Islands such as Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand. These Islands are also the islands that create the Polynesian Triangle which outlines the area defined as Polynesia. Other Islands located inside the triangle include Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Tokelau, Wallis, Futuna, Niue, Tuvalu, and French Polynesia. The settlements of the Polynesian people have also extended into New Guinea, Caroline Islands, Solomon Islands, Ratuma, and Vanuatu. Polynesia only makes up 1/3 of Oceana. The other 2/3s are made
perspective on the role of a midwife is a medical professional that works in partnership with women and families to educate, guide, support and protect women through pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. I believe a midwife is to go over and beyond to help the mental, emotional and physical well-being of their patient while maintaining professional standards. I want to be a midwife because many women I have met throughout my life have told me stories where they didn’t receive this kind of care
examples are displayed in the movie such as the way pacific islanders cook their meals in pits, how the character is presented in a mix of cultures by their appearance, Samoan headdress, Tongan traditional clothing together with Hawaiian dancing, Tokelau lyrics and Tahitian drumming. In the movie Moana’s home is on the island of Motunui, Motunui provides resources like fish and plants so the characters are expected to not go beyond the reef, in resemblance of Polynesia, Tetiaroa atoll is uses as a
In New Zealand, the immigrant population significantly consists of Pacific peoples, where there are a distinct group of 20 cultures and languages. Samoan Community is the highest among the population of New Zealand, then following are Cook Islanders, Tongans etc.…This paper will analyse the Tongan subgroup in particular, however other sub-groups will also be discussed. Pacific peoples were welcomed to New Zealand as workers during the 1950’s to the 1970’s. In the 1950’s, there was a post-war economic
In this essay I will be talking about when the percussion was started, where it came from, the ancient drums from other places, all the different types of instruments in the percussion section, and why I like the percussion section the best out of all the other parts in band. I will be also talking about some of the first peoples who were professional percussion players and who created what instrument. Lets get started; first I will be talking about how percussion was created. Percussion was always
Tongan Chiefdoms The Tongan archipelago, located in Polynesia, extends to about 300 kilometers and includes from 150 to 200 islands. The largest islands within the group are Tongatapu, ‘Eua, and Vava'u. Only three other islands are inhabited; Eva, Niuafo'ou, and Niuatoputapu (Goldman 1970: 281).Tonga is on the western side of the international date line. Radioactive carbon dating of a Tongan specimen gave us a date going back to about the 5th century B.C. This date is the oldest of all of Polynesia