In the movie Whale Rider‚ Paikea‚ the main character‚ overcomes her struggles with Paka‚ her grandfather‚ and becomes the new leader of the tribe. Paka repeatedly rejects her throughout the movie for her gender. He is angry because she had lived after birth‚ while her twin brother did not. He scolds her everytime she attempts to try one of the excercises the boys are doing to see who will be the chosen one. Evaluating three of Gardner’s Eight Intelligences‚ readers can see how Paikea has naturalistic
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Irish Step Dancingc Irish step dancing is a style of dance based on the foundation of traditional Irish dance form. Irish step dancing‚ with its very charismatic beat and energy‚ is sure to captivate you. At the County Clare School of Irish Dance‚ I had the amazing opportunity to observe Irish step dancing being taught to a classroom of energetic students over a two day period. Nothing is more Irish than Irish step dancing. Irish step dancing is a brilliant celebration of the arts and a unique
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What Is The Author Trying To Say In The Whale Rider? Let’s face it. We all have those family members. I’m talking about the annoying cousins‚ siblings‚ and (if you are a teen) parents. Embarrassing aunts and so on and so forth. The point is‚ everyone has family members that they don’t like. For example‚ in the book‚ The Whale Ride by Witi Ihimaera‚ there are lots of tensions throughout the story between family members. As I read this book‚ I think the author’s message to us‚ the readers of the
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Name: Zhang Le “Irish Financial Crisis was both predictable and preventable.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? Use some financial indicators where appropriate to support your answer. Irish Financial Crisis has drawn much attention recently. Driven by booms in property and lending‚ it left the society with massive issues such as high unemployment and large government deficit (Kelly‚ 2010‚ p.1). There is some debate on whether the crisis could be predicted and prevented. This essay
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portrayed as an era where there was a clear challenge and feeling of hostility towards the older establishment generation of authority‚ as well as a period in American culture where psychedelic drugs and rock music were widely popular. The 1969 film Easy Rider is a very well known film‚ which portrayed many of the cultural aspects and characteristics of the Hippie age. The message of this film clearly is to make a statement that expressed the fact that many young college aged students resented traditional
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The idea that discrimination on the grounds of pregnancy should be construed as sex discrimination has been the subject of passionately debated controversy since the idea was first proposed. Honeyball contends it should be dealt with as sex discrimination yet other legal academics have recommended the introduction of specific rights. It is necessary to analyse the concept in order to establish which would be most appropriate. While some people advocate that discrimination on the basis of pregnancy
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The concept of love is always interpreted in many different ways such as love‚ hate‚ passion‚ and lust. Between the three novelas The Fox‚ Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Pale Horse Pale Rider there is always a conflict with love‚ from homosexuality to jealousy there’s always one individual that has an issue with who’s loving who. In The Fox‚ the image of love is portrayed many different times. In the beginning of the novela two of the main characters‚ March and Jill‚ are in love with each other. However
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Irish immigrants were a really really big part of the culture change. The largest wave of immigrants came from Ireland because of the famine in their land. Everyone ate potatoes over there‚ so when the crop got a fungus and they died‚ it was a huge problem for the Irish. A whole lot of people ended up dying from the lack of food. A lot of the Irish that came to America couldn’t do anything. They weren’t talented and they had no skills and no money. Mostly they lived up north in cities. They faced
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The Irish Political Party System Introduction One major reason why the Irish political party system has been very stable for the past 77 years is because it has effectively served the needs of the country. For the purpose of this paper the term effective will mean that the parties in combination have been able to meet the demands of the people and provide for a stable and democratic political system. The Irish party system and the major parties are very difficult to classify. The Irish party
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Star of the Sea By: Joseph O’Connor I.B. English A1 The passage from Star of the Sea was written by Joseph O’Connor. It is a piece of narrative prose which takes place on a passenger ship. The passage is written in a third-person subjective narrative mode. The passage is takes place at a point in the storyline as the ship is passing through a violent storm at sea‚ which portrays the forces of nature The passage starts with a sense of an atmosphere‚ “The music of the ship was howling around
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