Disaster God: Roman god, Vulcan

Vulcan: Roman god of volcanoes or conflagrations.

Story of Vulcan:

Vulcan was born to the king and queen of gods, Jupiter and Juno, who had been thrown off Mount Olympus because he wasn’t born as a handsome baby. When he had fallen into the  sea and broken his leg, he was found by Thetis, a water nymph. She took him to her underwater home and raised him as her son.

When he was reaching adulthood, he had found burning coals on the shore, being interested, he took them home and made a fire with them. He spent hours with the fire and the hotter he made the fire, he realised there were stones that sweated with gold, silver and iron. 

He beat the stones to different shapes and made accessories, swords and shields. He made many gifts for his foster mother, who had worn them while visiting Mount Olympus.

Juno, Vulcan's birth mother, had learned of his abilities and demanded that Vulcan return back to her. Vulcan refused to leave his underwater home. He built a beautiful chair made of gold and silver with inlays of mother-of-pearl and sent it to Juno. The Queen of the Gods was very happy with the gift. When Juno sat in the chair, her weight engaged hidden springs and metal bands. They sprung from the chair and held Juno. The more she yelled and struggled, the more the chair held her. Vulcan had sent Juno a chair that was designed to be a trap. 

After being trapped there for days, her husband contacted Vulcan and said if he released Juno, he’d give Vulcan a wife. She would be the Goddess of love and beauty known as Venus. Vulcan agreed. He built a workshop in Sicily under Mount Etna. According to legend, should Venus be unfaithful, Vulcan would become angry and beat metal that is red-hot with extreme force. 

Explanation: Vulcan was responsible for volcanoes because he became angry with his wife and beat metal with brute force, causing volcanoes to form and lava to erupt.

Relation to science: Volcanoes are caused by the tectonic plates colliding and the more dense plate moving beneath the thicker plate. Vulcan’s story speaks of him beating metal which builds up and erupts.     

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Composing Process

 1. What have you found challenging about the composing process? 

Deciding on what to start with, since we were going to do a song with lyrics but then decided to change it because of how difficult it was.

2. What have you composed so far? Are you happy with it?

We have a full minute for our piano piece, the final piece we will perform.

3. Which part of your piece are you currently working on?

Practising separately

4. What are your goals for your last two lessons before the performance?

finish practising and working together.

BET: Steps of Budgeting

For the past week, we have been learning about Budgeting in Business Studies. We learnt about financial Values, goals and how to budget. Budgeting is a plan which enables people to overview their spendings and expenses, it is balancing your expenses with your income. Budgeting is a plan for often a year and it includes planned sales volumes and revenues, resource quantities, costs and expenses, assets, liabilities and cash flows.

Today we were to either make a flowchart or prezi. I decided to make a flowchart explaining the different steps of budgeting. 

Reflection:

This task was fairly easy to complete, the easiest part of it was finding the information. A simple google search helped with finding a step by step of budgeting. The hardest was learning how to use the the site, Visme, since I've never used it before. It was a bit nerve recking to use the format I chose, so if I were to do this task again, I would use a different templet.

Thank you reading my blog post.

Source:

Six steps to budgeting

Ms Eastwicks budgeting slide show 

 

Composition Plan

In music for therm 4 we are composing our own song and performing it to the class. We can work in groups or have a solo performance.

The different compositions we can create are: Film Music, Song writing, Advertising or Percussion.

Term 4 Composition Plan

Type of composition: Film music

Group members and roles: Shira and Tamara - Both playing piano.

Equipment list: Piano

Starting goal: picking a genre

The treaty of Vienna

This term in Social Studies, we've been learning about the treaty of Waitangi. This week we were given a task in which we researched another treaty and to find out the similarities between the treaty of Waitangi and another treaty of choice.

I decided to research the treaty of Vienna.

The negatives of Impulse Buying

For the past week in Business Studies, we have been learning about Impulse Buying and the negatives of it. Impulse buying is the buying of goods without planning to do so in advance, as a result of sudden impulse or whim.

Today we had to create a brochure on impulse buying, why its bad and the possible outcomes of it. 

