Whale rider is a very influential movie that teaches us a lot about leadership‚ feminism and culture. The movie has an emphasis on leadership and the ways in which you can be a leader. It teaches you that despite not everyone will believe in you‚ you can’t let that restrict you from your goals and rights. An example of leadership in the movie‚ is when Pai beats the school bus on her bike‚ without Paka. When she accomplishes this‚ it shows that she is a leader and can beat the boys. Paka does not
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A mentor is more than someone who gives life lessons. A mentor is someone you can be yourself around‚ someone you’re allowed to open up to‚ a non-judgemental figure. For me‚ this person wasn’t hard to find‚ it was as if she was placed in my life. A middle-aged woman with a short haircut‚ and a heart the size of the world‚ she goes by the name Monique. In 2005‚ she was diagnosed with M.S. (Multiple Sclerosis). Even with her M.S.‚ she was the most uplifting person I have ever known. I like to think
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An Analysis of “Bus Riders” Gloria Garchitorena-Goloy The poem‚ “Bus Riders”‚ Gloria Gatchitorena-Goloy‚ is a symbolic poem written in free verse‚ the central theme of hardship can be found in the poem’s use of imagery‚ language and connotation of every word by which the meaning is implied. In her poem‚ these three fundamentals of writing smoothly work together to create a piece that represents the exhaustion and depressing characteristic of commuting by a public transportation like the bus
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Getting left behind is pretty bad‚ but getting left behind in the Middle Eastern wilderness with a kid that only knows Arabic is a bit worse. Prue Mason’s novel Camel Rider tells the tale of a boy named Adam who was left behind by his mother and gets himself stranded in the middle of the desert. There he meets a boy named Walid‚ and together they find their way back to civilization even though communicating is very difficult. The major aspects of culture that change these heroes are religion‚ economy
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In the movie Whale Rider‚ Paikea‚ the main character‚ overcomes her struggles with Paka‚ her grandfather‚ and becomes the new leader of the tribe. Paka repeatedly rejects her throughout the movie for her gender. He is angry because she had lived after birth‚ while her twin brother did not. He scolds her everytime she attempts to try one of the excercises the boys are doing to see who will be the chosen one. Evaluating three of Gardner’s Eight Intelligences‚ readers can see how Paikea has naturalistic
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Mini Lab Report M&M Lab Purpose: The purpose of this experiment was to find‚ record‚ and compare the amount of each color of M&M’s in a bag. Hypothesis: I predict that the M&M color that will have the largest amount will be the yellow M&M’s. After yellow I predicted the next highest color would be brown. Then following brown would be blue‚ green‚ red‚ and orange. Materials: * Plate/Paper Towel * Bag of M&M’s * Calculator * Pencil and Table to Record
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Star of the Sea By: Joseph O’Connor I.B. English A1 The passage from Star of the Sea was written by Joseph O’Connor. It is a piece of narrative prose which takes place on a passenger ship. The passage is written in a third-person subjective narrative mode. The passage is takes place at a point in the storyline as the ship is passing through a violent storm at sea‚ which portrays the forces of nature The passage starts with a sense of an atmosphere‚ “The music of the ship was howling around
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M&Ms® Project Report September 12‚ 2013 Abstract This paper will discuss the methods taught in Statistics this past semesters using what is being referred to as the M&M® project. Methods include random sampling‚ calculating random proportions‚ mean‚ standard deviations‚ creating histograms and identifying their shape such as bell‚ constructing confidence intervals for proportions and hypothesis testing of the samples. Each section of the M&M® project will demonstrate
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Many people are not who they actually appear to be. In the book Brisingr‚ by Christopher Paolini‚ Eragon‚ a Dragon Rider‚ turns into one of the legends of the land‚ which he protects dutifully. Everyone thinks of Eragon as one of the bravest men on the lands. Eragon appears to be tough on the surface‚ but is actually really emotional. On the outside‚ Eragon seems like the strong‚ brave role model‚ but he has gone through difficult challenges to get there. Eragon can be compared to a lion because
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"How relationships can influence our view on the world" which helps reflect this. This can be found throughout the novels‚ The Fault in our Stars by John Green‚ My Life of Crime by Fleur Beale and Animal Farm by Gorge Orwell‚ and the film The Whale Rider directed by Niki Caro. In the novel The Fault in our Stars‚ the main character‚ Hazel Grace‚ is determined to isolate herself from the rest of the world‚ as she believes that when she dies‚ all she will do is hurt those close to her. This is shown
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