The film’s plot follows the story of Paikea Apirana ("Pai") [In the book‚ her name is Kahu‚ short for Kahutia Te Rangi].The leader should be the first-born grandson – a direct patrilineal descendant of Paikea‚ aka Kahutia Te Rangi in the book‚ the Whale Rider – he who rode on top of a whale from Hawaiki. However‚ Pai is female and technically cannot inherit the leadership. While he does later form an affectionate bond with his granddaughter‚ carrying her to school every day on his bicycle‚ he
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Endangered languages: what is to be done‚ and why? The threat to linguistic resources is now recognized as a worldwide crisis. Language death is what happens when the last speaker of a particular language dies‚ or when a language community ceases to exist. It is an extinction that is happening on a massive scale and with astonishing speed. According to Krauss (1992a)‚ as many as half of the estimated 6‚000 languages spoken on earth are "moribund"; spoken only by adults who no longer teach them
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New Zealand’s Involvement in the Second World War After seeing action in World War I‚ New Zealand would once again rush to the aid of Britain‚ their Mother Country‚ at the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Britain’s strategy of appeasement failed to stop Nazi Germany’s military ambitions‚ and when the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939‚ the British did not hesitate to declare war against Germany. As a British dominion‚ New Zealand stood behind the Mother Country and contributed to its war
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Sustainable tourism is only achievable through the development of alternative and new forms of tourism. Critically discuss this statement with reference to one or more examples of alternative tourism in developed or developing countries. The development of Sustainable Tourism has allowed society to meet their own present needs‚ without compromising such needs of future generations (Weaver and Lawton‚ 2010). Much attention in relation to sustainable tourism has been devoted to Alternative Tourism
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by its white inhabitants‚ who modeled themselves on British life and relished their city’s bourgeois respectability.[1] At an early age‚ Mansfield witnessed the disjuncture between the colonial and the native‚ or Maori‚ ways of life‚ prompting her to criticize the treatment of the Maoris in several diary entries and short stories.[2] Mansfield’s biographer‚ Angela Smith‚ writes: “It was her childhood experience of living in a society where one way of life was imposed on another‚ and did not quite
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Guns‚ Germs‚ And Steel Author: Jared Diamond 1. Write a short half a page biography of the author; include information about his areas of research‚ books written‚ and prizes awarded. Jared Mason Diamond was born on 10 September 1937 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. He earned an A.B degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a Ph.D. in physiology from Cambridge University in 1961. Diamond was a Junior Fellow at Harvard from 1962 to 1966‚ at which point he became a professor of physiology at the UCLA
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Every individual possesses an abundance of knowledge. This knowledge is what we know about ourselves and what we know about the world around us. Such knowledge shapes and underpins the way we interact with others on all levels. Firstly‚ this essay will explore my own sources of knowledge about midwifery with a focus on my culture and its importance as well as‚ social and philosophical influences to my understandings. Secondly‚ I will provide a deep discussion about my personal midwifery philosophy
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When Paikea was born‚ she had a twin brother‚ but unfortunately her brother died along with her mother. Whale Rider was filmed in Whangara in New Zealand. The film does not only show us one girl’s experience of growing up‚ but also tells us about the Maori culture‚ tradition how gender is treated‚ and their leadership. Firstly‚ tradition is expressed in the film when Koro was teaching the boys how to fight like warriors with a taiaha ‘The taiaha is an instrument of war a tool for fighting. If you
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whales should be respected‚ they just may be willing to die for them. In Herman Melville’s novel‚ Moby Dick‚ a ship sets sail searching to kill an infamous whale named Moby Dick and in the movie Whale Rider‚ directed by Niki Caro‚ people from the Maori culture put forth all their efforts to rescue washed up whales on the shore. Both of these storylines revolve around whales
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Ngatoroirangi The earliest Māori stories speak of a man named Ngatoroirangi‚ a tohunga (high priest) who guided the Te Arawa canoe to this land from Hawaiki‚ the ancestral homeland of Māori. Anxious to explore‚ he and an expedition party‚ travelled east from Maketu‚ down the coast until he reached what is now known as the Tarawera River. Naming it Te Awa-o-te-atua‚ he turned inland and followed it upstream until he reached Ruawahia‚ the central peak of Mount Tarawera. Ngatoroirangi finally
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