Parihaka - Tim Finn and The Herbs

Today for Social Studies we have started on a new unit, we are now focusing on Parihaka. Parihaka is a community in the Taranaki region of New Zealand, which is located between Mount Taranaki and the Tasman Sea. We had to explore what happened, what were the impacts and the songs made for Parihaka. The song we were given to explore was called "Parihaka" by Tim Finn.

Song: Parihaka

By: Tim Finn & The Herbs

My friend, My friend, I hate to see you suffer,

Events conspire to bring us to our knees,

My friend, my friend, you've taken this the wrong way, 

Rise up, defend yourself, never give in,

Look to the sky, the spirit of Te Whiti,

The endless tide is murmuring his name. 

I know Te Whiti will never be defeated,

And even at the darkest hour,

His presence will remain.

I'll sing to you the song of Parihaka.

Te Whiti he used the language of the spirit,

Then stood accused, the madman and his dream,

He saw the train go roaring through the tunnel,

He heard the voice travel on the magic wire,

But he loved the silence of the river,

He watched the dog piss on the cannon's wheel.

I know Te Whiti will never be defeated,

And even at the darkest hour,

His presence will remain.

I'll sing to you the song of Parihaka.

One day you'll know the truth,

They can't pull out the roots,

Come and take me home,

To weep for my lost brother.

They gather still, the clouds of Taranaki,

His children's children wearing the white plume,

So take me for the sins of these sad islands,

The wave still breaks on the rock of Rouhotu.

And when you taste the salt that's on your pudding,

And when you taste the sugar in your soup,

Think of Te Whiti, he'll never be defeated,

Even at the darkest hour,

His presence will remain,

I'll sing for you the song of Parihaka,

Come to Parihaka,

Weep for my lost brother,

The spirit of nonviolence,

Has come to fill the silence, Come to Parihaka.

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What was the main message of this song & what line explains their passive resistance method?

The main message of the songs was to tell about Parihaka and how it made huge impacts to other people who went through this. The line "The spirit of nonviolence, Has come to fill the silence, Come to Parihaka" shows how they showed passive resistance without any bloodshed or fighting, they did this without violence. 

What does 'you can't pull out the roots' refer to?

This line 'you can't pull out the roots' meant that the British couldn't snatch or take their heritage or their culture away from them, the British couldn't remove them from Parihaka.

Give evidence of their determination & how does this song show the significance of Parihaka?

"Rise up, defend yourself, never give in,"

This part of the song shows and tells how the British tried to bring down their culture, their heritage and remove the Māori from their land, but the Māori people didn't give up easily and fought for their land without showing violence or bloodshed. But instead, show passive resistance meaning no violence or brutal force against the soldiers, simply resisting to fight but show peace to them.

"I know Te Whiti will never be defeated,

And even at the darkest hour,

His presence will remain."

This part gives the hint that he will be remembered in these times and onward where Te Whiti will be remembered by everyone, especially the Māori who got affected by this harsh event, that meaning that even though this happened in the past doesn't mean he has to be forgotten of how he handled the situation where his land, his culture and his heritage taken from them by the government by encouraging his own people of Parihaka to defend their land by using friendly and peaceful methods.

Heating Zinc Oxide

Aim: What change happens when we heat Zinc Oxide?

Equipment: Bunsen Burner, Heat mat, Tripod, Safety Glasses, Crucible, Crucible Holder, Zinc Oxide

Results: The Zinc Oxide got heated up it turned yellow but when the heat was turned off it turned white again.

Discussion: When Zinc Oxide heated up it loses its oxygen by the heat and most of the heat is removed from the Oxide, the electrons for the Zinc move to the next level making it change colour. meaning the oxygen atoms are removed but once the heat is gone the oxygen in the air will come back into the Zinc changing the colour back to white again.

Zinc Oxide on Bunsen Burner

Zinc Oxide slowly heating up

Zinc Oxide Heated up / COLOUR CHANGED TO YELLOW-ISH GREEN

Bunsen Burner Off and Zinc Oxide cooling down and turning back into White

Spiritual - Music Through Time | Social Studies

 What is Spiritual?

Spiritual is a type of song or a religious song. They were sung by the slaves and practised them when they had special meetings together which in other words is called the bush meeting. At the meeting, the slaves will practice singing, dancing and chant. These meetings were done outside so the Americans would not find anything suspicious about the meetings. These Spiritual songs were sung to grow the slave's courage and give them hope, they had their own church to sing at and as well as in funerals. But the salves took advantage of this and made secret messages within the song to help them escape.

Harriet Tubman an ex-slave escaped and was very famous for helping thousands of slaves escape, she used songs to send secret messages to slaves. She used the Underground Railroad which was basically secret tunnels or passageways used to sneak the slaves out of the slave state. The underground railroad was a network with secret routes and safe houses to escape the slave state and move towards the free states.

So I chose one of the songs that I want to explain and tell you what hidden messages were or what was behind the song, I chose 'Wade in the Water' because I understood the messages clearly and it was very impressive to me and also truly an intelligent one. The ones highlighted in yellow were the key secret messages...

