Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Pea soupers

Pea-soupers are fogs that are so thick that seeing through them is difficult even when looking a couple of yards ahead.

A pea-souper came down on London in 1952. 12 thousand people of london   died over a course of 4 days. The pea-soupers were cause by a fogs from the River thames and smoke from coal fires. London had suffered these pea-soupers for centuries. In 1306 Kind Edwards I banned  coal fires to put an end to the pea-spoupers.




Links:

http://listverse.com/2009/08/29/top-10-creepy-aspects-of-victorian-life/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2243732/Pea-souper-killed-12-000-So-black-screen-cinemas-So-suffocatingly-lethal-ran-coffins-How-Great-Smog-choked-London-60-years-ago-week.html

The Milgram Experiment

"The Milgram Experiment" by Saul McLeod 

Is an article about one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology. Stanely Milgram's experiment was to look at how far ordinary people will go to obey authority.
During the experiment , the teacher was told to administer an electric shock every time the learner made a mistake. The learner purposely gave mainly wrong answers and for each wrong answer the teacher was to give him an electric shock. When the teacher refused to shock the learner , they were given orders ( called prods ) to encourage them to continue.

 I think this experiment was a success in examining peoples willingness to obey authority. It got my thinking about how people whether people will do what they believe is right or will they go as far as they are forced to  to obey an order. Stanely Milgram had the conclusion that " Ordinary people are likely to follow orders given by an authority figure, even to the extent of killing another human being "

Drama/Music Tour !

Hi ,

My drama class & the music class went on tour to Primary schools and a Retirement home !
My role in the was taking pictures of the performers as well as having a photo booth at the primary schools. I worked with Rania & Julia. I enjoyed interacting with the children , many of them loved dressing up and were very friendly.

 

Hi ! These are logs of Project Based Learning that I have been working on for a few weeks with my group. We're working on improving the lives of the homeless.



 Corey  , Jayden , Sangam and I organised and boxed the donated items ( cans & Hygienic stuff )   Mr Aitken allowed  us to leave class to do this.  And the  staff  let us box our items in the meeting area.   Dish washing liquid that someone donated leaked in the box & on other items. But Jayden & Corey cleaned it. The tape gun we used to tape the gun got complicated.

I went to the classes in A  , S & D block to collect the donated items from students, Miss Aitken let me leave class to do this. Some students didn’t donate anything , the box was very heavy to carry from class to class. We gathered a good amount of donated items , but we spent period 1 and 15 minutes into period 2 to finish.

I asked the nurse ( Alana)  if she had anything to donate. Alana was kind enough to search for something in her office to donate. She thought she had nothing to donate  until she looked into the cupboard. She donated Pads & Tampons , which is good because when people think of hygienic items , menstrual products are often forgotten.

We gathered supplies we can give to the Salvation army and the City Mission. & they will give them to the homeless/in need. Mr Rodgers allowing us to do this on Mufti day was a big help.  Some students not bringing the hygiene products and any cans, but we did get a good amount of donations. The collection of the fundraising went well.

After a representative of City Mission talked to our class, my group gave him the donated products we had collected for CM. Mr Aitken & Miss Johnson came with us & took pictures of us.  We gave the donated products to him and he was very pleased that we donated.

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