“A girl‚ I will have nothing to do with her! She has broken the line of male descent in our tribe.”- The Whale Rider “ Witi Ihimaera”. The Whale rider is about a girl Kahu or Pai that from birth was destined to be the new whale rider‚ but the chief Koro Apirana wouldn’t teach her. He didn’t teach her because he thought to be a leader you had to be a male‚ so she wasn’t good enough to be the rider. The theme is overcoming the odds to achieve greatness. This theme is intriguing because she has to prove
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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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Q. Storage media such as a CD read and write information using -- 1 Magnetic strips 2 Magnetic dots 3 A laser beam of red light 4 All of these Ans: 4 Q. To reload a Web page‚ press the.... button. 1 Redo 2 Reload 3 Ctrl 4 Refresh Ans: 4 Q. The.... controls a client computer’s resources. 1 Application program 2 Instruction set 3 Operating System 4 Server application Ans: 4 Q. The process of transferring files from a computer on the Internet to
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Whale Rider Essay Whale Rider shows just how important culture and tradition is to some people. Whale Rider is about the current chief‚ Koro‚ having to accept that the tradition of the first born males becoming the next chief will have change‚ and the challenges he has to overcome by letting a female become leader and breaking the tradition and letting a girl be in control. Koro is heartbroken when he throws his whale bone into the ocean and not one of the boys manages to retrieve it. But Pai has
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The film Whale Rider directed by Niki Caro depicts the journey of a determined young Maori girl‚ Paikea‚ who strives to do the impossible‚ of claiming her birthright position as chief from her very traditional grandfather‚ Koro. Koro who is the chief now‚ searches for the right individual who can lead the tribe since the original leader his son‚ Paikea’s father‚ left when his son‚ Paikea’s twin brother‚ dies at birth. To be the leader of the tribe Koro displays the working styles of examine and execute
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The Whale’s Evolution Whales evolved from an ancestor that lived on land. That may be incredibly hard to believe‚ but we have a lot of information to lead to that conclusion. Land mammals and whales have a lot more in common than you may think. Land mammals have hair‚ a nasal opening by its snout‚ arms‚ legs‚etc‚ and DNA leading back to millions of years. Whales also have similar qualities to those of the land mammals. Whales weren’t always the whales we know today because long ago
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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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represented in this matter by its sales manager Ms. Sara Zydorczak‚ hereinafter reffered as „buyer” Whereas: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Jetta Pharmaceuticals Ltd. buys the entire output of Sperm Whales from Whales Hunting Ltd. Jetta Pharmaceuticals Ltd. pays Whales Hunting Ltd. in lump sum. Whales Hunting Ltd. transports 200 Sperm Whales to the new-built warehouse (costs of transport included in output price) From the warehouse organs will be shipped to the both companies headquarters. Vegan Perfumes repays Jetta
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The physical abuse of orca whales remains a growing problem in today’s national SeaWorld parks. Physical abuse starts when orca whales are captured from the wild using horrendous methods that have ended in mass fatality for the whales in question. Zimmermann (2010) said “Griffin bought the 8‚000-pound animal for $8‚000. He towed the orca‚ which he named Namu‚ 450 miles back to Seattle in a custom-made floating pen. Namu’s family pod-20 to 25 orcas-followed most of the way” (p.5). This is said in
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In Yves Thériault’s short story “The Whale”‚ Ambroise Bourdages‚ the protagonist is portrayed to be a naive character. His quality comes across to the reader when Clovis and Ambroise are talking and Ambroise says‚ “Clovis‚ no one would ever take you for a liar! A banker’s son isn’t allowed to tell lies!”(Thériault‚ 26). This demonstrates that Ambroise does not know how Clovis acts nor is he aware of some of Clovis’s characteristics. Thus‚ is naive about the situation and has interpreted him as a
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