Reflection Section ~ Millennial's

Video Title: Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace

Video Type: Interview on Youtube

Video Creator: Inside Quest

Purpose: To help understand Millennials and improve wellbeing through reducing screen time. 

Date: Thursday, June 2021
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"So you know we've all had it or you're feeling a little bit down or feeling a bit lonely and so you send out ten texts to ten friends you know hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, because it feels good when you get a response right right it's why we count the likes it's why we go back ten times to see if and if it's going if our my Instagram is growing slower I would do something wrong do they not like me any more right the trauma for young kids to be unfriended right because we know when you get it you get a hit a dopamine which feels good it's why we like it it's why we keep going back to it dopamine is the exact same chemical that makes us feel good when we smoke when we drink and when we gamble in other words it's highly addictive"

In this message Simon said how phones are addictive to our young generation because the dopamine that is in our bodies drags us towards it, just like drugs and alcohol or anything else you cannot resist phones do the same thing and the urge to check how much followers or likes you get on social media makes you happy, and for younger generations, just texting friends and getting a response can fulfil a child sadness. Whenever you get in a bad mood the first thing you would want to do is either go on your phone or do something that is addictive towards you. 

Simon, Explained to us why you shouldn't be charging your phone next to you whilst in your bedroom and whilst your sleeping, he said because its the temptation of it thats controlling us, if you leave your phone in the living room whilst it charges while you sleep you won't just walk up and go towards it, which removes the temptation. If you left your phone next to you whilst sleeping it will give you temptation to just go on it, keeping it in your room is like an addiction and if you remove that addiction life becomes easier to control. 

English Assignment ~ Short Film

For English, Our Assigned task was to organise and create a short film based on the written play "The Merchant of Venice".

Our Short Film is about two friends discovering a map and tracking this map around the globe, Little did they know that there was danger lurking in the distance, one of the men decides to take the treasure all to himself with greed but the intruders who tracked these men stopped him and took the treasure for themselves.

Our story retells the trial scene of the merchant of Venice using the saying"You reap what you sow" which also relates to "Karma". 

The one additional film techniques that we used was "Tracking Shot" for this shot we used it to hook the viewer in, and makes the viewer see and experience the side perspective of the characters.

Some Challenges that we experienced whilst making this film was organisation and lack of time because on some days not all of our group was here, and whenever we would start filming we would get a little off-task, Our learnings gained from these challenges was that we should have put more depth and more techniques in the film to make it feel more alive, also we learnt to stay on task and focus on what our assigned task was so that we can conquer the challenge of making the film.

What I would do differently next time is using more intriguing film techniques and focusing on completing all of the film techniques that were meant to be used and extra. Also, I would focus more on the editing part of the video and make it more dramatic!.

Living Springs- LandSar

Source: LandSAR (Land Search and Rescue)
Source purpose: To motivate people to join Search and Rescue as a volunteer.
Critical literacy question: What do they do?
Date: 28 May 2021

So at Camp, we met up with the other Project K Group they were a mix between Shirley & Linwood, but we met up with them in the morning and spent the whole night with them to get to know them, all of us got along pretty well we talked, laughed, joked and smiled a lot while we were hanging out with the Community Group.

But after that, we went for a night walk but when we were walking we got a surprise that we were walking to a spot with you have a rope and you can either go blindfolded or go normally ( either way you couldn't see ) but I chose to go blindfolded 

Groups go separated into 10 people in each, so 10 people head off then we wait for them to go and then another ten gets to go, but we didn't realize how fast we were going so we had to wait because the girl in front wanted to go fast, we waited for then to go and get to the top while we were just chilling in the bottom waiting until they called and said that they were at the top, so and soon as we went to walk the girl in front slipped but I was luckily enough to be standing right there to be able to save her, she wanted me to stay close to her just in case she fell again ( and there were more times she slipped ) but she was really thankful when we got up to the top.

So during the 3 Day Camp at Living Springs, we had some people come to the Camp Ground and teach us what to do if we ever got lost, stranded, or hurt in the middle of nowhere, There were 3 guys there teaching us all different things that they do for LandSAR.

I forgot all of their names but this is what they do for their job.

Guy #1 ~ Uses his dog to trace down people that are lost, have gone missing, or have stolen someone.

Guy #2 ~ Uses a no-legged stretcher and carries people that have badly injured themselves and can't walk or paralyzed people.

Guy #3 ~ Is a tracker he tracks people that have tried to hide and run from them after they have done something bad and try to run away, but he tracks the footprints that he had got given with fresh and old track marks.

(South Africa) Banning Lion Breeding!

South Africa Lion Breeding
South Africa’s Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment took steps toward ending the country’s captive lion breeding industry, beginning by stopping new permits for new captive lion facilities.

Why do they need help?
When lions get older, farms either use them for further breeding or sell them to hunting facilities. In “canned” hunts, the lion is kept in an enclosure for trophy hunters, who can then keep the heads and skins of the animals. The lions’ bones could then be exported—South Africa was one of few countries that allow the sale of lion bones. The new recommendations would end that trade. 

What's the Lion count?
South Africa counts between 8000 and 12000 lions at some 350 farms, by contrast around 3500 lions live in the wild in the country, according to the South African- based Endangered Wildlife Trust. Lions are kept in unhealthy and unethical conditions, conservations say and bred to ultimately be killed and their parts sold for trophies or for use in traditional medicines in Asia.