Steve Irwin was born in Victoria and later moved to tropical Queensland. Steve Irwin was taught everything as a child by his father. He was even taught to catch crocodiles at night time in various Queensland rivers. His parents then opened Australia’s most famous zoo in 1973. “Australia Zoo”. This zoo now contains over 100 animals. Most of the zoo’s profits go into various animal rescue leagues.
Then in 1990 Steve Irwin made his break as an actor and documenter. Television producer John Stainton was creating an add for the zoo. Until he asked Irwin to write some documentaries. Steve Irwin had wonderful documentaries for his show “The Croc Hunter”. These shows teach viewers to be mindful of the environment. This was Steve’s ambition. Steve also stared in movies such as “Dr. Dolittle 2″(2001). And “The Croc Hunter, Collision Course”(2002).
Then the world stopped. As Steve Irwin was killed off Port Douglas just north of Cairns. He was filming a Documentary in shallow water. When he had accidentally stepped on a stingray. The stingray then whipped up in defense mode and struck Steve in the chest. The worst possible place to be hit. He then went into cardiac arrest. He then died. There wasn’t anything people could do to save him.
This event affected the world we live in because everybody loved Steve. He was a hero in many ways. Steve’s death affected me because i looked up to Steve as a hero. I had watched everyone of his documentaries. This affects the future society because there will be nobody there to protect the worlds animals. And to warn us that we have to protect the animals. We could still prevent this by continuing Steve’s Legacy by donating to Steve’s charity for endangered animals.
R.I.P STEVE 1962-2006
“HE DIED DOING WHAT HE LOVED MOST”
Photo Courtecy of NineMSN.
Tim: Tim Wilson is the most annoying yet nicest person i have ever met. I like the way he is naturally annoying.
Ben: Ben Wooster has a natural winge in him and has the tendency to stare at everyone. Yet this is what makes Ben a unique individual.
David: David is the guy who always has the good food. He will bring gourmet food to school everyday.
Sam: Sam is the smartest individual i have ever met. He is a funny, funny man.
Ronald: Ronald is the best soccer player i have ever met. I call him “Ronaldo” after the famous brazilian soccer player.
James: James is the kid who is good at everything. And he loves his coke.
Aaron: Aaron is the guy with all the words. These random words include: “off the heezay”, “Your bags open, “Your bags NOT open”, ”You got owned”, “pen me”, “ball me” and the famous “no you”.
Alex: Alex is the funniest person I have ever met.
Sach: Sach is the person i have knowned the most at this school. My earliest memory of you was in year 1. We were singing ring around the rosie. And i refused to hold your hand. BFFL!
On Friday the 26 of July. During periods 3 and 4. A matinee performance was held in the hall. Years 7, 8 and 9 were lucky enough too go and watch the matinee performance.
Too our surprise after recess years 7, 8 and 9 were called to the quad to go and watch the matinee performance that mostly seniors were participating in. I was sitting in the back centre. Luckily i was able to see these performances without reaching over someone’s head.
The performances included dances from all styles such as tap and contemporary. All the dances were fabulous. But there was one particular dance I had liked and that was the tap dance were everyone was dressed up as if there in a Broadway performance.
There was also many other drama performances. All the performances were superb. My favourites were the ABC take off in this hilarious act. Four teenagers are stuck in the ABC channel. There mission was to get the ABC’s rating from number 5 out of 5 to number 1 out of 1. In this they took on “new style” news and other shows such as playschool.
All in all The matinee performance was a huge success. The actual performance was being held later on at night. I would have liked to go to this but i was engaged with other activities.
War of the worlds. An action flim featuring Tom Cruise playing Ray Ferrier, Dakota Fanning playing Rachel Farrier, Maranda Otto playing Mary Ann and Justin Chatwin playing Robbie Ferrier. With the directer being Steven Spielbourg. A much respected hollywood directer with such other films as Price for Peace, The mask of Zorro and Saving Private Ryan.
Steven Spielberg the director has no trouble at fitting all the pieces of the 100+ year old story together. The story of “War of the Worlds” was a myth at first which people had start to believe. Then the story went into a series of novels then to a movie which has been re-made 2 times.
The plot of the story is an action theme. The two kids Rachel(Dakota) and Robbie(Justin) have too spend the weekend with their neglectful father Ray(Tom Cruise). The mother had dropped them off for the weekend too spend time with her boyfriend.
Just a few hours after the mother leaves the town where ray lives is then struck by lightning twenty-one times in the same spot. Little did they know that in the lightening there was pods of aliens coming down to the earth to destroy it. A scheme they had been planning for over a million years.
The Father Ray then does everything in his power to save his kids. From dodging lighting rays with the only car that works to protecting them from the now insane victims of the world.
The acting in the film is excellent as the characters play exactly what you would imagine people would do in that situation. For example Tom Cruise (Dad) plays the role of the father providing protection of his kids. Dakota Fanning (child) being the scared little girl. And Justin Chatwin (Older Teenager) playing the role of protection of his sister and the role of courage.
The techniques used in this film were the best i have ever seen. The camera angles onto the alien machines was very good as the looked up showing power. Whilst the human angles were looking down onto showing weakness. The sound effects were also very good as they were clear, presise and accurate.
I would rate this movie a 7/10 because of its’ spectacular performances of actors and actresses. Some more marks could have gone toward the ending. The ending was not as dramatic as it could have been. A possible reason why the ending turned out like this are a shortage of money. This movie was rated M for Sci-fi violence and some disturbing images.
