“Whale Rider” Extra Credit Questions Name ________________________________________ Class Start Time ___________ 1. What object does the grandfather throw overboard a boat (and expects will be retrieved)? a. his father’s brass heirloom pistol b. his traditional chief’s necklace c. his sacred black harpoon d. his sacred smoking pipe e. his radio 2. What is the central conflict in “Whale Rider”? a. How do indigenous societies keep their traditions and yet accept change? b. How
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The movie Freedom Riders has a great display of the variation of ethnicity throughout. Wilson High encases this situation very well. The different ethnicities in this movie are at a constant war with each other‚ but not for long. When Ms. Gruwell comes to teach at Wilson‚ in room 203‚ the world is changed. At the beginning of the movie‚ the kids in room 203 were very disruptive‚ impolite‚ and always caused fights with each other. The different ethnicities did not mingle and if they did it was
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ASSIGNMENT 01 DUE DATE: 12 August 2013 UNIQUE NUMBER: 204488 COMPULSORY: YES INSTRUCTIONS: Read through your Study Guide and answer the following questions. Section A: Thinking Use your journal to answer the following questions (this is a reflection exercise. Do not submit) Activity 1 What is motivation? Activity 2 What motivates you to do things (money‚ success‚ future‚ your peers‚ your family‚ the past)? Activity 3 Have you ever been demotivated? How did you deal with it? 22 Activity
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because it had a singular God who’s major focus was the welfare of his people. Constantly Jesus stressed that their God loved each of them equally and no man in God’s eyes was greater then any other man. Jesus preached this to his people through a literary form known as a parable. A parable is a picture painted by the speaker using words. The fundamental importance of the use of parables was that they were open for interpretation. They never told the people what they should think‚ rather they were
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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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characteristics called the national character. Thus‚ there are unique characteristics which show national character from country to country. In terms of Japan‚ Japanese people have different way of thinking and sense of beauty from other countries. First‚ Japanese people have unique way of thinking. They tend to make much of harmony. For example‚ they prefer to act as groups‚ so they try to avoid arguments and follow the majority to make good relationships. Moreover‚ they do not emphasize their individuality
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DRAMA: the specific mode of fiction represented in performance‚ from a Greek word meaning "action‚" "to do‚" or "to act". The enactment of drama in theatre‚ performed by actors on a stage before an audience‚ presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts‚ unlike other forms of literature‚ is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception. ELEMENTS OF DRAMA * Music/Rhythm: Aristotle - the rhythm
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DRAMA Drama is a unique tool to explore and express human feeling. Drama is a discrete skill in itself. Drama is also a tool which is flexible‚ versatile and applicable among all areas of the curriculum. A drama is a serious performance in a play‚ a movie‚ or a televised production. It is sometimes applied to real-life events that have a similar serious nature‚ such as a trial or a disaster. Drama assists in the development • the use of imagination‚ • powers of creative self expression
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Whale Rider Analysis Most heroes are big strong men‚ or mythical creatures that have thousands of stories and tales written about them. This hero is an unlikely one‚ a small girl‚ from a small tribe‚ in a small village in New Zealand. Paikea is a small girl that is 13 years old‚ and is a direct descendant of Paikea‚ the original whale rider. On her journey to become the leader of the tribe‚ she comes across numerous amounts of challenges from her grandfather‚ Koro. In the Paikea tribe‚ only
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