Maui

One example of the Hero's Journey Archetype (HJA) stages being used in the movie Moana can be seen in the beginning of the story with HJA Stage 2 “ CALL TO ADVENTURE.” According to Campbell as cited and explained by Vogler, “The hero is presented with a problem, challenge or adventure (1). This means that an ordinary person gets motivated to go set off on a journey and save the world or get a cure for some type of disease. An example of this stage appears in the beginning of the movie in Moana…

mind. “Is Hawaii really a paradise?” Throughout my stay here, I discovered the answer to this question. While going towards our gate number, I saw hula dancers dancing passionately, and giving happiness to passengers who see them. When we arrived in Maui, my uncle and grandfather gave me leis. Everyone gave me a warm welcome. Whenever my father introduced me to a person he knew, he/ she welcomed me. I felt like a celebrity on my first day here. I didn’t know what to do when I first went to…

the shallow waters off the coast of western New Zealand, and it is only found in the smallest area of any whale or dolphin. The are the smallest and rarest marine dolphin. There are somewhere between 7,000 and 8,000 left. A subspecies called the maui dolphin who also lives in the shallow water off the coast of western New Zealand is down to an estimated 55 individuals left. Hector dolphins have many threats that are leading to their decline. They live in shallow waters near humans which is…

This is represented throughout the movie with the character Te Ka. Te Ka was a lava monster that Maui has previously tried to defeat. In the movie, after Moana shows Te Ka the heart of Te Fiti, she is shocked, then becomes angry. Te Ka charges to Moana through a path in the Ocean, and as she is about to reach her, Moana raises the heart of Te Fiti…

dredging. In 2000 nearly 4 tonnes was removed in the beaches of Hawaii but concerns that more was illegally dredged closer to shore, increasing steepness of sea bed. (wave motion. 2005) Coastal Defences Hard engineering works at Oahu and Maui in particular and there are gas terminals as well to keep a lower rate of erosion. Promontory effect: As the coastline retreats on either side of these places it will create a slight headland, which will cause wave retraction and increase…

part of Polynesian culture is singing and dancing, this movie has done a good job portraying this. However, the character Maui is criticized due to his overweight image. This sort of gave a stereotype and offensive image of Polynesian as overweight to the audience. Therefore, if I could have the chance to change the presentation of this film. I would change this the image of Maui in the movie. I would not change him completely to a Disney prince figure, but I would not keep his overweight big…

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design of the flag has a Union Jack on the left hand corner and the 8 stripes go side to side. The Union Jack represents the historical relationship that Hawaii had with Great Britain and the 8 stripes represent the 8 main islands; the Big Island, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, and Kahoolawe. The current state flag was adopted in 1959. State Seal The state seal of Hawaii contains an image of King Kamehameha grandly dressed, a image of liberty, who is holding the Hawaiian flag, and…

analyzing the departure, initiation, and return. One of the part of a heroic journey is the departure, an example is in Moana how she has to leave her home island because her grandma has told her about the heart of tafiti and how Maui took it and she needs to go to find Maui and bring the heart of tafiti back to save their island, her dad did not want her to go because of he thinks the ocean is a very unsafe place due to his own memories from years ago, by leaving her island…

are just three, First of all the Lorax is a fictional children’s book and Easter’s End is a professor and scholar written article. Second of all they had different motives. The Once-ler’s motive was money and greed the islander’s was their religion/Maui statues. Third of all is their use/consumption of all resources in the Lorax they had to relocate the animals or they would have died out but, the islanders of Easter Island ate all of their animals and ended up resorting to cannibalism. These…