Whale

Koro, the current chief becomes consumed with grief and anger when he learns that the male half of his twin grandchildren died at birth, leaving him with no successor. Pai who is abandoned by her father after the death of her mother and twin brother, stays behind in the care of her grandparents. As she grows older she becomes interested in learning the ways of becoming chief. But her grandfather constantly holds her down simply because she is a female. His old-fashioned attitude makes him only…

Baleen whales undergo the longest annual migrations of any animal (Rice and Wolman 1971, Stone et al. 1990, Rasmussen et al. 2007). The function has generally been accepted as an evolutionary response to the need to feed in colder waters and reproduce in warmer waters (Corkeron and Connor 1999, Learmonth et al 2006). The location of feeding and breeding grounds along migration routes were initially inferred from stomach contents of stranding data and whaling logs (e.g., MacKintosh 1945, Scammon…

Whale, Whale, Whale what have we done? At the ripe age of 7, when most kids want to be princesses I wanted to be, a whale. Not in like the I want to be a whale (gesture to size of body) but I wanted to be a whale. I found them so fascinating, swimming in and out of the waves, eating all the food they wanted. But the real fascination for me came from their poop. I was obsessed with whale poop, a slightly more interesting form of poop obsession than my 7 year old peers. Okay, I know you think…

Whale Rider is a Newzeland-German movie, directed by Niki Caro. The movie is based on the same name novel of Witi Ihimaera. The movie was first released in 2002, its total duration of the movie is 101 minutes. Whale Rider is a story about the journey of Paikea Apirana to become a chief of a village, whose ancestors were riding on the back of the whale and saved people from emptiness. As a narrator of the story, Paikea told the audience the story of herself and the village in searching for a new…

Niki Caro’s 2002 film, “Whale Rider” could captivate any audience. Not only was it a film about a young girl dreaming of being a chief, but set in New Zealand, it showed Maori culture and traditions to the rest of the world. With Keisha Castle-Hughes making her film debut as Paikea and Cliff Curtis returning to the screen as her father, “Whale Rider” launched the careers of several actors with it’s story of the determination and courage of a young girl. Paikea, the most recent descendent of…

having a glimpse the real maori life. The site is a maori village at the seaside of New Zealand, named Whangara. In this village, the legend that the brave Pikea straddled the whale and came to this place from Hawaiki - the descendant of him is Maori long ago. Also, a man became the chief and whakapapa was handed down. ‘Whale Rider’ starts from the birth of a girl whose grandfather is the chief. The main characters are a girl named Paikea and her grandfather Koro. When she was born, she had…

Niki Caro's stoical mystical charming movie Whale Rider introduces newcomer Keisha Castle Hughes in her acting debut as Pai. Gender and Sexism are entrenched in many of the scenes in this movie. For instance, in the very first scene, it shows Pai’s family waiting for the birth of Pai and her twin brother. Koro, Pai’s Grandfather and the current Chief of the Maori People waited with bated breath for the next male to be born who was destined to become the future Chief of the Tribe. However, the…

belief that is passed on from generation to generation. Cultures has their own traditions and many times they are broken when new generations are born. The film Whale Rider illustrates a culture in transition. The Maori people of New Zealand are looking for their male descendant of Paikea, a male ancestor who survived on the back of a whale after his boat capsized. Koro Pai’s grandfather has been looking for the next chief to lead them and restore traditions. Unfortunately, this is broken when…

In the film Whale Rider, they are arguing that we should not hold people back and that we need to give people the opportunity to prove themselves. It is also important to have good leadership when going through a difficult period of time. When Koro was trying to teach the boys how to be like a leader, he took them out onto the ocean in a boat and went out deep. He threw his necklace that had a whale tooth on it and told the boys to go and retrieve it. However, none of the boys had actually…

The blue whale is the largest animal in the world weighing in at 180 tonnes and an average of 30m in length. The blue whale is part of the Chordata phylum as it body possesses a notochord, an endostyle, pharyngeal slits and a post anal tail. The blue whales body is a blue-greyish colour on the top and on its underbelly it is somewhat lighter. The blue whale has a long and tapering body that is muscular when compared with other whales. Its head it a flat U-shape and has a ridge that runs from the…