Hawaiian language

In the Hawaiian language, aloha stands for much more than hello, goodbye or love. It has a deeper meaning of sharing (alo) joyfully (oha) of life energy (ha) in the present. Vero had taught Doroteya this and Doro kept this close to the matters of the heart. She found it interesting to her, and was engrossed by this inconsequential piece of data that provided no use to her at the moment and unaware of the voice at large. Her cerulean orbs were focused on dislocating the sand from the book as it was a Einstein classic and the foolish sand could batter the prized piece of literature. She had to carefully extract the particles, scolding herself for bringing a masterpiece to its ultimate doom. Hearing the voice pester again, she placed the book neatly on the…

gov/history.shtml). These decades of bombing practice deteriorated the entire island, rendering it uninhabitable and deprived of vegetation. Kaho’olawe, once a thriving island with a diverse ecosystem, became a desecrated mass of land that native Hawaiians continue to struggle to restore today. In response to these issues, native Hawaiian scholars and activists began to generate advocacy groups that strived to revive their language and restore desecrated lands. In 1983, Hawaiian language…

And deserve to be mentioned is that Langston Hughes has used a series of words and phrases, specifically speaking, he used the meaning, rhythm and many other approaches to pass on this weary and sad sentiment. And my paper is going to investigate how Langston Hughes expressed this mood through literary stylistics in The Weary Blues. Since linguistic criticism is used in text analysis; it concentrates on the connections between language choices and the social world (Malmkjaer 1), I am using the…

The most popular are Maui, the demi-god who brought the islands up from under the ocean, and Pele, the goddess of fire, lightning and volcanoes. These gods have helped bring the beliefs of the Hawaiian people into the light. Ku, the god of war, has helped the Hawaiians went they went to battle with each other. They also prayed to Lono, the god of agriculture, whenever they had a good harvest in crops. Whenever they had a good haul of fish from the ocean, they prayed to Kanaloa, the god of the…

past few years. Since the day I left Alaska, me and many other missionaries went through an unforgiving sea, docked our ship, Uranie on a small bay in Hawai’i island, and right now we’re in the middle of teaching some important things to these Hawaiians. I don’t know if you’ll fully understand, but the reason why I secretly sailed all the way out into the middle of the ocean is, because we missionaries needed to spread our Christianity to Hawai’i. When we landed on the island, all of the…

Hawaiian language is a language that has one form associated with it and all communities found within Hawaii have spoken this same language since the land was first discovered by Polynesians in the island of Ni‘ihau (the forbidden island). The Ni’ihau community is what I will be focusing on in this paper, since it is known to be the first island in Hawaii that was Goddess Pele’s first home (Ni`ihau Cultural Heritage Foundation). After the islands were inhabited by the early Polynesians,…

Hula Kahiko emerged as a way to praise the Akua and Hawaiian kings. It utilizes intricate hand and body motions to convey specific ideas and is almost always accompanied by mele. The chants used very few chromatic notes and were usually sung by poets. The mele were passed down through generations to preserve the history of the kings and Akua. The kings could share their entire family history with the other islands through these performances. The most common belief among Hawaiians as to how…

native Americans, native Hawaiians, and the Maori natives of New Zealand, these case studies are incorporated in this literature review to contextualize the authorsʻ arguments. Upon collecting literature on the methods that colonizers employed to acculturate the native peoples they came into contact with, each of the authors assert that these actions were initiated by the colonizersʻ intention to improve the lifestyles of the natives. Each of the authors discuss that the colonizersʻ condemned…

To begin, Future depends on history. The most important time period in a Hawaiian history was 1800 to 1820 because the Kapu system was abolished by Kamehameha II, Kamehameha the great unified all the 8 islands, and Western influence was getting started in Hawaii. There are many events that lead Hawaii to the modern world throughout the history, however, what counts the most is the beginning of the change. In the first place, Kapu system was abolished by Kamehameha II who is also known as King…

colonization. Colonization of these islands affected these native people tremendously, which in time lead up to the loss of their cultures, traditions and religions. In my essay, I will compare and contrast the colonization of Hawai 'i and Papa New Guinea, in context of their traditions and religions. The Hawaiian Islands were isolated from foreign influences, up until the arrival of Captain James Cook, in the year of 1778. On Captain Cook 's arrival to the islands he…