Introduction: The Maori people of New Zealand originated from eastern Polynesia via a series of canoe voyages sometime between 1250 and 1300 CE – they situated across the country in rural areas constituting in villages and tribes. Overtime, the indigenous people created and sustained a very unique culture known as the “Maori” including their own language, arts, literature, and of course language. They based their rituals on eastern Polynesian traditions and social customs with a strong agricultural
New Zealand’s first inhabitants were the Maori. Except back then the Maori called New Zealand, Aotearoa, which means ‘Land of the Long White Cloud’. The Maori say that the very first explorer to reach New Zealand was named Kupe. In order to get to New Zealand Kupe navigated using the stars and currents. Kupe traveled to New Zealand in his waka hourua, which is known as a voyaging canoe. The Maori believe that Kupe was from Polynesian Hawaiki. Hawaiki is believed to once have been an island or group
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP IN NEW ZEALAND “A leader is best when people hardly know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.” (Inkson and Kolb,) Throughout history, leadership has attracted the attention of many writers and induce much intellectual interest and debate. There is an extensive literature on generic leadership, but the leadership on Maori Leadership is scanty. Leadership has been reported as the presentation by a person
much higher degree of complexity than any other animal, and are the only known species to build fires and cook their food, as well as using cloths and also creating numerous other technologies and arts. Humans are also uniquely adept in utilizing systems of symbolic communication, such as language and art which they used for self-expression, exchanging ideas, and
Throughout history, great leaders have used the power of architecture to convey the fundamental ideas that formed the base of their societies. Immense amounts of money, power and time have been poured into monumental buildings over the centuries; testament to the importance humanity places on grand symbols. Classical architecture is some of the most timeless and long lasting architecture the world has ever seen. It has been the inspiration of thousands of buildings, long after the original creators
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is unavoidably ambiguous. It can mean poetry written in England, or poetry written in the English language. The earliest surviving poetry was likely transmitted orally and then written down in versions that do
English as a global language English is spoken in most parts of the world, for instance in Great Britain, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and in many more countries. Moreover in African states English serves as main form of communication. English is, after the Chinese one, the language most people speak and it is the most popular second language and foreign language pupils learn in school. The English language is often named as a “killer language” that wipes out smaller languages
The Life and Contribution to the Development of the British Empire of James Cook I) Introduction The purpose of this paper is to describe the life and the contribution to the development of the British Empire of one of the most important English explorers. It was in the second half of the 18th century when James Cook, originally a poor farm boy, explored and mapped vast uncharted areas of the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean. However, James Cook was not ‘only’ an explorer. He can also
Cline ANT 101 Jo Macek November 7, 2010 My research will be based on Political, Economic, and Social Organization of Singapore—an industrialist city-state. Even though Singapore 's history dates from the 11th century, the island was little known to the West until the 19th century. Singapore is one of the World 's largest ports, because the city of Singapore has become a major port, with trade exceeding that of Malaya 's, Malacca and Penang combined. The opening of the Suez Canal in
Singapore is rich with surprising twists, bendy turns and wondrous triumphs. A very long, long time ago during the 14th century, a small but strategically located island that had once been named “island at the end of a peninsula” then changed to Temasek (“Sea Town”) then to Singapura and eventually to what it is now known as Singapore. It got the name Singapura from a prince from Palembang who was on a hunting trip when he caught sight of an animal he had never seen before. Taking this as a good sign