...Persuasive Essay My Dream Vacation to Hawaii Ronna Farrell Hawaii is the land of beautiful beaches, impressive waterfalls and so many different cultures. While you may think a trip to Hawaii is too expensive, I feel traveling is one of the most important things we can do as a family. Hawaii has so much to offer us including traveling between 3 primary islands and exploring what each island has to offer like hiking the waterfalls and visiting the Pearl Harbor memorial. You would love the surfing, snorkeling and all the water activities that come along with a trip to Hawaii. Even though all of you may feel a trip to Hawaii is too expensive, I feel traveling is one of the most important things I can do for the family. I don’t feel you can put a price tag on the quality time you get when you go on vacation and have the chance to make so many lasting memories. Taking the family on vacation to a place like Hawaii gives them first hand information and the knowledge on how other people live and the cultures they live by. How will you ever be able to see and explore Hawaii unless you open up your mind to all the possibilities? The possibilities are endless when you have 3 great islands to explore. The first one we would be the visiting “The Heart of Hawaii” also known as Oahu is home to the war memorial Pearl Harbor, the USS Battleship Missouri, unforgettable Luau’s and wonderful cuisine. The next island that we would be visiting would be “The Magic Isle” also known as Maui, well known...
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...Brianna Fernandez Professor Glaser Communication Studies 1A February 29, 2016 Paradise Gone Wrong Specific Purpose: to entertain my audience with unusual and unfortunate events on my non typical Hawaiian vacation. Central Idea: Hawaii is supposed to be all about paradise and a getaway from a stressful life, not cause you more stress, which it did to me. Introduction I. When you picture Hawaii, you think of a peaceful paradise and endless rounds of Hawaiian mimosas while your feet are in the soft sand, am I right? But when I picture Hawaii, I think of something totally different. II. Every time I found out my family and I are going to Hawaii, I’m not as excited. I fear of going to the beautiful islands, which is quite ironic to say. III. But this is just from a bad, first experience, and my first trip to ended up being a horrible one. I hope this doesn’t change anyone’s decisions about not visiting the amazing islands soon. Body I. I have always wanted to go to Hawaii as a little kid. A. I have family there so that is why we go every year, or try to at least. B. In the summer 2008, I was on my first trip to the islands. We landed in Oahu. II. The first activity we wanted to do was a no-brainer; we wanted to go to the beach. A. My cousin Malik and my Auntie Beth (my mom’s sister), took us to Bellows Beach. * Bellows Beach is “known” to be the best beach in Oahu B. We got fruit smoothies, got buried in the soft sand and played in the...
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...Jones is a computer engineer living in Phoenix, AZ with his wife Aubrey, who is an attorney. He is an independent contractor at ABC Inc, a small software company. His contribution is on an application that can locate donut shops. The Jones family owns a Christmas tree farm in Oregon. They own the farm since they report the joint federal income tax return about this farm as a sole proprietorship. The Jones also has a home in Honolulu, Hawaii, and put 2 million dollars on remodeling the house. Now the house is leased. The couple who leased Jones' house is running the bed and breakfast business in it. The Jones also have a house in Aspen, Colorado where they stay occasionally when skiing season comes. The family owns a personal jet which costs them 4 million dollars in 2000 for their different types of convenience. It costs about half million every year for them to operate the jet including depreciation. Alex and Aubrey have the records and of the usage of the jet in 2000. They had 15 times flying to Oregon farm, twice to Hawaii home, 8 times to Colorado home, and twice to computer conferences, which happened in San Jose, CA and Seattle, WA. The Jones family reported in 2010 Joint Federal Income Tax Return, the jet expense of half million dollars as a business expense, so that this item is eligible for a tax deduction. However IRS agent Robert Plant, disallowed the deduction since he doesn't treat the jet expense as a business expense. The business expense...
