Materials Tech. Reflection

Our Woodwork Project:

Throughout our time in Materials Tech. (Woodwork) we have focused most of our time on making our LED Trophy Projects. Which is theoretically an opaque plate of acrylic, clear acrylic and a wooden base combined to make our project, along with our circuits to light our clear acrylic piece. Although it each piece sounds fairly simple when you get into actually focusing on making each and single piece it is very complicated! Throughout the process of making our projects we used a multitude of different machinery, including a laser cutter, multiple types of drills, and saws and much more. Before beginning the actual production of our project we had to draw isometric drawings, of our LED stand, and what it would look like once we finished production. (Isometric drawings being practically a 3-D model of something). Besides the fact that I am not typically the woodworking, machinery type of person, it was extremely fun to experience something new.

Our Finished LED Trophies (Stands)
My Isometric drawing

ZCapabilities used throughout our time in Materials Technology:

Throughout the Materials technology and the process of making our project probably the main and most used capabilities for me, throughout our time at Materials Tech were communication and collaboration. We had to be able to collaborate effectively in order to learn from other’s mistakes, which made the production process of our project much more efficient and or easier. Although the project itself was individual, the process of making our project was made more efficient through collaboration and communication as stated. Some other capabilities that we used were perseverance, planning and creativity. Perseverance was essential when it came time to actually producing our project due to the fact that there were certainly some moments when you had no idea where to go from there, and you had to have perseverance in order to overcome those moments and continue pushing on through the production. Eventually all of us came out with our finished projects. Planning and creativity were both needed due to the fact that in order to make our projects unique we needed to have creativity and planning before beginning our production.

Tim & Louis Statistics Project

Introduce your research, including what you are studying and provide a rationale for studying it.

We are researching whether or not students, this year were happy with their electives given to them or not, as well as how many people they would prefer in their typical classroom. Both of these topics are important due to the fact that, if the students do not get given electives that they are interested in or passionate about it will most likely lead them to securing a bad future for themselves such as not being able to get a good job. Whereas the second numerical questioning is slightly less relevant although it does show the students perspective on whether they like higher or lower amounts of students in their class.

Comment on the validity and reliability of the research methods used in this project.

Biases may be found for the numerical question: In your opinion, what would be the ideal class size for Maths, English, Science or Humanities? This may be due to the fact that other people may be more “talkative” or communicative than others meaning that the more talkative people would quite obviously choose to have a higher amount of people in their class. As well as this the demographic data may affect the categorical questions depending on their response for what pathway they are headed towards in the future. If they were headed towards the Vocational Education and Training, and then proceeding to go to do ATAR rather than simply doing ATAR, it would be likelier that the people would care less or be happier about what electives they receive.

Numerical Data & Graphs

This graph shows the numerical data presented in the form of a box and whisker plot. The data used in this graph is mentioned below, containing the minimum data, lower quartile, median, upper quartile, and the maximum data. The box and whisker plot shows the Minimum value, lower quartile, median, upper quartile, and maximum value of the data collected from the survey. The frequency shows the recurrence of the preferred class size that has been selected. The most common value or the mode for the numerical data is the grouping of 18 people as it has a frequency of 45 and is much higher than all of the other groupings of students in a class.

Minimum Value: 3

Lower Quartile: 13

Median Value: 18

Upper Quartile: 23

Maximum Value: 38

Question for Numerical Data: In your opinion, what would be the ideal class size for the MESH subjects (Maths, English, Science and Humanities/HASS)?

Frequency Table
Box and Whisker Plot

Categorical Data & Graph

These graphs show the categorical data collected by the year 9 survey for how happy the students were with their elective choices that they were given this year. We have included a two separate pie charts, one with percentages and the other with numbers, a frequency table, and a histogram. The pie graphs show the data collected through sectors , the histogram, the recurrence of the data collected in a more visual way and a frequency table (as you can tell by the name) showing the frequency of the data collected an outlier that is shown through the data in the graph could be the frequency of the somewhat satisfied data collected. This is due to the fact that it’s frequency is significantly higher than all of the other preferences. The most common set of data or mode is the data collected for somewhat satisfied as shown in the histogram it has rocketed above all of the other preferences, although, as mentioned previously, it may be an outlier.

Question for Categorical Data: How satisfied were you with the elective subjects you were given this year?

