What is Local goverment?

 Do you know what local goverment is?. Well if you read this post then maybe you will have a fair idea of what it is. As you know I was working on what SNA is. But along with that I learn't about Local goverment and their responsibilities. Why we studied this is because it has a big impact to do with SNA. Here is a google slides of what I've recently found out about local goverment.

What is SNA?

Kia ora this blog is going to be about SNA. For the past three weeks we have been learning about what Sna is.  We have some questions that help us get a better understanding about what Sna is, Whos involved with it, How it impacts land owners and buyers. They may make it sound like its a good deed for the communities or it helps in some way but in my opinion I think that it makes people really poor and people waste their money and time on land they buy if its marked as SNA. Anyways  I hope you leave with some sort of idea or facts about SNA.

Question One: What is SNA?

SNA stands for SIGNIFICANT NATURAL AREA. Its something that you can't touch because there's a natural resources on that land.  So even though you own land that you brought, if the government says its a sna then you cant play on it touch it dig near it or build anything on it because the goverment said.

Question two: What are some specific rules to do with SNA?

• You can't dig anything up near the natural area.
• You can't build anything on or near a significant area.
• If you find any gold on your land the ownership automatically goes to the goverment.

Question three: Interesting facts I found out about SNA.

• 1991 Someone dug up a cemetery in paora because it had enough sand to ship over to mission bay.
• If you want to build or deforest on your land you need to get permission and pay a sum of money to the SNA people.

So this is as far as I got with researching and discussing about in classes. To be very honest, I've had three teachers tell me about SNA and their success. First one My OG teacher ( Whaea Liv), She gives us a clear understanding about SNA and the one that gave us the questions. The second teacher that was in the army gave us a really great definition of what SNA is, Who created it, if it was bad or if it was good, Some of the perks to do with SNA and interesting things about the people that run SNA. Our third teacher ( Whaea Edith) she gave us a basic understanding on what people are doing nowadays with SNA.

Kia ora and that is all I've got to say.

The holocaust reflection.

 We've been on this topic for awhile now what human rights are what is the holocaust?. We've done all different activity even learnt how to make my own podcast. We had to watch plenty of videos so we could get answers to questions. It was really difficult at times just trying to get all of it done in the time given. What was easy? I would say none of it when your starting something new its never easy only if you've done something similar to it. well thats what i think anyways. Whats something i learnt? is that without Cyrus the great there would still be wars in every country to this day.

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton.

 The book, The Outsiders is about gangs,stealing and friendship. Johnny that have been treated terribly by his family and couldn't lean on anyone but the people that are in the gang. Darry, Soda and Ponyboy's parents died in a car crash and therefore have nobody but each other to rely on.

The idea of a person being deemed an outsider makes me feel relieved that I don't feel this way.

Reading what they were brought up around with violence from the people that are suppose to love them, not hit them made me feel sad. It shocked me that they couldn't even walk outside without a blade in their pocket because they might get jumped. I'm relieved that Johnny didn't tolerate his parents' behaviours anymore because he could depend and rely on their friends in their gang instead. I think parents should look after their kids and treat them with love and care.

Something which shocked me in the book was when Cherry and Marcia were actually nice to Greasers even though they were Socs, they didn't judge Johnny and Ponyboy only Dally but it was his fault that he was treating them with disrespect. I think if you want peoples' respect you must be kind and respectful to other people.

Podcast

Kia ora, The video down below is based on me where I come from,my interest,hobbies,family and goals for the future. This is my first ever podcast so im not real good at it. If the video doesn't play my bad I used online voice recorder and saved my voice recording and then converted it into a mp4 because it wouldn't upload as a sound but as a video. But if it does work then I hope you enjoy:).

 

Dark side of chocolate.

  Cocoa beans.

For the past two weeks we have been learning in social studies how cocoa beans can relate to human rights. I found out that kids from Africa get forced to collect cocoa beans, there parents would rather them work instead of going to school and learn. They work 84 hours a week, 12 hours a day and get paid 10$ an hour. Witch is not minimum wage but what ever the kids get the parents take. It all comes back to human rights our main topic for this term. Here is my map about were cocoa beans come from originally, the places that have cocoa beans, the places that force kids to make chocolate, places that use cocoa beans for chocolate at the factory's and the places that sell chocolate. Hope you enjoy:).

 

Science report.

What each heading means in a science report.

Title: A brief heading.
Aim: Sentence describing what you were trying to find out in the experiment.
hypothesis: A guess.
Method: Description of what was done, including diagrams.
Results: Sentence, diagrams,tables or graphs showing what you found out.
Conclusion:Sentence Summarising what you found out.