Essay - Treaty of Waitangi

Historians argue that understanding the cause of significant events is much more important than just remembering facts, dates, and figures about things in the past.
The Treaty of Waitangi was about the agreement between the British and the Māori which was signed in 1840. The Treaty of Waitangi is needed to construct laws between the Māori and the British colony in New Zealand. Signed in 1840, the British and the Māori established laws for the diverse society to follow. Although the Treaty of Waitangi was written and signed in the past, it is still relevant for the newer generation of today's society.

Before the Treaty of Waitangi was established, the people's behaviour in Kororāreka was lawless and chaotic. By establishing the treaty, laws were produced, creating a list of rules for people to follow. Therefore reducing the lawlessness and chaotic behaviour of the whalers. These include heavy drinking which caused fights between the sailors and prostitution; all occurring on Kororāreka/Russell which in the time became known as the 'Hell Hole of the Pacific'. The treaty was needed to make an agreement between the Pākeha and the Māori to create laws to stop the lawlessness behaviour from happening.

The missionaries influenced the Māori into signing the treaty to protect their rights. The missionaries influenced the Māori by buying land for them as the Māori 'trustees', the missionaries also taught the Māori literature. Christianity was introduced by the missionaries to the Māori which taught the Māori how to write and read in Māori. The treaty was needed because it helped both the Europeans and the Māori to be in a good relationship with each other.

The introduction of muskets to New Zealand caused an uproar of violence causing a series of wars which today is known as the Musket Wars. With the introduction of muskets, land boundaries rapidly changed. It also raised military power after tribes traded for muskets, for protection, balancing the tribes' powers with each other. The musket wars caused increased violence and deaths of thousands of people because there were no laws around the ownership/trading of muskets. The treaty prevented these from happening any longer and provide stability.

Before the treaty, there was the Declaration of Independence, signed on October 28 1835. With the Declaration of Independence, about 34 Northland Chiefs gathered and signed the document. The chiefs also made a deal with the British: mana and sovereignty of New Zealand. The effect of all of this was important because there were no laws created to protect the Māori as had been agreed in the Independence. The declaration is also the stepping stone for the Māori because it showed that some groups/tribes wanted to work together for a better community. The treaty was needed to establish new laws to protect the Māori.

The events that occurred before the Treaty of Waitangi was signed showed clear reasons to why the treaty was required. Occasions such as the Musket Wars and the lawlessness behaviour of the whalers in Korerāreka proved that the treaty was needed to stabilise the different situations that happened. With the Declaration of Independence, it helped lead the Māori to sign the treaty. The Declaration of Independence was the stepping stone of the Māori which allowed them to create laws but it never occurred due to the fact that a disagreement had sparked a war, tribes against tribes. In conclusion, the treaty was needed to unite the people in New Zealand to have a good relationship with each other and to create peace.

Multi-line Graph of Māori and European Population Changes in NZ 1836 - 1901

What does the graph show us?

The graph shows us that from 1836 to 1091, the Māori population in New Zealand slowly decreased. Whilst the European population increased as the years go by.

Why do you think the numbers of Māori change?

The numbers of Māori changed because the Europeans started colonising New Zealand. Showing the decrease of the Māori population as years passed.

Why do you think the numbers of Europeans change?

The numbers of Europeans changed because they started colonising New Zealand. This is shown in the graph, that as years go by, the European population increased.

Tangaroa

Tangaroa by Xij Bayson

In the world, there are many different beliefs that people believe in. Creating many myths and gods. Surprisingly, when it comes to a deity, there are many gods who have similarities. An example of this is Poseidon from Greek mythology and Neptune from Roman mythology.

Greek Mythology - Ares

Greek Mythology by Xij Bayson

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As seen in the bar graph, as technology improved over time, the world population has also increased. Technology has been around us for a long time, it has helped us do things easier. 400,000 years ago, technology has helped our ancestors to hunt and gather food for themselves. With the help of technology, such as knives and other tools and weapons, our ancestors had climbed up the food chain. No longer being a prey, the world population slowly increased.

