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What CST and IST grade what you allocate yourself for this project? Justify your response

A ‘B’ because we have done an alright job but not to a very high achievement.

What could you do tonight that would improve your grade?

I could edit my video more and add the clips we recorded today and go through both rubric to ensure I get a good grade.

What grade do you think your team will give you for teamwork? Why?

We will get an ‘A’ because all my group members communicated with us everyday and was very cooperative.

Thinking about your presentation on Monday, what do you need to do to score an “A” grade? (hint: Look at the presentation skills). What could you do before Monday, to ensure you receive an “A”?

Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of how to use the video camera appropriately.

Implements comprehensive camera techniques.

Produces a comprehensive move production.

Uses comprhensive effects to engage the audience.

I should make sure all this is in our video to ensure to get an ‘A’.

Elizabethan Society

The Elizabethan Era is the period associated with Queen Elizabeth I’s reign (1558–1603) and is often considered to be the golden age in English history. It was the height of the English Renaissance and saw the flowering of English poetry and literature. This was also the time during which Elizabethan theatre flourished and William Shakespeare and many others, composed plays that broke free of England’s past style of plays and theatre. It was an age of exploration and expansion abroad, while back at home, the Protestant Reformation became the national mindset of all the people.

The Elizabethan Age is viewed so highly because of the contrasts with the periods before and after. It was a brief period of largely internal peace between the English Reformation and the battles between Protestants and Catholics and the battles between parliament and the monarchy that engulfed the seventeenth century. The Protestant/Catholic divide was settled, for a time, by the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, and parliament was not yet strong enough to challenge royal absolutism. England was also well-off compared to the other nations of Europe. The Italian Renaissance had come to an end under the weight of foreign domination of the peninsula. France was embroiled in its own religious battles that would only be settled in 1598 with the Edict of Nantes. In part because of this, but also because the English had been expelled from their last outposts on the continent, the centuries long conflict between France and England was largely suspended for most of Elizabeth’s reign.

The Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare’s playing company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, and was destroyed by fire on June 29, 1613. A second Globe Theatre was rebuilt on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642.

A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named “Shakespeare’s Globe”, opened in 1997. It is approximately 230 metres (750 ft) from the site of the original theatre.

The Globe was owned by actors who were also shareholders in the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Two of the six Globe shareholders, Richard Burbage and his brother Cuthbert Burbage, owned double shares of the whole, or 25% each; the other four men, Shakespeare, John Heminges, Augustine Phillips, and Thomas Pope, owned a single share, or 12.5%. (Originally William Kempe was intended to be the seventh partner, but he sold out his share to the four minority sharers, leaving them with more than the originally planned 10%). These initial proportions changed over time, as new sharers were added. Shakespeare’s share diminished from 1/8 to 1/14, or roughly 7%, over the course of his career. The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre.

The King’s Chamberlain Men

The Lord Chamberlain’s Men was the playing company that William Shakespeare worked for as actor and playwright for most of his career. Formed at the end of a period of flux in the theatrical world of London, it had become, by 1603, one of the two leading companies of the city and was subsequently patronized by James I.

It was founded during the reign of Elizabeth I of England in 1594, under the patronage of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, the then Lord Chamberlain, who was in charge of court entertainments. After its patron’s death on July 23, 1596, the company came under the patronage of his son, George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, for whom it was briefly known as Lord Hunsdon’s Men until he in turn became Lord Chamberlain on March 17, 1597, whereupon it reverted to its previous name. The company became the King’s Men in 1603 when King James ascended the throne and became the company’s patron.

Two Gentlemen in Verona

It is about a man Proteus who loves beauty and that’s how the story is created. First he falls in love with Julia as she is so beautiful but then falls in love with his best friend’s love who is Silvia as Proteus has forgotten Julia’s beauty and is immersed in how good Silvia looks but the Duke and his best friend Valentine stands in his way of loving Silvia. Proteus manages to get Valentine banished as he was trying to take away Silvia who is the Duke’s daughter. In the end Julia is revealed as she saw Proteus trying to have an affair with Silvia. Julia disguised herself as someone else. At the end Silvia doesn’t like Proteus even though he saves her and tries to capture and take her away but Valentine who joined outlaws had seend Proteus and stopped him. Julia came and Proteus soon starts to say sorry and Valentine forgive him. It is then that Proteus falls in love with Julia.

