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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Some 18-thousand dolphins’ porpoise are killed each year off Northern Japan. Permits to kill three thousand dolphins and small whales off the main island of Honshu are in effect. Most of the dolphins taken are slaughtered for meat. An increasing number are taken and shipped to oceanaria‚ mostly in Asia. The recent studies extremely high levels of contaminants such as mercury‚ cadmium and PCBs in dolphin meat has led some Japanese officials‚ concerned for the health of the citizenry‚ to an examination
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Dag Constellation Myth In 500 B.C.‚ a family who are both humans and mermaids‚ went under the Kai Sea‚ Triton‚ Litora‚ and Aquata were going to the magical Kingdom. Every animal in the sea‚ except for the whale sharks and crabs went to the ceremony. The ceremony was about Aquata becoming a Goddess. They still wanted to find out what to make her the goddess of. Then Triton and the family go down to the ocean to their home to tell ALL the creatures that animal catchers are coming and taking all the
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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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result‚ animals can be damaged mentally and physically. Some animals who do not attack humans in the wild may start attacking humans in captivity. One example of this are killer whales. As said before‚ killer whales do not harm humans in the wild‚ but they do harm them in captivity. The reason for this is because the “whales are basically driven mad by their confined circumstances”
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Whale Rider Essay Notes Whale Rider Essay Notes How is Whale Rider a good example of a mythological story? * Based on a legend- A story from the past‚ believed to explain how the Maori people came to be in New Zealand. It is regarded as historical although not verifiable. It’s a modern interpretation of an ancient Maori myth. * Strong basis in the culture of Maori people- Myths support and strengthen culture and reinforce cultural values. * Voice-over- Paikea explaining the legend
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“all hopes of Proteus rising from the sea have sunk”. Also‚ Wordsworth said ‘Or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn’‚ whereas Cheng says “tritons notes struggle to be free. Also‚ ‘Neptune lies helpless as a beached whale’. The water is so polluted that gods come out like beached whales. This also shows how we have killed the gods. How they don’t have a say anymore because we have gone so far in damaging the world around us we don’t stop to look at what is happening. Cheng says ‘while insatiate man
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Biscayne National Park was founded on June 28‚ 1980. The national park is about 270 miles large. This park includes coral reefs‚ islands‚ and mangrove forest in the Northern part of the Florida keys. Many dolphins‚ turtles‚ and pelicans live in the Biscayne Bay lagoon. The park is 95% water and the bay is the location of the mangrove forests. The park is about 172‚971 acres and has one of the largest and the first true florida keys‚ Elliot Key..Biscayne National Park has four major ecosystems. The
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wrong—revenge—saturates the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville. In this novel‚ Ahab‚ the obsessed captain of the Pequod‚ seeks to annihilate the white whale Moby Dick. In his unnatural fixation on the whale‚ Captain Ahab manipulates the other sailors on the ship into following after his own goal. His unceasing desire to kill however stems from his earlier encounter with the whale. The captain’s obsession constitutes the plot for the entire novel. Captain Ahab’s indefatigable enmity toward Moby Dick generates hysteria
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