Final Group Reflection
I think as a future graduate of Kamehameha schools and being blessed with all the opportunities iʻve had on this hill I can contribute to my community in many ways. I believe we have learned so much about world problems and ways we can solve it. I think being able to use the education from school to help UN sustainability goals would be much easier now because we have had people like Mrs, Jess and Sara who have helped and taught us ways such as PSA and presentations that could be game changing to the topic. I can use my education to help solve problems in my community if any by bringing awareness to others in my community about whats going on and how we can solve the situation. Our Kahiau topic of Gender inequality has been a topic that has opened my eyes lately. So, being able to contribute to this problem by creating awareness through these paragraphs, our website, and our presentation is an amazing way to start!
Fred JacobsPresident & Founder at Jacobs MediaFred Jacobs founded Jacobs Media in 1983. “Despite Piles of Big Data, One Person Can Change a Company's Direction.” Jacobs Media Strategies, 13 Apr. 2017, jacobsmedia.com/the-power-of-one-3/.
Fred JacobsPresident & Founder at Jacobs MediaFred Jacobs founded Jacobs Media in 1983. “Despite Piles of Big Data, One Person Can Change a Company's Direction.” Jacobs Media Strategies, 13 Apr. 2017, jacobsmedia.com/the-power-of-one-3/.
As a future alumni of Kamehameha Schools I have been allowed the opportunity to immerse myself in many different activities pertaining to my culture and have learned an array of subjects and things. I’ll use what I’ve grasped at this school to further benefit my community by making others aware of issues that are currently happening and what we can do to help. I can also use my education to contribute, spread awareness, and advocate for UN sustainability goals that I care deeply about. Goals that I care about deeply include goals such as gender equality, sea level rising, and poverty. All of which are all prevalent in the communities within Hawaiʻi and through the education I’ve gained, I will be able to educate others on topics like the ones stated above.
Pang, G. Y. (2018, July 17). Hawaii poll respondents support safe zones for homeless. Retrieved May 20, 2021, from https://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/07/17/hawaii-news/voters-firm-on-backing-safe-zones-for-homeless/
Pang, G. Y. (2018, July 17). Hawaii poll respondents support safe zones for homeless. Retrieved May 20, 2021, from https://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/07/17/hawaii-news/voters-firm-on-backing-safe-zones-for-homeless/
Although WWI was given the name “The War to End all Wars,” that is hardly what WWI was. The public deemed WWI that name as somewhat of a slogan, hoping that it would later come true. Even though the Treaty of Versailles ultimately “ended” the first world war, conflict and bad blood still resonated amongst the great nations. Which resulted in an even worse world war to break out amongst countries, that being WWII. This world war was much worse than the first one due to the countless technological advancements that surpassed what any country had in the prior world war, the amount of civilian lives that were taken, and the imperialism/acquisition of oversea colonies and territories. World war never truly ended, at times it rests. Yet it is still always there.
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Ray, M. (2013, November 26). Remembering world War I. Retrieved May 13, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Remembering-World-War-I-1954306
H. (Ed.). (2010, March 10). Armistice day: World War I ends. Retrieved May 13, 2021, from https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-war-i-ends#:~:text=World%20War%20I%20was%20known,groundwork%20for%20World%20War%20II.
Ray, M. (2013, November 26). Remembering world War I. Retrieved May 13, 2021, from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Remembering-World-War-I-1954306
Native tradition of foraging and hunting in order to survive is prevalent throughout our world, though colonialism has had massive negative impacts on this style of life. Before contact with Westerners, Alaskan Natives relied on hunting heavily in order to live. Which is known as substinence hunting. The natives of Alaska don’t waste any portion of the animals they hunt, using the meat for food, bones for tools, and fur for clothing. Though this style of hunting is rarely seen in today’s world, the hunters of today hunt for sport rather than survival. Causing the population of many species to decline rapidly, the decline of these animals has caused Alaskan natives and other Indigenous groups to instead rely on outside sources of food. The pros of a hunter-gathering lifestyle is living a sustainable lifestyle and living a life similar to that of your ancestors. Though a downside is food isn’t always readily available, causing a need to ration your food.
