The War On Terror

Kia Ora

Now in Social Science we are learning a bit about the War on Terror. Here is the learning I have done for this unit.

9/11 (Week 1)

We are first learning about 9/11. I learned that everyone has different experiences of 9/11 and has been impacted differently. For our task, we first filled in the times of different events that happened on 9/11. Then we compared different stories of people impacted on 9/11 and then a paragraph on how people were impacted differently and what their stories tell us about human courage. Here is my work:

 

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Auto-Brewery Syndrome-Legend Passion Area

In this blog post I will be discussing about Auto-Brewery Syndrome. Below is an image of the health sickness:

 

Auto-Brewery Syndrome is when the body experience intoxication from normal food and drinks due to an overgrowth of specific types of fungus and you can get intoxicated just like drinking alcohol without actually drinking alcohol. Instead people with this syndrome can get intoxicated from regular food or drinks that contains: carbohydrates, yeast, or bacteria that thrives in that area of the body. The symptoms you can experience are the following:Preview (opens in a new tab)

1.Aches and pains also including in the stomach

2.Bloating

3.Changes in bowel movements

4.Fatigue,

5. Nasal discharge, productive cough (or one that produces phlegm), and sinusitis

6.Problems with concentration, memory, and thought processes

7.Sugar cravings

The main treatment for this is changing your diet, reducing consumption of simple sugar, refined carbohydrates, yeast products, and moldy food.  You may also need to take medication like vitamins and nutrient supplements in order to give your body the level of nutrients it needs.

 

This Syndrome is very serve and has many effects on hauora.  For example Auto-Brewery Syndrome can impact your Taha tinana because you can easily become intoxicated and become very weak easily due to your body not being able to achieve levels of nutrients it needs through a normal diet. Auto-Brewery Syndrome can also impact your Taha hinengaro as since you can become easily intoxicated you can get very aggressive and have mood swings and Instability. Auto-Brewery Syndrome can impact your Taha Whanau as you when you eat/drink regular food it can make you intoxicated and cause you to always get into an argument with your friends and family. Lastly Auto-Brewery Syndrome can negatively impact your taha wairua as it clouds your judement and sperate you from your beliefs/religion/ and values.

 

What area of Hauora does this effect the most? The area of Hauora that Auto-Brewery Syndrome effects the most is Taha tinana because the body undergoes physical intoxication, resulting in slurred speech, a staggering gait, dizziness, and hangovers without drinking alcohol.

What area of Hauora does this effect the least? The area of Hauora that Auto-Brewery Syndrome effects the least is Taha Wairua (spiritual well-being).

What are misunderstanding people think about Auto-Brewery Syndrome? Common misunderstanding about about Auto-Brewery Syndrome (ABS)—also known as gut fermentation syndrome—center around the belief that it is fake, hidden alcoholism, or a that its excuses for your moral failing rather than that it is legitimate medical illness.

 

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Art ( David Hockney ) 🎨🖌

Hey there bloggers,

I know it’s been a while since I have blogged about something. Now I want to show you something.

this is my digital painting. Hope it’s good.

 

So our goal for this project was to understand the techniques of digital painting and the works of David Hockney.  Things I unexpectedly learnt was hatching, circles, and techniques like that. The steps it took were very hard because I haven’t done digital painting before.

Here are some pictures of some experiments I have done

  These techniques added to the final work because of layering to make it look realistic ( which I failed to do ). I enjoyed making the landscape in general because I like making landscapes. Something I struggled with is controlling the tablet and pen cause it kept glitching. If I could do it again, I would take a more simple one and use colour theory and hatching skills more instead of smudging it.

Here is something that I think represents the learning ( I made this ) ]

 

Thanks for reading this post. BYEEEE!!!!

 

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Developmental Theorists Task

Researching Developmental Theorists – Ruku

 

Complete this task on your BLOG. 

 

Choose 2 developmental theorists that we have discussed and complete the tasks below.

 

 

You can use Google, podcasts, books, and information you have learnt in class to complete your research.  

 

You MUST present your work in your own words; the use of AI is not permitted. 

