Aloha

Movie, which now is on Blu Ray and DVD; this followed his successful film Hot & Fluffy and I 'm Not Fat...I 'm Fluffy, which sold over two million copies. Not much later from releasing his second movie, Comedy Central broadcasted Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy to over 15 million viewers in an extraordinary special that lasted two nights. He also got the opportunity to perform at Madison Square Garden in 2015, an honor only certain comedian got to do. This put him in rank with celebrities who…

martial. There was no snot on my Ensign nose that morning. After glaring at me for a couple of seconds, he backed off, apologized, and said it wouldn’t happen again. Then, at my no-compromise direction, he apologized to the young sailor in front of my entire division of enlisted men. But I had his number and he had mine. He was always an asshole, and while I watched my back, I couldn’t wait to get rid of him. But at least I never saw him step across that particular line again, and I was blessed…

One traditional proverb that captures the Hawaiian religious perspective towards the environment is, “He aliʻi ka ʻaina, he kaua ke kanaka.” The phrase literally translates as, the land is a chief, and the people are its servants,” which defines the relationship that Native Hawaiians have with their ecological environment. Prior to western contact, native Hawaiians structured their society around the ideology that the land they inhabited was their superior and that it was their responsibility to…

implemented more than a century ago. Unless the film requires casting POC, the first person Hollywood seems to cast is 99% of the time white. In the last decade thousands of films have chosen not to cast actors of colour. Some films that did this include Aloha, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Prince of Persia, and Argo (Nahaar). A film that received tremendous backlash for casting white actors as the heroes and a South Asian actor as the villain is the film The Last Airbender, directed by M Night…

When one observes a profile picture, one tends to see optimistic, attractive traits to showcase that they have their life together. Everyone tends to parade their best self, a disguise of sorts. Long ago Hawaiian bones were stolen from their sacred grave sites and distributed across Europe, America, and other locations. In America, the bones were required to be returned to their origins, but not in Europe. Within in the play, Ola Na Iwi by Victoria Kneubuhl, a character named Kawehi who’s from…

This school year, I have completed numerous amounts of service. The services I have done are the St. Patrick’s Movie Night, the Sacred Hearts Academy Scholarship Gala, the Road to Oz Concert, the Sacred Hearts Academy Marching Band Season, donating to the Hawaiian Food Bank, the Freshman Service Day, and the LIFE Walk. The events in the Sacred Hearts Academy Marching Band Season that I participated in were Band Camp, the weekly practices, the Veterans Day Parade, Waikiki Holiday Parade, and the…

true story of the traumatized natives experiencing torture and physical abuse. The third form of whitewashing is when white people play all main roles, and ignore any other race as being the one focussed on. Some examples of whitewashed movies are Aloha or Meet the Fockers. This type of…

opposing the new government. She told them that she had no part in the uprising, but was still placed in a room on the second floor of the Iolani Palace for almost an entire year. While she was confined to her room, she wrote her most famous song- “Aloha Oe.” In English, the title of her song means farewell to…

What are the top learnings from your 2016? What will you remember to bring into 2017? I asked myself the same questions. What things made 2016 remarkable and unforgettable? What happened this year that helped to make me who I am? What ah-ha moments shed the outgrown skins and heralded new beginnings? What contributed to me being the best version of myself that will carry me into 2017? Without exception, each and every person experiences growth and change, joy and sadness, abundance and…

“Culture is a fluid set of customs, traditions, beliefs, values, and practices developed over time by a specific group or community” is what I had to repeat over and over again throughout this whole semester. Section R class first learned what culture is throughout our eyes and how other cultures see it too. We watched a variety of short clips of different cultures and what they believed in. In some cultures, we thought that they were insane because we did not understand why they would do that.…