Question 1: My family that lives with me for the most part of the year is my two parents, mom and dad, and two siblings, one brother and one sister. One-third of the year my dad’s mom lives with us. She goes to Arizona from September to April. While my grandma does not live with us, I would say that we are close to your typical “nuclear” family. A nuclear family is usually two parents and their children, so we fit that when my grandma does not live with us. However, when my grandma does live with us, I would say we stray away from the “nuclear” family because grandparents do not typically live with you. Question 2: One material item that would represent my identity are my softball bat. I have played softball since I was 5, so I have grown up with it. I have met a lot of people through softball. My bat signifies all the years I have played softball, and the love I have for the game. But it also represents all the friendships, and social interactions I have made with people throughout the years. Without playing softball I would not have met some of my friends I have today. …show more content…
Question 3: A New Zealander might say that a whale represents their identity.
In the book, The Whale Rider, they cherish the whale so much that they have a statue of a man on a whale in their city. Also in the movie, The Whale Rider, Koro wears a whale’s tooth around his neck. That shows that whales are a great part of their heritage and about their past realatives. My object I chose to identify me versus the object I chose for New Zealanders do not necessarily go together, but both objects we were raised with. Both of the objects chosen we grew up with, so they became a part of
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Have you seen beached whales? These massive creatures strand themselves on the beach, alone or in a group, the whims of the moon’s tidal forces. Sometimes, a single whale trapped by the moon’s pull calls in distress, drawing the sympathy of the whole pod, a case of symphony dooming the whole community stranded on the beach to a slow death. In “Why we care about whales”, Marina Keegan writes about witnessing fifty or so stranded pilot whales “lying along the stretch of beach in front of her house, surrounded by frenzied neighbors and animal activists” (35,36). Like the others, she jumped in to help—a futile task which finally led to “23 pairs of whale eyes glazed over” (32,33). Keegan suggests that despite the logic that human welfares are more important than animals’, emotions of compassion towards animals blind us from(better words) feeling the fragility of human suffering near or far away from us. She herself couldn’t think philosophically in the present of dying whales. The ambiguity of her thoughts reveals the paradox between logic and emotion. (unfinished)
“Whales provide us with the food for our bodies, bones for our tools and implements and spirits for our souls.” “We haven’t hunted the whale for 70 years but have hunted them in our hearts and in our minds.” “Whales are a central focus of our culture today as they have been from the beginning of time.”
Census Bureau, the definition of family consists of two or more individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption living in the same home. The authors define family as a social group whose members are bound together with legal, emotional, or biological ties, or any combination of the three. The definition of the U.S. Census Bureau seems a little outdated and confined. This definition seems to more define nuclear families and not those who break the norms. Many relationships are long distance, same-sex, or practice cohabitation. This definition leaves out many contemporary families, similar to the ones just discussed. This is the exact reason that the authors prefer their definition over the U.S. Census Bureaus. The textbook definition is more open-minded to contemporary and nuclear families the same.
The movie whale rider is a 2002 New Zealand- German family drama movie directed by Niki Caro. The movie is inspired by a book of the same name by Witi Ihimaera. The movie takes place in present day New-Zealand and focuses around Pai, a twelve year old Maori girl who desires to be the next chief of her tribe, but the current tribe chief and her grandfather Koro opposes the idea of a girl ever becoming a chief and undermines all her achievement.
A hero is someone who will attempt everything in their power to help others and risk everything they have to help others. In the movie, The Whale Rider, you can clearly see all the elements of The Hero’s Journey. A young girl named Paula Apirana, is living in a small village with her grandparents. Paika’s dad, who is living in Spain, returns to see Paula and proposes that she should come live with him. She declines the offer and decided to stay with her grandparents. Paula then secretly tries to learn the important ritual, that only males are allowed to learn. Her grandpa, Paka, gets extremely angry at her until he realizes that she is the “chosen one” to perform the ritual. Paika goes through many difficult challenges, however she manages
Whales living in captivity become aggravated and have been known to take out anger on themselves by self harming. In the pools they live in, metal bars are placed in between the pools to prevent the killer whales from swimming to another pool. On several occurrences, the whales have attempted to bite and break the metal bars. This leaves the whales with broken teeth and a risk of infection. Infections in killer whales can lead to death in many cases. If a whale gets an infection, they have to be taken out of the pool and placed into another pool by themselves to prevent any problems with other killer whales they live with. In many cases, whales with infections need serious care from whale specialists.
