My filipino culture poster

These are three of the things that represent Filipino culture.

My Cryptography Infographic

    I made a thing. In DTE class, we talked about cryptography and how encryption and decryption works. We were also informed about the multiple ways of encryption and decryption. We were told to make an infographic about it and so we did. We did to the best our brains could do. 

Cryptography

Cryptography is the act of sending secret messages to others via using other means, such as... a Caesar cipher. A Caesar cipher involves switching out letters in the alphabet with different numbers.

Example: Z - A, E - H - Z is to A (1) and E is to H (3)

Another example is a columnar transposition cipher, where words are horizontally placed into a grid and encrypted vertically.

h e l l o

t h e r e - htehlelroe

There are different ways to encrypt and decrypt a message, like replacing letters with symbols, which is the most common ones.

Just remember the fact that encrypted messages will take some time to figure out, especially if they're handmade.

Live Aid blog

 In Social Studies, we talked about the Live Aid concert. The event was held in two different places, Wembly Stadium in London, and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. It was headed by multiple people, two of the more known are Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, musicians in their own respective rights. In this blog, we talk about them.

Bob Geldof was an Irish musician, born in 1951. He studied in a Catholic school and worked odd jobs, before going to Canada to work as a music journalist. Eventually, in 1975, he became the lead singer of the Boomtown rats, a punk rock band.

He was famous for their first UK hit single, "Rat Trap", and the upcoming song that was also popular, "I don't like Mondays". In 1981, he took part in a concert for Amnesty International and in 1984, he moved from rock star to international celeb for raising awareness of humanitarian charities.

In the summer of 1985, with Midge Ure and others, he was involved in the Live Aid concert, and made the song "Do they know it's Christmas Time?" a year earlier, to raise awareness about the famine spreading throughout Africa.

And the other person, Midge Ure, one of the known participants and organizers in the Live Aid event.

Midge Ure was a key member in the band Ultravox, and many other bands. He formed a band "Visage" with a few others, and replaced multiple people in other following bands, like Gary Moore in Thin Lizzy and John Foxx for Ultravox. He was a massive factor in their success, doubling as a producer.

He was famous for his role in Ultravox's success, as mentioned above. He also made records with Steve Harley and Modern Man.

And together with Bob Geldof, they formed "Band Aid" to assist efforts in Ethiopia to fight the famine in 1984. They both organized Live Aid as a benefit charity, and they still continue to make music. 

Live Aid was a rock-music concert benefit held on July 13, 1985, to raise awareness and boost efforts for the famine in Ethiopia. Led and conceived by Bob Geldof, when he heard about the famine on radio and visited to see it himself. When he got back, he and Midge Ure made the song "Do They Know It's Christmas Time". The song was made so that it could be released during the holidays. 

It was continued by holding two simultaneous 16-hour concerts in Philadelphia and London. Multiple artists like Paul McCartney and the band Queen received immense popularity during the concert. The concert raised $127 million and was broadcasted over to over 110 countries. Geldof, after the concert, went to Ethiopia to oversee the distribution of supplies, so that they're distributed fairly.

Beatlemania

 In Social Studies (and this was a late blog), we talked about the Beatles and the effects they had during the tour and around the world. Apparently, during their tour in New Zealand, the people there went ballistic for them, they'd get hurt around the country. This went for all the countries they went to and were in.

The map: Beatlemania

Children of Blood and Bone essay

Is it really justified to hate a whole nationality just for the deed of a few? No, it obviously isn't.

We are people, but experiences are a part of us. The bad, the good, the medium; it becomes a part of us as we grow and develop. But, when we face a bad experience caused by something or someone, you immediately think that they are the same as all the people they are with and the race that they are in.

In Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, a few characters change in personality and ideas.
This is shown about Amari, when she changes from being utterly fearful, to being a brave warrior, that would do anything to save people. She saw the pain and danger that the monarchy had inspired and wanted to change it herself, but 

Children of Blood and Bone helps the reader understand that you make your own rules, that you must let go of what hurts you and what cuts. You make your own choices and you shouldn’t let people decide anything about you.

She shows here development in the temple, Amari says that she’d be a better ruler than her parents.
“Don’t worry, I’ll promise to be a better queen than you.”
The monarchy was twisted and broken, and a new and proper ruler might be a solution to finally fix things.

I think that as people, we can let go of our past and our pain to become better people and improve on our behaviors and mental states. We can grow up and learn to be better people.

Learn to develop your own beliefs and ideas, as long as they are sensible.
Be independent, make your own choices.