Hula

Jennifer wanted to have a birthday party where every girl felt included and wanted to invite every girl in her grade. We rented the school gym, played music, hula-hooped, danced and had pizza and cake. It was low key fun and people wanted her to do it every year. Jennifer liked the idea of hosting a class-wide girls’ dance, but thought birthday presents were unnecessary and excessive and asked her guests to…

The Islands were formally isolated and the Hawaiian population fell quickly due to disease. Missionaries gained control over smaller populations. Language and other cultures including the hula were outlawed, the breaking point came at Hawaii’s illegal annexation. The Hawaiian culture was nearly completely wiped out, thus leading the missionaries to believe that they were in fact “helping” these people and bringing them closer to god. The…

Every type of dance from salsa dancing to hula dancing has beautiful meanings. Dance is an amazing way of life because it can cheer someone up in a heartbeat and it can just be fun for yourself. Dance is a great way to celebrate as well, and along with these amazing worldwide types of dance comes…

Tall beer bottles, Heartbreak Hotel, ducktail haircuts, spike heels, flat heels, hula hoops, and Mello-Rolls dominated the late 50s and early 60s. When I grew up you had to go to a candy store or drugstore to get ice cream in days gone by because home freezer storage was rare in those days. A Mello-Roll was a three-inch-long ice cream drum about one inch in diameter, wrapped in peel-away paper with a blue print on it that sometimes blotted onto the ice cream itself. The candy store operator…

In our everyday lives we improvise, with strangers, family, friends, teachers, anyone we interact with. It would be impossible to have a lively conversation with sparks of hilarity as well as passion thrown in when a group of friends are simply sitting around just talking to each other, bouncing ideas off of one other, or giving advice on serious or even not so serious events without improvising throughout. We as a society count on the ability of others to react immediately to what one person…

When someone mentions Hawai’i, the first thing that comes to the minds of many people are the beautiful white sand beaches, clear blue ocean waters, lush green tropical rain forests, lava flowing from volcanoes, majestic mountains, and hula dancers. All of which are true, but there is another side to Hawai’i that many people don’t know about. Hawai’i was a territory of the United States of America, like Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines, from July 7, 1898 until August 21, 1959. On that…

Lemond Singleton History 12-12-16 Thomas Dicke Life in the United States, then and now. Though most of you reading this have not been alive since the 1950’s, based on books, shows, testimonies and other sources you know that life then is completely different compared to now. In the 1950’s people lived in completely different areas, worked different types of jobs and had completely different hobbies and interests compared to the people of the 2000’s. In this Essay, I will be comparing life in…

In 16 years, I have heard people call others names plenty of times, and I’ve often found myself at both the delivering and receiving end of name calling. When I was 3, I called a girl a "bucket head" and threw a hula hoop at her. At age 7, upon moving to America, I someone called me an "alien." The other day I called my friend a “dumbass.” While I’ve experienced many different versions of name calling, only recently have I sat down to ponder the effects of using these phrases and what they mean…

Permeable Heroes It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… a flying-man wearing red and blue tights? Whenever there seems to be trouble, many like think that there is some super being that will swoop in to save them in any time of peril. If a child was asked who his hero is, most would reply by saying spider-man, batman, or someone who is explained as a “superhero.” This is because of the way these characters are portrayed. Children watch superhero movies where the hero always comes out on top. These…

Be like the Fred and Ginger and go round & round, and do some hula-hoop! Get all things in a written proof Once you are done finalising the contract, get the things in writing proof.  Get the start and stop time in writing.  Get the name of the key performers in writing. `  Ask them to play your selection, not…