 

Question Sentence starters – if needed Supporting Evidence 
  1. Name both theorists that you have chosen.
Albert Bandura and David Buss

Images, quotes, and referencing are completed correctly. 

  1. Explain what each theorist is famous for (provide evidence of this – website links, pictures, links to slideshows or podcasts).
Albert Bandura is famous for showing that people learn by watching and copying others, while David Buss is famous for explaining how our dating and relationship choices come from human evolution.
  1. Describe how you believe the discovery of their work has changed how day to day life works today or will work in the future. Make sure you include PIS in your answers.
Albert Bandura’s discovery showed that people learn by watching others, shaping how schools and tech systems build confidence today, while in the future, smart simulations will help us practice everyday skills step-by-step. 
  1. Choose another theory or discovery of work, and explain the similarities and differences between the two theories. Be sure to include at least 2 similarities and 2 differences. 
The discovery of the Social Learning Theory by Albert Bandura has meant that we understand how watching others shapes our mental state Taha Hinengaro and daily habits. S

In the future this means smart tools will help us build inner confidence Taha Wairua by showing us positive family and community role models to follow Taha Whānau.

  1. Describe how understanding what each chosen theory means can positively and negatively impact your Hauora. Be sure to cover all areas of Hauora. 
Knowing how the theory of Social Learning and Operant Conditioning works impacts my Hauora by using role models and rewards to build up my mind Taha Hinengaro, family ties Taha Whānau, body health Taha Tinana, and inner strength Taha Wairua, but it can hurt my well-being if I copy bad influences, compare myself to fake online people, or only do things for quick prizes.

 

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Service animal

What are service animals and therapy animals?

• Service animals are working dogs that have been individually trained to perform specific tasks or duties directly for the benefit of individuals with disabilities.
• Therapy animals are animals that have received specific certification and are used in settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, or community facilities. Working alongside professionals, they provide “animal-assisted therapy”—offering companionship and interaction to help individuals alleviate emotional distress and improve their physical or psychological well-being.

What health conditions can service animals help manage? (List at least 5)

• Visual Impairment: Guide dogs assist individuals with visual impairments in navigating their daily environment—helping them avoid obstacles, traverse stairs, and move about safely.
• Hearing Impairment: Hearing dogs alert individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to significant sounds, such as doorbells, fire alarms, telephone rings, or a baby crying.
• Epilepsy and Seizure Disorders: Seizure alert/response dogs can warn their owners before a seizure occurs, protect them from injury during an episode, and assist with recovery or seek help from others afterward.
• Diabetes: Diabetic alert dogs use their keen sense of smell to detect chemical changes in the body’s odor caused by dangerously high or low blood sugar levels, providing timely alerts so their owners can take corrective action.
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Psychiatric service dogs help individuals manage PTSD, panic attacks, and severe anxiety. They can detect the onset of emotional distress, provide “deep pressure therapy” to help calm their owners, or perform tasks such as entering an unfamiliar space first to turn on lights or creating a buffer zone to provide personal space.

How can having a service animal contribute to an individual’s physical and mental well-being (hauora)?

Having a service animal can effectively reduce an individual’s anxiety levels, facilitate daily activities, and significantly enhance their capacity for independent living by providing round-the-clock physical and mental support, as well as emotional companionship.

Provide images showing how service animals assist with 4 different health conditions.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UdtdnVHN7JxHx6VHGxEUjdRFd9cOzpcP96197NFhqdk/edit?tab=t.0

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FBI – The final reflection assessment

Copy of FBI – Ruku Assessment

 

We covered the human brain and the parts that control our emotions and personality. Based on what you have learnt, what happens to the brain when trauma (a hit to the head, not receiving enough food, sleep, or love from caregivers, losing oxygen to the brain, etc) occurs? How might someone behave compared to someone who hasnt had trauma Someone who has had trauma in a vital part of their system can experience these symptoms but depending on how severe and what injury you have tooken they can be differnt headaches nausea vomiting dizzinesss sensitivuty to light sound blurry vision hearing problems memory issues bad conentraction

 

 