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Thomson, L. (n.d.). Alaska history and cultural studies - Between worlds - subsistence. Retrieved April 07, 2021, from https://www.akhistorycourse.org/articles/article_artID_355/
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Thomson, L. (n.d.). Alaska history and cultural studies - Between worlds - subsistence. Retrieved April 07, 2021, from https://www.akhistorycourse.org/articles/article_artID_355/
It is strongly important to understand the shifts from the Native skill set of being "hunter/gatherer & farming our own food" because we are state isolated from the U.S being 2390 miles in distance. So, we are forced to have shipments coming in from the mainland with various resources such as milk, toilet paper, and daily necessities. We are so dependent on other sources providing us with resources that when the pandemic first hit there was a struggle for the daily resource of toilet paper that lasted for months. Hawaiʻi is known to have the best environment for food growth but due to the lack of knowledge and false teachings, it’s hard for people to obtain land to even grow crops. This affects the people of Hawaiʻi living conditions because aside from Hawaiʻi being outrageously expensive to live in things such as the State and Federal government utilizes 50% of the land for Military purposes. This creates Hawaiʻi to be more expensive as time goes on and creates a problem for our future generations to be able to reside here. High living prices also affect people who sought to grow crops here creating a problem when it comes to Hawaiʻi wanting to be more sustainable.
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Occupied areas. (2019, July 02). Retrieved April 07, 2021, from https://nohohewa.com/occupied-areas/
Campus News. May 2007 Campus News from the University of Hawaii 10-campus System :: Malamalama, the magazine of the University of Hawaii system. (n.d.). http://www.hawaii.edu/malamalama/2007/05/campusnews.html.
Our Kahiau topic is based on equality. The ideas of “native tradition of foraging/hunter-gathering” impact our Kahiau beyond the Covid Pandemic and for the future of our Lāhui because it will give us more things to research/discuss about. As we know back before we had places to buy vegetables, fruits, meat, food in all we know that our ancestors had to go hunting. What would happen is that the men would do the hunting while the women would stay home and clean. This is where equality sort of takes place due to the kane and wahine doing their jobs to support their Ohana. A “modern Agricultural societies” that we have/had would be out kalo farm along with our fishponds that were able to support 800,000 people upon contact with Cook. The land/ocean access and native skills is an issue in today's society because we are getting more foreigners at a faster rate. Just as they brought diseases in Cookʻs times they also mainly brought Covid-19 to the islands. This contributes to the “poverty” our people face because our kupuna could get sick and the keiki arenʻt really able to play sports as well with the foreigners buying our land.
Impacts of Religion, Culture, Enlightenment, & Exchanges through Expansion
The dark ages plagued Europe heavily but for the most part the rest of the world was thriving. In fact Muslims specifically were well off. At the time they were going through their Enlightenment era, in which they made countless advancements. For example, a Muslim scholar made huge improvements in the medical field ,resulting in him making his own medical textbook. Which then became the standard medical textbook for centuries to come amongst other huge accomplishments. The reason why Europe’s Dark Ages were deemed a dark time was because of the little advancements in just about everything. After the fall of the Roman Empire, a high amount of knowledge was lost including art, technology, and history. Also, diseases and plagues shrouded Europe, the continent’s main political system was feudalism which is a faulty political ideology leading to fascism, and trade was at an all time low. All around a stagnant and gloomy period of time for Europe.
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L., B., & M. (n.d.). Dark ages - Middle Ages Lance/Brett/Mike. Retrieved April 20, 2021, from https://sites.google.com/site/middleageslancebrettmike/dark-ages
Religion and culture played huge roles in the shift from the Dark Ages to the era of Enlightenment. Religions like Christianity and Islam were spreading all across the world, while cultural beliefs and traditions were placed on the back burner. This impacts my modern day Kahiau issue because my issue is gender inequality. In many cultures before the widespread teachings of religions, men and women were basically considered equals. For example, in Hawaiian culture gender didn’t define you, your gender didn’t deem you lesser than the opposite gender. Gender roles in Hawaiʻi didn’t contribute much to society, there wasn’t much misogyny present at the time. The world and society in the eyes of Kānaka Hawaiʻi weren’t revovled around gender roles. It wasn’t till the teachings of Abrahamic religions that forced Hawaiians and many other ethnic groups around the world to convert to this stereoytpical mysoginistic idea of what men and women are meant to do.
