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Thursday, September 10, 2009

~MAYAN + MAORI PEOPLE~



Now,300 million indigenous people are living throughout the world including the Maori people of New Zealand,the Maya of Mexico and Central America,the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic. Besides that the indigenous people that live at south America,Incas and Aymara people.


So,today I want to give some information about the characteristic of indegenous people. Firstly about Maya people that living at Mexico and Central America.Maya peoples had diverse range of the Native American people of southern Mexico and northern Central America.The meaning words "Maya" is a convenient collective designation to include the peoples of the region who share some degree of cultural and linguistic heritage. Althought the term embraces many distinct populations, societies, and ethnic groups.Besides that who each have their own particular traditions, cultures, and historical identity also can identify in group people of Maya.

7million Maya people had estimed living in that area at the startted of the 21st century. Some ethnic Maya that live at of southern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and western Honduras has managed to maintained substantial remnants of their ancient cultural heritage. Now,half of them more into the modern cultures of the nations in which they want, while others Maya people still continue and more into traditional culturally lifestyle,such as speaking one of the Mayan languages as a primary language.


The largest populations of Maya people that still have at theMexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, andChiapas, and in the Central American countries of Belize, Guatemala, and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador.


Besides that,I want to discuss about the ethnic of Maori which are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. The group had arrived in southwestern Polynesia in several waves at some time before 1300.The Maori people live in islands.

New Zealand have in increasing numbers from the late 18th century when Europeans came and the technologies and diseases they brought to Maori society. After 1840, Maori lost much of their land and went into a cultural and numerical decline, but their population began to increase again from the late 19th century, and a cultural revival began in the 1960s.

Some cultures that still Meori people have such are firstly was the poi is a performance art employing a ball suspended from a length of flexible material, usually a plaited cord, held in the hand and swung in circular patterns. This is usually accompanied by the waiata, to add rhythm and a visual accompaniment. The earliest recorded performances of the Poi dates back to 1905, when it represented the arrival of the canoe to New Zealand.

Besides that,the haka performances.The haka is a dance that is performed with loud and fierce shouts. People sometimes refer to it as a war dance, or a challenge to whomever the haka is being performed.It is widely known through pre-match performance by the New Zealand national rugby union team, and has come to be strongly associated with New Zealand.This form of dance was used on battlefields during wartime, perhaps because of its fierceness.

The Arts of Culinary

As it is in the title, our group have discussed and will like to talk about the culinary arts.
Starting with the very definition of the sentence.
Well, from the dictionary "culinary" basically means of or relating to a kitchen or cookery.





Culinary arts is of course if you had guessed from the picture above is the ART of COOKING. A culinarian is the person who performs the culinary arts or also commonly known as a cook or the word I think better suits the professionalism is a chef.


Here is one of the famous figure in the area of culinary arts, Jamie Oliver doing what he does best. Culinary artists are responsible for skillfully preparing meals that is pleasing to the eyes. Other then that a professional chef must also be knowledgeable in the area of diet and nutrition as well as science of food.

Maybe many are familiar with the words nutrition and also diet but what is science of food? Well food science is the study of technical aspects of food, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering and ending with its cooking and consumption.

Okay, from the Wikipedia, it looks as if when your studying food sciences you are more likely to become a scientist in research and development of food. Not likely I think. But other than being able to cook variety of food and dishes, the other important aspects of being a chef is the management skills. This skill is extremely important as it determines the future of one's restaurant. Not only you have to manage your underlings but also manage the arrangements of cuisines which is also consider an art.




Isn't this considered as an art? Look at how the placement of food and the cutlery's
that are well arranged.



here is another example of careful arrangement of the arrays of food.



The art of cooking is not solely for the presentation, of course THE PRESENTATION of the food is important to sell your credentials but the way or better yet the technique to cook in many various way is also part of the art. There are many methods of cooking but I don't think I can list every one but, the examples below are some of the best techniques I think to cook food..

BLACKENING
A cooking technique commonly used in preparing fish. This method was often associated with cajun cuisine but it is in fact a modern invention of chef Paul Prudhomme. The food is dipped in melted butter and dregged in a mixture of herbs and spices and then cooked in a hot cast of iron skillet.The picture on the right is a blakened redfish.












