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Hawaiian Identity, 2008.
This paper examines the beliefs behind the artwork of Gaye Chan, a Chinese immigrant to Hawaii.
3,370 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 9 sources, MLA, AU$ 139.95
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The paper focuses on the artistic works of Gaye Chan, an artist, professor and chair of the Photography Program in the Department of Art at the University of Hawaii. The paper explains the layers of meaning behind Chan's "A Dot and a Line" (2003) and "Fragmente Delicto" (2002). The paper portrays how these works depict the tension between Western, immigrant and Hawaiian identity. The paper also shows how both works center on acknowledging and remembering immigrant and indigenous narratives and, in particular, how they relate to the location of Hawaii. The paper highlights Chan's contention that the acceptance of Western ideas of a "successful" life is forced upon Hawaiians and comes with a burdensome price. The paper appends color pictures.
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"The majority of Hawaii's population consists of immigrants and their descendants, most of which were brought over from Asia as cheap laborers to work for the early colonist plantations. Hawaii's Asian community continues to grow, nourished by subsequent waves of Diaspora. Immigrant and Native narratives are abundant and unique but similar in dealing with oppression which inevitably shapes their identities congruous to hierarchies of power involving colonist and tourists. Consequently, a vast number of Asian immigrants and especially indigenous Hawaiians continue to be one of the most socially and economically disadvantaged groups in their own home in large part due to Hawaii's dependency on tourism, the second largest industry following the military. However, each community possesses a richness of lineage: the sacrifices and achievements of their ancestors searching for "success" in the new world."
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Hawaiian Sovereignty, 2006.
A discussion about the native Hawaiian population, with regards to reinstating Hawaiian sovereignty.
2,602 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 114.95
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The paper gives a brief history of Hawaii. The writer shows the results for the 1970 census, which showed that native Hawaiians only made up 21.1% of the population. The paper discusses the various options that have been suggested to reinstate Hawaiian sovereignty, for example, to form an independent, separate state somewhere on the Islands. The paper shows arguments for and against sovereignty. In conclusion, the writer states that even if sovereignty is reached, this will not solve any of the social and physical ills, or economic poverty experienced by some of the native Hawaiians and that if the call for sovereignty can do one positive thing, it would be that it calls to the attention of the American people, and Congress, the plight of some native Hawaiians.
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"In looking at some of the suggestions for Hawaiian sovereignty, one has to be astounded at the naivete of some of its proposals. For one, there is an element that wants the native Hawaiians to function as "a state within a state" much as Native Americans do on reservations. This seems totally absurd, given the privation and the seemingly limited freedom of American Indians.
"Hawaiians for sovereignty also have the choice of what they call "the international model". "When the Hawaiian nation was overthrown in 1893, it was an independent nation with a written constitution. It had its own currency and postal system, and concluded extensive treaties with other countries around the world, especially the United States and Great Britain." (Anon, p. 2)
These advocates want a return to that independence, by a vote of all Hawaiians. If approved, it would then form an independent, separate state somewhere on the Islands. Exactly where, and who would govern it, and who would have the right to live there, and what the relationship would be with the rest of the Islands, in fact, the rest of the world is still in the :dream" stage, it seems. These advocates are not dreaming. They are serious. And, perhaps they ought to be taken seriously, even if their ideas seem ludicrous and unworkable to the majority. It is not merely historical reasons for this desire for sovereignty, it is that some native Hawaiians feel they are discriminated against, and the position themselves (again) in the same situation as Native Americans, who seem not to be able to get the same opportunities for education, and careers and white and other Americans do. These Hawaiians badly want to be treated as equals in the International society of nations. They want respect, they feel they are not getting, and they rely on their independent history for proof that they deserve to be free and equal, and not "subservient" to the Americans, or anyone else."
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English in Hawaiian Schools, 2008.
Looks at the problem of Hawaiian Creole English (HCE) and standardized English (SE) in Hawaiian schools.
1,035 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 3 sources, APA, AU$ 53.95
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This paper explains that, in Hawaii, researchers have been able to follow speakers of Pidgin, Standard English (HE)and Hawaiian Creole English (SE) within the same community. The author points out that the use of HCE has caused significant concern within educational settings. The Hawaiian Board of Education mandated that SE must be the only method of communication between students and staff in all school settings because educators believed that HCE use was associated with low academic achievement, low socioeconomic status and a negative community stereotype. The paper stresses that, within Hawaiian society, it is reasonable to believe that SE is not superior to Hawaiian but rather a more logical choice in that SE is easier to understand by persons outside of the community and more effective in terms of intelligibility.
