Alexander's Conquership

Alexander the Great's Achaemenid Empire began with a major battle on the coast of Cappadocia between his travels from Pelia in the Macedonian Kingdom and Sardis in Cappadocia. Cappadocia was the first major area that became apart of the Achaemenid Empire, and held the next two major battles between Tarsus and Tyre and between Jerusalem and Arbela. It was between these battles that Alexander's Conquership led him to the coast of the now African continent, where he conquered areas of Egypt, leading to the very first city named after himself. It was renamed or built on the coast between what is now the Middle East and the African Continent, between 333BC and 331BC. This shows the progress he made in only around four years conquering the entirety of Cappadocia and the coastal area of Africa from his first major battle in approximately 334BC to the next major battle in 331BC. 

Alexander the Great's Beginning

 Alexander the Great was known for ruling the greatest empire known to the modern world, and was tutored by Aristotle himself, in politics, literature, and rhetoric. Alexander's rule started in Macedonia, where he ascended to the throne at age twenty after his father was murdered. Alexander's father introduced him to military structure early, at approximately age sixteen Alexander was introduced into military life when his father went to war with the Scythians and had full scale battles in the Battle of Chaeronea. In stories written by Plutarch, Philip II of Macedon told his son, "My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions, Macedonia is too small for you." His rule began from age twenty and only lasted twelve years until his death at age thirty-two, meaning that he conquered the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, Egypt, and the Persian Empire with twelve years. 

Anika Moa

What am I learning?

I am about a New Zealand icon who has gone up the ladder so far and still came from such a small community in Hornby. 

How does this work show my learning?

It shows that I looked into her story, given in-depth details and taken the time to look up the perfect pictures I needed.

What am I wondering?

Who taught her while she attended Hornby High? Would I know the teacher?

Lorde

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor may be her real name, but the singer-songwriter is now more commonly referred to as Lorde, her stage name. 

Ella and Louis

Lorde was born in Takapuna, Auckland and raised in the nearby suburb of Devonport with a Croation mother, Sonja and an Irish father, she was raised alongside her older sister, Jerry, younger sister, India, and her younger brother Angelo. She first entered the music industry when she won the annual Belmont Intermediate talent show with her friend, Louis McDonald as a duo. From there the pair made an appearance on Jim Mora's Afternoons show on Radio New Zealand, where they performed covers of Pixie Lott's 'Mama Do' and King of Leon's 'Use Somebody'. Louis' father Ian soon after took his home recording of the pair doing a cover of Duffy's 'Warwick Avenue' and Pixie Lott's 'Mama Do' and sent them to Universal Music Group (UMG) A&R Scott Maclachlan. In the same year, Lorde was signed to UMG so she could develop her talent. All in the same year, Lorde was also part of the Belmont Intermediate band 'Extreme' who placed third in the North Shore Battle of the Bands finals.

In 2010 Ella and Louis started to perform their covers on a regular basis at small cafes and restaurants and they soon performed at the Vic Unplugged at Victoria Theatre and Devonstock in Devonport.

In 2011 UMG got her a vocal coach, Frances Dickinson who gave Lorde singing lessons twice a week for a year. During all of this she began to write all of her own songs and on the 16 November 2011, she performed her own original songs publicly at The Vic Unplugged II on the Devonport Victoria Theatre stage.  In December 2011, MacLachlan paired Lorde with Joel Little, a songwriter and record producer. The pair recorded five songs at Little's Golden Age Studios.

Lorde's official line of work is a singer and songwriter. Her impact is that she has inspired New Zealander's and shown them that we can go far as well and we can't be restricted just because of how same of a country we are. It has not just been New Zealander's she's inspired, Lorde is known to be a feminist and supports women strongly. "It's about all women, women who might not have the opportunities that I have or the privileges that I have. Trying to fight for better, better conditions, better treatment of all women. Whether that be trans women or women of colour or women in professions that don't typically get a lot of respect. That to me is what feminism is about."

• What is her most popular and famous song?

The most popular song is either Royals or Green Light.

• How old was she when she signed her first record deal?