Chef Paul Prudhomme



STEAMING
Steaming is one the other way in cooking food wher you have to boil the water continously, using the steam to carry the heat and thus cooking the food. Such cooking is most often done by placing the food in a steamer. Western cooking usually use this method to cook vegetables but rarely on meat, but personally chinese cuisine or thai cuisine is most ideal using this type of method as they have a variety food cooked by this method and not just solely on vegetables.




Cantonnese cuisine, steamed fish, seasoned with soy sauce, coriander and welsh onion


thai cuisine, steamed seabass in lemon sauce



GRILLING
Grilling is a form of cooking that invoves dry heat from above or below. Direct heat grilling often expose food to temperatures up to 260C. One of the popular methods of grilling in Malaysia is BARBECUE. This type of method is best for large cuts of meat or bone-in poultry. It is even better when the meat is basted or marinade in sauce. One of Malaysia's favourite food; SATAY ,marinated meat on a bamboo skewer grilled over a charcoal fire served with peanut sauce.
To the left, the famous Robert Rainford or also known as King of Grill.








Malaysian Cuisine: Satay being prepared


ROTISSERIE
Here is also one the methods that is very popular in Malaysia. This method is especially used in cooking KEBAB'S. It is a style of roasting where meat is skewered on a spit- a long rod to hold the meat while being cooked in a fireplace
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A vertical rotisserie cooking kebab


Illustration of spitted fowl being rotated while being basted with a long-handled spoon from The Romance of Alexander, Bruges.



As mention above art in cooking does not only count in the presentation of the meal but also the method or process of the cooking the 'art' started even before the cooking which the ingredients. Getting the right ingredients is important, if one fail to produced the right ingredient, how is it one suppose to produce the right type of meal. It is the same as drawing. How can you draw properly if given a brush instead of a pencil, right? So in conclusion this type of art, culinary arts is not like the most beautiful of all but when one is passionate about something, it really opens one's eye towards the beauty of it.





Wednesday, September 2, 2009

TYPE OF SOFTWARE

TYPE OF SOFTWARE

All software is not created equally.The type listed are general categorise to teach people how to look for certain characteristic.

  • PRODUCTIVITY
This type of software also known as Tool software.Helps to produce documents,spreadsheets,a database or other products.Productivity category are the "Authority" programs.These authority programs help user to develop computer programs in computer languages.

  • DRILL AND PRACTICE
Drill and practice software provide students with practice on concept they have learned.Good drill and practice provide feedback and give explanation how to get the correct answer and some contain student management systems to keep track of the student progress.


  • PROBLEM SOLVING
A software that require student to use strategy and input.Most of this type of simulation and games software have some problem solving aspect.Problem solving programs can be great discussion starters for exploratory learning.The several version in the market in the WORLD,Where in EUROPE,Where in Time,Where in Space etc for Where....in Carmen Sandiego version.The Crosscountry USA software version for problem solving is simulated journey combines map reading,decision-making skills,and geography instead of using reference materials of the map books.

  • TUTORIAL
This type of software present a new concept where text illustration,description and simulation are provided for the students to teach a specific task,skill or application.Most of the powerful productivity software packages include a tutorial to teach the user how to use the application.
  • DEMONSTRATION AND PRESENTATION
Demonstration and presentation software was designed to help users to give a dynamic and usually impactful computer presentation.One of the most common features is the slide show option that runs automatically.

  • REFERENCE
Reference materials are now available in electronic format.The reference provided for the users mainly about encyclopedias,medical and educational research journals as well as geographic references available for a reasonable costs.

  • MULTIMEDIA
This type of software program that includes sound,pictures,graphics,video,text and hypertext.The reason that cause the large sized of files that sound and video require,these type of software generally stored on CD-ROM.

  • GAMES
Educational games are generally a drill and practice format with a winner or top score option.Good problem solving and simulations can have a game appearance.
  • GROUPWARE
This type of software is designed to be used for groups of students.The computer is viewed by a cooperative group of student or projected to the entire class.


The above are about the type of software been invented in our new 21st century.Them all help human to improve in many aspect.I hope what i have listed above is informative and satisfied you all as the reader.Thanks for willing to read my writing.