Whale rider is a very influential movie that teaches us a lot about leadership‚ feminism and culture. The movie has an emphasis on leadership and the ways in which you can be a leader. It teaches you that despite not everyone will believe in you‚ you can’t let that restrict you from your goals and rights. An example of leadership in the movie‚ is when Pai beats the school bus on her bike‚ without Paka. When she accomplishes this‚ it shows that she is a leader and can beat the boys. Paka does not
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Daiana E. Field 5º1º The village by the sea By Anita Desai Analysis of the novel This story takes place in a small fishing village‚ called Thul‚ which is ¨only fourteen kilometres away from Bombay¨ (Chapter 4)‚ one of the biggest cities on the western coast of India‚ on the Arabian Sea. Although the author does not specify the year in which the story is set‚ we can deduce it takes place in the early twentieth century. We reach to this conclusion through the description of Bombay‚ ¨[…]here
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Getting left behind is pretty bad‚ but getting left behind in the Middle Eastern wilderness with a kid that only knows Arabic is a bit worse. Prue Mason’s novel Camel Rider tells the tale of a boy named Adam who was left behind by his mother and gets himself stranded in the middle of the desert. There he meets a boy named Walid‚ and together they find their way back to civilization even though communicating is very difficult. The major aspects of culture that change these heroes are religion‚ economy
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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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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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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 vile odour of disinfectant permeates the air around me. My heart is racing and my trembling‚ sweaty hands cling onto my mother’s like a sloth to its branch. Gradually‚ more doctors begin to crowd around me‚ resembling vultures hovering over their prey‚ preparing to strike. The clanging of metal instruments and beeps of various machines distract me momentarily. Looking over to my left‚ I see a stout‚ middle-aged man donned in a green surgical gown. He is wearing a big‚ red foam nose and a multi-coloured
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Hello‚ I wanted to send you an email about something that was concerning to me after the game today. Kate came off the field very upset and unfortunately I had two other players with me that I was transporting home so I didn’t get much of a chance to discuss this with her until tonight. She wouldn’t tell me what was wrong right away‚ but one of the other players told me she was upset because her coach said there were three players that didn’t hustle and just stood there during the game today. Now
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Paige was born in March 2005. She really enjoys writing‚ reading‚ and painting. Paige loves unicorns and the colour pink. She also loves to play the ukulele. I froze‚ my mouth as dry as a desert. What was I supposed to do? Eight hundred eyes were looking at me! This all started when I received a special gift from my grandma‚ who’d recently passed away. "I’m sorry about your loss‚" stated Sophia. "It’s okay‚ thanks for your concern‚" I sighed. "At least she gave you something to remember her by
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The plot questions can be divided into 7 categories. First‚ the premise. The premise takes place at the first couple seconds of the film Whale Rider. A mother is giving birth to two children‚ not expecting anything to go wrong. This in the beginning of the story and this scene sets stage for the entire plot. The second part is the conflict also known as the inciting incident. The conflict occurs when the mother dies from childbirth‚ but more importantly‚ one of the children‚ who was a boy‚ died as
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