...locations are of great significance to the Hawaiian people who view the sacred shrines temples as having great spiritual capacity. Religious rituals and offerings occur even to this day. Other sites are merely historical. Two particular locations, Hikiau Heiau, and Puukohola Heiau have a rich history, each with amazing stories to tell. Located in the western portion of Hawaii, a large platform of stacked lava rock rests on the red soil. This platform is known as Hikiau Heiau, and has been restored many times damage from the waves, but the temple is as old as 400 years (Smithsonian). Hikiau Heiau was built by King Kalani'opu'u. The temple itself stretches an impressive 250 feet long and 100 feet wide. Used primarily for worship, many public ceremonies were held place at Hikiau Heiau. The god that was praised in this temple has varied over time, depending on the tribal leader at the time. “One chief could have dedicated it to the war god Ku, while another dedicated it to Lono, associated with fertility,” says Martha Yent, an archaeologist with Hawaii’s state parks (Smithsonian). At certain points, it would hold celebrations for a good harvest, while other times, it would serve as a human sacrificial location to honor the chief. In 1779, British explorer James Cook drifted into the location of Hikiau Heiau. In a ceremony, they dignified the explorer. While at anchor in the bay, Cook and his crew held onto reports documenting observations of Hawaiian culture. After a week out at sea, the...
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...HAWAII LEGENDS: Introduction by King Kalakaua, 1888 Geography: Physical Characteristics The Hawaiian Islands occupy a place in the great expanse of the Pacific “between the nineteenth and twenty third degrees north latitude, and the one hundred and fifty fourth degrees of longitude west of Greenwich. They are two thousand one hundred miles southwest from San Francisco, and about the same distance from Tahiti. The group consists of ten islands*, including two that are little more than barren rocks. The farthest are about three hundred miles from each other, measuring from their extreme boundaries, and their aggregate area is a little more than six thousand one hundred square miles. Of the eight principal islands all are habitable, although the small islands of Niihau and Kahoolawe are used almost exclusively as cattle-ranges. The most of the shores of the several islands are fringed with coral, but their origins seem to indisputably show in the numerous creates of extinct volcanoes scattered throughout the group, and in the mighty fires still blazing from the mountain-heights of Hawaii. By far the largest part of the area of the islands is mountainous; but from the interior elevations, some of them reaching altitude of from ten to fourteen thousand feet, flow many small streams of sweet water, widening into fertile valleys as they reach the coast, while here and there between them alluvial plateaus have been left by the upland wash. With rare exceptions the...
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...the same type of canoes that Hawaiians continue to travel on such as Hokule’a. b. Peleleu war canoes were created during the times of battle of war carrying warriors to the battle. c. Kamehameha the Great used Peleleu canoes to haul his warriors to Kaua’i. d. If one hull was longer than the other, this was known as a kū’ē’ē e. Pūkolu was a triple hulled canoe. This canoe was created during the time of Kamehameha the Great. This canoe is no longer built due to its ineffective...
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...process is the lithosphere is basically floating on top of the asthenosphere, because the temperature is close to melting. One of the main influences of the Hawaii volcanoes is the fact that it sits on the Pacific plate the largest tectonic plate on the planet. As the sea floor spreads it causes the plate to continue to widen as well. That has the biggest impact of the growth of the Hawaiian Islands. Another key factor that not influences location, but the intensity is the changes in sea level. When the sea level began to change that made a decrease in the shorelines, so there was more land being submerged under water. The eruption of volcanoes in Hawaii is what influences an Earthquake. According to scientist Earthquakes are common after a volcano has erupted. The Hawaii was formed by a convergent margin of oceanic lithosphere plates. These plates join and on occasion can create a volcano. They can also be made in the middle of the plate where there is magma. If the magma erupts and hit the sea floor that is called a hot spot. A hot spot in the center of the Pacific plate is what formed the Hawaiian Islands. As the plate continued to move over the hot spot more...
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...1.The monument memorializes Duke Paoa Kahanamoku the Hawaiian native widely credited with popularizing the Hawaiian sport of surfing, introducing it to the U.S. Mainland and Australia. The monument honors Dukes many achievements such as being inducted into the swimming and surfing Hall of Fame, along with his prestigious gold/silver medals in the olympics for swimming and his title of “Hawaii's first ambassador of goodwill. 2. The monuments geographical space is North of Uluniu Ave. along Kuhio beach at Waikiki located at the center of the town, welcoming visitors with open arms. This statue is often decorated with leis placed there by travelers and sightseers. This monument represents Hawaiian spirit and restores vital connections to the history of Hawaii, preserving its cultural heritage. It is sacred in a sense to the people of Hawaii that want to maintain their past values and beliefs. Yes, it fits into the surrounding landscape, the memorial is mounted on a large rock with quotes inscribed. The monument is large and bronze which is slightly more noticeable than the palm...
