Essay On Kamehameha The Great

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Kamehameha and Barbara Jordan were effective leaders. King Kamehameha, also known as Kamehameha the Great, united the Hawaiian Islands in 1810, and King Kamehameha monument in Honolulu, set the nation on a path of a “free and enlightened government” that “compared favorably with parliamentary proceedings” of comparable civilizations and governments. Kamehameha was the ruler of Hawaii islands and he ruled the islands by following kapu, an ancient system of rules and laws and established new rules including mamalahoe kanawai, or "law of the splintered paddle” which protected his men from foreign. Barbara Jordan was a lawyer and educator who was a congresswoman from 1972 to 1978. Barbara Jordan was the first African American elected to the Texas …show more content…
Kamehameha ruled over all islands of Hawaii and Barbara Jordan was a Texas Senator, thus becoming the first African-American state senator since 1883 and the first black woman to serve in the position and you have to be persuasive. Second, Kamehameha fought with so many people to rule the whole islands of Hawaii also, Barbara Jordan was a good speaker since when she was in high school and in order to be like that, you need to have confident and they were both confident what they were talking about. Third, when Kamehameha was making new rules, it was very influential that everyone followed and Barbara Jordan,as a member of the house Judiciary Committee, she gave the influential opening speech of Richard Nixon’s 1974 impeachment hearings. She retired after three terms in Congress to become a professor and policy advocate.
Kamehameha and Barbara Jordan have lots of differences like, Kamehameha was trying to have fur and sandalwood trade to make rich people more rich, but some Barbara Jordan's speeches were about poor people to be more wealthy. When Kamehameha was fighting to be the ruler of the lands, Barbara Jordan was fighting for people who was innocent. Kamehameha fought physically with people but Barbara Jordan was fighting by her brain and

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