Tragedies, Commedies and Histories

The traditional division of his plays into tragedies, comedies, and histories follows the categories used in the First Folio. However, modern criticism has labelled some of these plays “problem plays” which elude easy categorization, or perhaps purposefully break generic conventions, and has introduced the term romances for what scholars believe to be his later comedies. Below is a list of the plays he created under the three themes.

 Relevance of plays to 21st Century

The elements and timeless themes of Shakespearen plays still apply to the 21st century. This is because these things happen in our century but just in a more modernised way. The love, revenge, hatred, etc apply to today’s society.

What are the typical features that all Shakespeare plays must include?

Analyse why red sunsets can sometimes be more impressive when there is more dust or pollution in the air than usual.

The pollutant aerosols in the atmosphere tend to settle with time into layers, with larger particles forming the denser layers closest to the ground. Sunlight fades gradually and takes on an orange-red hue as it traverses these layers. The scattered light loses more of the shorter-wavelength colours, so that mainly red gets through. The sky takes on a dull red glow; the shades of red become darker nearer the Earth’s surface as the scattered light comes from the increasingly dense layers of the lower atmosphere.

Describe what happens inside water droplets to cause a rainbow and explain how you can tell whether a rainbow is a primary or secondary.

White light goes into the raindrops and because different colour light has different velocities so as the refractive rays come out a raindow is formed. A primary rainbow has red at the top and blue at the bottom and a secondary randow has blue at the top and red at the bottom.

• What influences your values about issues relating to your life?

Culture, beliefs, hobbies, interested in education or not.

• Do you ever compare images/values presented by the media to those of the bible? If so why? If not why not?

Not I don’t because the media doesn’t have the view of the Church and don’t necessarily follow it.

Has this project challenged you to examine your values? Why / Why not

Not really because I have not had a chance to do so in the project.

Investigate the two types of sight defect- long-sightedness and short sightedness.

Find the following information:

What causes the defect?

The defect can come because of heredity, looking close to what you are trying to read or see or straining your eye to look from far distance. It can be also caused by injuries on the eye.

The symptoms displayed

It would be hard to see far distance of to see short distance

Propose what sort of lens may be used to correct each vision.

To treat long sightedness you will need to wear glasses with convex lens and with short sightedness you will need to wear glasses with concave lens.

• How do you feel the media portrays social justice issues?

They protray it as very bad and that something must be done about it.

• Has it been difficult to find articles on social justice issues why/why not?

No because there are many social justice issues.

• Do you think that the media operates from a moral framework? Give evidence by using your research.

No as present in http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4330164.stm.

1. Open and read the “How to write a critique” document in the resources menu.

Describe what is a critique.

A critique involves identifying critical things to say about an article and resisting the temptation to describe rather than analyse.

2. Outline the FOUR stages in a critique.

A critique usually has 4 parts:

• An introduction (which directs the reader’s attention to the publication and your response to it)

• A summary of the article

• Your analysis or critical commentary on the original text

• Your evaluation or conclusion

3. Can a critique be positive? Discuss.

Yes it can depending on its overall points on negative and positive. The positive can be demonstrated through the analysis and conclusion which will sum up the ideas.

4. Critique the accuracy of the following articles:

The first article was about the Beijing Olympics which will be commencing. They talk about how the Chinese people are making holes identified through satellite images. The news readers claim that they will place branched and leaves on top of the hole and trap everyone. They say they have planned the attack for thousands of years. This information isn’t accurate by me looking at different sources and looking at google earth.

The second article is about a  2 year old donkey called up to Pro Donkey Basketball League. They talk about this donkey playing in front of many people in Basketball and is not ready mentally for this. They ckaim that a coach will change this donkey to like the audience.  This information isn’t accurate by me looking at different sources especially as donkey basketball doesn’t exist or doesn’t exist in the media world.

Fibre optic technology offers many advantages when used in medical applications.

a. describe how optical fibre may be used in medical applications

You can do key hole surgery to see the body inside and is mainly done in surgery to see where doctors are operating. They are used in endoscopes.

b. identify the traditional medical techniques that optical fibres might replace

Optical fibres are increasingly being used instead of copper wire to transmit data and communications because they are thinner, cheaper, more durable and can carry more information.

c. Evaluate the benefits of fibre optic technology to medicine

The benefits of fibre optic technology to medicine is that images are transferred very fast, have a magnifying strength of 2000x and are cheaper to use and have.