This couple who had a past love life together decided to split custody on their chihuahua. They’d meet up every other day so that they could drop off Indy/the dog off to be at designated paw parents house, Indy had a good set up on both parents houses, they even got stuff that matches so that Indy would feel at home. Sadly, the old girl’s health failed and the pair had to meet up for the last time, they both payed for Indy’s vet expenses equally.

What do the images suggest?

The images suggest what is the dog named “Indy” in the text.

In whose interest is this text?

Possibly dog lovers, or people that recently split up with their significant others whilst having a dog. I think this text is mainly for entertainment purposes, this also seems like the type of text teens and children would click on.

Surgeons successfully separate twins with fused brains in Brazil

Sandra Arambepola

Surgeons in Brazil have successfully operated on 3 year old boys who had two conjoined brains. 
They managed to separate these two boys to become their own persons. It was reported that this surgery supposedly
took nearly over 100 medical staff to fully complete, it took them around 27 hours to do everything they need to 
do.The surgical team that worked on these boys had worked and practiced for months to ensure that this surgery was 
going to be successful, vr rooms helped them navigate around what to do until they did the full real complex work. 
Thankfully, their work payed off.

Who is real in the text? 
The people who were included in the text and the events that were written. Most of the people mentioned the text 
are real life people since it is based on a true story/news.

Who benefits from this text?
The two twins that got a successful surgery and the proud medical staff that did their job correctly which is to
save peoples life.

Describe an important character in the novel and explain why he/she was important.

Today I will be talking about an important character in the novel and that is Ryan, Ryan was the main protagonist of this novel, throughout this novel you may find that Ryan is a very resilient, brave and an understanding person. You learn a lot of things from Ryan as you join his journey.

Ryan’s resilience shows all throughout many parts of the story. His flexibility through the events and situations in parts of the novel is quite amazing. Considering that fact that he had to face many road blocks and problems, he handled them in a very ethical way. His willingness to not give up is very aspiring, and something people should look forward to. Even if he knew he was going to have difficult time doing a certain thing he was still willing to try it out first, rather than saying no on the get-go.

Ryan volunteers himself to help Tara recover from her parallelisation and get her back on her feet. He helps Tara quite a lot to the point where Tara almost liked him. He was brave to do something like this while knowing at some point Tara would hate him for being involved in the reason WHY she ended up like that. He even faced his problems by himself and didn’t blame other people, which was another brave act of his.

In conclusion, Ryan was one of the best characters in this novel, and people should try to aspire to be like this. A lot of what I said above this text is only a few of some of the things Ryan did, he did many more great things. He is a good example of what people should be doing if they had did someone wrong. What do you think you would’ve done if you were Ryan’s situation?

How does the ideas and messages of the novel relate to the world or humanity in general?

Reading this novel about a car crash and the aftermath of it, taught me quite a lot of things. But the ideas of the messages in the novel are practically very much “realistic”, what I mean by this is that most of the events that happened in this novel are possible to occur in the real world. 

For example, a car crash. That is an incident that can happen in real life, in fact maybe YOU know someone that may have been into a similar accident like the novel described. 

Another thing to add is that all of the characters had different reactions to the incident. These are all very plausible reactions, for example Tara. Tara after the crash was paralysed for many months, and when she found out that Ryan was the “cause” of her disablement she got very mad at almost everyone around her because she felt betrayed that they had “lied” to her. Ryan’s reaction on the other hand was regret, seek of forgiveness, sadness. Which is an acceptable reaction, these are things real human people might feel when they just ran over someone. Vince, though he may have seemed like an ignorant brat. Many people may probably relate to this character. Vince’s character was someone who’d avoided remembering what happened and chose to forget. He didn’t want to take any responsibility for his part in the incident, but he did end up apologising for his actions in the end. Throughout this story we notice a lot of change in development throughout the characters, I think that was quite a nice thing to see. Just like humans! Humans develop a lot even during a short period of time.

You may also find that reading this novel is quite informative, seeing as though every start of each chapter teaches us something about Tara’s conditions. The sentences showcase what is going on throughout her body, and what may or may not happen to it in the near future. It almost seems like a doctor is having a conversation with you. 

What areas were impacted by the event or where the origins are of the music?

Many places were impacted by this type of music during its time, especially when the Triangular slave trade was still a thing. The origin of these songs were typically for communication or motivation throughout day and night while the slaves did their daily tasks. Harriet Tubman was an activist who made quite a few of these musics that could help slaves escape from their “owners”.

How did this music impact people?

With this type of music Harriet Tubman purposefully made these to help slaves escape, this impacted the black community very much in a good way. Her songs remain in history, and the remembrance of the good she did also stays in history. This impacted the black community because of all the help these songs have given the slaves from back then. Above this text showcases the titles of the songs she’s made, I will also further explain the meaning behind all of these songs.

What examples of music is there to show the impact on people? Analyse 1-3 songs with clips and lyrics.

