The protagonist of the movie Blue Hawaii is Chadwick Gates, played by Elvis Presley, who has just gotten out of the Army and is very excited to be back in Hawaii, reunited with his beloved surfboard, his beach buddies and his Native Hawaiian girlfriend Maile Duval. His parents, especially his mother Sarah Lee, want him to take over their family business, the Great Southern Fruit Company, but Chad does not want to and starts to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend’s agency. His first group consists of a pretty high school teacher and her four students. He shows them Hawaii and introduces them to some of the cultural practices of the Native people. However, some incident causes him to lose his job and he is forced to come up with a new plan
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Stitch is a genetically created alien, also known as Experiment 6-2-6. He escapes from intended exile and crash lands on Kaua‛i, Hawai‛i. His creator, the brilliant scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba, programmed him to destroy everything he stumbles upon and incite chaos wherever he goes, however on Kaua‛i, as the film implies, there is not much to destroy. Not being able to do what his genetic programming urges him to do, Stitch, has to come to terms with some sense of belonging and purpose in his new environment. Lilo, on the other hand, is a young isolated Kanaka wahine, Native Hawaiian woman, who does not have any friends because she is different to everybody else. Being lonely she decides to adopt Stitch, believing him to be a strange dog. Lilo’s despair at her isolation causes her to act out and create problems for her guardian/older sister Nani who has been taking care of Lilo since their parents passed away in a car accident. An African-American social worker, Cobra Bubbles, is investigating Nani to see if she is capable of providing for her sister. In the meantime, an alien “Earth expert,” Pleakley, is sent to Kaua‛i with Jumba in order to capture Stitch which is the main storyline of this …show more content…
$10.9 billion, or approximately twenty-eight percent of the GSP accounted for tourism. In 2013 the number of visitors and the GSP reached a high. The State of Hawaii heavily relies on the tourist industry. Since Hawaii is the only Pacific Island of the USA, it has a big advantage to other states when it comes to tourism as it represents the Western image of an exotic place. Hawaii uses these aspects and many other unique aspects in order to promote Hawaii as a holiday destination. America annexed Hawaii in 1898 as a territory effectively positioning Hawai‛i as an American colony. In 1959, a referendum asked residents of Hawaii to vote on the statehood bill; the majority of the people was in favor of it which signaled the complete occupation of Hawaii by America. Consequently, American visitors, which make up more than two thirds of the visitor population, do not need a passport when entering the state and do not need to exchange currency which makes spending money easy and thus is one reasons why Hawaii relies on tourists. Moreover, as mentioned before, Hawaii is close enough to be familiar but still far enough away to be exotic and
Stitch is a genetically created alien, also known as Experiment 6-2-6. He escapes from intended exile and crash lands on Kaua‛i, Hawai‛i. His creator, the brilliant scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba, programmed him to destroy everything he stumbles upon and incite chaos wherever he goes, however on Kaua‛i, as the film implies, there is not much to destroy. Not being able to do what his genetic programming urges him to do, Stitch, has to come to terms with some sense of belonging and purpose in his new environment. Lilo, on the other hand, is a young isolated Kanaka wahine, Native Hawaiian woman, who does not have any friends because she is different to everybody else. Being lonely she decides to adopt Stitch, believing him to be a strange dog. Lilo’s despair at her isolation causes her to act out and create problems for her guardian/older sister Nani who has been taking care of Lilo since their parents passed away in a car accident. An African-American social worker, Cobra Bubbles, is investigating Nani to see if she is capable of providing for her sister. In the meantime, an alien “Earth expert,” Pleakley, is sent to Kaua‛i with Jumba in order to capture Stitch which is the main storyline of this …show more content…
$10.9 billion, or approximately twenty-eight percent of the GSP accounted for tourism. In 2013 the number of visitors and the GSP reached a high. The State of Hawaii heavily relies on the tourist industry. Since Hawaii is the only Pacific Island of the USA, it has a big advantage to other states when it comes to tourism as it represents the Western image of an exotic place. Hawaii uses these aspects and many other unique aspects in order to promote Hawaii as a holiday destination. America annexed Hawaii in 1898 as a territory effectively positioning Hawai‛i as an American colony. In 1959, a referendum asked residents of Hawaii to vote on the statehood bill; the majority of the people was in favor of it which signaled the complete occupation of Hawaii by America. Consequently, American visitors, which make up more than two thirds of the visitor population, do not need a passport when entering the state and do not need to exchange currency which makes spending money easy and thus is one reasons why Hawaii relies on tourists. Moreover, as mentioned before, Hawaii is close enough to be familiar but still far enough away to be exotic and