Lala‚ Lady Mara‚ maiden name Litia Cakobau Lalabalavu Katoafutoga Tuisawau (January 4‚ 1931 – July 20‚ 2004) was a Fijian chief‚ who was better known as the widow of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara‚ modern Fiji ’s founding father who served for many years as Prime Minister and President of his country. As Fiji ’s First Lady‚ Adi Lala took on a diplomatic role‚ frequently representing her country abroad. She was regarded as a formidable and astute woman‚ whose influence on her husband was said to be considerable
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Snap Assignment After watching part of the series the pacific‚ there were two key concepts that could be used to attempt to explain and understand the marine’s perspectives of the people they encounter in Okinawa. In addition to the brutality presented in the film. The first concept is the ethnocentrism‚ a perspective that the marines in the film take when they view the people they are fighting Okinawa and their culture. With this view the American marine’s compare the Okinawan people and the island
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Colonization in the Pacific In the past few hundred years the pacific islands have seen a spread of colonization by foreign countries into their own land. The foreign countries spread into the pacific and colonized and took over the lands from the native people. The Colonization in the Pacific began with the arrival of the first missionaries who came to spread the good news of God‚ the traders and whalers who came to trade and to do whaling‚ the prisoners and deserters who escaped ships that passed
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Assess the extent to which Japanese foreign policy led to the Pacific war Japans foreign policy was initially a response to western intimidation however it soon took on its own imperialistic traits that were backed heavily by new found nationalism. It was this nationalism that altered the balance of Japanese foreign policy and triggered the start of the Pacific War. It was this in conjunction with the instilled military dominance of political Japan and the string of disappointing foreign policy
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How Did Life Change in the 1920’s in Western Countries After World War I (The Great War) the 1920’s was a decade of dramatic changes and modifications to society all raised from the idea to just have fun. Known as the “Roaring 20’s” the society of the Western Countries made significant changes to their lifestyle with hugely impacted civilians. Such changes included more money and more leisure time to family’s‚ the entertainment industry boomed‚ jazz became a much more popular genre of music and
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LETTERS PUBLISHED ONLINE: 3 JULY 2011 | DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1185 Deep-sea mud in the Pacific Ocean as a potential resource for rare-earth elements Yasuhiro Kato1 *‚ Koichiro Fujinaga1 ‚ Kentaro Nakamura2 ‚ Yutaro Takaya1 ‚ Kenichi Kitamura1 ‚ Junichiro Ohta1 ‚ Ryuichi Toda1 ‚ Takuya Nakashima1 and Hikaru Iwamori3 World demand for rare-earth elements and the metal yttrium—which are crucial for novel electronic equipment and green-energy technologies—is increasing rapidly1–3 . Several types of seafloor
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focus from the reader in order to keep pace with the various characters and events that unfold throughout the novel. Wave The author begins the novel by introducing the major characters in the opening scene as the assault of Anopopei‚ a symbolic Pacific island‚ is about to begin. The platoon is part of a 6‚000-man force positioned to take the Japanese-held island in order to clear the way for a much larger American advance into the Philippines.
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Ana Decastro Western Civilization I Professor Sarah M. Lane The crusades were religious wars promoted by the Catholic Church to regain entrance in holy places in Jerusalem in the thirteenth century. Both‚ Muslims and Jews had similar opinions about the crusades differing from the Christians who approved of them. Pope Urban‚ organizer of the papal monarchy and the Roman Curia‚ was a faithful believer of the crusades. At his speech in Clermont in 1095‚ he warned Europeans to accept the crusades
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DREKETI HIGH SCHOOL Aspiration into Action FORM 403 – MASTER MARK SHEET – TERM TWO END EXAMINATION – 2013 NAME Eng M Pst Maths M Pst S/Sc M Pst B/Sc M Pst C/Std M Pst Ag/Sc M Pst Fijian M Pst H.Eco M Pst B. Tec M Pst Total Pstn P/F 1 Adi Maca Vakasigaleka 14 17TH 53 5th 13 15th 43 13th 16 21st 20 9th 15 9th 174 18th F 2 Alacia Tokivata 20 12TH 55 4th 14 13th 55 5th 39 10th 43 5th 21 5th 247
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Anthropology as a Western Discipline Ambrose Bierce‚ the esteemed American satirist of the early 1900’s‚ defined in his Devil’s Dictionary the word “Aboriginies” as “n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize” (1). The overtly “western” view aptly captured by Bierce in his description exemplifies the field of anthropology and the methods it employed for quite some time—starting from the period of Antiquity until
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