Harriet Tubman Music –

In Wade in the Water ; A song made to tell slaves to hide in the water to not be seen and captured. This song is a good example of things called “map songs”. Map songs are songs that direct directions in a way where it is coded inside of the song.

Steal Away ; The person whom sings this songs means they’re planning to escape.

Sweet Chariot ; When this song is heard, it means that a person should get ready to escape because a “band of angels” will come to rescue them and help them escape to freedom.

(Two Unnamed songs) ; These two unnamed songs were sung by Harriet Tubman, one of the songs were to tell people that it was safe to approach her and no danger was nearby. The other unnamed song was to warn people that she is not to be approached since there is danger nearby and it’s safe for them to not go anywhere near her.

Black or White – Michael Jackson

This song by Michael Jackson expresses many powerful lyrics that relates to certain parts of segregation. As an obvious give away this song  talks about equality, “it don’t matter if you’re black or white” referring to the fact that people might get segregated for their colours.

What lasting impact did this event and music have on people up until today? Is it still heard and felt today – explain

The lasting impact on people up until today with their music is the fact that these songs she made helped many people escape from their torture and live on to have a better life. Many people to this day still appreciate all the things she did, perhaps because to some people Harriet Tubman may have helped their ancestors in some way. Her music isn’t quite as popular anymore but it still stays in history and the remembrance of what she did will continue to live on in peoples hearts.

How has this event and music had an impact on New Zealand then and now?

I don’t believe that New Zealand really took any part in this, I doubt it impacted New Zealand much. But i’m sure that people living in New Zealand appreciate Harriet Tubman as much as other people do.

Kia ora today I will be talking about what we’ve been doing these past few weeks in WGA and what I’ve done so far. I chose to do a static image because I like to do art and it seemed fun to do! Showing some of my culture and identity was my main goal in the static image I created, I made sure to try and put as much details as I could into the image so I can get the 3 NCEA credits or to at least pass. I will further explain the details in my static image below.

This is my static image. The girl/girls is supposed to represent me, I drew  the character in my art style and how I like to dress in real life. Fashion and how I dress is really important to me, this is why I decided to do these types of clothes rather then the traditional Filipiniana to show my culture. Originally I wanted to do more traditional clothes, although mid start of my art I wasn’t enjoying it at all. So I did it “my way”. She’s wearing baggy jeans which is something I wear in real life, also a the top might be something i’d also wear. I’d say I enjoyed making this art more then what I was trying to do, forcefully creating art that I disliked.

On the pants and top, you can tell that there are “camo” looking patterns on her clothes. These are actually the Philippines and New Zealand outline that is found on the globe. You may also see the little plane about to come across from the pants to the shirt, that represents my move from Philippines to New Zealand! While looking at the pants you may also notice that there are animal silhouettes, these are some of my favourites animals ; Pandas and bunnies!

Looking at the shirt, you may notice the three stars. These stars are actually supposed to typify the three stars on the Philippine flag symbolising Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, the three biggest island groups in the Philippines.

The colouring theme on the background (different shades of blue) is representing the colour blue on our Philippines flag, the colour means peace, truth and justice. I thought it’d be a good idea to add it in since it is what I believe in. You may also notice in the background that there are music notes (I also added in headphones to my character), this is to show my love for music. Sadly I do not play musical instruments but I love listening to music, It helps me relax and focus on what i’m doing. Music has helped many people in many ways. If you looked close enough you may see “Faye” that’s my name, I added it in because my name is part of who I am / my identity.

Another thing that I decided to add onto my art is half of the Philippines sun, the sun represents liberty and its eight rays represent the first eight provinces that revolted against Spain.

At the top right corner you may see a star sign/constellation, that’s mine! I’m Libra born on 2007, October 9.

The wings on my character represent development and growth, sort of initiating that i’m able to “fly” on my own. This shows that i’ve “grown up” in my opinion.

I quote this work as “Take pride in how far you’ve come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don’t forget to enjoy the journey!”. This is because, throughout my work you may notice that it’s mostly about me and how far i’ve come and developed as a person. An example for that is the wings detail that I added or how I mentioned my style and how it changed . I’m still developing in my journey each day. But I never forget to have as much fun as I can during that journey, it’s always better to enjoy rather than being dull, nonchalant and not doing the things you want to do.

That’s all for today, thank you!

Kia ora, in today’s blog we will be discussing the process of one of our recent activities which was print making! First thing we did was think of someone to do for the printing art, I chose to do Johnny Depp so that my last art would relate to this print making.

After we picked our person, we then printed out a picture of them. Once we’ve gotten that picture printed we got some acrylic sheet and rolled the ink onto it and covered the whole page, this is so that we can transfer the ink onto the paper later on which will make the art.

You then put the image of (chosen person) on top of the inked acrylic sheet and trace your image on top of it, make sure not to press down too hard because it may cause your art work to fail. This is called mono transferring.

After you’ve traced down every important detail of the image, you should then be taking the paper image off of the acrylic sheet. Your results should be shown by now and hopefully it turned out good.