scholarly journals An enquiry into the moral conceptions of some New Zealand school children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Harold V. Clark
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
School Children ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Great Society ◽  
World War ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Mechanical Structure ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Concern

The world today has special concern with morality not that its people are less moral, but rather that two agencies in particular have acted to bring about conditions in which a high standard of morality is difficult to attain. First, the industrial conditions of the Great Society produced the Nation, which, according to Rabindranath Tagore, is an organisation of power breaking the living bonds society, giving place to a mechanical structure, so that the full reality of man is more and more crushed beneath its weight. Secondly the disintegrating influence of Democracy, accelerated by the situation which arose from the World War, has produced a renewed disposition to scrutinise opinion about all sanctions of conduct, whether legal, moral or religious, so that "what is sometimes called 'authority' does not count for what it did. Questions are being raised with freedom that is fresh, about the formulas which express the various kinds of faith."

scholarly journals An enquiry into the moral conceptions of some New Zealand school children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Harold V. Clark
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
School Children ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Great Society ◽  
World War ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Mechanical Structure ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Concern

The world today has special concern with morality not that its people are less moral, but rather that two agencies in particular have acted to bring about conditions in which a high standard of morality is difficult to attain. First, the industrial conditions of the Great Society produced the Nation, which, according to Rabindranath Tagore, is an organisation of power breaking the living bonds society, giving place to a mechanical structure, so that the full reality of man is more and more crushed beneath its weight. Secondly the disintegrating influence of Democracy, accelerated by the situation which arose from the World War, has produced a renewed disposition to scrutinise opinion about all sanctions of conduct, whether legal, moral or religious, so that "what is sometimes called 'authority' does not count for what it did. Questions are being raised with freedom that is fresh, about the formulas which express the various kinds of faith."

Tautai

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
British Empire ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
World Government ◽  
Pacific History ◽  
The World

This is a biography of Ta’isi O. F. Nelson, the Sāmoan nationalist leader who fought New Zealand, the British Empire and the League of Nations between the world wars. It is a richly layered history that weaves a personal and Pacific history with one that illuminates the global crisis of empire after World War One. Ta’isi’s story weaves Sweden with deep histories of Sāmoa that in the late nineteenth century became deeply inflected with colonial machinations of Germany, Britain, New Zealand and the U. S.. After Sāmoa was made a mandate of the League of Nations in 1921, the workings and aspirations of that newly minted form of world government came to bear on the island nation and Ta’isi and his fellow Sāmoan tested the League’s powers through their relentless non-violent campaign for justice. Ta’isi was Sāmoa’s leading businessman who was blamed for the on-going agitation in Sāmoa; for his trouble he was subjected to two periods of exile, humiliation and a concerted campaign intent on his financial ruin. Using many new sources, this book tells Ta’isi’s untold story, providing fresh and intriguing new aspects to the global story of indigenous resistance in the twentieth century.

scholarly journals THE USE OF NITROGEN FERTILISERS ON PASTURES IN NEW ZEALAND

1935 ◽  
pp. 210-220
Author(s):  
A.Y. Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
World War ◽  
Available Nitrogen ◽  
The World ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
State Of Affairs

Prior to the World War, the quantity of readily available Nitrogen fertilisers such as N itrate of Soda and Sulphate of Ammonia'which were applied to grasslands in any part of the world was insignificant in comparison with present day conditions, Two factors changed this state of affairs.

John Berkeley James (John) Wells (1935–2018)––Life, career and remembrances

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5051 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
BRUCE C. COULL ◽  
JANET M. BRADFORD-GRIEVE ◽  
GEOFFREY R.F. HICKS
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Community Leader ◽  
World War ◽  
Research Scientist ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Career

John Wells, who died at age 83 on 12 November 2018, was a research scientist, teacher, Professor of Zoology, Dean of Science at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, family man and community leader. He was a man of his time, surviving World War II, progressing to a career that stretched around the world.  

scholarly journals The Russian Revolution and the Labour Movements of Australia and New Zealand, 1917–1922

1963 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. O'Farrell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Socialist Revolution ◽  
Evoked Responses ◽  
World War ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World

The Bolsheviks saw their revolution, not as merely Russian, but as the opening act in a great drama of international socialist revolution. This vision, dazzling in itself, mingled with Russian reality, evoked responses in the Australian and New Zealand labour movements. To these countries, the Russian revolution came as part accomplished fact, part world myth, an astonishing sublimation of the enforced and sordid internationalism of suffering on the battlefields of the world war. As such, it was peculiarly disturbing to labour movements which had been, in the main, traditionally cautious and self-sufficient, resistant to both dreams and doctrines. But even Australian and New Zealand labour could not live by bread alone. Was the Russian revolution relevant? This was the basic question, and, at first, it went to the core of local conflicts and indecisions. At first, this question seemed to mean – were revolutionary concepts relevant to Australian and New Zealand conditions, in a situation of imminent world revolution. Was labour to pursue doctrinaire, militant and revolutionary socialism, or welfare-state reformism? This fundamental alternative was, of course, not absent before the Russian revolution, but that revolution posed it with a realism, bluntness and urgency never experienced before. Yet hardly had Australian and New Zealand labour confronted with this imperative, when its terms began to change as circumstances narrowed the challenge represented by Russia. Was the Russian revolution relevant? By 1920 this question had come to mean – would Australian and New Zealand labour accept Russian methods, theories and direction?

