Te Whiti-O-Rangomai Art

Biography of Te Whiti-O-Rongomai

Biography of Te Whiti-O-Rongomai

By George B.S.

Te Whiti-O-Rongomai was born in 1830 at Ngamotu, Taranaki. He was the son of Tohukakahi. Tohukakahi was a minor chief of Patukai Hapu. Te Whiti was the second cousin of Honiana Te Puni and a nephew of Te Wharepouri.

He received these connections from his dad. Te Whiti enrolled at Reimeshneiders Mission School. He excelled in bible studies. 

After leaving school, Te Whiti started a flour mill in Warea. Te Whiti lived peacefully on the coast of Parihaka until troops burned his village down in 1865. By 1870, Parihaka became the biggest village in the country. In 1879, the Europeans settled in Parihaka. Two years later, the Europeans began taking the Maori land and punishing the people of Parihaka. The people of Parihaka challenged the Europeans because their land was taken unfairly. Te Whiti and Tohu (a relative on Te Whiti’s father’s side of the family) were the leaders of the Parihaka movement. They protested peacefully. They persuaded the Maori to keep ploghing the land. Many of the Maori were arrested and shipped to the South Island. Te Whiti and Tohu held monthly meetings. Both were arrested soon after.

Te Whiti played mind tricks on the guards. He tried to make them lose their sanity. “Te Whiti is believed to be the first Maori person to speak on a telephone. He also cut steel plates with a special saw at the Christchurch Railway Workshop.” In 1888 Te Whiti’s wife died shortly before his release, he was not allowed to go to her funeral. Once Te Whiti and Tohu arrived at Parihaka, they started to rebuild the village. They continued to protest until the Europeans stopped. The village was mixed with Europeans and Maori.

Te Whiti died on the 18th of November, 1907. He will be deeply remembered by the people New Zealand. I found Te Whiti inspiring because he protested peacefully and he never gave up on Parihaka. 

My Personal Goals

Maths-To reach a stanine 9. I will do this by answering and practicing level 5 worded questions on mathletics

Writing-I need to write more and include more precise language.

Reading-I want to increase my vocabulary comprehension. I want to challenge myself at a higher level and use a dictionary to check the meaning of words I don't know.

General-I need to be tidy.

Art inspired by Cecilia Russel

Artwork inspired by Cecilia Russel. I think I did well. Needs more color and darker.

Steve Jobs Biography by George and Flynn

Biography of Steven Paul Jobs (Steve Jobs) 

Steven Paul Jobs was born on the 24th of February, 1955 to two University of Wisconsin graduate students at San Francisco. His parents were named Joanne Carole Schieble (or Joanne Simpson) and Abdulfattah “John” Jandali. Joanne was a speech therapist and Abdulfattah was a syrian political science professor. Steve’s biological parents put him up for adoption with no name. Shortly after Steve was placed up for adoption, Joanne and Abdulfattah married and had another child, Mona Simpson. Steve was 27 when he found information from his biological parents.

Steve was an infant when he was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. Clara was an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. Steve and his family lived in Mountain View in California’s Silicon Valley. In the family garage, Paul would show Steve how to take apart and reconstruct electronics. Steve spent his free time at Hewlett-Packard after enrolling in high school. This where Steve befriended Steve Wozniak, who happened to be a computer engineer.

After high school, Steve enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Steve dropped out after six months, spending the other eighteen months dropping in on creative classes. 

In 1974, Steve worked as a video game designer for Atari which he dropped after several months. He then started experimenting psychedelic drugs in India. He then started Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak. Steve then married Laurene Powell in 1991 and lived together in Palo Alto, California with their three children.

Steve resigned from CEO to begin NeXT Inc. Steve bought Pixar Animation from George Lucas. The studio then merged with Disney making Steve Disney’s largest individual shareholder. Apple then bought NeXT Inc. when NeXT failed to make a profit for considerable amount of time. In 1997, Steve returned to his post as Apple’s CEO. 

Steve found out he had a tumor from cancer in 2003. Steve postponed surgery for several months. The tumor was removed after Steve was ready for surgery.  The rest of Steve’s life was private. His family did say he had a view health problems such as weight loss and poor digestion. On October 5th, 2011,  Apple announced Steven Paul Jobs died from cancer. Steven Paul Jobs will be remembered.