Polynesia

Volunteer Service Abroad, VSA, is one of New Zealand largest, most experienced volunteer organisations, targeting international development in the wider Pacific. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, it is funded by the New Zealand government, under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). VSA originated in 1962, by the founding President, Sir Edmund Hillary, he passionately believed that people working together as equals had the ability to achieve incredible things (Volunteer Service…

ancestry and the Pacific culture, these were founded only after thousands of years of being separated from the mainland. Austronesian people, who had lived there for around 7000 years already began to explore and settle the rest the Pacific and into Polynesia and Micronesia around 1000 BCE. The Lapita culture, as they would come to be called, developed into the Kingdoms of Tahiti and Hawai’i that would be discovered and aided by the arrival of western explorers in the 18th Century. The most…

The Other Side of the Coin When someone hears the word gender, it tends to spark stereotypical thoughts, ones similar to girls playing with dolls and boys playing sports, or other similar variations. However, imagine someone that feels different from that, maybe they identify with the gender opposite to the one that they were assigned at birth. In recent scientific research, the questionability of other genders has popped up. As science is trying to decode the human brain, and are…

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…

Loʻi were developed early in Hawai’i, around 1200 AD (Allen 1991, Kirch 2002, McElroy 2007), and Hawaiians practiced this type of agriculture at a larger scale than elsewhere in Polynesia (Kirch 1997). Ecosystems were modified to create terraces, which were flooded during cultivation by stream water or fresh springs (Handy 1940). Construction of lo‘i and irrigation systems required high labor inputs, but high productivity of the…

Lionfish Invasive Introduction Non-native species have be released and introduced all over the world, but nothing quite compares to the invasion of the Lionfish. Species invasions, such as the Lionfish, can serve as a major threat to native ecosystems by causing ecological damage (Côté, 2013). Finding out what these ecological damages might be and how to slow down the process is Pterois volitans & Pterois miles The fish commonly known as the Lionfish has two species, Pterois volians and…

Tobago South American countries like Brazil and Colombia. The outbreak continued into 2016 spreading to other areas of the world like England and the United States. The WHO further stated that during the 2013–14 outbreak of Zika virus in French Polynesia, two mothers and their new-borns were found to have Zika virus infection, confirmed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) performed on serum collected within four days of birth. The infants’ infections appeared to have been…

Scientists claimed that this was not possible, stating that the Polynesians were not great sailors and rather found Hawaii by accident. The scientists believed that the Hawaiians actually came from South America, mainly Peru or Chile, rather than from Polynesia. The Hawaiians felt that that myth needed to be shattered. To debunk this claim, the Hawaiian voyaging society ordered Hōkūle’a, a replica of an ancient Polynesian ship, to be built. Only 61 feet long and made of natural material, the…

Even Ancient Cultures Thought Tattoos Were Cool If you have a tattoo today, chances are that someone told you that you were making a mistake putting the ink on your body forever. Tattoos can be seen as; a fashion trend, a commitment to an organized group (such as a military branch or a street gang), a symbolic act of remembrance, a rebellious act by a teenager trying to prove a point to their parents, etc. The lesser known fact behind tattooing however, is that is an art that has been…

Skinny legs, no stretch marks a thigh gap that can be distinguished from a mile away. A flat stomach with a clear definition of abs. Long hair with curls that look like a picture perfect image on a magazine. That’s what an “ideal” body type is. Flawlessly beautiful. As a 5’0 muscular girl, body image has always something that been a traumatic issue for myself. Always feeling ashamed for the body that I have. Body image has been a road block of trying to fix myself, or to free the bottled up…