In the bar graph, it is shown that as technology advanced, the world population increased. 400,00 years ago, weapons and art were developed. With the development of weapons, our ancestors climbed up the food chain. Thus beginning the slow increase of the world population. Through time, the world population grew as technology improved.

How the Pyramids Were Built

The first and largest pyramid built in Ancient Egypt was built for Pharaoh Khufu, who began to rule Egypt at around 2551 B.C. Years after years 2 more pyramids were built for the next 2 rulers. Before building these pyramids, people started building rectangular burial tombs for the deceased rulers known as 'Mastabas'. People then started making improvements in building structures like these, which came to an end when they built the pyramids. Building the pyramids in Ancient Egypt, made people wonder about how were they built to perfection during the time period it's in.

People today started thinking ridiculous conspiracy theories on how these structures were built. It includes aliens helping the people in Ancient Egypt to build the pyramids, some sort of lost technology used to construct these structures and other theories. Although some of these theories sound absurd, scientists researched and came up with a more realistic theory. Scientists came up with a theory which people adds water to the sand making it easier for them to move the massive stone blocks. The construction workers would also put the block of stone on sledges which are then pulled by them to build the pyramids. More researchers are still trying to learn how the pyramids were built but for now, we are still unsure on how these structures were made.

Resource:
https://www.historyforkids.net/egyptian-pyramids.html
https://www.livescience.com/45285-how-egyptians-moved-pyramid-stones.html

Cave Painting

Describe your "cave" painting. What is it? Why is it important to you? How does your design fit with the traditional cave art technique?

For my "cave" painting, I drew 5 stick figures, pressed my handprint, and drew a sun with three stars surrounding it. The 5 stick figures represent my family, my handprint represents my identity, who I am. Lastly, the sun with three stars surrounding it represents the Philippines' flag, which symbolises my culture. All of these are important to me because it represents my culture, myself and my love for my family. My designs fit with the traditional cave art technique by drawing them using my hands

Social Media and Its Effects on Students - Is it a problem?

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Are students addicted to their cellphones? If so is that a problem?

Yes, students are addicted to their cellphones. This is a problem because it interferes with their learning. Students are hung up onto using their phones with social media luring them in, having less time studying school work. Although students are always on their phone, sometimes it also helps with their learning. If the students don't know the question or the problem, they can just search it up on their phones to get an answer. Given these facts, we can agree that cellphones have both negative and positive effects on students and the leading cause of this is social media.

Technology Before & After

Technology - is the creative process that utilises tools, resources and systems to solve problems. It also enhances control over the natural and man-made environment to improve our lives.



This slide is about how things from the past changed over the years and how it helped us overcome different challenges. In these slides are the evolution of transport and the way write using tools such as quill and pen.

Becoming A Chef

Chef by Xij Bayson

Migration Story (Rewritten) - Social Studies

It is 1856, My name is Jade Frost. I am 21 years old and I came from a small family with one sibling, Christopher Frost. My family is from London. In London, the houses were small, cramped and made of cheap materials. During rainy seasons, the roof of our house leaks and it always floods inside. Unsurprisingly, houses in London are built very close to each other due to overpopulation. Living in London was like hell, every day we suffer from pollution, overcrowding, and the environment there is unhygienic. People suffer from diseases such as cholera, typhus and typhoid, also the diseases in London spread really fast due to crowds of people being in a small space.

At a very young age, I started working to provide help for my family. I was given dangerous jobs with no safety precautions whatsoever. During that time, I didn’t know that the factories I worked for were exploiting children like me, paying us a very little amount of money. I worked my life until I turned 21. Whilst everyone was working, I was already walking home, wondering what I am going to eat for dinner. As I was walking, my life suddenly changed when I saw a poster. In the poster, it asked if people want to migrate to New Zealand to try and have a new and better life. After deciding to take the poster home, I showed it to my family. About three days trying to convince my family to migrate to New Zealand, my family decided we need to leave the country and start a new life in New Zealand.