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...QBA GROUP TASK 2 – MANAGERIAL REPORT (BASED ON VISITOR ARRIVALS TO HAWAII - JUNE 2003) 1.0 FOUR MAIN DATA VARIABLES NUMERIC VARIABLES IMPLICATIONS for HAWAII VISITORS BUREAU No. of trips to Hawaii (including repeat visits) Success of tourism promotion Hawaii as preferred destination Total No. of days in Hawaii Traveler behaviour Facilitating tourist spending NON-NUMERIC VARIABLES Reason for trip Package to offer to tourists Meeting tourist preferences Where I plan to stay Accommodation planning Promotions coverage 2.0 DESCRIPTIVE STATS For the purpose of this report we will focus only on: Total No. of days in Hawaii (numeric) Reason for Trip (non-numeric) 2.1 Total No. of Days Correct average formula is – Total days stayed\Visitors per country From our raw data (Grp Task 1) I’ve reduced it to 20 countries (and taken out Taiwan 70\Indonesia 169\Malaysia153 - as these ave. days stayed are too high) Country Ave. 1. US 1 2. Canada 2 3. Germany 2 4. China 3 5. Australia 3 6. Korea 6 7. UK 7 8. France 8 9. Philippines 8 10. Switzerland 9 11. Brazil 10 12. Japan 12 13. Mexico 14 14. Italy 17 15. Singapore 20 16. Ireland 21 17. Argentina 25 18. Hong Kong 28 19. Thailand 29 20. New Zealand 37 Total – 20countries 262 Measure Calculation Value Sample mean (total\n) 262 20 13.1 Median (sort data in order) (ave of 10th and 11th) 10th Switzerland 11th Brazil 9+10 2 9.5 ...
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...ENG101 Lesson 5 In my search for planning a Hawaiian vacation I first took to google.com knowing that I would have a large range of choices. In doing so I found GovisitHawaii.com. I learned that the site is geared towards first time travelers to Hawaii. The site was started by a vacationer who first experience in Hawaii was poorly done by an online travel agency. Her excursions were not only the wrong ones but they were ones that were physically impossible for her to even attempt. Her trips to other islands were also poorly booked. The best that she could say is that the staff, and locals were pleasant most of the time. While expressing her unbiased position she gives advice, not direction or recommendations. But site the allows for travelers to post their pictures, experiences and recommendations. I used US Major Dailies in search of more sources of a Hawaiian vacation. The first thing listed is a great article by Jeremy W Peters. He first describes how he agonized over planning his several days of vacation in Hawaii. With his article, he describes his March vacation in Hawaii in a way that you see it as he does and you experience what he and the other active 30 somethings do. He tells how it feels waking to the warmth of Hilo and then ending the night to its higher and freezing...
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...I remember. The day I received my best friend for years to come. My dear stuff animal lamb, which I consequently named Lamby. This present is among the most treasured I can remember and I still have that soft as tissue paper lamb in my room. 1999 Christmas is the best time for kids to receive the dream gift they have wanted all year. This year is when I got all my toy-like desires met. My dad and older sister always liked to play with my new things so I unwrapped everything and left all the toys in the box for five weeks and looked upon them with excitement and yet I had no desire to play with them. 2000 First remembered trip to Hawaii that I ever took. This trip I received my first skateboard which I had developed a newfound interest in since watching my cousins skateboard on their assorted ramps. I also learned how to surf on this trip which made me who I am today. 2002 At seven years old, nothing interests boys more than war and guns. This is the Christmas when I was given a Red Rider pellet gun and a tool belt so my life from then on consisted of breaking things and shooting things. 2005 I have been fishing before this time but my father and I packed up early and went to our favorite lake and caught a multitude of fish and he showed me a .22 rifle which was going to be mine after today. 2008 This is the year when I moved a shocking 4 miles from my old house to my current house. We had outgrown our old house at least six years earlier and finally had...