Knowing our personality type can assist us with understanding not only ourselves but also other people. Do you think someone might behave differently if they are aware of their personality type? Why/ Why not? – Think OCEAN personality test Why not is because you are yourself and may see things differently and other people can analyze how your personality is and why is because you can have personality habits that are chronic

 

If you were a criminal investigator, what steps would you follow to solve a crime? Secure the crime scene to protect evidence from being ruined or changed
Document everything by taking photos videos and drawing detailed sketches
Search for evidence like DNA fingerprints weapons or digital data
Interview witnesses and separate them so they dont influence each others stories
Analyze the clues in a lab to connect a suspect to the scene
Interrogate suspects and check their alibis against the facts
Build the case into a detailed timeline to present to a prosecutor

 

What questions might you ask eyewitnesses? (include at least 5)
What did you see happen

Were where you exactly positioned
What did you notice before this crime
Describe the key suspects and witnesses involved
What happened right after the incident

 

What questions might you ask possible suspects(include at least 5)
Where were you when the crime happened
Who were you with at that time
Did you know the victim
Why was your car/phone seen near the area
What did you do after you left that location

 

What types of communication would you use to assist you in solving a crime? (think back to when we discussed verbal and non-verbal communication) suspects facial expressions suspicious traits when coming to a criminal or liar sweating hand gestures respectful communication which reduces anxiety or other conditions

 

How might being involved in criminal behaviour impact an individuals Hauora (cover all 4 areas)
If your hurt during the crime this can impact physical well being and sometimes lead to chronic pain if severe
If you engage in behaviour that degrades mana and authority and violating their boundaries can lead to spiritual emptiness in spiritual well being if you experience lying or offensive actions manipulation can all lead to a destruction of trust impacting social well being
Individuals can sometimes experience fear in rejection anxiety guilt or shame or brain fog

 

Based on what we discussed in class, what are examples of PIS (personal, interpersonal & societal) factors/influences that may lead to someone committing a crime (include at least 2 from each level) Eg people in their neighbourhood committing a crime Bullying someone leads to psychological torment pushing them over the edge causing them to commit a crime like murder usually for the purpose of revenge Growing up in a household with violence child neglect or having family members who have been incarcerated which can normalise criminal coping mechanisms

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FBI – the final reflection assesment

  1. What happens to the brain when trauma occurs and how does it behave differently from others.

From what I have learned and what I was teached trauma occurs when a overwhelming, deeply frightening thing breaks a persons self safety, which leaves the brain unresponsive or unable to process the experience so when a event occurs that makes the brain remember what happens, it inflicts a temporary shock in the mind which instantly activates a flight or fight mode, flooding the system with stress hormones and things like adrenaline.

With this people with trauma have deeply affected their brains cognitive system on how their nervous system and brain feels when a event happens.

2. How do people behave differently if they understand their personality

I think that understanding your own personality can make a huge switch from automatic reactions like things you say instantly when something happens into deliberate choices. So rather than trying to change who they are for people they change or manipulate the environment around them to suit their tendencies to their liking.

3. Crime investigation

  1. What questions might you ask eyewitnesses? (include at least 5) – what I would ask an eye witness would be a recall question to make them try and remember what happend in the incident, for example ”please tell me what happend in the incident from start to finish”, then a visibility questions asking like, ”how far were you from this incident”. then a time question asking about times, some like” what time did you arrive and what time did this take place”. For the final two questions I would ask about the people involved and how many, then ending with ”what actions or sounds they saw or heard”giving a brief but good interrogation to grab bits and parts to find out about what happend.

 

2. What questions might you ask possible suspects? (include at least 5) – I would ask a possible suspect a start of something simple, then going into more serious things like behaviour and post incident credibility, mixed with relationship to the incident. A five question interrogation i would commense would be starting with can you state your full name, adress, and conatct information for the record to low ball then ramp it up with ”where exactly were between (times) and (times) during the day of the incident”, then again ramping up the middle with a question like, ”when was the last time you spoke to or saw them”, and ending both questions by ”asking why do you think someone would say they saw you there.” and ”what did you do right after the incident” to end it off.