Wade in the water meant to swim in the water, these messages went to the children instructing them to get into the water and follow a specific trail that led through the water. The reason they made the children go into the water because dogs could easily pick up their scent, in the water it is much harder to track the children in the water. Sure dogs can swim but they cannot pick up their scent if the children were to walk on land the dogs could easily pick the scent because the children did not shower daily making it much easier for the dogs to track them down. Children all dressed in (Red, White, Blue) meant the children themselves who wore the coloured clothes and other messages meant that someone was waiting at the end for them and that they had gotten through safely. It was quite interesting to me how they communicated using music and I liked this song the most.  

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Chorus: Wade in the Water, wade in the water children.

Wade in the Water. God’s gonna trouble the water.
Who are those children all dressed in Red?
God’s gonna trouble the water.
Must be the ones that Moses led.
God’s gonna trouble the water.

Chorus

Who are those children all dressed in White?
God’s gonna trouble the water.
Must be the ones of the Israelites.
God’s gonna trouble the water.

Chorus

Who are those children all dressed in Blue?
God’s gonna trouble the water.
Must be the ones that made it through.
God’s gonna trouble the water.

Chorus

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In these modern days, it is quite significant during these times and America talk and have negotiations about the impacts of slavery. Black Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter actions use slavery and violence or injustices that happened in the past and continued to be used during these protests. The slave songs are still sung during these times and most of the music was inspired by the slave songs, genres like Blues, Soul, RnB, Gospel, Rap and Rock n Roll.

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Chaos - Fleas and Rats

Last week we started a new focus on a topic which is "The Black Death", we had learnt how this disease spread around the globe and what caused it to become one of the most dangerous disease on Earth. The Black Death came to Europe in 1347 and killed millions, in medieval times places like the houses and towns were not so clean and had poor hygiene which made it easier for the Black Death to spread. It first started in Asia and spread among soldiers, it then travelled across over-seas and popular trading places which then the traders caught the disease making it a whole lot easier for it to spread around the globe. Now how this started was it began from Fleas and Rats, rats were mostly common in middle ages, due to the poor hygiene the rats were everywhere (houses, trading ships, churches, farms, castles & etc). We assume that when fleas bite the rodents and since rodents are in common places like houses it then transfers to humans and much quicker for it to spread.

Black Death Transfer

Dilution - Science

Today in science we did an experiment on the topic Dilution, we had to first learn what dilution is another basic information about it. When doing the experiment we needed to know what was happening, a few things we picked up from previous lessons of science helped because we are able to describe what is happening. This covered what Solute, Solvent & Solution meant, including Dilution. 

Dilute : Making the solvent less concentrated(Weaker)

Solute : The substance being dissolved

Solvent : The liquid that does the dissolving

Solution : The mixture that forms as a result of combining together 

Concentration : A measure of how much solute has been dissolved into the solvent.

Aim : TO MAKE A DILUTION SERIES TO INVESTIGATE CONCENTRATION

Hypothesis: I think that every time we transfer the concentrated liquid to a clear water it will be diluted meaning less concentrated and transferring that to another clear water will make it even more diluted as the one before.

Equipment :

- Potassium Permanganate

- Test Tubes (x6)

- Test Tube Rack

- Measuring Cylinder

- Pipette 

Method:

• Place the six test tubes in a test tube rack. Label the rack with numbers 1 - 6.
• Using the measuring cylinder, fill test tube 1 with 10 mL of water. Fill the remaining test tubes with 5 mL of water.
• Using your tweezers, add a single crystal of potassium permanganate to test tube 1.
• Gently shake the test tube until the crystal has dissolved.
• Using the transfer pipette, carefully remove exactly 5 mL from test tube 1 and pour it into test tube 2.
• Rinse the transfer pipette thoroughly to ensure that no purple solution remains.
• Gently shake test tube 2 and repeat the transfer process, transferring exactly 5 mL of solution from test tube 2 to test tube 3.
• Rinse the pipette again and repeat the transfer process for test tubes 4, 5 and 6.

Review:

Once the results came in we have already noticed that the test tube 1 has a visible colour meaning it isn't diluted yet also meaning that it is highly concentrated with the potassium permanganate particles in the liquid. As we transferred the solution from one test tube to another it became less concentrated, this means that there are less particles also can be told by its colour changing. In my opinion as I said before making the solution transfer to a clear water made the potassium permanganate less concentrated since there was more liquid. It is now very clear that the first test tube is the least diluted meaning it has high concentration and the least concentrated will be the last one which barely has any colour or potassium permanganate in it.

Budgeting Guide - Business Studies

Last week on Friday we have been making a Budgeting Guide, it was mainly to help other people learn about budgeting techniques and key things that they should always keep in mind when budgeting or even buying items or products. This was required to be made differently so I decided to use Canva to make it more creative.

CREDIT: Canva.com

Link to Infographic for better quality: Budget Guide