Treaty of Waitangi - Social Studies

In 1830 there were 100,000 Māori and 200 Europeans living in New Zealand. The behaviour of the Whalers, the Missionaries’ desire to help protect Māori rights and the Musket Wars were reasons that a treaty was needed. The Declaration of Independence was another contributing factor to the need for a treaty.

One reason that a treaty was needed was the lawless behaviour of some of the British Settlers like whalers. The whalers would spend months at sea always on duty and limiting their food. When they reach shore they start to party and celebrate that they are of the sea. They drink a lot while on land and most of the time it is the reason for the fights. The whalers cause trouble while on land in New Zealand because when they reach the boat they have to get straight back to work. In my opinion, if we had the treaty in place they wouldn’t be treating the land that way.`

Another reason that a treaty was needed was to protect Māori rights. One group that felt strongly about this was the missionaries. Despite this, Maori were still being looked down upon by the Europeans as they brought out the land and tried to make New Zealand more like how the English lived. The missionaries spent most of their time in New Zealand trying to teach the local Maori people how to read and write, farm with better technology, and they taught the Maori the English ways. Take the case of the first conversion 15 years after the missionaries arrived, one Maori converted to Christianity just as the missionaries hoped. In 1840, there were around 3,000 conversions of Maori to Christianity. As a result of this, the Missionaries had a good relationship with the Maori and when the treaty came into play the missionaries encouraged the Maori to sign. They thought it was a good idea as it would help protect the Maori rights and it would help them slowly lead more into the English ways. Without the treaty, I don’t think the Maori would have as many rights as they did after the treaty.

Another reason that a treaty was needed was the Musket Wars. The Musket Wars started because of a trade Ngaipuhi made with the Europeans for the Muskets in the 1800s. Ngaipuhi started a war with another tribe and because of the muskets, the other tribe couldn’t keep up so they also had to buy muskets. This carried on all throughout New Zealand and because the muskets were the best to use for war those who didn’t have them lost or had to trade what little they had to buy them. Because of all the wars, the boundaries were impacted quite a lot. It is said that around 20,000+ people were killed during the musket wars. If the treaty was in place the musket wars would have never happened as they would be united rather than divided.

The final reason that a treaty was needed was the existence of the Declaration of Independence. What is the Declaration of Independence? Interestingly, the Declaration of Independence was formed to promote as well as protect Maori rights. In 1831, about 13 Ngapuhi chiefs wrote to the king of the United Kingdom to see an alliance of sorts to protect them from other powers. In October 1835, James Busby called a hui (meeting) at Waitangi. Around 34 chiefs signed the Declaration of Independence of the United Tribes of New Zealand. This treaty helped them trade with others and showed the rest of the world that New Zealand was a country helped by Britain. The Treaty of Waitangi was signed after that to let the British live with the Maori in New Zealand. Without the Treaty of Waitangi, we wouldn’t be doing what were are today.

In conclusion, a treaty was needed because it protected Maori culture and enabled Maori to stay in New Zealand as Maori. The treaty also helped the crown for it gave them the right to govern over New Zealand and represent the interests of all New Zealanders. It helped stop the Musket Wars by uniting the nation and protecting all. The treaty helped impact both sides of the spectrum then and now. The negative effects of the Maori were impart mitigated by the Treaty of Waitangi.

                                            

Scotland and England Act of Union - Social Sudies

 

NZ Population 1836-1991

 

This graph shows us the population of Europeans and Maori people that were in New Zealand. You can see in this graph that the Maori people innew Zealand started to drop and I think it was because they were trading people for items and some people went to work on the boats. The number of Europeans changed because as more trades happened more people went over to New Zealand to live and trade causing more and more to leave their homes and move to New Zealand.

Tāne Māhuta - Social Studies

In social studies, we are learning about the different gods from Greek, Roman, Hindu, and Maori mythology. After we did research about a few of them we got to choose which one we were going to be looking at deeper and I chose to write about Tāne Māhuta. Since we were learning about a few different places mythology, I connected the diety of the gods and made a short description in this poster.

THE NUREMBERG LAWS - Social Studies

THE NUREMBERG LAWS - 

1. Provide two examples of ways in which the Nuremberg laws affected the rights of German Jews. 

“Jewish Patients were no longer admitted to municipal hospitals in Düsseldorf.”
“The Reich Propaganda Ministry issued a decree forbidding Jewish soldiers to be named among the dead in World War I memorials.”

2. What other actions were taken that discriminated against Jews in Germany? (Remembering)

One of the actions was that the Jewish people couldn’t be teachers or doctors so a lot of them lost their jobs. That was only a couple of them so when you think about the rest of them 

3. Why do you think that the Nazis passed these laws? (Understanding)

They wanted power so they decided to use the jews and get rid of them to spread fear. They wanted power and to gain that power they ruled by fear.

