The New Zealand Kaka is a medium sized parrot‚ around 45 cm (18 in) in length and weighing about 550 g‚ and is closely related to the Kea‚ but has darker plumage and is more arboreal. The forehead and crown are greyish-white and the nape is greyish-brown. The neck and abdomen are more reddish‚ while the wings are more brownish. Both sub-species have a strongly patterned brown/green/grey plumage with orange and scarlet flashes under the wings; color variants which show red to yellow coloration especially
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Maori - The native population of New Zealand The Maori people is the original population of New Zealand. They came to the island from northern Polynesia by sea more than 1500 years ago. A popular theory suggests that they came in three large immigration waves‚ and that each wave turned into several individual Maori tribes. And even though the tribes are very similar‚ there have been lots of wars and fights between them. In this article I’m going to immerse myself with the Maori history and culture
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definition of ethnocentrism comes to play‚ which is how we tend to view other cultures based on how we compare it to our own culture‚ which makes us believe wrong things about that cultures or even judge that cultures in a bad light. But we should not do this because other cultures have their way of doing things for a reason. Like how culture relativism says that we she learn to judge other cultures by not our standard but theirs. Through this essay‚ we should open our mind to new ideas and hopeful
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Social Work Theory 23rd March 2011 Critical Commentary by Suzy Atkin In New Zealand we are taught that indigenous identities; tangata whenua are an important focus to our social work practice. Not only because they are the people of the land‚ but because they are the most oppressed and politically neglected in the country. Through colonisation tangata whenua have struggled with their historical‚ political and social ideologies so much so that their values‚ practices and beliefs have been shaped
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Nursing: Defining the Profession The definition of nursing has evolved since the introduction of the definition by the American Nurses Association in 1980. In that year‚ the ANA‚ in their Social Policy Statement‚ published their official definition of nursing. According to the American Nurses Association‚ "nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual and potential health problems" (1980). This definition has been massaged since 1980 and the most recent Social Policy Statement
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Short Selling: Assessing New Zealand’s regulatory regime and future development 1. Introduction 1.1 The recent global economic crisis has seen an unparallel shift in the global perception of free markets. Regulators around the world have adopted a more strict regulatory approach to markets than seen previously. Short selling is been given particular attention from authorities due to its speculative use and questionable moral nature. As in the past‚ “short selling has been a favourite whipping
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Recruitment a. Outline the stages in the recruitment process. 1. Determine the recruitment responsibilities & objectives The first stage is to determine the objectives of recruitment. With having an accurate goal‚ then we can set the right direction to make correct recruitment. For example‚ we need to recruit 20 cabin crews for this case. Due to achieving these objectives‚ we are not allowed to recruit more than 20 people for this position. 2. Review the person specifications This step requires
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the fault not of the disease‚ but of the nursing.”(Nightingale‚1).Florence Nightingale said this as a way to express the faults in the teaching of the nurses before her. These faults were the causes of more deaths than wounds of war. When Nightingale realized this upon her arrival at the hospital in Scutari‚ she changed nursing forever.Florence Nightingale was an important figure in history because she overcame difficulties and pioneered the nursing profession. Florence Nightingale was born May twelfth
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Counseling Specializations and Multidisciplinary Teams Counseling is a relatively new profession (Aubrey‚ 1977‚ 1982). It developed in the late 1890s and early 1900s‚ and was interdisciplinary from its inception. “Some of the functions of counselors were and are shared by persons in other professions” (Herr & Fabian‚ 1993‚ p. 3). Before the 1900s‚ most counseling was in the form of advice or information. In the United States‚ counseling developed out of a humanitarian concern to improve the lives
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Te Awa-o-te-atua‚ he turned inland and followed it upstream until he reached Ruawahia‚ the central peak of Mount Tarawera. Ngatoroirangi finally reached the magnificent mountains that now form the Tongariro National Park. In order to view this new land he climbed towards the summit of Tongariro‚ the highest of the three mountains there. As he neared the top he was affected by the intense cold and feared he would die. In desperation he prayed to his sisters‚ Kuiwai and Haungaroa on the island
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