Constitution of New Zealand

oral language is learnt meaning teaching children a second language at this age is supposedly easier than trying to teach someone older. In New Zealand we are a very multicultural society and living in Aotearoa carries specific responsibilities towards Tangata Whenua. A large percentage of our population is in fact māori. Māori is an official language of New Zealand and it is very important we keep it alive along with other traditions such as Tikanga. “Learning language is an important element…

Kua tawhiti ke to haerenga mai, kia kore e haere tonu. He tino nui rawa ou mahi, kia kore e mahi nui tonu"."You have come too far not to go further. You have done too much not to do more Te Kupenga Mōteatea was chosen after many hours of reading and researching Tuwharetoa - History of the Maori People of the Taupo District (Grace, Te.H) 1959. The storyline of Te Kupenga involves friendship, love, conflict, insult, war and revenge. In this essay I will describe what Te Kupenga Mōteatea means…

1 INTRODUCTION Transport has a huge impact on daily basis in New Zealand. It is known that New Zealand currently spends billions of dollars on transport (Ministry of Transport, 2014). Transport has become one of the biggest factors contributing in energy consumption and economic growth in New Zealand and Ministry of Transport have introduced four scenarios in order to make flexible investment options. Ministry of Transport have considered a change in oil price and digital technology advancement…

In 1904, the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration found that over 120,000 children in London and approximately 15-16 percent in Manchester and similar cities, were underfed (Simon, 1965). As a result, the report stated ‘that the time has come when the State should realize the necessity of ensuring adequate nourishment to children in attendance at school’ remarking that subjecting ‘half-starved children to the processes of education’ was at the ‘height of cruelty’…

James and his siblings moved to Stewart Island, New Zealand with their great grandmother named Nanny. A year had passed, being 1945, and James took on the responsibility at fifteen years old to care for his younger brothers and sisters and his great grandmother. In Stewart Island all of what was left of the Salvatore family lived in a medium sized cottage off the coast of the Pacific Ocean. James could not stop thinking about the loss of his parents, his new responsibilities and the fact that…

generation, in terms of immigrants, refers to two types of people: a person who was born in and is a citizen of one country, but whose parents are born in another country, and a foreign-born who has immigrated to a new country. Then there is the 1.5 generation composed of people who immigrated to a new country before or during their early teen years. Now, the term Asian-American, by definition, are just Americans of Asian descent. First generation and 1.5 generation Asian-Americans are viewed as…

newspapers as their main source of advertising but little focus was on TV. By the end of 1953 TV had gained its popularity and focus was shifted towards visual advertising which brought about a boom in the U.S. economy. This new trend of advertising started in Madison Avenue, New York. This era was a period of acute consumption anxiety. Post war years also saw a significant increase in the population which lead to more people needing more necessities which gave rise to the modern consumerism and…

Imagine living in a refugee camp at the age of just four years old for 15 years. Growing up in a rough environment, with limited food and water it was not easy but this special man who is my dad is one of many who did stay in a refugee camp for 15 years. He had nothing but his family and god but that is all he could possibly ask for at the time. Life got difficult for him in December 1979 when the Russians invaded his home country and it was way too dangerous for him to stay. He was only four…

mute for having willed herself not to speak, arrives in New Zealand as an imported bride for an arranged marriage to a land-grabber named Alisdair Stewart; she certainly could never have imagined what the final outcome would be. However, just as the uncertainty that envelopes us when staring at the distant, indistinguishable horizon is not an obstacle to our most intimate expectations, the wild countryside of mid-19th century New Zealand would soon be revealed to Ada, filling her life with many…

The word voyaged that Tongans were similarly wave riders and their ruler, Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, was a prestigious surfer. Everything changed when German and Scotland educators assaulted the land in 1821. They debilitated and even disallowed surfing among the Polynesians and Hawaiians. In light of this interruption, the religious routine of surfing generally vanished by the twentieth century. The surf, which breaks on the float round the river, connects with the partition of around one hundred…