Since I live in Hawaii I am very aware of the popular ‘surfing’ culture prevalent here and in warm coastal areas of the U.S.‚ Australia and many other countries. The sport may have been brought to Hawaii by the first Polynesian settlers. It was popularized and associated with Hawaii by Duke Kahanamoku‚ an Olympic athlete and champion surfer (Bourne‚ 2013). The media spread and popularized the surfing culture to southern California and Australia through Hollywood films e.g. Gidget [1959] and The Endless
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My father moved to Hawaii before coming to the mainland‚ like most Japanese-Americans. Before World War II‚ I worked on a Japanese truck farm. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor‚ tension was bad for any Japanese-American in the United States. Many people in the United States did not trust people with Japanese ancestry. A store that I usually shop at had a sign in the window saying‚ "We don’t want any Japs back here-EVER! Within hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor at Hawaii‚ FBI agents went house
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before 8 a.m. Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan‚ and the Japanese were bombed by Japan‚ and the Japanese were able to destroy about 8 battleships‚ 20 American naval vessels‚ and 300+ airplanes. Pearl Harbor is an American naval base near Honolulu‚ Hawaii. The next day President Franklin D. Roosevelt did the right thing to ask Congress to declare war on Japan.. And they had approved with only one vote against it. Up until December 7‚ 1941 the United States had never been invaded on U.S soil before
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Stannard‚ D. (1990). Disease and Infertility: A New Look at the Demographic Collapse of Native Populations in the Wake of Western Contact. Journal of American Studies 24. Trask‚ H.K. (1993). From A Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press The United Nations. (2007) United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Retrieved October 11‚ 2009 from http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/drip.html U.S. Census Bureau. ( 2001). Native
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Samuel Burke English 111 2/5/2014 Profile of Oahu Imagine a place where the water’s clear‚ the sand is warm‚ and the wildlife is everywhere. That place is Hawaii. It’s one of the most beautiful and exotic places. But more specifically than Hawaii‚ we’re talking about Oahu. It is the third largest of all the islands but it is the most populated of them all. It also has the state capital‚ Honolulu. There is an abundance of beautiful plants and animals but there are also dangerous ones living
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Film Festival‚ an annual five-day film festival Harper’s Island‚ a CBS television show Háskóli Íslands‚ the University of Iceland Health informatics‚ is a discipline at the intersection of information science‚ computer science‚ and health care Hawaii‚ a state in the United States (see list of U.S. state abbreviations) Hilal-i-Imtiaz‚ a Pakistani civilian decoration Historical institutionalism‚ in sociology‚ a social science method Holiday Inn‚ a brand of hotels Homeless International‚ a British
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phrases “One-Puka-Puka” in place of what is currently “Four-Forty-Second” suggesting the song was originally written for the 100th Battalion instead of the 442nd. It would also explain the deep affection demonstrated for Hawaii in the phrases‚ “Hawaii nei” which means “Beautiful Hawaii”. The fighters in the 100th Battalion were from Honolulu which would again explain the mentioned vows to return to Honolulu. Initially this all Asian-American dominated war unit was called the 100th Battalion‚ but as time
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at least I was thinking of the trip being like that. I’m Jasmine I’m 18 and I will be telling you about are trip to Hawaii. We are on are own private plane flying to Hawaii. You are probably thinking why are they going to Hawaii we’ll we just finished school and I thought that on your graduation party I would surprise them to go on a trip with me. Finally we land here on Oahu Hawaii island. I could already smell the fresh coconuts and pineapples it was making my mouth water like like it was a water
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Joseph Stalin once said “The death of one man is a tragedy. The deaths of millions is a statistic” (“Joseph Stalin Quote”). On a sunday of December 7‚ 1941 a surprise attack was planned by the Japanese to attack Oahu‚ Hawaii also known as Pearl Harbor. On this day many lives of the United States army were taken by the hands of Japan. The men of the United States army in Oahu were attacked by surprise which did not give them enough time to fight back. Many of the equipment was destroyed which gave
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no name. When they get into the island‚ they have a small brass disks with their identification numbers on it. Worker was called by number‚ but never by name 2. What were the conditions like for Hawaii’s laborers? The laborers were brought to Hawaii as cheap labors. Their labor enables the planters to transform sugar production into Hawaii’s leading industry. Low wage‚ long working hour. 3. What was the ethnic makeup of Hawaii’s immigrant workers? How was this exploited by plantation owners
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