 

3. What types of communication would you use to assist you in solving a crime? (think back to when we discussed verbal and non-verbal communication.)  

I would use both verbal and non verbal by actively listening trying to figure out clues while their talking and try to speak in a calm demeaner depending on who I was talking to, while also trying to use structured questioning to give me a baseline on what I am trying to get out of the person with me understanding simple and neat. Then using non verbal I can use their body language to understand if they are calm, stressed or anxious. This would allow me to read if their lying or telling the truth about each sentance they are saying.

4. How might being involved in criminal behavior impact an individual’s Hauora? (cover all 4 areas)

Taha Tinana  –

physical violence – high likelihood of physical violence like sustaining injuries, wounds, or permanent trauma from conflicts with different kinds of people.

Substance abuse – things like cocaine, drugs, and alcohol can lead to drastic changes like organ damage and elevated changes of risk when daily consumption.

Taha Hinegaro –

Shame and Guilt – feeling guilty to who you’ve just dragged into the crime could consist of your mother and the authority, using her to get information about you can bring great shame, feeling guilty on what you’ve done.

fear – Living in constant fear of being caught by the police or retaliated against by others creates persistent anxiety and paranoia.

Taha Whanau –

Strained relationships – Trust is destroyed within the family, causing alienation, domestic stress, and shame.

Negative environments – Legitimate social networks are replaced by antisocial or malevolent groups that reinforce harmful habits.

Taha Wairua –

Loss of identity and purpose -Disconnecting from cultural values, societal norms, and positive goals leaves a spiritual gap.

Moral misalignment – Acting in opposition to basic human empathy and communal values creates a profound internal disconnect, leaving the individual feeling spiritually gapped.

5. – Based on what we discussed in class, what are examples of PIS (personal, interpersonal & societal) factors/influences that may lead to someone committing a crime? (include at least 2 from each level). E.g. people in their neighborhood committing a crime.

Personal factors –

Substances – again things like substances, by the types of alcohol can drastically higher the drive to do reckless crimes.

home environments – Growing up with severe family conflict, neglect, or observing violence can make individuals to aggression and reduce emotional regulation.

societal factors –

High neighbourhood crime rates – Living in an area with low collective efficacy, where criminal activity is visible and common, lowers the perceived risk of legal consequences.

interpersonal factors –

Peer pressure and delinquent networks – Associating with friends who engage in anti-social behaviour can normalize or encourage illegal activities to maintain social status.

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Climate Change Consequences

  • What is climate change?

Climate changes are the changes and shifts happening in the Earth’s climate over a long period of time. Averaging weather patterns and graphs in one specific place to measure climate change.

  • What is causing climate change?

As of now, the main culprit for the causes of climate change would be humanity. Releasing a substantial amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for decades (approximately 60 years) to use for our agriculture, transportation, and electricity sources. The energy to power these sources and releasing carbon dioxide into the climate comes from greenhouse gasses, burning fossil fuels and nonrenewable energy, which have caused combustion in the atmosphere creating severe weather shifts and climate changes.

However, before human activities, carbon dioxide and heavy soot could be found from the eruptions of volcanoes. Causing similar weather events to Earth. The key difference is that the volcanoes are natural, doing it at a steady pace to help Earth’s atmosphere and allow infrared radiation and keep temperatures stable, but humans are proceeding this process way too fast and an unsteady rate from the amount of greenhouse gasses released into the atmosphere.

Greenhouse gasses include carbon dioxide, methane – cow fart, nitrous oxide, and water vapor. All contributing to rising global temperatures and extreme weather events. This happens from human activities that go through the process of combustion, releasing carbon dioxide and water vapor into the atmosphere, such as burning coal/nonrenewable energy, and causing the sun’s heat to get trapped and have the Earth’s temperature rapidly rise. Although, some greenhouse gasses are natural and needed to keep temperatures on earth warm and have the ability to grow crops. The natural greenhouse gas is water vapor, but when combined with carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, it causes the atmosphere to be filled with dangerous gasses and rise in temperature, as they trap infrared radiation from Earth’s surface.