After deciding we want to leave London for a better life, we packed our things and headed to the port. Surprisingly, the fare for the ship was only 10 pounds per person. Before boarding the ship with my family, I stopped for a second and thought about what our life is going to be like in New Zealand. When we finished sorting our stuff in the cabin, I immediately ran towards the deck and took a last, long gaze of the shore before going to the kitchen to eat some snacks. The food on the ship was sometimes delicious and sometimes it wasn’t. We were given muttons, fish, and sometimes pork. Not too often, we were given foods that are very hard to eat because some of them went bad during the voyage. The food given to us are often the same thing but it was on rotation. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday our meal would be the same, bread for breakfast, potatoes for lunch, and if we’re lucky we’d get pork for dinner instead of fish. For the other days, we’d get oatmeal, biscuits, and porridge. Whilst sailing the sea, boredom was lingering in the ship. During the voyage, the people who were with us on board kindheartedly lent us cards to pass time. There were also concerts within the ship that are free to watch.

After a month-long voyage, the ship my family and I were boarding finally anchored at the coast of New Zealand. Delighted by arriving in New Zealand, I quickly took my suitcase and got off the ship along with my family. Everything was different here in New Zealand, the land, the air, the environment. Within two hours, my family and I found a decent place to stay in. Before arriving, the road we drove to the house was filled with a spectacular landscape. About a week of being in New Zealand, I felt relieved that my family and I are now in a safe environment. Where there is free public health care, better jobs, no pollution, a cleaner environment, and children are given a chance to have an education. Unlike London, the population in New Zealand is also low, which means that there won’t be diseases spreading fast and that there won’t be overcrowding. Three weeks later, my brother and I found jobs on the farm which paid us enough money to pay the rent. Therefore for these reasons, I think that migrating in New Zealand was a good choice for us.

Migration Story - Social Studies

It is 1856, My name is Jade Frost. I am 21 years old and I came from a small family with one sibling, Christopher Frost. My family is from London. In London, the houses were small, cramped and made of cheap materials. During rainy seasons, the roof of our house leaks and it always floods inside. Unsurprisingly, houses in London are built very close to each other due to overpopulation. Living in London was like hell, every day we suffer from pollution, overcrowding, and the environment there is unhygienic. People suffer from diseases such as cholera, typhus and typhoid, also the diseases in London spread really fast due to crowds of people being in a small space.

At a very young age, I started working to provide help for my family. I was given dangerous jobs with no safety precautions whatsoever. During that time, I didn’t know that the factories I worked for were exploiting children like me, paying us a very little amount of money. I worked my life until I turned 21. Whilst everyone was working, I was already walking home, wondering what I am going to eat for dinner. As I was walking, my life suddenly changed when I saw a poster. In the poster, it asked if people want to migrate to New Zealand to try and have a new and better life. After deciding to take the poster home, I showed it to my family. About three days trying to convince my family to migrate to New Zealand, my family decided we need to leave the country and start a new life in New Zealand.

After deciding we want to leave London for a better life, we packed our things and headed to the port. Surprisingly, the fare for the ship was only 10 pounds per person. Before boarding the ship with my family, I stopped for a second and thought about what our life is going to be like in New Zealand. When we finished sorting our stuff in the cabin, I immediately ran towards the deck and took a last, long gaze of the shore before going to the kitchen to eat some snacks. The food on the ship was sometimes delicious and sometimes it wasn’t. We were given muttons, fish, and sometimes pork. Not too often, we were given foods that are very hard to eat because some of them went bad during the voyage. The food given to us are often the same thing but it was on rotation. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday our meal would be the same, bread for breakfast, potatoes for lunch, and if we’re lucky we’d get pork for dinner instead of fish. For the other days, we’d get oatmeal, biscuits, and porridge.

