This New Zealand poem has captured the sad truth about the loss of the Maori culture as the lost youths turn to gang membership in a search to add meaning to their lives. ‘Patches Hide No Scars’ relates to the idea of prejudice by describing the members of Maori gangs as one group‚ a whole‚ not a group of individuals. “How do we prosecute those already punished? How do we fine those lost in the street of no direction
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Intergenerational Transnationalism: 1.5 Generation Asian Migrants in New Zealand1 Allen Bartley* and Paul Spoonley** ABSTRACT This paper explores some of the issues associated with the nature of contemporary transnationalism and the particular experiences and strategies of a specific cohort of migrants‚ the 1.5 generation. Based on a study of East Asian migrant adolescents to New Zealand‚ we argue that the experiences and strategies of this generation differ from those of their parents‚ the original
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Antigone and Whale Rider. From the opening scene of Whale Rider‚ we see Koro disregard the death of his daughter in law. He does not even embrace his baby granddaughter but only cares to say prayers to his dead grandson who‚ one day may have lead the Maori people. Even more to his dismay‚ his son‚ Porourangi‚ named the baby girl Paikea after the great Whale Rider. Likewise Koro disregarding the baby girl and her dead mother‚ Creon tells his son‚ Haimon‚ once He had imprisoned Antigone‚ whom Haimon was
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investigate its social significance. Auckland hosts many annual festivals that celebrate the cultural diversity in our city; Polyfest is a classic example of this. Every year thousands turn out to attend one of the worlds largest Polynesian and Maori Festival‚ Polyfest. Which is held in the heart of South Auckland at the Manakau Sports Bowl. Over sixty schools participate and perform in dance‚ speech and song to express their feelings of passion and love for their culture. Polyfest is a unique
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Hewlett Packard is an electronics hardware company founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1938. It started off producing printers and computer hardware but has now spread out and is developing a large range of electrical goods and services. HP is now one of the largest technological companies and has the title of the world’s leading PC manufacture which is a long way from when it was founded in a one car garage. HP still states that its number one value is the customer satisfaction of one of
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel Jared Diamond‚ author of the Pulitzer Prize Winning‚ National Best Selling book Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ summarizes his book by saying the following: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples ’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Guns‚ Germs and Steel is historical literature that documents Jared Diamond ’s views on how the world as we know it developed. However‚ is his thesis that
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story of a woman who is trying to bury her brother’s body‚ despite the king‚ Creon’s‚ ruling against. The play tells of Antigone and Creon’s struggle against each other leading to Antigone’s eventual death. Whale Rider portrays the story of a young Maori girl who is trying to become the leader of her tribe. The young girl‚ Paikea (Pai)‚ is persistently blocked by Koro. Creon and Koro‚ the two tragic heroes are comparable in their lack of equality towards women‚ their similar tragic flaw of too much
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The purpose of this article is to distinguish the various evaluation terms and methods into conceptual levels of evaluation terminology‚ being evaluation approaches‚ evaluation purposes‚ evaluation methods‚ and evaluation design. It also looks at health promotion evaluation in a New Zealand context. This article resulted because New Zealand Health Promotion evaluation was at turning point as originally it started from government top-down processes‚ then to a bottom up approach utilising various
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religions that are similar and different. One of these characteristics is the infliction of pain onto oneself to practice their religion. Being in pain brings a religious individual closer to their God and allows them to be hierophant. The Native Maori people of New Zealand inflict pain on themselves through the sacred ritual of “Ta Moko”‚ or tattooing. These tattoos are on the entire body‚ but the most noticeable place is the face. A sharp chisel‚ made of
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and classes of a conventional program. The Maori language of New Zealand was in jeopardy so immersion schools began (May‚ Hill and Tiakiwai) In New Zealand and between the 1930’s and 1960’s‚ the number if Maori that could speak in their native tounge dropped from about 96.6 percent to only 26 percent (“Bilingual Education in Aotearoa”). There was a whole generation of Maori who didn’t know how to speak their language. This led leaders to fear that Maori would become a dead language unless serious
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