The Olympic Flag is a flag that is the official sign of the Olympic Games. The five rings that are on the flag’s white background representing peace and purity, are in fact, representative of a ring for each main continent, and every continent that has to offer willing competitors in the Olympic Games.
However, many other historians and ancient greeks see the rings on the flag (which are blue, black, red, yellow and green) as representatives of the ancient Greek tales, and myths where the Olympics originated from. Legend tells that there were five siblings, three girls, and two boys, each of them were born and raised on a mountain (Mount Olympiad) and were trained and brought up with essential and basic skills to survive in the troublesome world that had been waiting for them along their life journeys. But the main and most known view of the rings are related to the continental fact, another factor of the rings is that each colour in the flag is in (at least) every nations flag that is competing,
The flag is hoisted up the pole at every Olympic Games every four years, and isn’t taken down until the games come to an end, handing it over to the leader of the next country, or venue that is hosting the next Olympic Games.
Through history, millions of flags have been taken up, down and have been shown off to the world, but every four years, one flag is able to unite every single person standing and who exists in this world, and that flag, is the grand Olympic Flag.
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New Zealand's Flag
New Zealand’s national flag has been through many revolutions, but only one of them, has been able to be the substantial emblem of our country’s pride for now, and hopefully strive to be, for many years to come.
The flag that is certified consists of four stars (the southern cross) and a union jack. New Zealand was colonised by representatives of the Queen, and our connection with England is shown through this Union Jack. Aotearoa’s flag is blue which represents the oceans around it, and the beauty of all natural H2O’s around our land. Red, and white are outlined around the stars, and union jack, with Saint George’s cross, the patron saint of England, and two diagonal lines that indicate the two additional countries that are a part of the United Kingdom, Wales, and Scotland. Now going onto historic interactions, the flag was originally supposed to be for the marine army, in which was verified, but when they had hit land, the country suddenly decided, (through the controversy, arguments, and debates) that this flag was fit enough to be displayed to the world and many more to represent New Zealand. The treaty of Waitangi was one of many agreements that was said to be created for the decision of the nation's flag, and it was signed by both the Maori, and European leaders, so that they would come to terms of raising up a flag, optimistically with assurance of what they wanted our flag to reflect unto our country.
Unity is one of the many attributes every country strives for, and from what our country has gone through, we have actually achieved what we had been going for, to unite with countries and keep our world as it is, but additional peace of ours into it. Aotearoa know, whenever we are down in trouble, or other attackers are hunting down on us, other paired countries will always have our backs.
We are united under the southern cross, because basically, all of these four precious stars are stars that each and every country is able to see in the night skies, and it helps every single person that is compiled or involved within southern countries in the southern hemisphere.
The flag that is certified consists of four stars (the southern cross) and a union jack. New Zealand was colonised by representatives of the Queen, and our connection with England is shown through this Union Jack. Aotearoa’s flag is blue which represents the oceans around it, and the beauty of all natural H2O’s around our land. Red, and white are outlined around the stars, and union jack, with Saint George’s cross, the patron saint of England, and two diagonal lines that indicate the two additional countries that are a part of the United Kingdom, Wales, and Scotland. Now going onto historic interactions, the flag was originally supposed to be for the marine army, in which was verified, but when they had hit land, the country suddenly decided, (through the controversy, arguments, and debates) that this flag was fit enough to be displayed to the world and many more to represent New Zealand. The treaty of Waitangi was one of many agreements that was said to be created for the decision of the nation's flag, and it was signed by both the Maori, and European leaders, so that they would come to terms of raising up a flag, optimistically with assurance of what they wanted our flag to reflect unto our country.
Unity is one of the many attributes every country strives for, and from what our country has gone through, we have actually achieved what we had been going for, to unite with countries and keep our world as it is, but additional peace of ours into it. Aotearoa know, whenever we are down in trouble, or other attackers are hunting down on us, other paired countries will always have our backs.
We are united under the southern cross, because basically, all of these four precious stars are stars that each and every country is able to see in the night skies, and it helps every single person that is compiled or involved within southern countries in the southern hemisphere.
Tuesday 21 August 2012
Personal Profile
Hi, my name is Luisa, and I am currently finishing off my last year as a year 8 student at the school of Saint Patrick's. Learning and discovering new and relevant explorations is one of the many things I have an interest in, and a variety of hobbies that I have include, reading, writing and sleeping. My intention on what I want to achieve now, and in the nearby future requires hard work, and intelligence, and at the moment, I am striving for more than I am capable of. I like carrots, and pussycats.
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