New Zealand

involvement and support. For example, James Cameron, one of the elite in the film industry, has announced that the next three sequels of the film Avatar will be shot in New Zealand. This will assist in promoting New Zealand and therefore allow our tourist industries to benefit. The Legend of the Seeker is another example of a New Zealand based television show that has brought social, cultural and economic benefits as well as implications to the individual, organisation and wider creative…

The Assassination of JFK was hugely significant to New Zealand as where the events that followed it. The significance of the event can simply be determined by the importance of the event. And how people perceived the event. Internationally, New Zealand’s people saw that the assassination of JFK as huge event that deeply affected people at the time. Some accounts, record information such as “the importance she felt… that she was able to follow an world event for the first time”. This account…

Rangatahi Courts Indigeneity has also been attempted to be recognised through Rangatahi Courts, which emerged after the judiciary acknowledged the overrepresentation of Maori youth in the criminal justice system (Dickson, 2011). Rangatahi courts monitor family group conferences which engage in sentencing. They support retaining Maori identity which is critical to avoid harm and poverty (Jackson, 1988). Yet, the same concerns of being tokenistic in nature are present, as though the process is…

year old female, born and raised in New Zealand, daughter and student. These threads…

diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a serious and huge issue in New Zealand. Type 2 diabetes is an issue because of the increase in numbers of people who are diagnosed with the disease. Over 240,000 have and 100,000 do not yet know they have diabetes as they haven’t been diagnosed yet. Maori and Pacific islanders are the highest ethnic groups to be at risk of obtaining type 2 diabetes, they are three times more liking to get the disease. New Zealand has one of the top rates of obesity, coming…

and its education facility. This image also reflects the progressive initiatives entering our Education system today, in relation to catering for the diverse needs of disabled students. The New Zealand Government (1989) Education Act of 1989 has left an influential imprint in the education system of New Zealand, providing opportunity for the ‘disadvantaged’. The Act brought into play a clear intention that is “People who have special education needs (whether because of disability or otherwise)…

questioned the dominance of some men over others. As the number of women in the workplace has grown, men have begun to take their share of responsibility in the household (although this is still imbalanced). Alternative forms of masculinity such as the ‘new man’ and the ‘metrosexual’ which praised a more sensitive, caring man who respected women have challenged the previous macho, aggressive version of hegemonic masculinity. While there may still be stigma around men expressing soft emotions, it…

Maori responses in the early historical period were committed by well-established customs and practises. Some of the most important concepts and values were of Mana, Tapu and Utu. They were causes of both order and difference in Maori society. (New Zealand History, 2012). They were forces at work and in daily routines. Maori Values are resources, areas, places and everything that is important and valued by Maori people. This essay will be explaining the value of Utu and how it relates to Maori…

masquerade. The camera then follows Ada outside where the weather is just as melancholic as her temperament. Ada moves to sit down foregrounding a large curtain-framed image of the lush foliage, conceivably a subtle reference to the colonial capture of New Zealand and subsequently the imperialist remodeling of the…

these branches of the model link in with the society of Auckland in relation to myself. The Iranian embassy (2010) estimate 8000 Iranians living in New Zealand, I am part of this statistic, and this number has most defiantly increased with the times. My father immigrated…