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...This is the last vacation of the year, class," explained Mrs. Spivey. It is the last year of middle school, so they take us on a ginormous field trip, Hawaii. The trip has a pricey cost of about two thousand four hundred dollars. "Beep Beep, Beep Beep." It is three thirty in the morning, and we have to grab our luggage and sleepily headed for the airport. Our flight leaves at five a.m. We have to pick up a couple friends on the way, so we have to leave extra early. After we pick up my friend we are going to Chick-fill-a. The crispy chicken melts in my mouth, the sprite just sparkles in the moonlight, and the saltiness of the waffle fries makes my mouth water. "Welcome Powerdsville Middle School, we are pleased you are flying American today. We hope you have an excellent ride!" Politely spoke the flight attendant. Fortunately, on the fourteen hour plane ride I get to with Makayla T. and Aniston B. Makayla has brown hair, an exciting personality, and very rambunctious. Aniston has, brown hair and she is very tamed. Since we are flying for so long they let us rent out iPads so we can play battleship over the ocean. We arrive in Maui, Hawaii a two o'clock which is seven o'clock in South Carolina. Today we don't have anything...
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...holidays because during our holidays we can relax and have fun. We get enough time to travel, play our favorite sports and practice our hobbies. Below I will tell you about my last holiday. I had always dreamed about going to Hawaii. It was the evening of April 1st, 2003 when my husband called me from his work and told me that we are going to Hawaii for one week in our holidays next month. I couldn't believe my ears what I just heard. I asked him again if he is not making it up, but he said he already purchased tickets online and made plans. On 10th May we departed Maryland and headed towards our first destination, The Big Island of Hawaii. As soon as we reached there after a long journey, I was stunned by the beautiful scenic views that I only saw in pictures. I was totally lost in the scenic views that I forgot to blink my eyes We stayed in the 5-star hotel in front of the beach. Next day we hired a helicopter for a trip to see volcano. It was simply amazing. We stayed in The Big Island for 4 days, and then we went to the island of Maui for 4 days. We did so many activities which included Jet Ski, Scuba diving, Parasailing etc. We also watched the sunrise of Kalekala's summit, it was very romantic. At last one of the best things we did in Hawaii was to drive on the Hana Highway. It was the most amazing and spectacular experience of my life that I was stunned by God's creation of a heaven-like place on earth. This highway has 600-plus turns, 50 one-lane bridges and breathtaking...
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...Annotated Bibliography Primary Source: Captain James Cook is a British explorer who visited six out of seven continents in 3 voyages. James mapped the lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in great detail and on a scale that has never been seen. While he was on his voyage he surveyed and named the features, and recorded the islands and coastlines on a European map for the first time. He shows a combination of seamship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, physical courage and an ability to lead men in adverse conditions. In his 1st voyage was in 1766, James Cook wanted to observe Venus in order to help him calculate the distance between the Sun and Earth, this lead him to Tahiti. His 2nd voyage in 1772, one of his goals...
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...intention of promoting the sales of the Find Donuts smartphone app and increasing company revenue, Alex Jones attended a computer conference in June 2010, in San Francisco. Alex also owns a Christmas tree farm in Oregon. Primary purpose of this farm being profit but not leisure, it qualifies as a business to be reported in Schedule C of Alex’s federal income tax return. In December 2010, Alex paid a visit to this farm to oversee the sales of trees. In July 2010, Alex flew to Honolulu, Hawaii to supervise the construction of two additional bedrooms to a house he owns there. He leases this house to a couple, and they operate the house as bed and breakfast (B&B). Those two newly constructed bedrooms were an addition to their B&B. For the above trips he made to San Francisco, Oregon and Hawaii in 2010, Alex used his Lear jet that he purchased in 2000 for 1 million. Each trip cost him $ 100,000. Issues: Does the operational cost for Alex Jones’ jet for the above three trips qualify to be deducted as a necessary or ordinary business expense incurred in conducting a trade or business under IRC Sec. 162? Conclusions: Alex Jones’s expense of $300,000 made in using his Lear jet to travel to three destinations in the 2010 tax year may not qualify to be deducted as a necessary and ordinary business expense. Further evidence may be required to determine the necessity and ordinance in each case. Legal Support: IRC Sec. 162 Treas. Reg. 1.162-2(a) Com. v. Lincoln...
