Biology: Courtship Behaviour

 Courtship Behaviour:

Courtship behaviour is either physical attributes or actions that an animal may do to attract and stand out as more dominant or strong. This tends to be seen in males more than females as the females get to watch and opinion their decisions on who they reproduce with and what their offspring genes are.  The reason its not common in females is because their point in life is survival and to be able to maintain it in a safe environment to care for and raise their offspring. Some animals may have bigger body parts than females, brighter colours or even just perform a dance ritual to impress the females and show they have good genes to mate which as that's the whole point to reproduce and pass genes on. An example of this in a species is peacocks the male has a huge feather tail where the female does not. The male shows dominance and their fitness ability they move their tail in a direction kinda like a little dance to show off in front of the females. Females attract to this and choose to mate with males whose tails are well kept, well coloured and dance is performed well. It says you have good genes if all done well as it takes energy and muscular power to preform the dance and overall good health to have the tail in good condition.  This benefits the female as she gets to reproduce with a male that has good genes meaning better chance of survival of the offspring due to the genes they may have. This benefits the males as they were chosen and their genes pass down even more in their offspring. 

Senior reflection blog: photography level 3

 Senior reflection blog: photography level 3

1) This year for my portfolio I am working on photography and am taking pictures of nature/flowers. I am using the artist Fiona Pardington as an inspiration as I like how she includes dark backgrounds with bright focal points. 

2) I went onto  photo shop and was able to create dark backgrounds to the photos I have taken and enhance the brightness and saturation to the focal points/flowers. 

3)  I enjoyed diving deeper into photo shop and editing more of my photos.

4) I struggled with the picture taking aspect as most of the flowers I have used have died or are dying and the weather has not been the best.  

5) I would enable myself to go or get more flowers in the photo sessions I had done so I could get a better variety and more photos produced. 

The Right Approach Health blog post

 The Right Approach:

1) I am going to be looking into the ethical approach of rights.

2) An ethical approach is in fact a rule or foundation that helps guide a person or groups perspective and thoughts within an ethical issue. The ethical principle/idea includes everyone's thoughts,beliefs,ideas, attitude and feelings within a problem. There are in fact 5 different ethical approaches used by them being the following Utilitarian, Rights, Fairness or Justice, Common Good and Virtue. 

3) I am looking into the approach of Rights. The ethical Approach Rights enables everyone who is within to have a choice into what they're getting themselves into. It allows everyone to have a voice freely and to independently have an opinion within the situation. This allows everyone to have consent and willingly join or be opposed to the idea at hand. 

4) 

Dr. Cure

5) This is Dr, Cure as you can see here he is talking to a group of people undergoing trails with new medication Cure has made to help with their different illnesses. You can see in the circle speech bubbles that he is allowed everyone to state their opinion freely about if they are consenting to the trails. You can see on the cube there are the medicines he has made. You can also see that many of the people within the circle feel all different opinions some are happy, sad, overwhelmed, and talking/expressing how they feel. The Dr is allowed everyone's voice to be heard freely and allowed everyone to be comfortable to do so which this shows the right approach to a tea.  

Biology- Tool Culture

Art: Week 4 do now task

 Write a blog post that answer the following questions: 

1) What is oil paint made of?

Oil paint is made up of dry pigment powder and refined linseed oil so basically linseed oil which is then purified. It's then mixed together into a paste which then is milled to allow any clumps to be out.

2) What are three benefits to painting with oil paints?

The first benefit for using oil paint is that there is a wide range of tones in colours that can be made compared to other paints like watercolour etc. The second reason is that there are many ways you can apply the oil paint. You can do thin layers or apply it thick. This is due to oil paint being slow to dry. final reason is the time it takes to dry, although for some it may be annoying It's actually quite helpful for others as they have the chance to take longer and create art with more detail.

3) What are three disadvantages to painting with oil paints?

The first disadvantage is that the oil paint does have an odour that can be quite strong and overpowering. Another reason is the blending capabilities it has, although it takes awhile to dry the consistency of the paint alone and doesn't allow you to blend well at all. Final reason is that oil paint can tend to change colour after time for example every oil painting tends to turn a little yellow after time.

4) Why do you need to prime your surface before painting with oil paints?

Because the oil paint can sink into the canvas which when dried can leave patches of dull paint which won't look pretty in the final overall look.

5) How do you clean up your brushes and equipment after using oil paints?

Since the substance of oil paint is quite thick in a way and glue like it takes a bit to get off of paintbrushes as it is also a little sticky. So a technique to clean your brushes is getting either turpentine, paint thinner mineral spirits etc and soak them in a cup of that substance. Then after a few minutes use your hands or gloves to help massage all the oil paint out. Then most is off to clean the brushes like normal with soapy water. May be a good idea to do this outside as the liquids that help get oil paint off can be quite messy.

6) What is an impasto technique?

The Impasto technique is basically thick layers of quantities of normally oil paint which lead to it standing out from the surface. This is done in small places and not big areas.

7) What is “Imprimatura” or “grisaille” in painting? 

Imprimatura is a thin layer of paint which is normally used as a base. Grisaille is a technique which uses grey tones while painting to then add a glaze over top of it.

8) What interesting facts did you find out about oil painting? 

I found out that oil paint is not easy to get out of paint brushes and that you normally need to use harmful chemicals like turpentine to break the oil paint away from the brushes. 

Tuesday 24 May : 

This relates to the work we did yesterday as we were able to actually use oil paint and create art from what we see outside. I created a leaf but it's not the best looking. It was very strange to use because in my opinion its quite like a water colour and feels the same as when painting.  I do like using oil paint but for next time I'll definitely get a smaller brush. 

English Paragraph:

 English  Practice Paragraph: 

In the first scene, the director uses Jump cuts together with music. 

Straight away in the film we see editing used as they make clips short to enable a jump cut effect. An example of this is when Pat, the main character, is talking to himself. After the little self chat with himself it cuts to shots showing his room to then shots of him lining up taking medicine to then spitting the pill out. Moving on to the music, throughout the starting scene it is very dissonant. When Pat would talk or others around him would talk the music would still be on creating a chaotic situation.

An example of this is when Pat and Dan were in the circle at the ward talking to everyone about their issues/ opinions. 

This was done by the director to allow a sense of fast pace and hopefully allow the viewers to have a better understanding of what the character is like and how the movie is going to be like too. This also sets a better understanding/ back story to kinda why he was in a hospital for 8 months by the way he acts and how chaotic everything is. 

This makes the audience a sense of uneasiness and overall overwhelmed by the whole situation. This also makes us understand a little of what goes on in pat “the main characters” head and how he expresses and deals with day to day things. 

These aspects work well with the characters as they are the main focus and reason on why music and jump cuts are used or the way they are . This is important because it allows the viewer to be more invested into the character alone and wanting more each scene they watch as the movie is pretty unpredictable the whole way through.

Maths: How to label non right angled triangles

 Maths:

Rules on labelling a non right angle triangle.

• The sides of the triangles must all be labelled with lowercase letters (abc)
• The angles must be labelled with capital letters (ABC)
• Where the Capital C is the lowercase c must be opposite

So basically the capital letters are to represent the angles and the lowercase letters go on the opposite side to where the corresponding capital letter is and represent the triangles sides. 

An example of a non right angle triangle labelled. 

As you can see the capital letters are where the angles are. The lowercase letters are on the opposite side to where the capitals are.