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"Hawaiian students were to be encouraged to become primarily fluent in Standard English. This belief was that fluency and subsequent improvement in academic achievement would allow students greater opportunities in education and in life. Teachers were to encourage the speaking of SE in the classroom and model such speaking for their students. Because no provisions were made to support teachers and their students, the board's action essentially maintained the status quo."
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Health Concerns of Native Hawaiians, 2008.
An analysis of the health issues and the reasons for them that exist within the Native Hawaiian population of Hawaii County.
2,036 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 7 sources, APA, AU$ 94.95
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This paper discusses the extensive health concern that exists within the Native Hawaiian population of Hawaii County. It describes the health issues that exist and the fact that at the same time the people are being afflicted by poverty and an increasing decline in their lifestyles. The paper looks at the reasons for these health issues and provides resolutions to improve the situation.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Obesity
Physical Activity
Diabetes
Tobacco
Resolutions
Conclusion
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"Because of these issues it is imperative that the leaders of Hawaii County work diligently to develop effective programs that will serve the needs of this population. Programs through health care, social services and community awareness will begin to aid the Native Hawaiian population if they become active now. Perhaps through a concentrated effort of each of these entities Hawaii County can assist the Native people that represent the heritage of Hawaii and be attentive to the needs of this population, demonstrating value in all people of society and beginning a new history of the care of Native people in the nation."
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Hawaiian and Sandwich Islands, 2004.
An historical review of the Hawaiian and Sandwich Islands.
2,023 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 94.95
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This paper discusses the people, region, homes, culture, religion, and images that make up the interesting historical account of the Hawaiian and Sandwich Islands. The paper elaborates on the many religious and cultural customs unique to the inhabitants of these islands.
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"The history of the Hawaiian and Sandwich Islands during the 18th century is as colorful and unique as the flowers that are grown in the region. On December 23, 1826, a treaty between the United States of America and the King of the Sandwich Islands was signed at Honolulu and entered into force. The people who inhabited the islands, took their livelihood out of the ocean waters, and thrived upon their religion and customs continue to romance and mystify the people of today?s hurried society."
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Hawaiian History, 2002.
Looks at the most important political developments in the history of Hawaii and analyzes its form of government.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 51.95
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This paper discusses the most important political developments in the history of Hawaii, evaluates the issues that led to Hawaii becoming a part of the United States, and analyzes the state's form of government.
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the Goddess Pele, 2002.
This paper discusses the Goddess Pele in Hawaiian mythology.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, AU$ 77.95
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This paper analyzes feminine thought through the volcano goddess Pele in Hawaiian mythology. The author assesses the history of women in this island culture. The author believes that women were respected greatly by their male counterparts.
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Euprymna Scolopes/Vibrio Fischerii Symbiosis, 2001.
This paper provides a general survey of the symbiotic association between a small Hawaiian squid and a planktonic bacterium.
3,297 words (approx. 13.2 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 138.95
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The small Hawaiian squid Euprymna scolopes and the planktonic bacterium Vibrio fischerii are partners in a rather intriguing symbiotic association. The squid harbors the bioluminescent - literally, glowing - bacteria within a small chamber on its underside, providing protection for the squid via a phenomenon known as counter-illumination. This paper provides a general survey of the symbiosis, its mechanisms and its biology and describes ongoing research into the biological system.
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"The Hawaiian islands and the waters surrounding them teem with the activities of life. Species native to Hawaii?s offshore area run a veritable gamut from microscopic plankton- small, free-floating organisms, including some bacterial species- to a wealth of relatively large animal species. Even in such a biologically diverse environment, however, it is fair to say that the small squid Euprymna scolopes is, as the proverbial saying goes, the little fish in a big pond."
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"Five Years on a Rock and All I Asking for is my Body" by Milton Murayama, 1996.
Analyzes two quotes from books on cultural sensibility of Japanese working on Hawaiian sugar plantations & compares with Japanese & Chinese on mainland.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 81.95
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"Milton Murayama, in Five Years On A Rock and All I Asking For Is My Body explores the cultural sensibility of Japanese in Hawaii working on sugar plantations. Two quotes from these books will be used in this report to examine this sensibility in comparison with the Japanese on the mainland and with the Chinese. The information provided by Sucheng Chan, in Asian Americans: An Interpretive History, will be used to support the positions taken in this report.
