T1+Persuade

__Wednesday 6 April 2011__

LI: Persuade someone that "Kiwis are the best"

Success Criteria: - make sense - true facts



Why are kiwis the best you ask, well kiwis have a unique accent combining multi culture accents to create our amazing sound. Kiwis are very sporty and enjoy playing popular New Zealand sports like Cricket, Rugby and Netball. New Zealand has a special heritage and culture, we embrace our maori culture and use parts of heritage for important reasons. New Zealand has good holiday spots including fun beaches, snowy slopes and tourism spots everywhere. New Zealanders are a mixed race we combine many countries like Europe, Asia and Pacific Islands heritage mixed into ours. So there, I hope I have persuaded you for “Why kiwis are THE BEST”.

Traffic Light:

I chose green because I enjoyed finding and learning interesting information about my heritage and country.



Reflection:

Today I learnt what the word 'Heritage' means and fascinating facts about New Zealand.

06.04.11 Miss Stovold has gone through this with me

__Safer Christchurch homes__

Christchurch is the home to many historical buildings. I want to know why is the Christchurch City Council spending money on unnecessary needs, after this terrible natural disaster “the Christchurch Earthquake” has happened twice. It is stupid! The money should be spent on making Christchurch a safer city, by protecting historical buildings and living areas such as schools, homes and apartment buildings.

After an earthquake the stability of a building decreases, usually a fragment will fall off and kill, injure or crush an object or person. Due to the occurrence of the 6.3 magnitude quake and the time it occurred the death toll is very high and the number of missing or injured is also high. Buildings collapsed and crumbled, debris was flying everywhere, boulders crashed through houses, and cars were crushed like play dough. People tried to shield themselves under desks, run from the danger, or find other ways to escape from buildings, but as we know from the death toll they were not all successful.

To stop these critical accidents happening don’t you think the Christchurch Council should do something about it? The council should use rubber foundations under buildings so the ground has more time to move before damage will occur. The rubber would have to be strong so the building wouldn’t collapse when a minimal amount of movement is applied. Rubber would be much better than using concrete because concrete is solid and doesn’t allow movement to pass through, where as rubber will allow movement making it safer to use rather than concrete.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Each home should have an earthquake approved foundation and walls sturdy enough so it does not fall down. Older houses or buildings that have major damage will need to be knocked down because the occurrence of another earthquake will possibly damage the ongoing construction, and that process may continue for years. Testing should be done on new construction to see if it is sturdy enough to handle the pressure when another earthquake will happen. Those tests could be a Seismic test, or either a highly accelerated life testing or a highly accelerated stress screening. One of these tests just named could be a significant help and would save millions of dollars and of greater value, human life.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We need to worry about making an improvement for the stability of the important buildings, so people do not die and so the council does not loose all of their money. We need to help Christchurch rebuild its beautiful city and in the end help save lives. Natural Disasters cannot be stopped but we can do something about it by using my ideas to create Christchurch a safer city with safer homes and all up a safer community.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Yours Sincerely

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Madison Randall

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">25/03/11 We will edit this together next week. You have some great ideas. Could you please delete this screen shot of your work and copy and paste it from your pages into here instead. That will make it easy to edit it together. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">  <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__Wednesday 9th March 2011__ <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">__Safer Christchurch homes__  <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"> Christchurch is the home to many historic buildings, but as this terrible natural disaster the “Christchurch Earthquake” has happened twice, why is the council spending money on unnecessary needs? It is stupid! I think the money should be spent on making Christchurch a safer city, like protecting historic buildings and living areas such as schools, homes and apartment buildings. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">After an earthquake the stability of a building is infirmed, usually a fragment will fall off and kill, injure or crush an object or person. Due to the occurrence of the 6.3 magnitude quake and the time it occurred the death toll is very high and the number of missing or injured is also high. Buildings collapsed and crumbled, debris was flying everywhere, boulders crashed through houses, and cars were crushed like play dough. People tried to shield themselves under desks, run from the danger, or find other ways to escape from buildings, but as we know from the death toll they were not all successful.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">To stop these critical accidents happening don’t you think the Christchurch Council should do something about it? The council should use rubber foundations under buildings so the ground has more time to move before damage will occur. The rubber would have to be strong so the building wouldn’t collapse when a minimal amount of movement is applied. Rubber would be much better than using concrete because concrete is solid and doesn’t allow movement to pass through where as rubber will allow movement making it safer to use rather than concrete.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">Each home should have an earthquake approved foundation and walls sturdy enough so it does not fall down. Older houses or buildings that have major damage will need to be knocked down because the occurrence of another earthquake will possibly damage the ongoing construction, and that process may continue for years. Testing should be done on new construction to see if it is sturdy enough to handle the pressure when another earthquake will happen. Those tests could be a Seismic test, or either a highly accelerated life testing or a highly accelerated stress screening. One of these tests just named could be a significant help and would save millions of dollars and of greater value, human life.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;">We need to worry about making an improvement for the stability of the important buildings, so people do not die and so the council does not loose all of their money. In conclusion we need to help Christchurch rebuild its beautiful city and in the end helping save lives. Natural Disasters cannot be stopped but we can do something about it by using my ideas to create Christchurch a safer city with safer homes and all up a safer community.