I’ve decided to do my speech on something unequally Australian, but some would consider this a very strange subject indeed. This subject is in 9 out of 10 homes . Is a symbol of Australia, a part of Australian heritage and culture. It even has a song written about it. No it’s not the Holden car it’s not the kangaroo. It’s one of our favourite products. It is Vegemite, Yes Vegemite.
It was Fred Walker of Melbourne, Australia who decided that his cheese company needed something special to sell alongside his wide range of cheeses so he came up with the idea of making a yeast extract. He went to his chief scientist in his cheese factory Dr. Cyril P Callister with his idea and it was Dr.Callister that invented the first yeast extract spread.
Vegemite is made of Brewers yeast, blended with celery, onion, salt and like the colonel a few secret ingredients. This is the products we know and love today.
How did Vegemite get it’s name? I’m glad you asked. Vegemite was name through a national competition in 1912 with the winner receiving 50 Pounds. The name was finally chosen from the entries by Fred’s daughter Shelia.
Strangly when put on the market vegemite was not an immediate success and sales were very slow. So in 1928 Vegemite was renamed Parwill in an attempt to boost it’s sales and take away customers from it’s rival English spread marmite which dominated the Australian market since 1910. Imagine I think ill have a Parwill sandwich. Somehow it’s just not the same. The public thought so too, so in 1935 the original name was reinstated.
Earlier in 1925 Fred had struck a deal with the American company James L Kraft to make processed cheese in Australia. So the Kraft Walker cheese company was established. With this company Fred used the idea of launching a 2 year scheme whereby a jar of Vegemite was given away with every cheese product sold. Australians loved the product. 2years lat the company again held a competition this time to come up with a song to sell vegemite. The prize was an American Pontiac. Entries flooded in. This song is still known and loved today and still used to sell the product. Sales went through the roof. The only change to vegemite today is the reduction of the salt content from 10% down to 8%. It is still a rich source of vitamin B and a nutritionally balanced food. Today 227 million jars of vegemite are manufactured in Australia every year. That works out to be 235 jars sold per minute and 30 jars are sold in Australian for everyone exported. Now for the newcomers to the country and for anyone who doesn’t quite know and get the vegemite phenomenon. I’m gong to demonstrate how to make the perfect vegemite sandwich.
Firstly spread evenly a bit of butter or margarine over your favourite fresh bread. Then spread just a dab of vegemite evenly.
Don’t forget too really tick mum off always leave traces of butter in the vegemite jar and vegemite left in the margarine tub always goes down well
Speech time here again. Mrs. Raynor announces to the class about our speech. DUE: Wk 2, Term 2. Just great, exactly what I needed on top of the science project and my Vikings assignment for history.
By the time I had finished these 2 assignments, the speech was due in 2 days. All I had to do was think of a topic(that would attempt to beat arch rival SACH). She was always the speaker in primary school and in YR7.
It was lunch time and i was blooming hungry. I had opened my fridge door and it appeared to me like a sign of god. Although it took me a few weeks to notice it VEGEMITE.
I wanted to make it funny/factual. So i did the history of vegemite, with a demonstration. It then took me approxmiatly 1hr to wite the speech. Now to actually practice and try to memorise it(like sach grrrrrrrr…). The memorising part didn’t work out too much. My theroy is too much maths cramped into the brain.
SPEECH TIME!! I felt pretty confident with my speech and my demonstration to make a vegemite sandwich. I had expressed the speech perfectly with no mess-ups. It was only a matter for the marks.
BRODIE: 17/20 SACH: 20/20- NEXT YEAR SACH! NEXT YEAR!! I’ll start on the weekend.
THE MIGHTY BLUES ARE JUST GOING TO RUN YOU OVER!! BE SCARED QLD!!!
Something that has being happening in the news lately that has concerned me and given me a lesson of courage and support.
It has been in the news locally, nationally and even internationally. Three minors Brant Webb, Todd Russel and Larry Knight. These men were approx 1km underground completing another work shift mining in the Beaconsfield mine when tragedy struck. The mine had collapsed and rocks had demolished everything in the space of seconds underground. The men were trapped. Brant Webb and Todd Russel were protected from the tens of thousands rocks coming at them by the mining lift cage. The aluminium cage had protected them. But Larry Knight was not so fortunate. He was killed by the rocks.
With Brant Webb and Todd Russel protected by this cage it was only a matter of time before they were rescued. Not so correct. It was not so good accommodation. With Todd being 6 foot in height and Brant being 5 11 foot, it was very cramped only inces apart besides being covered in rocks, no food besides Brant’s soggy Muesli Bar and being up to the throat in rocks not good accommodation at all.
Meanwhile while they were down there Australia just paused. Like the Granville Train Disaster. The nation felt for them. the rescue operation was underway. The men were then found, so then a feeding tube with food being dropped down it was installed. The first item dropped down was Sustagen although the men would have preferred Big Macs it was required.
1 and a half weeks later the rescuers were only inches away from them. So then with one big explosion they were there. The men walked out of the mine at 5 in the morning two weeks later, and ended there shift. And yes they were paid overtime.
This story shows to me an account of heroism hope and courage.
I remember the day i found out that the easter bunny was not real like it was yesterday… It was easter eve and i was excited like crazy! I couldn’t even get too sleep that night. Eventually i did… (AFTER MY MUM SHOVED SLEEPING PILLS DOWN MY THROUT)
I woke up to a beutiful Easter morning, I looked down at the end of my bed where the easter eggs were usually kept by the bunny. Nothing! Not even A tiny egg. So as being a little kid i rushed to my mum and dads and told them my story. Thats were my parents just got a shock. They had forgot to leave te eggs at the bottom of my bed. I just could not get over it. For months I argued with my parents. Until I had just accepted it.
