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Haole Boy

Author : Lanakila Michael Achong
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440108323
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Haole Boy written by Lanakila Michael Achong and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Michael Wester was just three years old, his mother punched him in the face and broke his nose. When he was five years old, three of his front teeth were knocked out. He spent the first ten years of his life learning how to survive an abusive and drugged-out mother. But Michael overcame the pain, fear, and hatred of those first years; Haole Boy is his personal story of how he fulfilled his dreams and now enjoys a good life. Author Lanakila Michael Achong reveals how he survived his brutal childhood and experienced unconditional love and acceptance at the age of eighteen when he was adopted by a multicultural family. He tells of his interest in sports, his graduation from high school, his career in law enforcement, and his immersion in the Hawaiian culture. Inspired to tell his story after having a child of his own, Achong delivers an emotional story that reveals the strength of the human spirit. It is a story about achieving self-worth and the ability to love and accept love in return. With photos included, Haole Boy demonstrates the irrefutable strength of love and how it can change someone's life forever.

Molokai

Author : O. A. Bushnell
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824802875
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Molokai written by O. A. Bushnell and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Damien, Dr. Newman, and a group of other courageous and selfless people struggle to offer hope and dignity to the inhabitants of a late-nineteenth-century leprosy colony.

Haole Boy

Author : Lanakila Michael Achong
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440108307
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Haole Boy written by Lanakila Michael Achong and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Michael Wester was just three years old, his mother punched him in the face and broke his nose. When he was five years old, three of his front teeth were knocked out. He spent the first ten years of his life learning how to survive an abusive and drugged-out mother. But Michael overcame the pain, fear, and hatred of those first years; Haole Boy is his personal story of how he fulfilled his dreams and now enjoys a good life. Author Lanakila Michael Achong reveals how he survived his brutal childhood and experienced unconditional love and acceptance at the age of eighteen when he was adopted by a multicultural family. He tells of his interest in sports, his graduation from high school, his career in law enforcement, and his immersion in the Hawaiian culture. Inspired to tell his story after having a child of his own, Achong delivers an emotional story that reveals the strength of the human spirit. It is a story about achieving self-worth and the ability to love and accept love in return. With photos included, Haole Boy demonstrates the irrefutable strength of love and how it can change someone's life forever.

People and Cultures of Hawaii

Author : Thomas W. Maretzki
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824860268
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book People and Cultures of Hawaii written by Thomas W. Maretzki and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a significant update to the highly influential text People and Cultures of Hawaii: A Psychocultural Profile. Since its publication in 1980, the immigrant groups it discusses in depth have matured and new ones have been added to the mix. The present work tracks the course of these changes over the past twenty years, constructing a historical understanding of each group as it evolved from race to ethnicity to culture. Individual chapters begin with an overview of one of fifteen groups. Following the development of its unique ethnocultural identity, distinctive character traits such as temperament and emotional expression are explored—as well as ethnic stereotypes. Also discussed are modifications to the group’s ethnocultural identity over time and generational change—which traits may have changed over generations and which are more hardwired or enduring. An important feature of each chapter is the focus on the group’s family social structure, generational and gender roles, power distribution, and central values and life goals. Readers will also find a description of the group’s own internal social class structure, social and political strategies, and occupational and educational patterns. Finally, contributors consider how a particular ethnic group has blended into Hawai‘i’s culturally sensitive society. People and Cultures of Hawai‘i: The Evolution of Culture and Ethnicity will, like its predecessor, fill an important niche in understanding the history of different ethnic groups in Hawai‘i.

A Boy at War

Author : Harry Mazer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442472111
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book A Boy at War written by Harry Mazer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They rowed hard, away from the battleships and the bombs. Water sprayed over them. The rowboat pitched one way and then the other. Then, before his eyes, the Arizona lifted up out of the water. That enormous battleship bounced up in the air like a rubber ball and split apart. Fire burst out of the ship. A geyser of water shot into the air and came crashing down. Adam was almost thrown out of the rowboat. He clung to the seat as it swung around. He saw blue skies and the glittering city. The boat swung back again, and he saw black clouds, and the Arizona, his father's ship, sinking beneath the water. -- from A Boy at War "He kept looking up, afraid the planes would come back. The sky was obscured by black smoke....It was all unreal: the battleships half sunk, the bullet holes in the boat, Davi and Martin in the water." December 7, 1941: On a quiet Sunday morning, while Adam and his friends are fishing near Honolulu, a surprise attack by Japanese bombers destroys the fleet at Pearl Harbor. Even as Adam struggles to survive the sudden chaos all around him, and as his friends endure the brunt of the attack, a greater concern hangs over his head: Adam's father, a navy lieutenant, was stationed on the USS Arizona when the bombs fell. During the subsequent days Adam -- not yet a man, but no longer a boy -- is caught up in the war as he desperately tries to make sense of what happened to his friends and to find news of his father. Harry Mazer, whose autobiographical novel, The Last Mission, brought the European side of World War II to vivid life, now turns to the Pacific theater and how the impact of war can alter young lives forever.

