The Maori King Movement or Kingitanga was a movement that emerged among the Maori tribes in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. The origins of the Kingitanga stemmed from similar, smaller scale pan-tribal movements that cropped up amongst the Maori tribes in the central North Island in the early 1850’s, but it wasn’t till 1858 that the Kingites actually crowned a king of this monarch in Potatau Te Wherowhero, a well known war chief at the time. Maori initiated the Maori King Movement or
Worldwide four languages die every two months. Of the 6,000 known only 3,000 will be left by the end of the 21st century (Schwetizer). Hawaiian, one of the two languages in the state of Hawaii, is spoken by 8,000 of 400,000 ethnic Hawaiians and used in all domains, including oral literature, songs, and religion (“The Hawaiian Language”). Although Hawaiian was once the major language spoken in the Hawaiian Islands, today only a few thousand of Hawaii 's inhabitants claim it as a mother tongue (“Hawaiian”)
July 1928. The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed The Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act, which finally gave women the right to vote after decades of struggle. Two weeks prior, Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the suffragette movement in the UK had died at the age of 69, without being able to see the cause to which she had devoted her entire life achieved. October 2015, the Hollywood’s upcoming movie Suffragette depicting women’s fight for suffrage in the UK, was deluged with
The origins of classicism, a school of thought also known as classical criminology, date back to the late 1700s, a time where England was ruled by monarch King George III, and petty crime was still punishable by hanging, drowning, burning or beheading. Classical criminology emerged to introduce ideas of a law governed and administered by the state and focused on deterrence and treatment of crime, rather than punishment as revenge, or a public spectacle. Classicism holds its main features in four