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Carvings Of The Whare Kai Land And Sea Life
1,026 wordsBrigham Young University -Hawaii Campus Land, to many of us, is a place of growth and development. When the Pakeha, or white man, saw the fertile land of New Zealand, he saw opportunity and investment to make more money. But did the Pakeha really know what land is to those who live as though their land is everything they had? Of course, they must have known that land is precious to them, but did they realize just how precious land was to the Maoris? Land was life to the Maori people, and if it w...
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Hereditary Claim Maori Tattoos
746 wordsWhen looking at Maori art, there is one thing that sticks out amongst everything else with me, and with most likely everyone that sees it for the first time, this is their tattooing skills. They are equipped with many other art skills such as their carvings, weaponry, and townhouses, but the tattoos represent the tribe as a whole and are visible on the people themselves. The art of tattoo was brought to New Zealand by the Polynesians when they migrated to New Zealand. Men of the tribe are more e...
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Potiki And The Art Of Telling Stories
976 wordsThis is an exploration essay on the theme in Patricia Graces novel Potiki that telling and retelling stories is an important and valuable part of being human. An important theme in Potiki is the enduring idea that creating and sharing stories as a central part of being human is important. It is a significant theme because the novel is heavily imbued with Maori culture, in which the stories and spoken teachings are given prominence, and also because it is a popular belief that people need narrati...
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Snaps His Fingers Fire Which Would Pass Chief
1,855 wordsWe have seen that the Mikados food was cooked every day in new pots and served up in new dishes; both pots and dishes were of common clay, in order that they might be broken or laid aside after they had been once used. They were generally broken, for it was believed that if any one else ate his food out of these sacred dishes, his mouth and throat would become swollen and inflamed. The same ill effect was thought to be experienced by any one who should wear the Mikados clothes without his leave;...
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North And South Great Britain
788 wordsNEW ZEALAND By Andy Burford The country that I am doing for my report is New Zealand. New Zealand is made up of two Islands. The north and the south islands. It is located in the south pacific by Australia. The first people to settle New Zealand came over from east Polynesia by canoe during the 10 th century. These people were called the Maori. According to a Maori legend, a man may have arrived in New Zealand during about 950 ad, but this can not be proven. The Maori people lived on the Island ...
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Gender Inequality Objective Reality
2,004 wordsThe Whale Rider (1) The rising popularity of so-called post-colonial literature is closely associated with the philosophy of New Age beginning to attract more and more White people in Western countries. In its turn, this can be explain by these peoples tendency to indulge in social escapism while growing increasingly uncomfortable with the factual realities of multiculturalism, these people are simply afraid of admitting this fact to themselves, which in its turn, prompts them to seek emotional ...
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2004 From The World Wide Km H
1,917 words... have much younger average age of the members, that is why it is more prospective for developing, comparing with European group. It is estimated that even some decades later the age structure will not change and Maori with Pacific people will be relatively younger. These population trends are obvious at national and sub national levels. They indicate future expansion of aboriginal and Pacific ethnic groups. The official languages are English and Maori, but English is being spoken by everybody...
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Older Women Learning Disability
1,573 wordsSociology Of Disability A disability can be physically visible as with mobility impairments or non-visible which may include learning disabilities, hearing and visual impairments, chronic health problems and head injuries. According to statistics, nowadays in New Zealand the majority of people with disabilities have more than one disability. Forty percent of people with disabilities have a single disability. People living in residential facilities are more likely to have multiple disabilities. N...
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Creation Myths Greek Mythology
1,105 wordsDefinitions of Myth Before defining the term mythology one needs to define the meaning of the word myth. The word itself comes from the Greek mythos which originally meant speech or discourse but which later came to mean fable or legend. In this document the word myth will be defined as a story of forgotten or vague origin, basically religious or supernatural in nature, which seeks to explain or rationalize one or more aspects of the world or a society. Furthermore, in the context of this docume...
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Cell Division Prostate Cancer
1,104 wordsDiscuss social, ethical and biological issues associated with cancer Cancer is one of the most complex and devastating diseases that claim the life of many humans. Today there are one in three people worldwide who are affected by cancer, and almost 60 % of these people will almost certainly die. 7000 New Zealanders die every year from this disease. It is the second largest killer next to heart disease. Cancer does not just affect certain groups of people, it can affect anybody and it is not just...
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Maori Maori Maori Population Zealand
721 wordsMaori are the Maori MAORI Maori are the host people of Aotearoa New Zealand (land of the white cloud). Maori actually means natural, normal or local. The Maori call themselves Tangata When, meaning people of the land. According to the 1996 census, Maori population is well over 500, 000, which is around 15 percent of the population of New Zealand. More than 95 percent of Maori live on the North Island. Maori language is still an endangered language. English is taught in schools as primary languag...
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Cell Division Prostate Cancer
1,110 wordsSocial, Ethical And Biological Issues Associated With Social, Ethical And Biological Issues Associated With Cancer Cancer is one of the most complex and devastating diseases that claim the life of many humans. Today there are one in three people worldwide who are affected by cancer, and almost 60 % of these people will almost certainly die. 7000 New Zealanders die every year from this disease. It is the second largest killer next to heart disease. Cancer does not just affect certain groups of pe...
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