Hi my name is Corinne Chann I am a senior this year and will be graduating in the Spring of 2017. I am a Mass Communication major and currently living in Honolulu, Hawaii, but I was born and raised in Sacramento, California. I am a current member of HPU's womens Golf team, this will be my last year playing golf competitively.
I have been playing golf now for 9 years now. I first started playing in middle school for fun, I was the first and only girl on the team. I played against all boys in the league and started beating them, thats when I knew I had to pursue in this sport. In high school I was league MVP 4 years in a row and lead my team to two division finals. As for my team now, we had a bumpy start but I think that will all change this year. This is my final countdown. To the end of a long school career but also golf career. These two things have always revolved around my life, for it to come to an end gives me many different emotions. But I am definitely ready to see what the future has in store!
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After watching the “Act of War, The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation”, all I feel is sadness for the Hawaiian people. They did nothing to us of course America is just greedy and wanted Hawaii for themselves as their “playground”. Before the Americans or British came to Hawaii, the Hawaiians had such a great “simple” system that they loved. Their society was very well organized where people only had to work four hours a day then had time for leisure activities such as dance (hula), music, and even crafts. This was a life that the Hawaiians understood and enjoyed, a life that was taken away from them due to greed.
Once the British entered Hawaii they were so amazed by the culture of the Hawaiians and vice versa. But of course the British carried diseases on their ships, diseases that never reached Hawaii until then. These diseased of course decreased a lot of the Hawaiian population because they had no clue what was happing to their people let alone cure it. The Hawaiians then turned to religion through missionaries; they were told that if they converted it would lead to an everlasting life, which of course was not the case. Well over half of their population had passed within a 100 years and it kept decreasing. King Kalakaua, who was their only hope eventually passed from a disease. As more and more outsiders came into Hawaii the request for land became popular. These request were denied at first because Hawaiians believed that it belonged to them and that everything was communal, just like air and water. But the Americans got their ways and land could then be bought, that meant that everyone wanted land. Hawaiians would get kicked out of their homes or they would try to squeeze them out of their homes by growing sugarcane all around them. This is when the Hawaiians really started to dislike the outsiders. Once King Kalakaua came into town he became allies with legislature, they knew that he was educated. The Hawaiians had a lot of hope in that he would be able to being their culture and society back. Kalakaua was unsuccessful in this process and leaves it to his sister Lili’uokalani, she did not believe in violence and wanted the whole process to be peaceful. The Americans saw no other way and ordered 152 men and 11 officers to sail to the island as a threat. Once the queen came up with a new constitution the Hawaiian people were thrilled, but of course not legislature and they declined the request. During this time a troop had killed a police, the queen wanted no violence and saw that at that time she would rather not lose the lives of his or her own but wait it out until she is able to figure something out. The police were then forced to sign an oath of allegiance that they would not support their queen or else they will have no job. In the end of course America wins and declares Hawaii as theirs. Living in Hawaii today I really see why Hawaiians try to keep their country country. I feel as if we have invaded their privacy and that we are really lucky to be able to now share their culture as much as we can. |
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