practical Task Week 6

How to find the height of a tree without climbing it?

Well to carry out this experiment you need:
A partner
A pencil
A measuring tape
A tree of your choice
A bonding material

Okay what you will need to do is first find the tree of your choice.
Then grab you pencil hold it out in front of you vertically and close one eye, walk backward slowly until the pencil is the same size as the tree in your sight.
Turn the pencil vertical so its flat along the ground it your sight.
Now get your partner to stand by the tree with the measuring tape and stick the end of the tape with your bonding material to the tree.
Tell him to walk out and out with the measuring tape held to the tree until he reaches the the tip of the pencil then tell him/her to stop, then read what the number is on the tape closest to you.
That is the height of the tree.

In the past pioneers would use this method for games except they did not use the measuring tape and the bonding material. But what they would do was they would get two of all the pioneers to do the method and once they had finished they would put their lunch just out of range from the tree and if the men who did it wrong no one would get lunch as it would have gotten squished.

Washoe The Chimpanzee Week6

Washoe The Chimpanzee

Washoe was a female chimp who was the first non-human to learn American Sign Language (ASL)

and teach another sign language. Washoe managed to learn about 350 of ASL in which she taught her adopted son Louis.

Washoe was brought up like any other child, ate dinner with her trainer at a dinner table, slept in a bed with sheets and blankets whet in car trips as any family would and many other everyday aspects as well as having tooth brushes, combs, toys and books.

There was many other tests in which other Chimps were taught languages but the Garners  thought these other tests failed because Chimps do not have the ability to create human-like sounds from their voice boxes.

Washoe was born in Africa, September 1965 and passed away in 2007 October 30th. Washoe was a great deal in scientific knowledge and wont be missed and forgotten as she helped everyone understand a bit more towards the chimps and other animals about talking or communicating with humans.

Weather Poem

Weather Poem

The sun shines bright throughout the day.

All the animals play without delay.

People jumping and shouting at the beach.

Lifeguards ready to teach.

The water sparkles in the evening light.

Catching everyones attention to the end of night.

Birds chirping in their nests.

Looking after their chicks acting like pests.

Eventually sleeping to the end of spring.

Summer is still waiting to sing.