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    Introduction My experience so far during this course has been a huge learning experience, I came into the course not knowing what to expect, I survived year one, year two is coming to an end and an exciting new year is waiting to be explored. A few experiences I have been through have challenged how I see Pasifika education and through those challenges I have made my own philosophy to change the future of education. I have written about the image of the child, language and culture, relationships…

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    Throughout history each generation creates new social norms and values that uniquely creates different trends from one and other. These social norms and values are referred to as culture, which is essential for each generation to have to develop self-growth and purpose in everyone’s lives. Youth culture is simply the adolescent’s culture which often differs from the generations before them. Youth culture includes music, dancing, art, heritage, traditions, etc. Youth culture is a shared symbolic…

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    • Sing a greeting song. This is epic! You can enter the room and sing a song to wake the person up! Whether you hit the tone or not, the important thing is your thought of having a nice wake up surprise and good morning greeting for the person. You can even make your own song and play with the lyrics by using the words that are really inside your heart. • Joint exercise. If you are one of those health buff persons, the best way to say good morning to a certain person is probably to have an…

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    however, they can have a positive attitude rather than a negative one because of the connection they have with the teacher. I had the opportunity to interview Rita who is currently taking EIL 310. Rita is from Samoa and she can speak English and Samoan fluently because she grew up speaking both languages in her home and school. In this interview, I asked her the following questions: What’s it like to be a current EIL student? What skills do you find difficult in class and why? What methods do…

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    A. I believe for this stage I am exceeding. In my opinion I have reached accurate ability to assess the impact of my own culture and assumptions, judgment and or biases related to my own culture. I believe this to be true not only from the assignments we completed in class but also because of my own out look and view on life. I am always remembering that my views are different from those around me, and that my true culture is deeper than what is just on the surface. I believe it is important to…

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    Beauty Begins With You Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say. I believe beauty is evolving and therefore there is no true definition. However, I think beauty should be beyond superficial and materialistic - it should be internal – what’s skin deep. Our qualities make us beautiful since it’s what truly defines who we are. I think beauty should be compared to happiness rather than appearance because after all, when we are happy, we are able to see beauty in ourselves and in others that…

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    United States economy was the world 's most productive one. The American industry produced twice as much as its biggest competition, Britain. In 1898 and 1899, the United States seized Hawaii and took over the Philippines, Puerto Rico, portions of the Samoan islands, and various other Pacific islands in order to gain power. The Spanish American War and the gaining of the Philippines represented a stretching out of earlier imperialist impulses and a noticeable departure from the American foreign…

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    loneliness because of the cultural differences they are experiencing. Most teachers do not take the time to understand a child’s culture, and a child’s constant defiance may be the result of the conflict at home or their need for attention. Igoa tells of a Samoan child that she worked closely with, and researched his culture to aid in making this child feel more accepted in this new culture. Igoa discovered that a key aspect of his culture is storytelling and, after a while, he created a film…

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    Individuals live in a world that is imperfect. There are good versus evil sides, in one person. People try to control their good and bad personalities, but can evil be controlled. In this classic of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson shows the difference between the gentleman Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego Mr. Hyde. In the year of publication in Victorian England because of crimes many people were frightened after reading the novel. This novel takes readers on a mysterious journey…

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    The National Park of American Samoa is a national park established on October 31, 1988. It is located in Polynesia, Oceania at latitude 13.8333°S, 171.7500° W American Samoa is made of seven islands which are Tutuila, Tau, Olosega, Ofu, Aunuu, Rose Atoll, and Swains Island. All of the island's main biomes are the tropical rainforest. American Samoa was not established as a national park until 1993 when the park signed a 50-year lease agreement with eight participating villages in Tutuila, Tau,…

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