The breaking of tradition usually results in a family falling apart, but sometimes families become closer. The film, Whale Rider, opens with a woman giving birth to twins. Sadly the mother and one twins die during childbirth. The grandfather, Koro, wanted a male gandson to become the next chief of the village. Tradition states that the first born son becomes the next chief but Koro’s first son does not want to become chief, the the next best thing is his grandson. However, the twin that died was male and the female twin survived. The female twin, Paikea, when she gets older, fights the tradition of a male chief, and eventually becomes chief. This idea of breaking tradition almost tears her family apart. Koro is a firm believer in traditional
Niki Caro’s acclaimed film, Whale Rider, is an aspiring story of a young Maori girl’s pursuit to prove herself to her grandfather and to undertake her destiny as the tribal leader. Her grandfather, Chief of Whangara has old-fashioned attitudes that blind him to his granddaughter’s potential as his successor. It is only when tragedy strikes that Pai can prove to her grandfather that her community’s link with the spiritual world of the Maori lives on. The emphasis on Maori culture and myth allow us to classify Whale Rider as a film that shows the protagonist, Pai, being unable "go home" and to understand it through a connection between myth, culture, and family.
A famous myth of the Maori people is that of their great ancestor Paikea who rides a whale all the way to the island of New Zealand. Thus the name Paikea and whales have become sacred entities of Maori culture. The movie Whale Rider, directed by Niki Caro, describes a Maori girl given this blessed name Paikea, and her journey to find her place in the world. The only way she can finally be accepted in their society is by completing her role as a representation of her ancestor. The director symbolizes Paikea’s coming of age by showing her struggle to be accepted and riding a whale like the famous Maori myth—and simultaneously fitting into her predetermined role.
In the story, “The Shark Swimmers,” starts with how most kids are when they are young. The three boys are innocent just going to their favorite show on the beach admiring the cutest girl in their school. The author, Melissa Fraterrigo, is known for many other books including her novel Glory Days (Melissa). She is also known for her short story collection The Longest Pregnancy (Melissa). Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in more than forty literary journals and anthologies from Shebnandoah and The Massachusetts Review to storySouth, and Notre Dame Review (Melissa).
Writers are for the most part very much alike because they tend to follow the same styles and organizational platforms. The Great Electrical Revolution is a short story that demonstrates the effects of moving to a new country, as well as the different struggles that people are guaranteed to face when doing so. In the story the main character moves to Saskatchewan for the opportunity to farm but discovers that he has agoraphobia, which is the fear of wide open spaces. He is forced to live in the city because of his condition, and as a result of this he picks up the hobby of stealing the city’s electricity. Whale Rider is a film that demonstrates the difficulty of being a women and constantly not being good enough for
Every culture has it’s own traditions and many of the times these traditions are broken when new generations are born. In the film Whale Rider depicts a culture in transition. The Maori, the native Polynesian people of New Zealand, are looking for a male descendant of Paikea the brave leader who escaped death on the back of a whale to lead them and restore the traditions. Koro Pai’s grandfather has been waiting for the first born of the new generation who should be chief. Unfortunately the tradition was broken when Pai’s twin brother passes away. What Koro does not understand is that Pai is the leader everyone has been waiting for.
Families play an important role in shaping individuals and through them it also shapes the whole society. But what does the term traditional family mean and who decides what constitutes a traditional family? According to Merriam-Webster (2011), the definition of a nuclear or traditional family means “a family group that consists only of father, mother, and children”.
Whale Rider shows a range of themes like tradition, rituals and the rights, gender stereotype, relationships between people, relationship with the environment, loss and death, legend of the warrior and family. This is all important in the film because it can teach us what the Maori culture is like, and also what’s right and wrong.
Sailing has been around for millennia, and is considered to be one of the earliest and most environmentally friendly methods of water transport. Sailboats act as a method of transportation, exercise, and entertainment. These now more structurally developed and masterfully modeled ships have been engineered for efficiency, and these advancements have ensured durability and speed among modern sailboats. The great strength and ability of sailboats has given competitive owners the opportunity to participate in races, but generally sailboats have come to exist as more of a relaxed hobby. The expensive activity of sailing is demanding both physically and mentally, as it tests anticipative abilities and endurance. To understand the physics concepts at work in a sailboat is immensely advantageous, as it can generally improve one’s performance.