Ancient Hawaii

I would like to go to Maui, Hawaii. Maui, Hawaii has many colorful beaches and tourist activities. The weather is warm with lots of rain. However, when it is not raining, the scenery is amazing. The exotic colorful flowers and trees is a great reason to visit. Not to mention the colorful animals that live there. Maui is just such an amazing place that I would really like to visit. The island has many national landmarks. Three great landmarks in Maui are Haleakala, Molokini Crater, and Dragons…

Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night shows a first hand experience of the atrocity that was the Holocaust. The Holocaust is the only name that comes to mind when most Americans hear the word “genocide”. These people show ignorance to the mistreatment of Americans that occurred in their own country. The internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World 2 was a clear example of racial discrimination. Although the death toll was no where near comparable to that of the Holocaust, it was still an unfair…

One of the common representational strategies that is used in My America… or Honk if you love Buddha is how some of the Asian Americans compare themselves to first-generation Asians. In the documentary, a Mr. Choi appears, and he is described as someone who works for a fortune cookie company, teaches martial arts, and does other tasks that are often associated with the “good oriental” image that Xing describes in “Cinematic Asian Representation.” Meanwhile, Victor Wong, who was born in San…

“A date which will live in infamy”, President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous words that rang straight to the United States core. The attack on Pearl Harbor haunts the American history books. On that December day in Hawaii, the Japanese air raided the Naval base known as Pearl Harbor. Word of the attack travel traveled as if it was a wildfire. Results of the catastrophic event struck the hearts of many families knowing that some of them would never see their loved one come home. The lives of 2,300…

The Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and other iconic national monuments have all been successful in commemorating certain times and figures in history. While these monuments are simple symbols of the United States' past, it required much thought and contemplation of certain factors to make them impactful and appropriate. In the development of a monument, an agency should consider the suggested location and the purpose behind the memorial, because these factors…

Written in 1981, Obasan explores the negative treatment Japanese-Canadians experienced in the internment camps during World War Two. Kogawa uses three women (Obasan, Aunt Emily, and Naomi) to illustrate the perspectives that the different generations have in regards to Canadian multiculturalism and how it relates to Japanese-Canadians. In the article “Joy Kogawa’s Obasan: Canadian multiculturalism and Japanese-Canadian Internment”, the author Laura K. Davis examines Obasan through a lens…

During the beginning of the 20th century, Native American tradition, art, and culture was suppressed by governmental bans of Native American customs. One of the commonly misunderstood forms of these Native American customs is dance, which plays a significant role in Indigenous tradition. It was viewed at the time as threatening and hostile as many referred to Indigenous dance as a “war dance” without understanding that each dance holds different importance's. The bans of these kinds of cultural…

start reading the article. It says: Hawaii is a chain of islands far from the USA, off the coast of Mexico. However the islands have beautiful scenery, and amazing resorts. Hawaii is one of the most popular vacation spots because if you chose to take a hike on a volcano, or relax by the ocean, you get a win win situation. I want to go to…

I am Calvin Aberg. I am 5’10”, I have hair and eyes that are chocolate. I am involved in many activities, my favorite of which is basketball. I enjoy basketball because I always like to savor the soft swoosh of my basketball as it softly falls through the bottom of the net. Another activity that I greatly enjoy is baseball, where the loud crack of the bat is accompanied by the wafting smells of hotdogs and peanuts as the ball soars out of the stadium and to the other side of the world.…

From 1920 to 1945 those changes were the most profound, as America became a more modern, civilized society. One of the vital pivot points of foreign policy was in 1941, when Pearl Harbor was bombed. As night fell upon the military base stationed in Hawaii, the Japanese attacked. Hundreds of planes were destroyed, and not all of them could be salvaged. As the US grew aware of this, the US declared…