scholarly journals Dental Caries in Norwegian Children during and after the Last World War. A Preliminary Report

1949 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guttorm Toverud
Keyword(s):  
Dental Caries ◽  
School Children ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Age Group ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Tooth Surfaces ◽  
Natural Foods ◽  
Refined Carbohydrates ◽  
Different Parts

A preliminary report is submitted on the occurrence of dental caries in Norwegian children, during and after the World War. Dental examinations of 8,000 to 9,000 school children from different parts of Norway have been carried out each year from 1940 to 1948. It is concluded from the statistical results of the investigation that the caries frequency decreased steadily from year to year during the war. The reduction in the number of carious tooth surfaces per child from the beginning of the war to the lowest number some time after the war ended amounts to 50 to 75%. A study has also been undertaken on 600 to 700 children, 2½ to 7 years old. The results in this younger group show even a greater reduction. In both groups the decrease is statistically significant. From 1946 the caries frequency has increased again in the school children as well as in the pre-school children. In both groups the increase is statistically significant. The turn of the caries curve after the war differs according to the age-group. The cause of the decrease in caries frequency during the war and the cause of the increase after the war is discussed. Based on the rationing of the various food articles our tentative conclusion is that the decrease may be attributed to the lowering in consumption of refined carbohydrates and the increase in consumption of more natural foods, i.e. protective foods. This may have resulted in an increased resistance of the teeth and a reduction in the local factors which produce decay. More detailed studies of the change in caries frequency as well as of the change in food consumption and habit of living during and after the war are necessary before a definite conclusion can be drawn. Such studies are being continued.

scholarly journals War, facial surgery and itinerant Kiwis: The New Zealand plastic surgery story

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Earle Brown ◽  
Michael F Klaassen
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
World War I ◽  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Small Country ◽  
World War ◽  
Surgical Specialty ◽  
Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery ◽  
Facial Surgery ◽  
The World ◽  
And Training

In the southwest Pacific, in the first decades of the twentieth century, a small country produced a disproportionately large number of itinerant young surgeons who travelled far and wide to improve their skills by gaining experience in nations of much larger populations. Serendipity and providence saw them apply their surgical skills and training in the major theatres of world wars. In a spirit of dynamic energy and passion, their peripatetic travels saw them embrace the new surgical specialty of plastic and reconstructive surgery. This paper describes the historical and significant contributions of Kiwis (New Zealanders) to the world story of plastic surgery. Over the years some have stood out more than others, but this account considers each and every significant plastic surgeon in the global picture that begins with World War I and evolves to the present day. We should not forget them.

scholarly journals War, facial surgery and itinerant Kiwis: The New Zealand plastic surgery story

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-91
Author(s):  
Earle Brown ◽  
Michael F Klaassen
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
World War I ◽  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Small Country ◽  
World War ◽  
Surgical Specialty ◽  
Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery ◽  
Facial Surgery ◽  
The World ◽  
And Training

In the southwest Pacific, in the first decades of the twentieth century, a small country produced a disproportionately large number of itinerant young surgeons who travelled far and wide to improve their skills by gaining experience in nations of much larger populations. Serendipity and providence saw them apply their surgical skills and training in the major theatres of world wars. In a spirit of dynamic energy and passion, their peripatetic travels saw them embrace the new surgical specialty of plastic and reconstructive surgery. This paper describes the historical and significant contributions of Kiwis (New Zealanders) to the world story of plastic surgery. Over the years some have stood out more than others, but this account considers each and every significant plastic surgeon in the global picture that begins with World War I and evolves to the present day. We should not forget them.

"Self-Will Run Riot"

Janus Head ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-207
Author(s):  
Roget Lockard ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
World Today ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
The World

This paper proposes that the major national/cultural states of consciousness in the world today are characterized by an addictive epistemology — the corruption of will into willfulness. The essence of addiction is seen to reside in the issue of control While World War II had a singularly "intoxicating" effect on the world's consciousness, the war in Vietnam was an occasion when this consciousness "hit bottom." The hitting bottom event is not a function of objective circumstances, but of consciousness; of the subjective interpretation and experience of phenomena. To resolve this addictive consciousness we need to learn, as individuals and en masse, to surrender control and accept responsibility. Because addiction, and its resolution, hinge on transformations of the experience of self, wefind that questions regarding the nature of selfhood and identity once considered philosophical recreations have become urgently pragmatic.

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