Lorde was just thirteen years old when she signed her first record deal with University Music Studios.

• How many awards has she won?

Lorde has won two Grammys, two Billboard Music Awards, 4 New Zealand Music Awards, one MTV Music Award and probably many other awards as well that I couldn't find, there is thought to be around 32 which she has won and 85 she has been nominated for.

• Why did she choose Lorde?

The name was decided when she was sixteen and was obsessed with nobility and aristocracy, "It was a good spontaneous choice, I think. I’m quite proud of my 16-year-old self for not messing that one up, cause if I’d given myself a cool, weird, hip name I hated now, that would be super annoying. Again, it’s that nobility, aristocracy obsession that I had. I hit upon ‘Lord’ and loved the way it sounded, and then I was like, ‘It would be quite cool to add an ‘e’ to feminise it.’".

• What is Lorde's net worth?

Lorde's net worth is believed to be $12 million.

• What are some interesting facts?

She began to date a photographer named James Lowe, but broke it off with him and has been known to have written some of the songs in the album, Melodrama, about him.

In August 2013, Lorde became the first woman to top the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in the United States since Tracy Bonham back in 1996.


Lorde was only 15 when she wrote the song Royals.

Lorde turned down the opportunity to give the opening act on Katy Perry's own Prism tour after Katy Perry asked her when Lorde's song Royals topped the charts.

Bibliography -

• https://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/lorde/biography.html
• https://www.biography.com/people/lorde
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorde
• https://www.celebsnetworthtoday.com/bio-wiki-2018-2019-2020-2021/singer/lorde-net-worth-3764/
• https://www.elle.com.au/celebrity/how-lorde-chose-her-stage-name-13553
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkhziRFfHec
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn48aBLF4wk
• https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=ella+and+louis+mcdonald&rlz=1CAACAJ_enNZ690NZ691&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGgvfp_vzdAhXZUd4KHY_CAlgQ_AUIDigB&biw=1366&bih=618&safe=active&ssui=on#imgrc=HcbrsLuF-lq2qM:
• https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/01/lorde-grammys-dress-protest

Kate Sheppard

1. Describe your impressions of how the women dressed and were expected to behave in 1893.
2. Name the three groups with which voteless women were classed.
3. Discuss why Kate Sheppard often tops polls about influential females in New Zealand.
4. Imagine it is 1892. Prepare a speech of between half a page and a page about why women should get the vote.
5. Work out what year it will be when you turn 50. Predict how New Zealand will be organized then. For example, will it still have the parliament? If so, what will the minimum voting age be?
6. Web search: Find five cartoons from New Zealand about women’s suffrage.

Back in that time women who were not in the higher classes of society were expected to be housewives and do nothing but clean, cook and be there for her husband when he got home. The women were expected to be perfect and know nothing of politics unless they were of a higher class, even then, many women weren't too involved and known to be very unpolitical, focussing on other occupations and opportunities. They were expected to wear clothing that showed no skin and would go as high up her chin. The dresses they wore would reach their ankles and this would be the same no matter the season, their forced fashion was thought to be practical and even showing the slightest bit of skin was considered vulgar and inappropriate.

Voteless women were classed as lunatics, juveniles and criminals.

Kate Sheppard will often top the poll when it comes to influential females because she is the one who led the women and men who helped support the right of females voting in such polls and other forms of voting.

Women, we are the very root of men's lives, we are the mothers and sisters of these men who refuse to
let us have rights over what we and they do. Why should a mother not be able to vote and help decide
the fate of the place and people that help raise her child? Why should a sister not be able to vote when
her criminal brother can? In our youth, we would play with our brothers and feel no difference when it
came to beliefs and rights, but as the men grow, their minds become polluted with beliefs and
expectations that women are not to be trusted with the fate of the country and the people we want the
best for. They start to believe that we are insignificant compared to them because they have been
influenced by fathers, brothers and so many other men, who think of women as nothing but housewives.
The little boys we used to play with so happily have seen their own mothers and sister grow up to be
housewives and think ‘This is the fate of all women unless they are rich and they would only be rich
because of fathers.’. We, as women and men, must change our ways and the ways that these children
learn, a woman should not be forced into her future or have it known to her. For a man, he can be
anything, go anywhere, so, if men are capable of so much, why can’t a woman be? Why should a
woman’s life be condemned to a household and cleaning it? Because that's what men want, women do
what men want and we need to change that, we need to be able to challenge the future and help these
men advance technology. We need to vote to help men advance the future because women are the
future, women and men working together to achieve more than ever seen before is the true future for our
small country, our small place in the world.