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...be covered. I listen, but I'm not sure even she believes everything she says. My name is Suri Songhai, and I live in Hawaii, the year is 1922. I came to Hawaii because my family enlisted a nakodo’s (go-between) on my behalf in my homeland of Korea, to find me a husband to take care of me. Many Korean men have been leaving our poor area outside of Okinawa to find more lucrative work. There have been quite a few who leave with the intent of working in Hawaii and building a beautiful home and having a family. There were many stories at the time of how well Korean mother's sons were doing in Hawaii, many pictures of homes, properties, beautiful beaches, gardens and animals. Additionally, a monthly check is sent from the sons to support their families back home in Korea. Many hundreds of young men have left Korea to work in the sugar cane fields in Hawaii. Families never know of the hardship their son's suffer, as the son's would never say; it would do no good to have their families worried or afraid for them. So they put on a happy face for all of the pictures, and sent as much money as they can without starving. Mothers of daughters saw these things and wanted their daughters to marry these successful men and live the beautiful life they saw in pictures. So they hired nakodo's to find suitable partners for their daughters, and would send our pictures to Hawaii, and so we were called "picture brides". My nakodo's name was Daka, and he never, ever smiled, even when my baby brother...
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...Going to Oahu, Hawaii with my family was a dream come true, and the fact that we went during the frigid winter months was wonderful. While residents in Iowa were freezing in -40 degree weather, we were soaking up the sun in the 90 degree heat. Days were spent laying in the sand, swimming in the ocean, and driving around the island. A day spent driving around the island really opened us up to the beauty the island possesses. The day spent driving lead us to North Shore, the surfing destination of the world. North Shore was definitely my favorite location in Oahu. If you look into the distance while standing on the beach, you will see massive waves crashing into the sand and knocking surfers off their boards, oblivious to what had just happened....
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...Marketing Plan for Island Air: Ho`olaule`a- A Celebration Marketing Plane Time Frame: 2014-2015 Submitted by Jason Vellen from Vellux Marketing Consulting: To the Board of Directors of Island Air Submitted on: 6/7/2014 * Executive Summary Island Air is a niche player in the interisland market of Hawaii. It has a long history in the market, and its primary revenue source is achieved 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...
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...Students study Hawaiian history, learn about how Hawaii was viewed by foreigners, and how it was recorded by Hawaiians, yet rarely do students get to see an actual perspective of what the islands were like about six decades ago. Mark Twain offers this perspective as he incorporates techniques such as realism, satire, tone, and diction create an image of the islands during his visit. The book, “Mark Twain in Hawaii”, offers a realistic and unique view of life in Hawaii. One of the techniques Twain uses to express the islands is tone. He shapes his diction to imply an opinion on an idea. For example, in the first few pages he explains how wonderful and amazing the Islands are, describing their beauty. Then in this line the is a sharp change in tone, “ It was such ecstasy to dream , and dream -...
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...Unreasonably Dangerous Underwear Dangerous product? A large guy (280-90 pounds) ironically won a one-week trip to Hawaii as a reward for selling more than $20,000 in diet products. But in a lawsuit against Hanes, the underwear maker, he alleged his “dream trip” went awry due to allegedly defective briefs which “gaped open and acted like a sand belt on my privates,” causing injury. We’ll let the court elaborate on this interesting products liability case: Plaintiff testified that by the second day in Hawaii he was in debilitating pain. However, … he ignored the pain until he returned to Pensacola two weeks later. He explained he was able to ignore the pain because he was enjoying himself so much on this long anticipated vacation that he did not dwell on or focus on the pain to any degree. Plaintiff testified he believed sand that he picked up in his swim trunks while enjoying the Hawaiian surf had irritated his penis. Over the next few days he and his wife “walked all over the place” until his condition worsened to the point that he “could hardly walk.” Plaintiff testified his inability to walk was caused by defendant’s defective manufacturing of his underwear which caused his “fly” to gap open. The gap resulted in his penis protruding from his underwear, whereupon the edges of the opening abraded his penis like “sandpaper belts.” … Under cross examination plaintiff admitted he never examined his penis to assess the problem and/or treat the problem. He testified he is a...
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