Reading Log Entry – English: 1.10A 11ENG - Visual text Assessment “Whale Rider” Directed by: Niki Caro The film “Whale Rider” Directed by Niki Caro is a film about the Whangara people in the east coast of New Zealand who date theier tribe back to one ancestor Paikea. The tradition of the head family is to name their first born son Paikea‚ but due to a freak accident at birth ‚the first born male died‚ leaving his twin sister alive. She was then named Paikea. The naming of the girl as Pakea
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the Pink and White Terraces where discovered by the European settlers in the 1850’s‚ there was no tourism in the area and a large settlement of Maori called the Arawa Tribe. The Europeans claimed the terraces as a “thermal wonderland” to attract tourists which travelled down the Waihou River from Auckland by boat. This made an opportunity for local Maori to act as tour guides and make a profit from the increased activity in the area. This lead to the development of tourist infrastructure such as
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New Zealand is an island and was discovered by Polynesian and started migrating before AD 900. British captain James Cook visited this Island in 1769. Maori and British signed a treaty of Waitangi‚ which granted the Maori legal protection and rights to perpetual ownership of their lands and resources. Only the Crown was entitled to buy land from Maori. Britain granted New Zealand internal self-government and by 1907 the nation became independent (“Culture Grams‚” 2010). Population: Total population
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In prose that is both raw and compelling‚ it tells the story of Beth Heke‚ a Maori woman struggling to keep her family intact‚ despite the filth and violence of her urban neighbourhood in which they live. Conveying rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence‚ Once Were Warriors is an engrossing novel of unblinking reality‚ irresistible energy‚ and heart felt sorrow. Beth Heke is a strong Maori disciplined woman who is pushed around against her will‚ by her alcoholic husband
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Rider‚ there are great examples of Joseph Campbell’s article‚ Four Functions of Myth‚ which are: mystical myth‚ cosmological myth‚ social myth‚ and psychological myth. In the film‚ Whale Rider‚ Pai discovers her sense of self as she reinvents the Maori tribe’s creation myth to save the dying culture. The mystical myth in Whale Rider would be when she rode the whale. Pai is suppose to be the new chief in town‚ however‚ her grandfather‚ Koro‚ does not think a girl should be chief because he believes
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS AS LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 9695 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe 2. The Open Boat Stephen Crane 3. The Door in the Wall HG Wells 4. The People Before Maurice
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stipulated that no players with Maori blood should be included in the side. An All Black of West Indian extraction‚ Ranji Wilson‚ was sent home as a result. The Springboks themselves went on tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1921. There were three tests played against New Zealand with NZ winning the first‚ SA winning the second and the forth drawn to tie the series. The All Blacks returned in 1928 and once again the series was drawn and once again the Maoris were left behind. In fact they
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History The first people to find New Zealand were the Maori people. They first arrived in New Zealand in about the tenth century A.D.(“About”). Now‚ Maori people make up fourteen percent of the New Zealand population (“About”). The Maori people named New Zealand “land of the long‚ white‚ cloud” (“About”). Europeans first sighted New Zealand in the seventeenth century and by the early nineteenth
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corporate and political leaders would do well to make a beeline to see. Whale Rider follows the struggles of young Pai to win the love and respect of her gruff and continually disappointed grandfather Koro. A member of a fiercely proud and ancient Maori tribe‚ Pai—through a tragic twist of fate—has broken the unbroken line of male firstborn children‚ and hence cannot inherit the leadership of the tribe from her grandfather.
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Terms | Definitions | Pacific island groups: | Micronesia‚ Melanesia‚ Polynesia | (Pacific) Micronesia means- | small islands | (Pacific) Melanesia means- | black islands | (Pacific) Polynesia means- | many islands | (Pacific) Divided into high islands and low islands based on- | physical characteristics | High Islands- | mountains created by tectonic forces‚ volcanoes and earth quakes | Low Islands- | coral reef | Coral Reef- | formed from living coral polyps accumulating over time
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