The first quote, from All I Asking For Is My Body, brings up a point which shows how the Japanese in Hawaii were similar to the Japanese on the mainland. The quote refers to the narrator's mother and her determination to maintain her family's identity and unity. An argument is taking place between the mother and her son Tosh as the son expresses his individualism and his..."
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Captain James Cook & Hawaii, 1997.
Cultural discoveries & accounts of 18th Cent. explorer in Hawaiian Islands.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 8 sources, AU$ 92.95
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" Hawaii today is the farthest west state in the Union. It is also the most unusual state in the United States, for it consists of 132 islands and atolls extended across some 1,600 miles of ocean. The eight major islands in the chain are what are usually referred to as Hawaii, and of these, seven are permanently inhabited--Kahoolawe is not (Kyselka & Lanterman, 1980, 1-10). As is true of many parts of the world, the Hawaiian Islands were actually "discovered" more than once. The islands were first discovered by the Polynesians who came to inhabit the region. The West discovered the islands centuries later when they were explored by Captain Cook, a rather controversial figure in Hawaiian history and in the history of exploration and discovery.
The first contact with Western ideas and technology came when Captain James Cook accidentally visited the islands with..."
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Polynesian Seafaring Culture, 2002.
A paper discussing the history of Polynesian seafaring and how it is being re-integrated into current Hawaiian-Polynesian cultural practice.
2,866 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 11 sources, MLA, AU$ 124.95
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This paper defines and discusses this unique culture of sailing the oceans and examines the history of this practice. It explores how the skills and heritage of these seafaring people, that laid dormant for generations, is experiencing a revival amid the Polynesians of today, giving them pride and purpose in the ancient arts and culture of their ancestors.
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"The Pacific Ocean is the earth?s largest geographic feature, occupying more than one third the surface of the globe, an area greater than all the landmasses put together. The some 25,000 islands, roughly 1.6 million square kilometers, are scattered about a sea area of more than 88 million square kilometers, stretching 16,000 kilometers along the equator and 15,000 kilometers from the Bering Strait to the Antarctic Circle (Kiste 1991). More than one half of the world?s islands are found in the Pacific Ocean. These islands comprise an area known as Polynesia, which means ?many islands,? and is geographically the largest of the Pacific?s cultural areas, with distances between the island groups the greatest (Kiste 1991). An imaginary triangle from Hawaii in the north to the southeast at Easter Island then to New Zealand in the southwest defines Polynesia. The Pacific Ocean is so vast that even with some 25,000 islands dotting its waters, the majority of the area is empty. In fact, if Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, had missed Guam in 1521, he would have believed that there was no human inhabitants in the entire region (Kiste 1991). Today, ?the combined exclusive economic zones of the countries in the region is approximately 30 million square kilometers, an area almost the size of Africa or three times the size of the continental United States? (Zurick 1995)."
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Hawaii 1810-1900, 2005.
This paper discusses the history of Hawaii from the time that Kamehameha the Great unified the islands in 1810, to its annexation as Hawaii Territory, a United States territory, in 1900.
2,050 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 94.95
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This paper explains that, from the time when Kamehameha the Great unified the islands in 1810, to the overthrow of the Hawaiian government in 1893, Hawaii metamorphosed from a feudal society into an independent constitutional monarchy, which, compared to the similar development in Europe, practically happened overnight in Hawaii. The author points out, that in 1887, a group of American and European businessmen and an armed militia, associated with a secret society called the Hawaiian League, which favored annexation to the United States, forced the king at gunpoint with a bayonet at his throat to accept what is today known as the Bayonet Constitution. The paper relates that President Grover Cleveland had refused to approve the annexation of Hawaii; however, in 1896, William McKinley replaced Cleveland as president and gave his blessing to annexation.
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"The Wilson-Gorman Act passed by Congress in 1894 discontinued the bonus to sugar producers in the United States and restored the tariff on sugar imported into that country, so that the Hawaiian sugar industry once more enjoyed the benefits conferred by the reciprocity treaty. Consequently the labor question again became pressing. In the 1880's the government had begun the introduction of contract laborers from Japan in order to counterbalance the Chinese and restrictions had been placed upon the immigration of Chinese. In the 1890's the situation was reversed. By 1896, the Japanese made up nearly a fourth of the whole population. There were real fears that Hawaii might become a Japanese colony. Various measures were therefore adopted to reduce the volume of Japanese immigration and to encourage the immigration of Chinese. Yet during three years, from 1895 to 1897 that this policy was followed, the number of Japanese immigrants still exceeded the Chinese by more than two thousand."