The greenhouse gases will then cause extreme weather events as the sun’s radiation will not have anywhere to bounce off if the atmosphere is weakening, and rely on the white ice caps. This creates a chain of events as ice caps rises, more moisture is released into the air, sea level rises, more rain, wind, and storms are up in our clouds, and affect humanity and cause disasterous weather events, therefore, climate change.

  • In 2019, the “school strike 4 climate” movement started in Aotearoa. It’s still continuing today. Why do ākonga (students) throughout Aotearoa and globally want to go on strike from school and protest?

Many students across the globe have chosen to strike and protest as a way for policies/systems and constitutions to change in order to protect the earth. From a continuation of burning fossil fuels, greenhouse gasses, and mass production of agriculture and instead switch to renewable energy sources and declare a climate emergency, regerative economies and go against environmental destruction.

Having students go out and protest instead of being at school would send a very strong message to the political leaders of today. As Greta Thunberg stated, “This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!”. It shows how there isn’t any point in going to school to study in future, if there is no hope for a future. Young audiences sacrifice learning time just for the leaders of today and hope something is done to prevent further weather destruction, habitat loss, global rising temperatures and extinction, so that the children of today can live in a proper environment that they are inevitably forced to inherit.

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Junaid – Titan Climate change blog

  1. What is climate change and how do we know its happening (hint: relate to keeling curve/graph activity)?

Climate change is the long-term differences in the global temperatues and weather-patterns. They are primarily from human activities like burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas. When we burn these fuels they release greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and these gases wrap around the planet like a blanket which makes the Earths heat trapped and making the global temperatures rise. A quote showing how dangerous this is for us and the Earth: “We are smothering the planet with greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels, creating a blanket around the Earth that traps heat and forces global temperatures to rise. It is our activities—our destruction of the natural world—that have caused this crisis.” – Dr Jane Goodall. We know that climate change is happening because of scientific evidence using a graph called the Keeling Curve. The Keeling Curve is a long-term graph where it tracks the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earths atmosphere.

2. What is causing climate change? (150 words)

Climate change is mainly caused from human activities that that release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the greenhouse gases that normally release from these human activties are carbon dioxide, methane and more. The primary cause of climate change is burning fossil fuels, fossil fuels are coal, oil, and natural gas. Humans burn fossil fuels for transport, industry, and energy. In complete combustion it reacts carbon in the fossil fuels with oxygen to make more carbon dioxide and incomplete combustion means releasing soot and carbon monoxide. These gases can make the greenhouse effects more intense. Earth would reflect back solar heat into space but because of the greenhouse gases Earth gets hotter as the greenhouse gases act as a blanket which warms the blanket. Other things that cause climate changes are Deforestation which is cutting down forests and trees which release  the stored carbon dioxide. It also takes away trees that absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, Agriculture and Livestock with Cows and sheep in where they make huge amounts of methane when their digesting and release greenhouse gases.

3. In 2019, the “school strike 4 climate” movement started in Aotearoa. It’s still continuing today. Why do ākonga (students) throughout Aotearoa and globally want to go on strike from school and protest? (~150 – 200 words

Students around Aoteroa globally strike because they realize that the climate change that is happening to their planet threatens their future and they realise they need to intervine and do something about it. Students see the consequences at first in Aoetearoa, they see the intense floods, prolonged droughts, huge coastal erosion. Student around Aoteroa and around the globe see the rising temperatures and the sea levels rising, they also see the ecosystem collapse and seeing all these signs the students in Aoeteroa and the globe this is the reason why the students decide to go on strike. The movement or protest primary or most important demand is to stop the fossil fuel exploration. They want to invest a lot into renewable energy and lowering the emissions and keep the warming to stay at 1.5 C. The students want to protest for a fair shift to be more sustainable and have more sustainable economies wants to make sure workers that work in the carbon invested industries are not left beind. In conclusion the students decide to strike because they think missing a day of school is a needed sacrifice to have a planet where they can live in.

