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Think you can do better🤔

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Ah yes, finally the great project is about done. When the school first started, it was near the last election which ended around Monday, September 20, around a month ago, which gave my teacher the fancy idea to start this project “Think You Can Do Better?” The driving question of this project is: How Should We Govern Ourselves? Throughout this project, I have learnt that we should govern ourselves by having elective representatives that are accountable for their actions and that they must perform their duties according to the wishes they represent not for themselves or interest, like for example money. That way the citizens of that country are to have fundamental freedoms, free and fair elections, accountability and transparency from their leader.
Source

transparency (from democracy principles on YouTube)

At the start of the project everyone in my class did a quiz to figure out where we were on the political spectrum and which party might we agree to the most. (if you would like to take the quiz consider visiting this link!). Mine was in the upper left quadrant but it’s more centred, meaning I valued that citizens of our country to have fundamental freedoms and rights.

Another example to support my answer is the blog post I did which point out how human rights and equality is so important to us as Canadians and the Canadian government structure etc.

Later into the project, we were assigned group according to our political believes and views which later turned into our own little political parties. In my party, which was later named The Traditionalist Party of Canada (TPC), was our dearest, Indie; obviously the “best” listener, Quinn; our “world famous” hokey goalie, Nate; and finally, our “best” candidate, Logan! TPC offers one of the most efficient ways to solve current and past issues in Canada.

What make us unique?

after long amounts of deliberating we came up with some solid points that would get us rolling in the right direction. So our party is unique in the fact that we want to revert to our past, but only our economic past, the goal is to get our economy thriving like it was post war. We still recognize that the future is today so we want to move forward with equality, so that’s why we are economically right wing but at the same time socially progressive. Unlike other parties, us as the Traditionalist Party of Canada aren’t making the climate crisis our main concern, we of course acknowledge that it is a problem but we are convinced that our economy is in a worse situation at the moment.

What Makes Your Party Unique?

We plan to model our economy on the best parts of our past

We will utilize the natural resources we have to improve our economy

We will decrease the wealth gap by increasing taxes on the rich

We will create much more affordable living for everyone

We will create more high paying heavy industry jobs

We will create a stronger middle class

We will ban foreign buyers from Canadian Residential space

 

Why You Should Vote For Us

We know that the past few years have been a difficult time for everyone and our economy has taken a massive hit due to the pandemic and we need to revive it. When we talk about the Traditionalist Party of Canada we think of the future, and no not just a couple years from now but future generations down the line. Not only do we promise to sort our economy out the cost of living also has to change. We live in a beautiful country but as the years go on the pricing is getting ridiculous, our aim is to lower this cost by banning foreign buyers and only allowing Canadian residents to by property. If these points take your fancy then we are the party for you, the Traditionalist Party of Canada has a proper plan of action to help our country thrive economically.

 

Conclusion

I found it very interesting researching how much how much having a accountable and transparent leader could influence a country. It was also fascinating to learn about other democratic systems of voting such as proportional representation which may just be more of a equal voting system. In my first post for this project I reflected on the election and related it to a research topic of choice. I chose to research how human rights and equality is so important to us as Canadians. This project really taught me how many different ways one can run there government. It also made me aware how our current system of government often favours the rich and majorities. I never quite realized how minorities have such a hard time getting a say in government.

I hope you enjoyed reading this post please leave a comment and check out my other classmates post!

The End 😀

🏃‍♀️ Running a Remake 💨

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Hello internet, this is my first post of this school year! As quarantine and our first quarter ended the second quarter came — the quarter where we started PLP 9, the PLP quarter. For this project our driving question is: How might we learn video skills by recreating a short film? With the question in mind we looked at the film “RUN!”

With my group Amy, Logan, and Ethan from, there we wrote down the angles and the sound which I was responsible for. I got the role as the “other runner” which is the one that ran while the main character hid. We planned how we would get every shot and how we could get all the sounds we need.  Then, we filmed our golden standard then the actual remake (final product), and then lastly we edited our film and added the sound and finished our final product.

The curriculum competency is:

Innovative Designer: How might I design a solution to a problem, process, or challenge?

I learned lots of stuff during this project, like how long does it actually take to produce a film. Next time of course, I won’t be bragging about the new movie coming out so late.

Anyways that’s it for this post enjoy the rest of your day/ night, peace out!

DI just got more stressful!😩

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Hello internet, I hope you are doing and feeling well. As you know, everything is cancelled and there is noting to do, which means all our schedules are messed up. For PLP kids, we were supposed to have our DI provincials last Saturday, but as I mentioned above, everything is cancelled, which includes DI provincials. At first, my classmates and I was celebrating, our obstinate PLP teacher moved DI online so we couldn’t escape it.By the way, if you haven’t seen my post about DI regionals click the link to check it out.

Anyways, going back a month ago I was in Fine Arts – picture this! – with four other people – Erin, Logan, Dries, and Josh, check out their blog and their most recent posts! my group and I thought about improving our props and back drops a bit. So what we were going to do is that we would use cardboard posters to make a 3D rocket and for our back drop we were going to make them out of takele cloths in Different colours, for example, the moon back drop would use black and grey cloths.

Well there isn’t  much to talk about since DI was cancelled and since I heard that I didn’t bring anything back home to work on, which I was in charge of the 3D rocket. As always here is some photos we used in the online tournament as either backdrops or just a photo.

I hope you enjoyed this post, stay home, stay strong, stay healthy!

DI regionals – It’ll Be Over in A FLASH📸

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Hello internet, about two weeks ago, on an sunny yet chilly Saturday, the DI regionals is held in Seycove! I was so excited but also very nervous at the same time. Finally is 2:20pm, my group’s challenge time, after a ton of rehearsals we are ready to go, but still very nervous. 8 minutes later, the challenge is done and it surprisingly went… well! Our classmates loved it our teacher loved it, it went smoothly except that the flag didn’t really stand when we’re presenting.

Any ways, going back 1 month, was when we first met our groups and we know what categories we were assigned in. I was in Fine Arts – picture this! – with four other people – Erin, Logan, Dries, and Josh, check out their blog and their most recent posts! – one of the important thing our group first did was identifying and understanding the Challenge requirements as outlined in our challenge document, I was the DRI of the time choice elements which one of the most important part our presentation later. Right after we finished our first milestone for this project the teachers assigned the next, milestone two, where we map out a plan for the challenge and where we find a picture for our solution. Here is a picture of it!

To move on faster, we started milestone three, where we assign roles and responsibilities to each other, I was the DRI of the team choice element 1, we fist decided that a rocket was a good idea which later at the regionals we notice that the rocket was too small of a prop to be the team choice element. What hing the other fine arts team present, all of them doesn’t have cool cardboard costumes like our team so we decided that our team choice element is coming to be our costumes. Last but not least, milestone four! Milestone four is where we plan out the time of how long it will take us to do something. Since Im the DRI of the rocket (because we didn’t know we would be changing the team choice element to our costumes at that point) I planed that it would take us at least 30-60 minutes which it didn’t, the rocket toke us about 20-25 minutes.

Next was building time, I spent 1-3 hours, on average, after school working on our DI stuff. I didn’t have much pictures of us building but here’s some.

On the last Friday, we were so nervous, spent at least an hour on DI after school. The next day our flag wasn’t working, we started to panicking but according to my friends, classmates and teachers we did great! So here is a video of our presentation!

Have a great day, and see you next time!