Humanities



_ Really hoping for a 10! By the way I hope you like long essays.

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 * 1) The black death was spread throughout Europe through black rats. The disease was carried in the blood of rats and was transmitted to humans through flees. People exposed to the dead people would eventually inherit the disease. While isolated in their walls the enemy would fling the bodies of their dead (which had the disease) and infected the air and thus the population, the disease would infect their drinking water and air. Some types of the plague were transmitted through sneezing and other factors. So through flees, rats, war and other human factors.
 * 2) This artist is trying to convey that the arrival of the black death has come. The skeletons represent death and he is trying to say anyone in the path, death would be coming for you at every turn. The plagues effect everyone within its way and kills people of any stature. The plague left the place in terrible conditions almost trying to represent hell on earth the artist is.
 * 3) You would catch the plague because of gods punishment and unfaithfulness or disloyalty assumed by Italians, you would catch it through the poisoning of drinking water due to Jewish people. Some believed due to the corruption of the air and the humours would cause the plagues to become abrupt. The position of heaven also effected the air. I believe there were so many explanations because mostly people wanted something to blame and other people was a good excuse, and because the real cause was unable to be found with there technology. The closest to truth would be: __source J__
 * 4) The flagellants believed that god was punishing them and if they beat themselves he would take pity upon them and relieve them of their pain.
 * 5) The fact that if they observed their patients they had an increased chance of dyeing. They didn’t have writings to pass on knowledge about the plague and they had no microsopes which would allow them to observe these germs.

MYP5 Matrix of Completed Tasks for Tectonics Unit - Owen Unsatisfactory/ Satisfactory/ Good/ Excellent || Good research but again, needs doing using the 5 W’s approach ||
 * Task || Completed Y/N || Comment
 * Continental Drift Theory || Y || E ||
 * Tectonic Plate Boundary diagrams (embedded) || Y || E – very thorough ||
 * Mt St Helens case study questions (in book) ||  ||   ||
 * Volcanoes case studies intro powerpoint || Y || G – could do with some pictures ||
 * Mt Nyiragongo Case Study || Y || S – not done using the 5 W’s system of case studies. Needs maps and photos ||
 * Kashmir Earthquake Case Study || Y || G – well done, you could add a map aswell to help show where it was and the effects.
 * Chuetsu Earthquake Case Study ||  ||   ||
 * Bridge design and explanation for Bay Bridge || N || Not uploaded decisions here ||
 * Hospital Location || E || Very good choice of location and analysis Owen but you need to put this all into a continuous piece of writing and then have this within the properties of the placemark on google earth – ||

Teacher Reflection on unit: Some great work Owen. As I said, the final choice of area is good and. Some of your case studies need to be done following the case study system and use images and photos more to improve them. Otherwise a good unit. Student reflection: Having looked through this case study carefully, there are only a few instances of cut an paste. You have used a couple of sources and given a good idea of the life of Alfred Wegener and his theory of continental drift.

However where are the two volcano and nyiragongo case studies. ?

Alfred Wegener September-08-10 9:21 AM  Born in Germany November 1st, 1880 Alfred Wegener attended The University of Berlin and earned his Ph. D in Astronomy in 1904. Though his early interest was Astronomy, in 1906 he joined a campaign in Greenland to learn about Polar Air Circulation. During his time at Marburg he went searching through the library where he happened to land on an essay that enlisted fossils of the same plants and animals found on different sides of the earth. He quickly became fascinated and found many more related topics through his research. He later came up with the theory of ' Continental Drift ', which states that all the earths land mass was once one. It later through millions of years of time disjoined and formed the earth we know today, through tectonic plates, which shift constantly over time, created the many different countries or continents that are dispersed over the earth’s crust. It was his theory that all land mass is at constant movement and never set to rest, there for all continents must have been joined at one point or another. This land mass he called Pangaea. He also discovered while looking at an atlas that Madagascar and south America could both connect on either side of Africa. He also noted that the mountains in northern Europe were created from the same rock as the mountain range in eastern Canada, and the rock formation in south Africa was identical to those of Brazil. He noted that they were digging for coal in Norway, but scientists know that coal can only be formed in tropical weather, indicating that Norway was closer to the equator before 'Continental drift'. All his research completed on his own time was a form of teaching himself Geophysics, which he was more interested in then any subject he recently took to study or teach. In 1914 he was conducted into the army, but was released for a war wound, while being during rehab in the hospital he had an abundant amount of time on his hands to inquire his ideas on tectonic plates. In 1924 he was offered a professor's status at the university of Graz, in Austria, for meteorology and climatology he showed a great appeal for Meteorology in which he formed several key components and Climatology which he became very familiar with. While in his last expedition to Greenland Alfred Wegener died in the icecaps closely after his 50th birthday.

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