Thursday, 28 May 2020

Gender roles in music

Anybodies- West side story
LGBTI
Smoking- social changes, peer pressure
High school cliques
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=apex+predator
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Rolls in musical 
I don't think its really fair that people in wheelchair don't get a chance to 
be on stage just because they have a disability.  everyone should get a 
chance to live there dreams even if you have a disability. 

Here is a artificial I found on physical disabilities take the rare spotlight on Broadway.
https://www.respectability.org/2019/04/physical-disabilities-broadway/

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Relationships

Online relationships are not as important as real life relationships-


With an online relationship you can not see them in real life you can only text or Skype them. But with a real life relationship you can actually go on a date with them. With an online relationship though you could be with them for longer . And you can just stay in one place instead of having to go everywhere. Another bonus of being in a online relationship is that if someone breaks up with you you would not be as sad or depressed However being in a real life relationship is more important. And being on a online relationship you could be cat fished.Real life relationships could be worse like you boyfriend or girlfriend could be abusive or not give you all the right that you deserve to have.

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Baking Cupcakes

A few weeks ago before Covid-19 we baked cupcakes in groups of four, On the first day we started making the main part of it, making the actual bottom part itself we put ingredients in mixed it and then heated it in the oven as usual. I don't really remember making the cupcakes but i will give it a go. Day two, This day was making the mixture for the icing on the top of the cupcake and there were multiple flavours for the icing, my group and me choose the raspberry flavor because we all agreed on it, and once we mixed the mixture we were ready to put on the m&ms and other sprinkles to get the cupcake finished. It tasted extraordinary and we all enjoyed it.

Here is our finished product,

Welcome to PE at level 2

Positive: Being able to do more gaming and Spending time with pets.

Negative: Not being able to communicate with friends.

What i did as fitness/PE during lock down: Walked my dog everyday/ran.

Starter: Just dance
Lesson:Warm ups, push ups, relays
Warm down game: Octopus

Sunday, 3 May 2020

Baking Scones At Home

Ingredients: 
  • 3 cups self-raising flour OR 3 cups plain flour and 6 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp table salt
  • 60g butter, cubed
  • 1 ¼ cups milk
  • Whipped cream and jam to serve / if wanted
Process: 
1. Preheat oven to 230oC (210 oC fan-bake).
2. Lightly grease and flour a baking tray or line with baking paper.
3. Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
4. Rub butter into flour using just your fingertips, until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
5. Add milk all at once, mix in quickly with a round-bladed knife to form a soft dough. Add more milk if necessary.
6. Turn dough out onto a floured surface and knead lightly by turning and pressing with heel of hand 3 or 4 times.
7. Pat or gently roll out to a 2cm-thick round. Cut into 4-5cm rounds with a floured cutter, re-rolling offcuts.
8. Place on baking tray, brush tops with extra milk.
9. Bake for 12-15 minutes, until golden and well risen.
10. Serve with whipped cream and jam / if you want.


Difficulties: What i found difficult was Finding out what knead meant so i got some help by my sister.

Source: https://www.countdown.co.nz/recipes/1862/scones

Final product: It tasted nice and i added onion to make more texture to it... My family tried it and liked it and i felt proud. It smelt nice and i was waiting by the oven just to make it perfect. I needed to make them even so they dont look very even but i tried my best, and accomplished baking scones. Here is a photo of the final product.

Friday, 1 May 2020

How bones grow?

All information is from the, 'How Bones Grow' video.

Osteoblasts, the makers, have a counterpart called osteoclasts, the recyclers. Osteoclasts break down the unneeded mineral lattice using acid and enzymes so that osteoblasts can then add more material. As calculated by Wolff’s Law, that makes osteoclasts more active than osteoblasts, ending in a loss of bone mass and strength. When bones break, the body has an amazing ability to repair the bone as if it never happened.

First, doctors extract stem cells from the patient’s fat tissue and take CT scans to find the exact dimensions of the missing bone. Next, they model the exact shape of the hole, either with 3D printers or by carving with decellularized cow bones. Those are the bones where all of the cells have been stripped away, leaving only the sponge-like mineral lattice. They then add the patient's stem cells to this lattice and place it in a bioreactor, a device that will simulate all of the conditions found inside the body. Temperature, humidity, acidity and nutrient composition all need to be just right for the stem cells to differentiate into osteoblasts and other cells, colonise the mineral lattice, and remodel it with living tissue. Remember Wolff’s Law? An artificial bone needs to experience real stress, or else it will come out weak and brittle, so the bioreactor constantly pumps fluids around the bone, and the pressure tells the osteoblasts to add bone density. Put all of this together, and within three weeks, the now living bone is ready to come out of the bioreactor and to be implanted into the patient's body.

What makes joints click?

All information is from the, 'Why do joints click?' and 'Here's what happens to your knuckles when you crack them' video.


The most common explanation on why your joints sound like bubbles popping is well, there are bubbles in there. When you stretch out that joint, you are releasing gas, and that gas forms a bubble, it collapses and pops. The joints in your fingers are the easiest to crack, but many people also crack their hips, wrists, shoulders, necks, shoulders and so on. 

Knuckle-crackers know that to get that satisfying pop, you stretch the joint farther than it normally goes by bending your fingers backwards, for example, when that happens, the bones move away from each other. The space between the bones gets bigger, but the amount of synovial fluid stays constant. That creates a low-pressure zone, that pulls dissolves gases out of the synovial fluid, that pulls dissolved gases out of the synovial fluid, just like the carbon dioxide that fizzes out of soda when you twist open the cap. Inside the joint, the escaping gases from a bubble with a pop. 

The reason knuckle cracking is like that because it contains lots of dissolved gas molecules, like other fluids in your body. But the bubble doesn’t last long. The surrounding fluid presses on it until it finally collapses. The bubbles gases scatter throughout the synovial cavity and slowly dissolve back into the fluid. In order to crack the same muscle again, you have to wait for around 20 minutes for the gas to return back to that fluid. 

Some scientists think there may by two pops. One when the bubble forms, and other when it bursts. Dr Donald Unger was a self-described researcher who chose to pop the joints in one of his hands for 50 years but not the other one and he wanted to find out if popping your knuckles would actually five your arthritis. After 50 years of doing it, he found that he didn’t have any more arthritis in one hand than the other.

There is still a chance it’s not good for you. One 1990 study did find that cracking your knuckles over a long period of time led to hand swelling and decreased scrip strength, but there hasn’t been any follow-up research on that. While knuckle cracking might not be bad for you, there’s still no guarantee that your popping habit won’t annoy the people around you.

Year 10 Writing Portfolio (English)

For my English Portfolio, I am adding my favourite writing work that I've accomplished this year. My work is getting better over time an...