It will be the year 2055 when I turn 50 and I think the world will have really changed by then, I think that
New Zealand will still have a form of Parliament that will be just a bit more organized and helpful by then.
The Parliament will have become more open and be led by a team of politicians rather than one. I think
that by this time the minimum voting age for New Zealand will be around thirteen to fifteen because I
believe that by then the world would have realized that teenagers should be able to decide their and their
countries future.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/womens-suffrage/brief-history
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/suffrage-petition-1893
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/womens-suffrage/petition
https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/a-leap-into-the-light/
https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/s/suffrage.asp
https://nzsuffrage.weebly.com/main-campaign.html
https://suffragepostcards.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/young-new-zealand/

Mao Zedong, A Communist (And Arguably A) Dictator

Chairman Mao Zedong

How did he die?

Mao Zedong died of a heart attack on the 9th of September, 1976, in Beijing, China.

What political party was he part of?

He was the Former Chairman of the Communist Party of China.

What were his beliefs?

He created his own form of beliefs known as Maoism, the followers known as Maoists.

When the Chinese communists took over in 1948, they bought a new form of Marxism, renamed after their leader. His thought was complicated, a Marxist type of analysis combined with the permanent foundations of the Chinese people's thought and culture.

What were his goals?

Created by Mao, the Chairman of the Communist Party of China, it is stated the goal was to preserve ‘true’ Communist ideology in the country.

When did his reign of Maoism end?

Although many of the people of China are capitalists and the country has adopted some capitalist laws, the country officially is still communist.

Where was he from and when was he born?

Mao was from Shaoshan, China and born on the 26th of December, 1893.

What were his original job-related goals?

Mao studied to become a teacher so he could have an income and then became a politician

after being inspired by his idols and writing countless documents and publishing them.

What kind of life did he live before becoming a politician?

He came from a peasant and attended a normal school while working in his families fields.

His mother was a Buddhist who was willing to support him, but he experienced frequent arguments with his very strict father. Mao went to Changsha, the capital of Hunan where he learned a great deal about politics. Attending Peking University with very little money, Mao had to work while he studied. After graduation, he returned to Hunan and served as a primary school principal. Outside of his work, he spent countless hours publishing political documents. In 1908 he married his cousin Luo Yigu due to an arranged marriage by their parents, although Mao never saw her as his wife and never had any children with her, she passed away in 1910. He then married Yang K'ai-hu in 1920 and had three children with her, but she was executed, ten years later, by Chinese Nationalists. He married a second time in 1930 to a woman named Ho Tzu-Chen and had six more children, but he later divorced her in 1937 and then married another woman, Chiang Ch'ing.

Did he have any close family?

Mao’s mother and father were named Mao Yichang and Wen Qimei. His siblings were named

Mao Zemin and Mao Zetan. Mao also had his three sons with his second wife, Mao Anying,

Mao Anlong and Mao Anqing. He had his children with Ho Tzu-Chen, his daughter Mao Jinhua

(or Yang Yueheu), his son Mao Anhong, his daughter Li Min (Mao Jiaojiao) and two more sons and another daughter, and finally his last and forever wife Chiang Ch’ing, who never had children with him.

Why do people argue about him being a dictator?

It was the ‘Great Leap Forward’ that caused people to argue about this. Mao’s Great Leap
Forward was designed to largely improve the countries production. What it truly ended up doing was costing

millions of lives. Famine and poor harvests wound up crippling the country. Zedong lost power for a short time. When he regained the power he leads the ‘Cultural Revolution’. This continued even after Mao’s death and caused many many more lives to be lost.


And here's the presentation so you don't have to read all of that without pictures.