4. If a New Zealand government passed a law that provided for different treatment of a named racial group in New Zealand, what do you think the reaction of most New Zealand people would be? Why do you think this might be the case? (Applying)

People wouldn’t stand for it mainly because we have become a multi-cultural country.

Kristallacht - Social Studies

Kristallnacht

1. What is meant by the term “Kristallnacht”?
   Night of broken glass
   
   
2. When did this event occur?
   November 9th to 10th 1938
   
   
3. How many synagogues did the program claim were burned?
   267
   
   
4. How many Jews were claimed to have died as a result of this event?
   91
   
   
5. How many were said to have been sent to concentration camps?
   30,000
   
   
6. What was the reaction of the German people to this event?
   They announced that it was the Jew's fault.

How do we know that Kristallnacht was planned in advance of the event?

Kristallnacht (Night of broken glass) was planned by the Germans before it happened. In the document, it had a time and date that was sent out before the Kristallnacht there for making it obvious that the Germans knew that it was going to happen. Another form of proof is that it has shown everything that the Jews can and can not do like “As soon as possible, officials are to arrest as many jews especially wealthy ones”. The fact that it was sent before the Kristallnacht and showed what the jews can and cannot do, shows how the Germans indeed planned the night of broken glass.

The Great Depression - Social Studies.

Why was Germany hit hardest during the depression?

The Great Depression was a worldwide severe economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s. The Great Depression was particularly hard on the United States and Europe. Before The Great Depression Germany had been forced to sign The Treaty of Versailles so they would have less power and it was supposed to settle the arguments and the fighting that Germany had started. Two of the things that Germany had to agree to were paying for the damage from the war and reducing their army from 6 million to 100 thousand. This caused all of the people who left the army to have to get other jobs but because The Great Depression hit right after the treaty was signed, these people couldn’t find jobs or ways to get paid. Despite this, Germany as well as everyone else managed to get back on their feet. In the end, Germany only managed to pay off the war by 2010. 6 million people in Germany were unemployed but when compared with the United States at its lowest points with 15 million unemployed people, it doesn't seem like a lot. When looking at the percentages, 20% of Americans in the United States were jobless where in Germany 24% were unemployed. Germany may have more people unemployed but because of the percentage of people in their state compared to the United States, I think that they were hit the hardest.

What had Germany agreed to when they were forced to sign The Treaty of Versailles?

1 year after WW1, 1919, Germany was forced to sign a treaty that is widely known as the Treaty of Versailles. It was a peace treaty between France, Britain, Austria-Hungary, Japan, USA, and while Germany was involved the German Government did not participate. The choice for the Germans was either for them to sign the treaty or be occupied by allied troops. Even though Germany was angry because they thought that they didn’t start the war and decided that therefore it wasn't their fault, They signed the Treaty of Versailles under protest. Because the treaty was made so the Germans had less power, after it was signed the Germans army was reduced from 6 million to 100 thousand, it got rid of their submarines, military aircraft/ artilleries, and lessened their navy to 6 small battleships. Even after all of that they also had to pay for all of the costs of the war. (They only managed to pay this off in 2010 which was 91 years later). Though this treaty was used to help bring the German's power down, I think that it only made them hunger for more.

How was NZ affected by The Great Depression?

New Zealand was an agricultural country which meant that we would sell most of our goods overseas. When The Great Depression hit, people couldn’t buy the goods that we would send out which meant that we lost a lot of our money for that was where most of our income came from. New Zealand wasn't hit immediately but from 1930, export prices began to plummet, it managed to fall 45% by 1933. While sales were falling, so were the prices for they needed to sell their products before they went off. The money they would get before the great depression with their sales would be brought back to help pay for the products that they would need for the next sale. Because the great depression caused them to bring down their prices they would have barely been able to pay for more products to sell. New Zealand managed to start to get back onto their feet by 1935 but as like all of the other countries, they were barely making it by. 

The Great Depression - Social Studies

 In social studies we are learning about The Great Depression and how Germany was effected. We were given 3 different questions to answer using lawyer paragraphs and 2 hours to complete these tasks. Some information was put in a slide on our teaches website but it didn't have all of the answers so it took a lot of researching to complete them.

Why was Germany hit hardest during the depression?