Histogram
#1 Pie Chart
#2 Pie Chart (Percentages Included)
Frequency Table

Andrew Mallard Case

The Wronged Man: Andrew Mallard - Australian Story

On Monday the 23rd of May 1994 Andrew Mallard had been wrongfully convicted of murdering Pamela Lawrence in her Flora Metallica jewellery store. Andrew Mallard had come to the polices attention about having attempted burglary and how he had suffered a nervous breakdown while living on the streets, following his breakup with his girlfriend. The principles of justice (as a general statement) should be defined as a baseline ruling on how individuals should be treated “generally” or in a court trial/case. The principles of justice relate and or link to fairness, entitlement and particularly revolve around equality. In this context I will be talking about the right for an individual to have a reasonable appeal, presumption of innocence until proven guilty, and the need for reliable evidence to be presented in a court case.

The right for an individual to have a reasonable appeal. The right to a reasonable appeal refers to when or if an individual’s court case is unsuccessful, that they have a right to have their verdict re-judged so that they may be able to prove themselves innocent of their accused crime, and, as mentioned in the title of the principle of justice, that the appeal should be reasonable. This principle of justice is important due to the fact that, without it people may not be given a “fair”, second chance to prove their innocence. In the Andrew Mallard case this principle of justice was somewhat violated. Andrew Mallard’s first appeal was unsuccessful, although this may either be due to biases or the fact that he may not have presented enough information, as after this appeal, he had appealed once more and had successfully cleared his name, most likely due to the fact that he had found significant evidence in order to back up his verdict. So, this principle of justice had been both somewhat compromised and supported.

Presumption of innocence until proven guilty. This principle of justice means that an individual should be viewed as innocent no matter what their reputation is, what crime they are accused of, and how they present themselves to be. This principle of justice is significantly important because without it biases would have already been made against the accused or for the accused, and it would most likely, either decrease or increase the chance of the accused to be found innocent or guilty of their crime that they have been accused of. In the Andrew Mallard case the police as well as a majority of the public had, unfortunately, already made their mind up that Andrew Mallard was guilty. Leading to him being treated wrongly in the wide public and, as mentioned before, lowering his chances of him being proven innocent, which is extremely relatable towards this court case as Andrew Mallard had been found guilty of murdering Pamela Lawrence, and was sentenced to 20 years in jail in his first court trial. Clearly this principle of justice was violated in the Andrew Mallard court case.

My last principle of justice is the need for reliable evidence to have been presented in the court case. This means that evidence presented in a court case must be reliable in order to make someone, that is accused of their crime to either be guilty or innocent. This is important because without this principle of justice in play the accused may either be made guilty extremely easily with unreliable evidence or innocent, leading towards the fact that an innocent man could be put in jail, or a murderer (as an example) could be left free to walk in the public. In the Andrew Mallard case, the prosecution (alongside with the police) had presented manipulated evidence in the case with a recorded tape that will be explained in more detail later on. This recorded tape had most likely been used in the court trial in order to make Andrew Mallard even likelier to have been the murderer of Pamela Lawrence, which, is a complete miscarriage of justice. As mentioned in the previous context the “tape” that had most likely been presented in the court trial, was a recorded interview after Andrew Mallard had befriended an undercover officer that had purposely fed him information, so that when it had come time for him to have been recorded in a police interview (following having been interviewed before, without being recorded) he had appeared to have been guilty. Clearly this principle of justice had been violated. Though even with unreliable evidence, that had caused him to have been sentenced to jail for 20 years. He had managed, somehow, to have his name cleared and had been released from jail after 12 years in jail. The evidence shown shows this principle of justice to have been compromised.

With almost 15 years of Andrew Mallards life gone due to many miscarriages of justice, and lots of misleading evidence he had finally been released, though the saddest part, was, just after having a received a monetary compensation of $3.25million from the WA government and having moved to LA to start a new life he had unfortunately been murdered in a hit and run. The true murderer of Pamela Lawrence had been found to have been Simon Rochford who was serving time in jail for having murdered his girlfriend. His fingerprints had been found on a display cabinet in Pamela Lawrence’s jewellery store as well as paint shavings on Pamela Lawrence’s body belonging to Simon Rochford’s knapsack bag.

To summarise, the 3 principles of justice stated, all were violated, significantly, besides a principle of justice that was both protected and violated. And, as mentioned before, somehow Andrew Mallard had cleared his name and proven himself to have been innocent. Which goes to show that nowadays people (generally)          should be more careful whether the accused is “truly” guilty or innocent of their crime that they have been accused of.