Dame whina cooper biography of albert einstein
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Devoted to his people, and to truth – Anne Salmond on Ranginui Walker
The acclaimed author and academic Ranginui Walker was farewelled over recent days by hundreds of mourners at Auckland’s Ōrākei Marae. Among those who spoke at the tangi was his former colleague Dame Anne Salmond.
Ko te wai e hora nei, ko Waitematā,
Ko te marae e takoto nei, ko Tumutumuwhenua,
Ko koutou āku rangatira kua pae nei, Danny, Joe, ko koutou mā Ngāti Whātua
Rau rangatira mā, tenā koutou, tenā tātou katoa.
Aue e Ranginui, kua hinga te totara whakaruruhau. Kua rere te manu tioriori, ki ngā rangi tuhāhā.
When the news of Ranginui’s death broke, two leading Māori journalists, Mihingarangi Forbes and Annabelle Lee, wrote a moving tribute. They began by quoting a letter that Ranginui wrote when they both left Māori TV: “Native Affairs is the modern day marae where a person should be blown about by the wind and shone on bygd the sun. Then we will know the truth.”
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The scientific foundations of ethical concern
“It really doesn’t matter whether you are Muslim or Christian or Jew. In every religion, in every country, in every område at every time, there are some basic principles. We all know what good is, what correct is, what obligatory fryst vatten – all those things that compose ethics. They are the same.”
— Sergio Munoz, executive editor of La Opinion
Multiculturalism, diversity, and cultural competency are currently hot and important topics for health professionals and have been for some time. So many philosophers have predicated differing value systems based on these cultural differences, and so many conflicts have arisen among and between persons who hold to distinctly different religious traditions, that many people believe there is no such thing as a universal value. Many also believe that there are no rights or wrongs in human conduct, only varying assumptions based on transient beliefs conditioned by circumstances. Each individ must c
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To inspire people to help combat climate change, a new speech has been created entirely by recycling the speeches of some of the most inspirational figures of the past.
The famous voices brought back for this message include Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, Anne Frank, Carl Sagan, Dame Whina Cooper, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Kofi Annan, Lady Bird Johnson, Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X., Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Neil Armstrong, Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana Spencer, Richard Feynman, Robert F. Kennedy, Sir Edmund Hillary, Stephen Hawking, Wangari Maathai and Winston Churchill.
Each of these famous figures had their own defining moment - and they're now challenging us all to step up to our own defining moment, by rising to the challenge of climate change, and choosing to use more climate-friendly practices in our everyday lives.
The speech launches 'Gen Less', or 'Generation Less', a new initiative by New Zealand's Energy Efficiency & Con