The Great Depression was a worldwide severe economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s. The Great Depression was particularly hard on the United States and Europe. Before The Great Depression Germany had been forced to sign The Treaty of Versailles so they would have less power and it was supposed to settle the arguments and the fighting that Germany had started. Two of the things that Germany had to agree to was paying for the damage from the war and reducing their army from 6 million to 100 thousand. This caused all of the people who left the army to have to get other jobs but because The Great Depression hit right after the treaty was signed, these people couldn’t find jobs or ways to get paid. Despite this, Germany as well as everyone else managed to get back on their feet. In the end Germany only managed to pay off the war by 2010. 6 million people in Germany were unemployed but when compared with the United States at its lowest points with 15 million unemployed people, it doesn't seem like a lot. When looking at the percentages, 20% of Americans in the United States were jobless where in Germany 24% were unemployed. Germany may have more people unemployed but because of the percentage of people in their state compared to the United States I think that they were hit the hardest.

What had Germany agreed to when they were forced to sign The Treaty of Versailles?

1 year after WW1, 1919, Germany was forced to sign a treaty that is widely known as the Treaty of Versailles. It was a peace treaty between France, Britain, Austria-Hungary, Japan, USA, and while Germany was involved the German Government did not participate. The choice for the Germans was either for them to sign the treaty or be occupied by allied troops. Even though Germany was angry because they thought that they didn’t start the war and decided that therefore it wasn't their fault, They signed the Treaty of Versailles under protest. Because the treaty was made so the Germans had less power, after it was signed the Germans army was reduced from 6 million to 100 thousand, it got rid of their submarines, military aircraft/ artilleries, and lessened their navy to 6 small battleships. Even after all of that they also had to pay for all of the costs of the war. (They only managed to pay this off in 2010 which was 91 years later). Though this treaty was used to help bring the Germans power down, I think that it only made them hunger for more.

How was NZ affected by The Great depression?

New zealand was an agricultural country which meant that we would sell most of our goods overseas. When The Great Depression hit, people couldn’t buy the goods that we would send out which meant that we lost a lot of our money for that was where most of our income came from. New zealand wasn't hit immediately but from 1930, export prices began to plummet, it managed to fall 45% by 1933. While sales were falling, so were the prices for they needed to sell their products before they went off. The money they would get before the great depression with their sales would be brought back to help pay for the products that they would need for the next sale. Because the great depression caused them to bring down their prices they would have barely been able to pay for more products to sell. New Zealand managed to start to get back onto their feet by 1935 but as like all of the other countries, they were barely making it by. 

Green Peace - Social Studies

Who is Greenpeace?
"Greenpeace is an independant, campaigning organization which uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and force solutions for a green and peacful future." People in Greenpeace go around and defends natural habitats as well as promoting a peacful enviorment by exposing/ confronting enviormental abuse. They don't get paid for saving our earth so they live of the donations they get gien fromthose who donate around the world. 
Greenpeace.org Britannica.com Greenpeace.org/Aotearoa

What has Greenpeace achevied?
Greenpeace has been involved in "protecting oceans and anchent forests, phasing out fossial fuels and promoting renewable energy to stop climate change, eleminating toxic chemical, and so much more. They have people helping out everywhere with different things so they an help stop all of these problems that we cause on this earth. They try their hardest to be able to save our comunity by helping the enviorment. If you search what their goal is on google it will come up with peace. 
Britannica.com Learningtogive.org Google.com/search 

What is greenpeace doing to protect the oceans?
Grenpeace has been looking at the suloutions that scientest 

Sustainable Fishing - Social Studies

Is sustainable fishing even possible?
People won't be able to control what other people do in the ocean when people aren't watching what they are doing and punishing the people who break the law. In the ocean, the law can't be promised for when over 4600000 commercial boats go out and fish while killing all this bycatch because no one is going to go around and stop all of them. 

How is commercial fishing a threat to dolphins and birds in bycatch?
Over 300,000 small whales, dolphins, and porpoises dying from bycatch each year from these commercial fishing boats. There are also 300,000 sea birds being drowned, thrown around, and killed from bycatch with these horrible people on those commercial boats. They are endangering so many marine animals and the rest of us are doing nothing but then again there is not much we can do while staying on the land.

 

Shark Finning - Social Studies

What is Shark Finning?
Shark finning is a gruesome practice that involves cutting LIVE shark's fins off and then sometimes throwing the de-finned sharks back into the ocean to die slowly and painfully. The fins are mostly used in china and hong kong as a key ingredient in the shark-fin soup. 

Why is it a delicacy?
The fin-shark soup played an important role as an indicator of social standing. It has the consistency close to noodles but it has no flavor of nutritional value so people add chicken broth to make it taste like something. It was first created by an Emporer in the sun dynasty during the Chinese golden era. The dish was made to represent the wealth, power, and generosity of the Emporer. 

How is Shak Finning impacting our oceans?
Sharks are the top predator in the ocean so if they get whipped out then the spices below them with overpopulating which will cause the next preorder on the list to die off until there is no more which will kill the spices below the sharks. This would continue until there would be no marine life in the ocean.