Live Aid 1985 🎼

Whose Bob Geldof?

 Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof who has had great success as the main singer with the group called the Boomtown Rats. He was born in Ireland in 1951 he found a passion for music which lead him and the group to have a first hit single ‘Rat Trip’ followed by another hit being released called ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’. Followed in 1984 Bob was known as a rock star but soon was known as an international celebrity in order for raising awareness of humanitarian charities. In the same year, Ethiopia and other African countries experienced a severe famine which led to many thousands of people starving to death. Bob Geldof and Midge Ure decided to do something about helping and spreading awareness for these countries. They released a hit called “Do they know its Christmas Time”.

Whose Midge Ure?

Midge Uru

Midge Uru -part of the band Ultravox- began his musical career with Salvation that became a bubblegum band Silk in 1974. Not agreeing with the change of direction Midge Uru left the band to join the Rich Kids. 1982 Midge released a solo single which was a cover of the Walker Brothers' hit "No Regrets". This solo single climbed into the U.K. Top Ten. 

Ethiopia?

Ethiopia 

Ethiopia is a country located in East Africa. It is rugged, landlocked country meaning that it has no sea around it - so it doesn’t have ports (it is also split by the Great Rift Valley.) It is around many other countries that have had civil wars with each other so I guess it’s neighbours are very loud. It has plenty of rivers and one lake based on it. Ethiopia is 10 degrees North along the latitude line it is also 50 degrees east on the longitude line. 

A Map?

      

Choose a song from Live Aid...

Bohemian Rhapsody 

Explain why you think the artist used this song for their performance...

I think Queen used this song for their performance is because it is quite a powerful song, it also hypes the crowd up. Another reason why is because it's their most popular song. 

Do you think it is a form of protest?

I think in some way it is due to the way Freddie Mercury sings this song, He is so passionate about it and even the rest of Queen puts their heart and soul into music. I think it could be a protest due to the line "Mama just killed a man." Live Aid was organised the raise money for the famine-stricken Africas and so I think that line relates to many people who have starved over there.

Do you think one person could start a similar concert in 2020? Explain your reasoning (Live Aid took 10 weeks to organise.)

I think it is possible but it wouldn't be as incredible as it was back in 1985. I say this because everyone in 1985 didn't have autotune and they actually played their instruments. If they did it again we would see people like Drake and many others in the line ups. Except they couldn't start a similar concert in 2020 due to Covid 19 and the high risk of terrorist ruining the shows. 

How significant are music and musicians today in affecting change in the world?

If you compare someone like Justin Bieber to Michael Jackson there is a huge difference. I think the artists now really focus on Mental & Emotion outcomes other than a change in the world. Michael Jackson and many others would incorporate world problems in their songs and then some artists would have charities to help change the world. I think the music now days is not promoting world change compared the other artists in 1985.

The Road To The Treaty 🛣️

 Use these important dates/events that led to the signing of the Treaty to create a history road.

Include a brief description of each event.

1833

On the 5th of May, James Busby arrives in the Bay of Islands. Then in the following year 1834 Busby got northern chiefs to vote for their own flag. The intention was that a flag would provide a means for encouraging Maori to act collectively, and the fledgling colony needed its own flag for its trading ships to be legitimately operating in the Pacific. 

1835

Frenchman Baron Charles de Thierry claimed to have purchased 40,000 acres in the Hokianga. He planned to establish a ‘sovereign and independent state’. The French plan led Busgby to draw up a Declaration of Independence in 1835. 

1837

In December 1837 the British government decided in principle to intervene in New Zealand to ensure that colonisation was regulated and that land transactions that defrauded Māori were stopped. The government had initially tried to avoid assuming responsibility. Instead, it had attempted to influence the interaction of Māori and British settlers through the missionaries and by sending British Resident James Busby to work with chiefs. In mid-1839 the British government decided to annex at least part of New Zealand to New South Wales.

1839

The British government appointed William Hobson as consul to New Zealand in 1839. Hobson was instructed to obtain sovereignty over all or part of New Zealand with the consent of a sufficient number of chiefs. New Zealand would come under the authority of George Gipps, the governor of New South Wales, and Hobson would become Gipps’ lieutenant-governor. Land-buying agents continued swarming over New Zealand in anticipation of purchases.

1840 

Governor Gipps prohibited further private land purchases from Māori, and no existing claims were to be recognised until they had been investigated by the authorities. William Hobson repeated the proclamation at the Bay of Islands on 30 January 1840. 

 1840

The Treaty of Waitangi was signed on 6 February 1840. The previous day a draft of the Treaty in English and Māori was discussed before about 500 Māori and 200 Pākehā. Many Māori were suspicious of what was intended, but Tāmati Wāka Nene among others helped sway the chiefs towards acceptance. The meeting reassembled on 6 February; the text was read again, and signing commenced. About 40 chiefs signed on the first day; by September 1840 another 500 chiefs around the country had signed. Almost all of the chiefs signed copies of the Māori text of the Treaty. On 21 May William Hobson proclaimed sovereignty over all of New Zealand: over the North Island on the basis of cession through the Treaty of Waitangi and over the southern islands by right of discovery. Māori agreement to the terms of the Treaty was still being sought. Hobson may have wanted to declare the Crown’s authority over the whole country because he had learned of possible moves by the New Zealand Company to set up its own administration around Cook Strait. His deputy, Major Thomas Bunbury, also made proclamations of sovereignty over Stewart Island on 5 June by right of discovery (he claimed that no Māori could be found there to sign the Treaty),and over the South Island on 17 June by virtue of cession.

