Auckland

Local Flavour. Exploring the changing face of Panmure’s Town Centre. As oversized malls alter our shopping habits and immigration and the housing boom change our suburbs, what 's going on in our town centres? At ten am the suburb that nearly became New Zealand’s capital is blearily rubbing the sleep from its eyes, shuffling from slippers to shoes and getting ready for a day of business. Panmure’s shabby shopping stretch contains a mish-mash of unlikely bedfellows; a seemingly awkward ménage à…

1). Bibliography Anthony, Jim. Sex Across the Color Line: A neglected topic in Pacific history. PhD Thesis, Suva: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies, 2007. Annotation This is a memoir written by the Author on behalf of his mother to search for her real identity as to who her real father is after she was born out of wedlock from an Indo-fijian woman and believed that her was was a white man. This memoir is an account on Owen Scott's seminal disclosure and, for the first time additional…

I had been to the city many times before. I had seen the homeless people sitting on Queen street and passed them more times than I can recall but this one time was different. I took notice of their faces for the first time rather than just putting my head down and carrying on. My cousin, Georgia, and I were on our way to lunch when we had walked past a homeless lady, she had deep wrinkles, on her cheeks and forehead, with dark bags under her eyes also. She was alone but you could definitely tell…

She uses social media by posting pictures of dogs for people to adopt them. In the article it says, "so I advertised him on TradeMe and he got a lot of interest and he went to a lovely home in Auckland." She also has a Facebook with many of her loyal, satisfied adopters. This has allowed her to rehome over 60 dogs. Another example is when Emily-Anne Rigal founded WeStopHate. Emily-Anne was bullied which made her found WeStopHate so other kids…

Clark, Terryann C., et al. "The Health and Well-being of Transgender High School Students: Results from the New Zealand Adolescent Health Survey (Youth '12)." The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, vol. 55, no. 1, 2014., pp. 93-99 doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.11.008. This article was published three years ago in the Journal of Adolescent Health. It evaluates the transgender portion of the 2012 survey done gender minority youth in New…

“Disabled people are absent in culture, when they are present they are represented in wholly stereotypical ways.” – Barnes and Mercer (2003) The above picture is taken at the entrance of a popular food court in Auckland City. This is popular amongst everyday Aucklander’s as well as tourists. There is no ramp nearby or an entrance that allows access for a wheelchair. However, despite being a popular spot it is fairly impossible for a person with a wheelchair to get inside. As Erving Goffman…

real estate industry seduced by mountains of cash coming into the market, have combined to create the perfect environment for this calamity. Other Pacific Rim cities affected by this phenomenon like Auckland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia are reacting much more proactively to the problem. In Auckland, for example, there is an outright ban on selling any type of housing to nonresidents.The Canadian Housing and Mortgage Commission, a government agency that oversees housing in Canada has deemed…

Can you guess where in the world this destination is from the clues below? Word Clue This beach is a paradise for snorkelers and scuba divers, providing a visual feast of sponge gardens, reef systems, and marine life to observe. There is even an underwater snorkel trail. This beach features a large pinnacle rock which has been sculpted by wind and water over the centuries. It now looks like the bow of a large ship steaming onto the beach. The walls of the beach cave were formed from volcanic…

increase in the infrastructure investment by New Zealand with a view to revive the nation’s performance on the economic front. Few areas that the government has been focused upon include partnerships, both public and private in the Christchurch and Auckland regions (Invest, 2015) Economical Global slowdown. There has been a lack in the…

Assignment no.2- Recruitment and Selection Submitted by : Content (a) Job advertisement (b) Selecting and evaluating candidates (c) 3 sources of information you need to collect about the applicants received for the advertised job (d) mechanism (model/framework/matrix) to compare candidates so that you can make the best selection decision. (e) letter of offer of employment to the chosen candidate E-recruitment process have been devised for the recruitment and…