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NFL In Hawaii, 2006.
The writer of this in-depth paper asks and answers: Would Hawaii be a good home for a national football league team?
5,525 words (approx. 22.1 pages), 30 sources, APA, AU$ 196.95
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This detailed and extensively researched paper compares and determines the demographics of Hawaii to other sports locales in the U.S. while focusing on the intangibles that could affect the viability of an NFL franchise in Hawaii.
Topics covered in this report include:
Introduction
Hawaiian Demographic Comparisons
Interpreting the Numbers
History of Sports in Hawaii
Why NFL Football?
Popular Opinion
Making The NFL Work In Hawaii
Conclusion
Bibliography
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"The NFL collective bargaining agreement is formatted to level the playing field between the larger and smaller market teams. Revenue sharing is the process of redistributing funds from the higher income teams to the lower income teams. It is done in hopes that equal means, will mean equal results, and a competitive league. Currently in the NFL, teams share certain incomes that are generated in an equal fashion throughout the 32 Teams in the league."
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Foot Binding: A Custom Becomes a Metaphor, 2006.
A study of the Chinese custom of foot binding as it appears in literature and film.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 56.95
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This paper examines the ancient Chinese custom of foot binding. The paper details the history of this ritual and the socio-cultural role it played in Chinese society. Then the paper turns to an analysis of the metaphoric significance of foot binding in literature and on film. Works studied include the James Michener epic novel "Hawaii" and the film "The Hawaiians", which is based on the novel and the film "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness".
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"James Michener explored the Chinese culture in his epic novel Hawaii, which was made into two films, the second of which, The Hawaiians, dealt with the Chinese woman Char Nyuk Tsin, and her husband, Kee Mun Ki. While the practice of foot binding is never a central theme or issue of either the novel or the film, it is an underlying element in the plot structure and character development. Char Nyuk Tsin is a peasant woman of Hakka, a mountain village that traditionally does not bind the feet of their women, since they are required to carry heavy loads up and down steep and rocky terrain. A rival neighboring village practices the custom, considering it a mark of ignorance that their neighbors leave their women's feet to grow naturally.When the Chinese are imported to Hawaii to work in the fields, the first women allowed on the islands are the women with strong, unbound feet. Chinese women with bound feet are not among the early Chinese allowed to relocate in the Hawaiian Islands, since their usefulness as laborers is limited."
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Intra-Status Marriages, 2006.
An analysis of intra-status marriages from sociological, economic and religious perspectives.
3,000 words (approx. 12.0 pages), 16 sources, MLA, AU$ 129.95
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This paper examines the unusual form of the intra-status marriage, also known as status-level endogamy. According to the paper, these are marriages between brothers and sisters or fathers and daughters, which have been described by the aboriginal Hawaiians, the Incas and the ancient Egyptians. In an attempt to evaluate the normative value of these marriages, this paper examines the definition and scope of marriage throughout history and across cultures; discusses marriages of socially approved sexual unions; and investigates marriages of economic unions. The paper concludes that, issues of incest aside, intra-status marriages fulfill all of the requirements for marriage as defined in a general cultural anthropology text. They are, the paper asserts, socially approved sexual unions, which have important economic purposes.
Outline
What is Marriage?
Socially Approved Sexual Unions
Economic Union
Conclusion
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"In all three instances, there is an aura of divinity or great power surrounding the ruling family. For the early Hawaiians, an explanation may be couched in terms of the preservation of the intangible power of mana. For the ancient Egyptians and the Inca, on the other hand, there is a more concrete connection to the divine, and to the notion of divine right.Among the early Hawaiians, the small but powerful ruling class of chiefs was called ali'i. According to Hazama, the ali'i had sacred power because of the mana or divine power they possessed (9). There is no direct translation into English of the term mana. Linton characterizes it as the "power for accomplishment" (54). Thus, any object or person that performed beyond the ordinary, such as a fishhook that caught more than the usual number of fish or the chief who was more than usually good at diplomatic maneuvering, showed that it had good mana."
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