Know Your Place 🗺️

 So folks for the past few weeks we have been learning and creating how to use prezi, with finding out information about Christchurch. This helped a lot because it has given me a new resource to use when creating presentations. The link below is my prezi presentation about Chritschurch and Canterbury...

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What I have learnt from my esearch is that Christchurch is getting a new stadium for rugby games (it's actually confirmed.) I found this really interesting since I love watching rugby games and the fact we would be able to host an All Black's game is amazing! I also enjoyed learning about Lyttleton since that town holds so many events in history it isn't funny. The most interesting thing I found out was where half of Christchurch's street names came from, I quiet enjoyed that. What I recommend what we should of added to the prezi is about finding out a person who had an impact or an interesting history in the community or even the early settlers who came here. I say this because we would get to learn about a role model or just see how early times where. 

Argriculture Essay 🌱

Back in 10,000 B.C., there was a lot of farming going on in the home we call Earth.
Farming has actually been around for many years, it has also improved to become better
and stronger. Agriculture (around 12,000 years ago) was a really important topic even though
it sounds bland. Even though it’s not the most interesting it is very critical to the generation now.
The reasoning behind this is basically if we didn’t have all the older technology to farm, grow food
and harvest food we wouldn’t have any food or even edible resources today. At this time in history,
many people came up with inventions for farming. Some of these inventions include the plough,
grain elevator, the roller and the cotton gin. 

The plough (or also spelt as plow) is a very intimidating-looking device back in the days,
it is equipped with curved hooks/shovel ends that grinds against the soil. This device is
the most important to agricultural implement since the beginning of human history.
Created by John Fowler during the mid-19th century the plough is used to turn and break
up the soil to bury crop residues and to help control the growth of weeds. If we didn’t have
the plough today or at all our crop fields would be full of weeds and we wouldn’t be able to
plant our food sources faster and more efficiently, therefore meaning the lack of harvest we
would get back. The plough is quite useful and has now become a more modern mechanism
in our era- meaning it is the big trailer looking thing tractors pull behind them. So the plough has
gotten bigger, stronger and is still around with its fancy new upgrades. 

A grain elevator? Sounds kinda outlandish… In fact, a grain elevator is also an agrarian
facility complex designed to stockpile or store grains. The term “grain elevator” also describes
a tower containing a bucket elevator or pneumatic conveyor (containing or operated by air/gas
under pressure.) Which scoops up grain from a lower level and deposits it in a silo or other storage
facility. The reasoning why we need the grain elevator is to make it easier on us to move tiny pieces
of grain and to keep them all together. Since they have been quiet thought out about the grain all gets
sorted and kept together with its own type and will keep there until needed again. William Hespeler
in Niverville, Manitoba constructed the first-ever grain elevator as a wooden silo-like building back
in 1879. A more familiar form of the grain elevator made an appearance in 1881 in Gretna, Manitoba
when Ogilvie Milling Company built a wooden square 25,000-bushel grain elevator. Grain elevators
are usually located near railways/waterways to accommodate shipping the grain out after being
processed through the machine. It is easy to recognize the grain elevator due to its large cylindrical
shape. The sum it all up after the grain makes it’s way to an elevator, it is then dumped from the
truck to a work floor of a grain elevator. A work floor is an open slatted floor where the grain dumps
into a pit and will then travel on a continuous belt that has buckets attached to scoop up the grain
then deposits it into a silo. There are many grain elevators around in the world and if you are driving
around looking out a window near the countryside you will more than likely
see the same old grain elevator.

Now onto the one and only roller! No not hair rollers, I mean rollers for the plants.
Rollers are a secondary tillage tool used for flattening land or breaking up large clumps
of soil especially after the tool the “plough” or “disc harrowing” has happened. Rolling is
also believed to help reduce moisture loss from cultivated soil. If that made completely
no sense a roller is used to smooth out uneven surfaces caused by heavy traffic and can
be used to press uprooted or heaved plants back into the soil to prevent desiccation,
Rolling can produce a firm surface to provide a “faster” surface for plants to grow. Of course,
a roller is still used today except who invented it? Although I cannot find the answer to that,
I think it had something to do with the road roller. A roller is literally just a huge rolling pin that
can provide more oxygen for the soil. 

Last but not least is the cotton gin. Yes, it is a very old but useful piece of machinery.
A cotton gin or a cotton engine is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibres
from their seeds, enabling them much greater productivity than manual cotton separations.
While slavery was a common thing the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, except
it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton. Cotton growing became so
profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor.
The human who invented this device was Eli Whitney who invented it in 1793. Suddenly we
could turn a profit on this terribly labour-intensive crop (so the cotton gin had negative uses.)
From then until the Civil War the slave population increased to the astonishing level of 4,000,000.
In fact, the cotton gin is still around but is more modern. The modern cotton gin uses the teeth of
rotating saws to pull the cotton through a series of “ginning ribs” which pull the fibres from the seeds
which are too large to pass through the ribs. The cleaned seed is then removed from the gin
via an auger conveyor system (so we don’t have slaves.)

Agriculture is a very important thing in our time, it shows us how farming has changed
over the years and how we don’t need slaves or anything like that. In farming, we have
changed our horrible ways in the past to now using inventions to help us manage the farmlands.
All Agricultural technologies all have an interesting story behind them, some that you wouldn’t

even expect. 

Agriculture Timeline ⌛