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...it as a place of blessed "alo" or "aloha" meaning "in the presence of A." Life in old Hawai`i was a spiritual experience. There was aloha everywhere; in the people, plants, animals, rocks and reefs. Even in the canoes and paddles and the tools used to make them. But aloha is more than a word, it's a way of life. If there is life, there is mana, goodness, and wisdom. If there is goodness and wisdom in a person, there is a god-quality. One must recognize the "god of life" in another before saying "Aloha." It means mutual regard and affection and extends warmth in caring with no obligation in return. It's the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence. It's to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen and to know the unknowable. To say "Aloha" to another with indifference is blasphemous, just as saying "Mahalo" ungraciously is profane. Therefore, when one says "Aloha" to another, one must mean it sincerely. If you are angry with someone, you must cleanse away all ill feeling before saying "Aloha." It is said, and given, freely and without condition or expectation and with the realization that it may not be returned but it is given without regrets nonetheless. It is this concept more than any other that distinguishes the Hawaiian culture. It also allows an outrigger club and its' members to grow and thrive. A club's leaders, more than any other, should understand, and be...
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...affects the development of the organization’s marketing strategy and tactics and how each is implemented. Hawaiian Airlines is a well-know company in the Hawaiian Islands. The company’s mission statement is to “grow a profitable airline with a passion for excellence, our customers, our people and the spirit of Hawaii” (“Mission, Vision & Values”,2012). In order to achieve the stated mission statement, Hawaiian Airlines has devised a creative marketing mix. The first element in the marketing mix is product. The product for Hawaiian Airlines is airline tickets. Some of the aspects Hawaiian Airlines marketing team researched were what the customer expected from the airline and what elements differentiated them from their competitors. Hawaiian Airlines concluded that customers expected affordability and quality customer service when purchasing from their airlines. Hawaiian Airlines is branded to represent Hawaii and the “aloha” spirit. Hawaiian Airlines’ logo which is a woman with a flower in her ear is a representation of the culture in Hawaii. The logo or image is the second product Hawaiian Airlines sells and it also differentiates them from other airlines because of the representation of the Hawaiian culture. The results of the research affect the development of Hawaiian Airlines’ marketing strategy and tactics by appealing to the needs of the consumers. On Hawaiian Airlines’ website, passengers are able to put special request notifications such as: wheelchair services,...
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...Neel Patel Professor Naomi Taub Rhetoric 105 F6 14 September 2015 Hawaiian Empowerment: A Native’s Point of View In “From a Native Daughter,” writer, activist, and Native Hawaiian academic, Haunani-Kay Trask recounts her personal feelings along with her people’s feelings with how the ‘haole’ (white) people overwhelmed and distorted the historical context of the native Hawaiian inhabitants. Trask’s purpose is to convey the message that the native Hawaiians’ ancient culture is described as oppressive and tyrannical by white historians, rather that it was a society that functioned efficiently before the Europeans seized the land. She adopts an affectionate yet blunt tone throughout the course of the selection in order to contend the principles about the Hawaiian people to the Western world. Trask launches her exposition by highlighting how she gains much of her knowledge of her ancestry and people from her family and by expressing early on that she learned about how the whites took over her people. She appeals to her ethos and credibility by telling her audience, “I learned about the life of the old ones –and they had flourished” (Trask 113) and that her “mother said Hawaiians had sailed over thousands of miles to make their home in these sacred islands (Trask 113).” She makes these claims regarding her mother and people in order to express that she is experienced on this topic from her first-hand encounters and her Ph.D. knowledge. Soon after establishing her dominance...
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...herbal healing leaving them practically obsolete. Through technology, many argue that we’ve been able to “improve” our overall health and extend our longevity. But through technology, many have lost sight tradition, the ways of our ancestors, the “organic” way of living. Taking a look back at our history, it’s clear to see that Hawaiians survived thrived even, off the land. It provided much more than just food, water, and shelter, it provided other things like medicine and healing. With the Hawaiian Islands being the northernmost Polynesian settlement and the most isolated, a unique and diversified plant life was able to develop. According to Gutamanis, before the initial contact in 1778, the Hawaiian culture was oriented around these ideals of harmony and interconnectedness. Hawaiians placed high value on the Hawaiian plants and were even called “gardeners” instead of farmers by Dr. E. S. Craighill Handy, one of the first people to study La’au Lapa’au in depth. Nowadays, many would agree that Hawaiian medicine was skillfully developed as they recognized the importance of both mental and physical health. In the same way, Abbott speaks on how Hawaiians placed diseases into 2 categories, causes from forces outside the body and causes from forces within the body. She continues on by saying that the first category mentioned above, came from things like “spite, hate, or jealousy of another person; from the displeasure of a ghost, spirit, spiritual guardian, or ancestor; or from a...
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...Big Island is a fantastic city in the world. It is located in US state of Hawaii and about 185 thousand people live in there. The area is 4,028 square miles and it is the largest island in state of Hawaii. Many tourists visit Big Island because it has lots of things to do. It has various tours and attractions. You can go to hawaii Volcanoes national Park, do snorkeling in Kealakekua Bay, see the lava chasing, or experience manta ray night dive. It is also well known for Kona coffee and Mauna Kea tour. Kona coffee is one of the most famous coffee in the world. Kona coffee has soft scent of flowers and fruits, and cultivates 3000~4000 tons every year. You can tour at the coffee farm like Greenwell Farms, Royal Kona Museum & coffee Mill,...