This is the brochure I created:

IMPULSE BUYING IMPULSE BUYING IMPULSE BUYING Impulse buying is when people buy products, foods, etc without planning to buy it beforehand.  In short, Impulse buying is purchasing unnecessary products. The cause for this is promotions, sales, advertisements, and the placement of products in a store.

Negatives  Negatives -Wasting money on useless things. -Not having enough money to pay for rent/ mortgage. -Saving goals being effected. -obsessive behaviour and mental health issues after impulse buying. Impulse buying will NOT allow you to save money, have money to spend on necessities and can also affect your mental health.

IMPULSE BUYING IMPULSE BUYING IMPULSE BUYING The placement of products in grocery stores have an impact on impulse buying as the popular and important products are placed at the back. While the unnecessary products are placed at the front.  The little bars and gums are placed in the front because people would normally buy them on their way out.

This task wasn't hard to complete since we already looked at the information beforehand and had were able to use it. The hardest part of the task was to decide how to present the information. The easiest was finding the information.

Thank you for reading my blog post.

Source:

Information from Miss Eastwick.

Dictionary.

Opening a new bank account

For the past week, in business studies, we have been learning about the different types of bank accounts, the terms and conditions of these bank accounts and how they work in general. Today we were given an option to either make a crosswords puzzle for the key words given or create a FAQ's page for someone who might be wanting to open a new bank account. 

I had decided on option two and created a FAQ's page for someone new wanting to open a bank account. This is the following information I found and displayed:

Opening a new bank account.

What are the requirements for opening a bank account?

To open a new bank account, you would need to book an appointment with your nearest bank and bring along the following things as proof of your identity:

• Proof of address (Any document that has your address and has been sent to you would do).

• Proof of identification (drivers licence, passport etc)

• IRD number

• Copy of Visa/ residency/ citizenship.

What are the different types of bank accounts?

There are four different accounts that we provide.

Everyday accounts, just like it’s name, are suitable for everyday use with flexible options for personal banking. There is a monthly account fee of $5 and no annual fee on the Visa Debit card. Everyday accounts also do not have any credit interest.

Savings accounts are accounts on which you can earn interest on, if you leave the money in the bank for a selected time. There are two forms of interest you can earn, simple or compound. 

The different accounts we provide are:

Serious Saver: 

0.05% interest and premium interest of 0.40%, a total of 0.45% interest p.a.

Automated and annual fee: $5 per month. 

Rapid Save:

0.10% base interest and 0.30% bonus, a total of 0.40% credit interest p.a.

$3 withdrawal fee and no annual fee.

School/tertiary accounts are suitable for students moving into university and or tertiary studies. The account we provide for this have no annual fee, interest free overdraft and no transaction fees.

Term deposit accounts are accounts which are basically used to invest money by keeping the money in the bank account for a certain amount of days or years.

The rates we provide are:

0.60% p.a 120 days

1.00% p.a 180 days

1.00% p.a 240 days

1.00% p.a 1 year

What happens if I break the term deposit early?

If you unexpectedly need your money after investing in a term deposit, you can request an early withdrawal. You'll need to let us know if you're suffering from financial hardship or give us 31 days' notice of the withdrawal. If we agree to let you make an early withdrawal, we’ll reduce your rate by 3% per annum on the amount you withdraw (your return will not go below 0%).

What's the difference between EFTPOS, Debit and Credit cards?

EFTPOS stands for Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Service, it is very similar to a debit card as both are the basic equivalent of cash, without having to carry the paper money. The money comes from a current bank account, such as a freedom account.

A credit card offers credit that can be used to make purchases, balance transfers, internet banking and cash advances that one would have to pay back the loan amount in the future.

How much is the maximum overdraft limit?

There is no maximum limit and you can borrow up to your agreed overdraft limit whenever you need it, and repay some or all of it at any time. The overdraft is linked to your everyday account, so you can access it easily.

This task was not very hard finish, thought it did take time to type up the information. The hardest part of this was finding the right words to use for different audience to be able to understand and rely on the information. The easiest part of the whole process was finding the information as many different Banks, such as ANZ, have their own website which have information for the different accounts and rates.

A question for the audience:

Was the information straight forward and understandable?

Source of information: ANZ Website