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Homework for mahe drysdale.




 * Full name:** Alexander Mahe Owens Drysdale


 * Biography of Mahe Drysdale:**

Mahe Drysdale was born in melbourne, australlia. Mahe decided to start rowing at the age of eighteen but decided to give it up to focus on his university studies. He restarted rowing because of seeing Rob Waddel winning a gold medal in the year 2000 olympic games. mahe drysdale started to compete at the world cup in the year 2002. He did rowing in the New Zealand coxless four rowing team and after the 2004 olympic games when his team came in fith place in the rowing final turned to being a mens single scull rower. He then won the championship gold in 2005 in gifu, japan even though he had two broken vertebrae bones because of having a crash earlier in the year with a water skier. Mahe also defended his title during 2006 at eton, england and yet again in muich, germany in 2007. This year Mahe became new zealand's olympic mens single sculls rower on march the 7th and was chosen to carry new zealand's flag in the opening ceremony during parade of countries. Unfortunately, Mahe caught an extremely bad gastroinal infectionaffecting the performance of the rowing finals. Mahe ended up bronze medal of the mens single sculls race. The silver medal went to Ondrej Synek from the Czech Republic and the gold medal went to Olaf Tufte from Norway. When the race had ended he was carried by a life raft to an ambulance to be taken the hospital because of his sickness. He still waited to be awarded before being taken to the hospital.

**Rowing perspective for Mahe Drysdale's olympic race:** I'm halfway there. Go Mahe go. I got to get gold, I just have to, gotta get get gold. Bronze won't do, silver won't either. There's the ozzie. I got to get past him and head for first place. I feel something coming coming up, can't vomit during my race. Ah, the ozzies getting ahead and some one else is to, now I have to compete with the both of them. I can't let one of them crush my dream. Faster, higher, stronger. Faster, higher, stronger. Second best or third best is not the best, I have to push myself, to the limit. Now the ozzie is in front by a boat length and the other guy is ahead by half aboat length. Oh no, I think I'm going to... vomit. Yuck, I have vomited all over my scull, the race has ended and I am in third place. There go's my dream but a bronze medal is better then no medal. I hope that the ambulance over there is for me because I don't feel good. 
 * Mahe drysdale interview questions:**

1. How did it feel to win a bronze medal in mens single sculls rowing? 2. What was going through your mind after the race? 3. How did having an infection affect your race? 4. When did you get the infection and do you have an idea of where you caught it? 5. Did the infection give confidence a knock and how? 6. Do you have any new goals in you rowing courier what is your goal(s)?


 * Mahe Drysdale leadership skills and attributes:**

Mahe Drysdale shows very strongly resilliance because even though he had a gastroinal infection he still picked himself up go for gold. Mahe Drysdale also perserverance because he drove himself to a bronze medal even though he was extremely sick. Mahe usaully looks on the bright side of things, and that is one of the key things to being a good leader.


 * What medals Mahe got:**

Mahe drysdale came third in the mens single scull rowing finals of the 2008 beijing olympics, so Mahe has aquired one bronze medal. Mahe also has aquired three championship gold medals in 2005, 2006 and 2007 for mens single sculls.


 * Weeks 7 and 8

Leaders and leadership** An effective leader is resillient because he or she needs to pick himself or herself up when they come across a setback.

I was an effective leader when I was helping do the discus event because taught a lot of people to how to throw a discus.


 * Colin McCahon's work was aimed at man to man to this world and the acceptance of the beatiful and horible mysteries of life.
 * Colin McCahon liked to discuss with people his ideas like in his artwork "Gate III" (below) where he his friend John Caselberg put together verses from the the bible into his artwork.
 * He usually worked with oil on canvas but also used unconventional paints that were unsual at the time for example Gate III is acrylic on canvas. This was often because those paints were cheap.
 * I like the painting gate III because it uses the words " I AM" to split the painting up and there is bible verses scattered throughout the painting which enhances the painting instead of spoiling the painting.

homework weeks 6,7,8 research an international artist: Michelangelo

1.Michelangelo painted the roof of the Sistine Chapel, the very famous Monalisa and the Last supper which starred in the book and film, 2.He was the sculptor of the pieta, of Mary holding Jesus after his crusifiction 3.Michelangelo had a high opinion of sculpting and a low opinion of painting. 4.Michelangelo was also an architectand designed the Dome of St Peter Basilica in Rome. 5.Michelangelo inspired the world with his scientific-like thinking for example he visuallised the helicopter.

I chose the pieta as my favorite piece of Michelangelo's artwork because it is extremely life-like, it is like Mary and Jesus was frozen in time and changed to the colour of pale gold.

Michelangelo mainly sculpted out of marble. He painted with oil paint.

how a camera works:

1.Firstly the light comes through the appeture (the hole). 2.Secondly the light is focused through three lenses: a convex lens, then a concave lens and then another convex lens. 3.Digital: Thirdly the light activates the ccd (charge couple device) to create the image. Analog/chemical: Thirdly the light falls on light-sensitive chemicals on the film to create the image.

Principle of a pinhole camera. Light rays from an object pass through a small hole to form an image.Lenses can be used to focus light. A **lens** is an [|optical] device with perfect or approximate [|axial symmetry] which [|transmits] and [|refracts] [|light], converging or diverging the beam.