After a month-long voyage, the ship my family and I were boarding finally anchored at the coast of New Zealand. Delighted by arriving in New Zealand, I quickly took my suitcase and got off the ship along with my family. Everything was different here in New Zealand, the land, the air, the environment. Within two hours, my family and I found a decent place to stay in. Before arriving, the road we drove to the house was filled with a spectacular landscape. About a week of being in New Zealand, I felt relieved that my family and I are now in a safe environment. Where there is free public health care, better jobs, no pollution, a cleaner environment, and children are given a chance to have an education. Unlike London, the population in New Zealand is also low, which means that there won’t be diseases spreading fast and that there won’t be overcrowding. Therefore for these reasons, I think that migrating in New Zealand was a good choice for us.

Human Trafficking

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Human trafficking occurs around the world, one of the worst countries with human trafficking are Belarus, Central African Republic, China, and many more. Human trafficking takes away people's Human Rights and freedom. Human trafficking occurs to make more money. Smugglers kidnap children or adults, drug them and treat them like slaves, feeding them nothing. People who are kidnapped are later sold to brothels for forced prostitution, where they are sexually exploited to other people. Survivors of human trafficking are sometimes traumatised of what happened to them. One of the survivors named Somaly Mam is now fighting smugglers to free the people who are sexually exploited around South East Asia. She has made an organisation called AFESIP which specifically fight sexual exploitation of young girls around South East Asia. Somaly Mam also has rescue centres in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. Therefore Human trafficking takes away the people's Human Rights because they are abducted from their family, then smuggled and sold to people to sexually exploit them and treat them as slaves.

10 Worst Countries Using Child Soldiers

Child Soldiers:

What are Child Soldiers?

Child soldiers are children under the age of 18 who are working as soldiers fighting people using guns. Child soldiers are either recruited or forced to join military forces; some children also volunteer to join the forces. Child soldiers also have other work than just fighting, they also work as spy, cook, messenger, and some child soldiers are also used as sex slaves.

The map above shows different countries that use child soldiers and the countries' rank and the category they fit in with using child soldiers.

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Children are used in war because they are easy to manipulate, they obey the commanders and leaders of the armed groups out of fear or because they want to avenge the family they have lost at the hands of other armed groups. Using a child soldier to fight in wars takes away their Human Rights and freedom to education. Children under the age of 18 are recruited or forced to join armed groups, some children also volunteer to join. In the Central African Republic, there are 10,000 children that have been in armed groups. About 4,693 children have been released from the battlefield. Children who have been released are sometimes asked to join the armed forces again. Some children choose to join armed forces because their family members are either killed or taken away from them. When in school, children who served in armed forces sometimes suffer trauma from the battlefield, having flashbacks of what they did when they were serving the forces. Using children to fight in war affects their right to education because they are taken away for months or years to serve in the forces instead of studying.

Worst Countries With Child Labour

In Social Studies we have been learning about Human Rights and how some countries are still ok with it. This map is about child labour that is still happening in some countries. Child labour is illegal but some countries are still allowing it to happen. Child labour is about children working to survive.

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The Slave Trade Triangle

What is the Slave Trade Triangle?

The Slave Trade Triangle is where Africans are traded for tobacco, sugar, and cotton.

What the first passage is?

The First Passage was from Europe to Africa. The cargo on this passage was guns and weapons.

What the middle passage is?

The rest of the slaves were shipped to the USA and processed for auction. It was here where the Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar Cane and other products slaves produced were put on ships.   

What the third passage is?

Africans were taken to the Caribbean and sold. They were bartered for a ship-load of tobacco and cotton.

Human Rights

Resource:

https://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights/universal-declaration-of-human-rights/articles-1-15.html

What do you know already?

I didn't know anything about human rights.

What did you find interesting?

I found everything interesting because I didn't know we have human rights.

What would you like to learn next?

I'm not sure.