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Magazine, J. (2021, April 13). Portraits of gender and sexual identities in the Hawaiian community. Retrieved April 20, 2021, from https://www.honolulumagazine.com/portraits-of-gender-and-sexual-identities-in-the-hawaiian-community/
Swiney, S. (n.d.). The Vale of rest - At EVENTIME there shall be Light (copy of John Everett Millais). Retrieved April 20, 2021, from https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-vale-of-rest-at-eventime-there-shall-be-light-75867
The Norton anthology of Western literature. (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2021, from https://wwnorton.com/college/english/nawest/content/overview/middle.htm
Magazine, J. (2021, April 13). Portraits of gender and sexual identities in the Hawaiian community. Retrieved April 20, 2021, from https://www.honolulumagazine.com/portraits-of-gender-and-sexual-identities-in-the-hawaiian-community/
Swiney, S. (n.d.). The Vale of rest - At EVENTIME there shall be Light (copy of John Everett Millais). Retrieved April 20, 2021, from https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-vale-of-rest-at-eventime-there-shall-be-light-75867
Events from the silk road expansion and exploration have had a huge impact on our Kahiau project because of colonization. Colonization was the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area. The main purpose was to use people as a source of hard-working labor at an inexpensive cost at the time. For example, men and women were colonized and forced to work long days in plantations and chores. Furthermore, this issue can relate to our Kahaiu Project because women have struggled when it came to having their own rights even today. We see women in today’s society having a higher chance of being unemployed than a male and also have a lower wage gap than males. This impacts our local women in Hawaii because of the wage gap differences. In Hawaii, a typical female makes 83 cents per dollar paid to men while the national figure is 82 cents per dollar paid to men. We also have black women that make 71 cents in Hawaii per dollar paid to men.
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Akana, H. (n.d.). FL Summer 20 (3) - Exploration, Exchange, Expansion, Enlightenment & Colonization - Google Slides.webm. Retrieved April 15, 2021, from https://drive.google.com/file/d/10a0GNZzoGN4TreZC_WyVQR6O2d4sVvKw/view
Moore, C., & Kunitake, C. (2018, July 27). Hawaii takes steps to Address the wage gap with the equal pay bill. Retrieved April 15, 2021, from https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/07/hawaii-takes-steps-to-address-wage-gap-with-the-equal-pay-bill/
The Silk Road and Ancient Trade: Crash Course World History #9. (n.d.). Retrieved April 15, 2021, from https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/5ee128b83115e63f0b904038/watch
Akana, H. (n.d.). FL Summer 20 (3) - Exploration, Exchange, Expansion, Enlightenment & Colonization - Google Slides.webm. Retrieved April 15, 2021, from https://drive.google.com/file/d/10a0GNZzoGN4TreZC_WyVQR6O2d4sVvKw/view
Yes, understanding history has value and contributes to finding solutions to our modern-day challenges. We know this because there were a few problems in the past that are now fixed. An example of this could be all of our wars, every war had a purpose and when that war ended so were some of our problems with it. Understanding history not only gives us value with understanding solutions to our modern-day challenges but also shows us that we are evolving from challenges that were hard to get over to challenges that are easy to pass. In conclusion understanding history is a good value to have because it comes with being able to overcome modern-day challenges.
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Akana, H. (n.d.). FL Summer 20 (3) - Exploration, Exchange, Expansion, Enlightenment & Colonization - Google Slides.webm. Retrieved April 15, 2021, from https://drive.google.com/file/d/10a0GNZzoGN4TreZC_WyVQR6O2d4sVvKw/view
Hecht, A. (2021). The Modern Day AVP: Balancing Challenges with Rewards. Retrieved 15 April 2021, from https://www.higheredjobs.com/blog/postDisplay.cfm?post=999&blog=17
Akana, H. (n.d.). FL Summer 20 (3) - Exploration, Exchange, Expansion, Enlightenment & Colonization - Google Slides.webm. Retrieved April 15, 2021, from https://drive.google.com/file/d/10a0GNZzoGN4TreZC_WyVQR6O2d4sVvKw/view
Paragraph 3: I think it makes no sense but also sense at the same time. We have to understand that the age of enlightenment was a period of intellectual and philosophical movements, so people were getting smarter and understanding how nature around them works and used that to their advancements toward technology. Thus, creating more opportunities for people to get along and create better things but people also wanted land and resources, so they would use the technology and turn on each other which caused us to almost eliminate ourselves. Our Kahiau topic can be traced back to the age of enlightenment because this is where women were starting to be apart of movements and pushed to have equal rights amongst both sexes. There were certain jobs that women had to work such as Coffee shops and salons while men were able to do jobs they wanted. This connects to our issue of gender inequality because we see how there were gender inequality during the enlightenment age but it was slowly starting to get more and more noticed.
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Google. (n.d.). FL (6) - World at War : Technology & Impacts.mp4. Google Drive. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DBt0G1avmFPACPeY2XJE9NIVBGk5AwGf/view
Gina Joseph [email protected]; @ginaljoseph on Twitter. (2020, August 18). Women's suffrage movement paved the way for women today. Macomb Daily. https://www.macombdaily.com/lifestyles/womens-suffrage-movement-paved-the-way-for-women-today/article_79f87aa0-e14f-11ea-a60b-27628953c076.html.