Whale Rider is a 2002 drama film directed by Niki Caro‚ based on the novel of the same name. A contemporary story of love‚ rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to full fill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize. The film whale rider follows the story of a young girl Paikea; the lonely daughter of Porourangi. Pai’s mother died giving birth to her and her twin brother who also dies. Porourangi was heartbroken by his loss and leaves his daughter to be brought up by her grandparents
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Throughout the movie Tangled‚ Eugene “Flynn” Rider represents the stereotyped‚ male savior to illustrate that Rapunzel makes her own decisions. In the beginning of the movie‚ Flynn is a criminal who swindles his partners to achieve wealth and success for himself. He consistently dupes the kingdom of Corona‚ forming a reputation of him being infamous. The plot begins when Flynn finds Rapunzel in her tower when he is escaping the Stabbington brothers‚ for he steals the crown that they work together
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The Freedom Riders During the spring of 1961‚ student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals‚ and to challenge the government into dealing with civil rights. Traveling on buses from Washington‚ D.C.‚ to Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ the riders met violent opposition in the Deep South‚ garnering extensive media attention and eventually forcing federal intervention from John F. Kennedy’s administration
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Freedom Riders Freedom Riders were a group of northern and southern civil rights activists ( of all ethnicities) who wanted to end racial segregation on interstate transportation‚ such as buses. They traveled in buses‚ together‚ throughout the South where they met bumpy roads‚ discrimination and violence - at times‚ their buses were torched‚ they were attacked with clubs and generally harassed‚ but that did not‚ could not and would not stop the freedom riders from fighting for equality
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Period N 18 March 2013 Freedom Riders Backlash The Freedom Riders strive through a journey of hardships to have their point accepted by others‚ which was bus desegregation. Through the journey the Freedom Rides took some obstacles that affected them physically and mentally. They fought threw times like the downfalls that their movement brought and the mobs that greeted them in every state. The mobs were verbally and physically violent towards the Freedom Riders more than a few times while their
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Riders to the sea SUMMARY: This story begins with a young Irish girl baking and spinning in a fisherman’’s cottage on the west coast of Ireland. Her sister comes in‚ bearing the clothes of man washed up drowned up the coast. They are waiting for their brother Michael to be found--he disappeared over a week earlier‚ and they know he is dead‚ though hope never dies really until one knows for sure. They do‚ and they finally have to tell their mother‚ and that he got a decent burial by the parish priest
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Freedom Riders‚ who were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)‚ a U.S. civil rights group‚ departed from Washington‚ D.C.‚ and attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way into the Deep South. But Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. discouraged their action and didn’t want to get in the bus as he believed it was a dangerous attempt. On their journey‚ they experienced some horrific actions from white people in the south especially from Alabama. The Freedom Riders encountered
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Eight-year-old Kahu‚ a member of the Maori tribe of Whangara‚ New Zealand‚ fights to prove her love‚ her leadership‚ and her destiny. Her people claim descent from Kahutia Te Rangi‚ the legendary "whale rider." In every generation since Kahutia‚ a male heir has inherited the title of chief. But now there is no male heir‚ and the aging chief is desperate to find a successor. Kahu is his only great-grandchild--and Maori tradition has no use for a girl. But when hundreds of whales beach themselves
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The Whale Rider By Witi Ihimaera Published May 2003 Kahu (Pai) is an eight year old Maori girl with a special gift. She can communicate with whales. She could be the leader her tribe needs‚ but her great-grandfather adheres strictly to Maori tradition which requires a male heir. He barely acknowledges her. The Whale Rider" tells the story of Kahu‚ a young girl in New Zealand struggling to find her place in her family and community. She craves the love of her great-grandfather‚ but he’s entirely
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6 December 2012 Religion 100 Religious Themes Through The Whale Rider Within the movie Whale Rider‚ a mythic and sacred story is represented through a girl’s struggle in becoming a leader by breaking tradition. Within this contemporary-fairy tale‚ Whale Rider also entails a spiritual bond that the main character‚ Paikea‚ has with a quasi-mystical creature‚ represented as a whale. The movie Whale Rider fits in the group of mythological film because it “explains a tale full of life mysteries to
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