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    their body as the canvas for a long time‚ even tracing back to frozen mummies over 5‚000 years ago (Lineberry). Like most art forms‚ tattoos come in all shapes and sizes‚ elaborate and simple. They have been used to tell life stories‚ such as with the Maori‚ or merely to just add some decoration and show what humans love. It is one of the oldest art forms in the world and yet today they have a stigma. Most people would never consider getting them‚ and they are forbidden in the reaches of corporate culture

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    com/locate/ecolecon Analysis Lessons from resource management by indigenous Maori in New Zealand: Governing the ecosystems as a commons Viktoria Kahui ⁎‚ Amanda C. Richards University of Otago‚ Economics‚ PO Box 56‚ Dunedin‚ New Zealand a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 30 September 2013 Received in revised form 9 February 2014 Accepted 17 March 2014 Available online 6 April 2014 Keywords: Indigenous Maori Common property Ecosystem based management a b s t r a c t The

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    his culture (Maori) but he does not mind. He has accepted the fact that others do things differently and that his culture is different and unique and it sounds like he is proud of it. As compared to Tama’s teacher that says “I hope not‚ that’s disgusting” because Tama had told her he wanted to hongi (press noses) with Darryl(Tama’s dead Pakeha friend). This is rude and disrespectful because it shows the reader that Tama’s teacher does not accept the actions and beliefs of the Maori culture. Tama

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    upset and cry‚ they feel happy and laugh. A Maori family‚ despite their beliefs or rituals‚ can be just like an American family‚ or any other one. The story takes place in the small town Whangara in New Zealand. Many centuries ago a legendary ancestor named Paikea brought there the Maori people‚ who still lives there. The myth about Paikea says that he was rescued by a whale‚ after his canoe was lost in the sea. He rode the whale and founded the Maori people‚ and from that day the tradition

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    Policy Guidelines on Inclusion of Children with Special Needs: Drawbacks and Challenges in the Philippines and New Zealand Comparative Study Submitted by NENITA OBRIQUE 86-16675 PhD Special Education EDAD 318 Dr. Joel Javiniar 2nd Semester SY 2012-2013 College of Education U.P. Diliman April 7‚ 2013 Contents Introduction.............................................................................................. 3 Review of Related Literature.........................

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    of respect and loyalty towards him. However this attitude is soon challenged by Shadbolt when we learn‚ towards the end of the story‚ that the land used to belong to a Maori tribe‚ who lived there for “hundreds of years” and were forced to move away from the area without compensation after it was “confiscated from the after the Maori wars” and “the European took the land”. Here Shadbolt cleverly presents to us as readers a situation where there are two sides that are both equally valid‚ but utterly

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    Research Paper Polynesia’s Islands Tattooing The Polynesian Islands are made up of over a thousand islands which are scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean. The native people that inhabit the islands of Polynesia are called Polynesians‚ and they share many similar traits including language‚ culture and beliefs. In the late 1700s a captain by the name James Cook traveled

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    After one hundred years when the Emancipation Proclamation was written‚ African Americans were still fighting for equal rights in their everyday life. Their first success during this movement did not come until the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 which was then followed by many boycotts and protests. The largest of these protests was the March on Washington. On August 28‚ 1963 more than 200‚00 people gathered together at the Lincoln Memorial in order to take part in the black

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    The Maori of New Zealand‚ for example‚ say that the union of Rangi and Papa (Father Sky and Mother Earth) produced all things. Read more: http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Ca-Cr/Creation-Stories.html#ixzz3TvkCGjmK Which world or worlds‚ such as sky‚ earth‚ and underworld‚ are represented in the myths you chose? What are the elements of these worlds? Viracocha: Earth‚ darkness‚ lake Titicaca‚ sun‚ moon and stars‚ men turned to stones‚ created men after flood but kept them inside the earth. Waterfalls

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    The nurse explains Maori rituals according to the laws of tapu‚ these rituals are passed on from generation to generation (Cherrington‚ 2011). These rituals become more sacred with a death the nurse witnessed this with Kate’s death when the women prepared her body for the

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