Digestive System Blog Post

 Digestive System Blog Post

The Oesophagus is basically the muscular tube commonly known as the throat. Connecting the mouth to the stomach, When swallowing different types of food, the walls of the oesophagus contracts/tighten together which transport the food to the stomach. The oesophagus is about 25cm in length. The stomach then mashes/consume the food down then turns them into miniature/smaller individual pieces that came from the oesophagus, using the acid in our stomach, the stomach also requires help from a lot of our stronger muscles on the stomach's walls. To prevent/protect our stomach from burning (Burning from the acid). 

The stomach has three main functions, storage for food that was passed from the oesophagus. The stomach holds the food for two hours or longer, Then next all the food inside would start to break down and would start to mix together. The small intestines also break the food down or digest the food, it also absorbs all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals etc). The large intestine takes a straight path compared to the small intestines, it goes through your belly also known as the abdomen.

 The large intestine absorbs the waters and salts from the material that hasn't been digested, the large intestine also gets rid of any waste products that have been left. The liver converts substances. ex) elemental parts, water, iron, aluminium, air, salt etc). The liver does this by receiving blood with nutrients from the digestive organs.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Hunt For The Wilderpeople Essay

“The Hunt for the Wilderpeople” is a New Zealand film produced/directed in 2016 by Taika Waititi. An adventurous comedy-drama film. The Hunt for the Wilderpeople is an adaptation/ was based on the book Wild pork and Watercress, written by Barry Crump.  Jullian Dennison who played Ricky Baker and Sam Neill played “Uncle” Hector. A father figure and a foster son who had become “criminals” and was chased by a manhunt after fleeing to the Bush (New Zealand Bush). The film was released across New Zealand on the 31st of March 2016. 

The movie includes a throughout plot/storyline, character developments, and well-written relationships. Ricky Baker (Protagonist) was a juvenile delinquent who was abandoned by his own biological mother and was taken by the child welfare agency, officer Paula and police officer, Andy. He then was brought to a farm with foster aunt Bella and her husband.

Throughout the start of the story, Ricky and Bella then developed an unbreakable mother-son bond. Ricky felt accepted and thought of aunt Bella as a mother that he never had, but unfortunately, Bella had suddenly died, leaving Hector and Ricky devastated. Throughout the story Ricky and Hector adventures to the bush building a relationship similar to Bella’s and Ricky’s. You could say Hector is a very interesting and unusual character to learn about, a lot of times he is very unpredictable, mysterious, and sometimes understanding.

At first, Ricky and Hector had a very distant relationship, when Hector was first introduced to the story he was very mysterious and he looked very intimidating to Ricky. Around the start of the Hector never really showed any affection towards anyone or anything but he did deeply love and care for Bella but showed affection at the very end of Bella’s life. After Bella’s quick death, Ricky and Hector’s relationship didn’t change or develop for a minimum of time but they developed an unusual but understanding relationship/bond with each other. 

One of the most memorable moments in the show was when Ricky was able to overcome his fear, saying something similar to “you never trade family for anything!”. Leaving Paula and Andy speechless, this scene clearly shows that Ricky’s character had changed throughout the show. 

Cultural Celebration

 Cultural Celebration 

For the past few weeks in Wga, we have been researching our geneaolagy and our ancestors. We had too choose a culture that we identify with. The culture I dentify witht the most is Filipino culture, I was raised and born in the Philippines in a very hard working household. Philippines is a country that I love and miss at the same time. I moved to New Zealand when I was 9 years old and ever since then I haven't really interacted with a lot of my relatives.