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...that, the Hawaiian culture is majestic and long-lived, and there are many things to explore about Hawaii. Those less-known things are what I am here to tell about. I hope you enjoy your time reading all about Hawaii! Geography There are many interesting things about the Hawaiian geography, and each of them help to draw different tourists. First you should know that there are no other states bordering the Polynesian-founded Hawaii, and that it is located in the North Pacific Ocean . Next, I think it would be surprising for you to know that there...
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...The Plastic Game: ideas • Goal: decrease the consumption of plastic bottles • Principle of the game: Each bottle, when produced, would be given a token, which would follow the way the bottle make from the production to the consumption, ending in the waste disposal. Once bought by a consumer, a system would automatically register this number in a database, as well as the name of the consumer. Once a year, the Plastic Game would take place (one per country). It would globally happen like this. Among all plastic bottles buyers, 20 people would be chosen randomly. The chance to get chosen would depend on the number of plastic bottles bought during the year: the more a person has bought some, the more chance he/she would get to be chosen. These 20 people would have to defend themselves from the others in order to not loose. The last one remaining would be the loser, and would consequently have to pay a huge tax to compensate the pollution created by the production of plastic bottles. This money would be invested in research to decease pollution and waste. During the game, the candidates would face several tasks, one by stage. Each time, candidates would denote from the others in good terms, which would allow them to leave the game. The trial would be different at each step. Ideas of tasks: - Think about why they have bought plastic bottles and what other things they could have bought instead. Propose a global solution about how people could reduce their plastic waste....
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...Before they Came One could only imagine how life on these pristine islands flourished 1500 years in the past. Subsisting in a land bequest with beauty found nowhere else on earth and teaming with victuals from both land and sea. Those first occupants might have existed here as much as 700 years before the next voyagers from the southern hemisphere appeared. As many as 30 to 40 continuous generations inhabited this archipelago hidden to the rest of the world. Moreover, for almost all (especially the latter) of these generations, this might have been the center of the universe, for they knew of no other existence. Only the presence of their own people, of their Gods, of the towering peaks that climbed endlessly to the clouds, found nowhere else in the vast Pacific ocean. Combining the sea, that encircled them from every direction and the “mana” (the land) that provided their permanent existence, they resided with an abundance of bounty. Mother earth could not have placed these “Jewels of the Pacific”, as they were coined some 1600 years later by Charles Lindbergh, with more isolation. At between 18’52” and 22’15” north latitude, and roughly at 154 to 160 degrees west longitude, they are set in the middle of the central pacific. Ultimately, with much irony, this strategic location, halfway between the orient and the western coasts of both north and south America, would prove to be one of the biggest impacts that would dictate the history...
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...Yanomamo & made them pose for pictures. Later evidence surfaced that they are often violent but not the extreme he found • The Tasada were presented as Stone Age & Isolated but it was publicized that the Philppin official had created lies about them to make them seem more gentle & partifistic. • ANT-ists now report that the Tasaday were isolated not known to official, had no agriculture, spoke a dialect similar 3. Native Americans as the original environmentalists • Miller/ Kanazawa claim Native Americans used & abused the environment just like other groups • Evidence may show that species of plants and animals many have also gone extinct while NA lived here, but they don’t account for religious beliefs • Native Americans & Native Hawaiian often consider the oath to be related to spirituality & religious practices i. Mother Earth ii. Sacred places iii. Cosmology iv. 20th century: Indian reservation land cleared for large scale agriculture. 1. Adolescence: • Body weight by % of fat • Girls : 21.8 -24% • Boys ; 14-16.1% • Even among equally fit/ athletic children: girls have more fat • Strength at age 17: girls can squeeze 59 lbs. Boys can squeeze 98 lbs • Ability differences: i. Boys have better spatial...
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...through selling tickets on its planes that offer transportation among five islands within Hawaii. It currently has a market share of 10% and an average load factor of 54.5% (percent of seats sold on each flight) Its main competitor is Hawaiian Air who has a market share of over 85% and a much higher load factor on their flights (1). Island Air does not have the resources to compete directly with Hawaiian Air for all travelers, rather through effective marketing which is outlined in this plan it will draw away travelers from Hawaiian Air thereby increasing its revenue by approximately 20 million dollars a year, or 30 million during the entirety of the marketing campaign. To achieve this increase in revenue both load factor and market share are going to be increased. The next year is an exciting time for Island Air and presents a great opportunity to implement a marketing plan that will achieve the above revenue growth. Island Air will be receiving brand new highly efficient Bombardier Q-400 planes that will replaced their tired and aging fleet of ATR-72 aircraft. Additionally 2015 will be the 35th anniversary of the airline (2). Both of these events provide synergy for the Ho`olaule`a marketing campaign, which means celebration in Hawaiian. Billboards, market research, twitter and celebratory parties will be utilizing to increase brand recognition and thus revenue for airline. All of this will be achieved with a modest budget of 2.5 million dollar over an 18...
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