especially since coaches are generally volunteers. This proves that expenses are becoming too expensive in youth sport. Scholarships, sponsorship and community trusts help to assist with the cost but generally do not cover petrol, uniforms or boots (New Zealand Government, 2008), which means there are restrictions on what funds can achieve. Perhaps a similar idea to StudyLink, but for sport could help in improving participation levels in youth. With a number of sport dropouts saying that sport…
in New Zealand are activities to attain objectives of health, delivered, run or funded by the Health Ministry, associations, and allied healthcare professionals that are based on the health determinants of the country. Thus, targets to decrease the negative impact of these on the health…
The Current State of New Zealand Tourism: Years ago, if someone mentioned New Zealand in a sentence, they wouldn’t know where it is or what you were talking about. Now New Zealand has grown, and is still growing today. One of the biggest reason now that New Zealand has been recognized more is because of our tourism industry. Tourism is one of New Zealand’s biggest export industries earing $11.8 billion of New Zealand’s current exchange earnings. New Zealand has a reputation of this clean green…
(Statistics New Zealand, n.d.). This fact, alongside other data that is listed and explained below supports the thesis statement that - youth crime is under control in New Zealand. The ‘other data’ will consist of four paragraphs. First of all, information on the topic will be given as well as the types of offenders that exist; secondly, what causes these children and young people to commit illegal acts; thirdly, the consequences they face in court once they are caught and finally, what New…
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…