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Maier Developmental Theorists Task – Roimata

Question Sentence starters – copy into your blog. 
  1. Name both people that you have chosen.
The names of my chosen people are Albert Bandura and Jean Piaget.
  1. What are your chosen people famous for?
One person I have chosen is Albert Bandura. They are famous for Albert Bandura is famous for his theory that people learn by watching and copying others.
  1. Where can you find their work? E.g – schools, doctors, homes, etc. 

 

My chosen person’s work uses schools, homes and physiology.

Their work is important for how children think and learn.

  1. List 5 interesting things about your people
Person 1 Albert bandura

1. He was born in Canada

2. December 4 1925

3. He was a physiologist

4. Stanford university

5. Bobo doll experiment

Person 2 Jean piaget

1. He was born in Switzerland

2. He was a physiologist

3. He had 3 children

4. He studied children

5. 9 August 1896

  1. Name the part of Hauora (wellbeing) that your chosen people work with. 
The part of Hauora that my chosen person works with is

Albert and Jean are taha hinegaro mental and emotional.

 

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Researching Developmental Theorists

Kia ora bloggers, today I’m going to be talking about developmental theorists. We had to do a research task in health learn about different types of theorists. We had to pick 2 theorists and talk about the things they do for a living and what they usually research about.

Hans Gross – Criminal Theorist
The father of criminalistics (Hans Gross) is famous for finding the foundation for modern criminal investigations and crime analysis. He created a book called Handbuch für Untersuchungsrichter als System der Kriminalistik and this book was the first book to explain how physical evidence is collected and analyzed. The discovery of the criminal theorist has meant that discovering evidence in the future is going to be a lot easier, this means people can spend less time figuring out clues and more time on other investigations.

David Buss – Evolutionary Phychology
The theory of Evolutionary phychology by David Buss is different to the theory from Hans Gross this is because he discovered a field that studies the human brain and behavior through the lens of the natural selection. The similar thing about the two is that they both study about things that apply to phychology. Knowing how the theory of Evolutionary physchology works, impacts my Hauora by me knowing that people can study the human brain and this can have a positive impact on my Hauora by making me less anxious. David Buss’s main study is about the human mating, attraction, jealousy, and sex differences.

 

 

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Health research

Kia Ora bloggers, In health we have been learning about behavioural theorists, we are learning about how their discoveries help us understand about the human brain better. Our task is to choose two that we have to research and write about, I am choosing B.F Skinner and Erik Erikson.

Skinner is famous for his discover of operating conditions and how they influence the choice of people, he discover how people behavior can be strengthened and weakened by its consequence(Reward and punishment) Its the same principal as teaching a dog how to do a trick by giving it treats after it does the desired action. This discovery has helped people understand much more about how the behaviour of people can be changed by consequence.

This can help people develop good habits by rewarding themselves after doing work, going for a run or being active. Operating conditions has been enforced in people from a young age as they are rewarded with sweets, praise and stickers when they do their work.

Erik Erikson is known for his discovery of the theory of psychosocial development, this theory states that someones personality develops in a predetermined sequence across eight distinct stages from infancy to late adulthood. The theory states that each stage centers on a core social or emotional conflict that must be resolved to gain a basic physiological virtue, as written in his theory they go in the order, In infancy the core conflicts are trust and mistrust, in toddlerhood its autonomy vs shame and doubt, in preschool its initiative vs guilt, in school age its industry vs inferiority, in adolescence its identity vs role confusion, In young adulthood its intimacy vs isolation, in middle adulthood its generativity vs stagnation, in late adult hood its ego integrity vs despair. All of these stages are a basic virtue they must learn to reach a type of physiological virtue.

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Climate change of Aotearoa

Hi,

 

For starters, you are probably aware of the topic of climate change, but you might not have much of an understanding of what it is and how it is caused, so it is probably a good time for an overview.

  • In the modern context, climate change is about the shifts in cloud formations, temperature, humidity, and other aspects of the atmosphere like the number of each cloud type (like cumulus, stratus, and cirrus; thanks that one person who coined these 3 clouds types with Latin names roughly meaning something like lumpy heap , layer, and curly hair (I’m less confident on that last one’s translation)).
  • Many climate scientists claim that gas emissions from human existence are driving climate change along with other factors.

This was the brief overview of climate change, now it’s time for some deeper details.

This is the part of the history of climate change and how humans are impacting the climate currently and some other off topic stuff. Throughout the Earth’s history the climate has shifted. There have been many examples of this variable climate. One example of these shifts is that long gone era of the ice ages and how the climate was dramatically different long before that time. According to big names in the meteorologist world, humans are now causing changes to the climate that are not like anything on our records. Complete combustion of anything containing carbon releases CO2 (I would put that 2 in subscript, but stupid blog does not accept the Ctrl comma). Stuff that contains carbon includes coal, timber, gasoline and many other things. Many products on the market are from producers that don’t worry about the environment. Some brands however are extremely environment focused (like Patagonia or at least they claim to be).m

 

Aotearoa impacts part here

ideas

  • rising sea levels
  • impacted rainfall

rising sea levels displace people and change coastline.

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Climate Change – Matt

What is Climate Change?

Climate is the long term change of global temperatures and weather patterns, caused primarily by human actions like burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas. These activities release greenhouse gasses, mainly carbon dioxide, which trap in our planet with heat our atmosphere

How do we know it’s happening?

We know Climate Change is happening because of real world measurements, best illustrated by activity tracking the Keeling Curve.

Understanding the Keeling Curve

 

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Climate Change Science Blog:

Climate Change Blog

03/11/2026

1. What is climate change? 

Climate change is where the average temperatures overall the years have changed in those few years. Climate change is also the definition to long-term changes in global weather patterns

2. What is causing climate change? (~100 words)

The main reason for the sudden troubling temperature is because of human activities, because of the many human activities, the majority of them are creating many CO₂ (carbon dioxide) into our atmosphere. Causing high temperatures rising each time CO₂ is being produced more, the most common human activities would be burning fossil fuels for energy that is made in a bad way. The reason why fossil fuels are so bad is because of how much CO₂ is being released, burning fossil fuels are usually for mechanical things, like transportation. Or electricity, for light and electronic devices, and also cooking (gases).

3. In 2019, the “school strike 4 climate” movement started in Aotearoa. It’s still continuing today. Why do ākonga (students) throughout Aotearoa and globally want to go on strike from school and protest? (~150 – 200 words)

Students who have gone on a strike from school to protest for our climate change is because the adults or older people of this world aren’t taking initiative for their actions they are causing for the younger generations future. They are older, so that means they have more ‘adult’ benefits to actually making a big ‘grown’ up choice, but seemingly as how our climate change is getting worse, younger people like students from schools globally are having to take up a step and cause big attention to them about how they are students, they are young. And are supposed to be in school, so why would they be protesting about? Climate change is what these young generations are arguing about, adults have so much more free will than us children have, but they aren’t thinking about how it can affect us as we grow older and perhaps watch our world growing old too. In a way of it dying from all the human activities happening, many products that have been created in this world are adults mainly, instead of making something crappy, they can make something that can reduce the level of human activities we rely on to use, like transportation. Many students globally are scared for their future and what it will be like in 10 years time, where they are supposed to be living all happy and jolly, not having to watch our planet earth die. Recorded quotes and speeches from students about this climate change protest has been acknowledged, but not acknowledged enough, which is why there are still students protesting about our climate change.

“We don’t inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
— Xive Bastida (a student that participated in a school strike from New York)

 

4. You must also include some photos showing the school strike 4 climate.Thousands of German students walk out of school to protest climate change - The Globe and Mail

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Medicine Health Assessment – T4

2 weeks ago we started our assessment presentation about variety of topics that we have been learning so far, such as WSM(Western Scientific Medicine) CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine), TM (Traditional Medicine), treatments for different health condition, and different types of health condition. The way that I showcased my learning was through canva presentation. In the presentation, I included what is the definition of WSM, CAM, and TM, a type of health condition along with the treatments that fits in the category of WSM, CAM and TM. I as well included the impacts of treatment to a person’s areas of Hauora and linking it to P, I, and S (Personal, Interpersonal and Societal).

Medicine and Health Conditions Assessment by Xyryll Elvina

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