Kumu Kahua Plays

Author : Dennis Carroll
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824883748
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Kumu Kahua Plays written by Dennis Carroll and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hawaii an exciting tradition of local drama is reaching new audiences with plays that deal directly, often humorously, with life in this polychrome island state. The eight plays collected in this anthology celebrate the spirit of that tradition and offer an uninhibited feast for the ear — local language as it is spoken in contemporary Hawaii. In style and subject matter, the plays fall naturally into pairs: Ashes and Reunion are realistic dramas about problems of identity among the Japanese in Hawaii; Oranges Are Lucky and All Brand New Classical Chinese Theater add a touch of surrealism to their treatment of Chinese Americans; In the Alley and Paradise Tours depict the urbanized pressures of jet-age Hawaii at odds with older rhythms of life; and the last two plays, although written for a contemporary audience, draw on classical models- The Travels of Heikiki follows the structure of the historical pageant play, and the hugely popular Twelf Nite O Wateva! is a pidgin adaptation of Shakespeare’s play. Carroll’s introduction is a pioneering essay on the development of local drama that outlines the historical and theatrical context of these plays. The book is complete with a glossary of the pidgin words that appear in five of the eight plays.

The Bible in Asian America

Author : Tat-siong Benny Liew
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628373385
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book The Bible in Asian America written by Tat-siong Benny Liew and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of the journal Semeia, readers will find essays less concerned with what the Bible says about Asian American lives than by how Asian Americans read biblical texts. Pulling together Asian American historians, rhetoricians, sociologists, biblical scholars, and theologians, the collection questions assumed understandings and challenges accepted practices of established disciplines in ways that are both transgressive and transformative. Essays in the first section deal with the Bible’s role in constructing Asian American identity. The second section delves into how the Bible is read and interpreted in Asian American literature and churches. The third section includes a response. Contributors include Antony W. Alumkal, Rachel A. R. Bundang, Patrick S. Cheng, Peter Yuichi Clark, Eleazar S. Fernandez, Mary F. Foskett, Jane Naomi Iwamura, Russell M. Jeung, Eunjoo Mary Kim, Jung Ha Kim, Uriah (Yong-Hwan) Kim, Tat-siong Benny Liew, Leng Leroy Lim, Fumitaka Matsuoka, Russell G. Moy, Henry W. Rietz, Roy I. Sano, and Timothy Tseng.

Poor Innocent Lad

Author : Mike Farris
Publisher : Untreed Reads
ISBN 13 : 1949135004
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Poor Innocent Lad written by Mike Farris and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mas. Gill Jamieson, poor innocent lad, has departed for the Unknown, a forlorn ‘Walking Shadow’ in the Great Beyond, where we all go to when the time comes.” Those words, printed in a handwritten letter delivered to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on the morning of September 20, 1928, told the city of Honolulu that 10-year-old Gill Jamieson, the only son of Hawaiian Trust Company vice president Frederick Jamieson, was dead. What had begun as the search for a kidnap victim quickly turned into a search for Gill’s body and for his killer—a 19-year-old Japanese man named Myles Fukunaga. Poor Innocent Lad: The Tragic Death of Gill Jamieson and the Execution of Myles Fukunaga uses trial transcripts and court documents, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, official government records, and a detailed confession from the killer, himself, to tell this tragic story of the kidnapping and murder of young Gill, and the arrest, trial, conviction and execution of Myles.

Hawai'i Chronicles II

Author : Robert P. Dye
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824819842
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Hawai'i Chronicles II written by Robert P. Dye and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Hawaii Chronicles presented little known, yet highly interesting historical facts about Hawaii that originally appeared in the pages of Honolulu magazine, the successor to Paradise of the Pacific and the oldest continuously published regional magazine in the United States. Articles in the first volume ranged from the Islands' volcanic beginnings to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the first days of World War II. In this new volume, Hawaii Chronicles II looks at the people that have made a difference in the Islands since World War II, including artists and writers, politicians, local heroes, and leaders in the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Through interviews and biographical profiles, this new collection provides a historical context for the events that have shaped Hawaii's recent past.

Pineapple Town

Author : Edward Norbeck
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520316118
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Pineapple Town written by Edward Norbeck and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Dem Haoles

Author : Brian M. Gilpin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 166417639X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Dem Haoles written by Brian M. Gilpin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dem Haoles is an innovative and entertaining study of white privilege. Set against the backdrop of Hawaii, Dem Haoles explores how white people or haoles are portrayed and why. The exploration is guided by the concept of images or archetypes, employed to classify and dissect haole representation. Dem Haoles mines normally mundane entertainment vehicles like romantic comedies and action hero dramas and reveals that these artifacts of popular culture are more than mindless entertainment. They are in fact well camouflaged political messaging. The focus on popular culture examined through image analysis makes Dem Haoles entertaining and informative. The examination of popular media is detailed and thorough and will evoke deep nostalgic sentiments. While the insightful analysis of images, its mechanics, and intent will provoke critical thinking. Together this combination makes Dem Haoles a unique and rewarding experience that will both invalidate old perceptions about Hawaii and ruin the simple pleasure of mindless entertainment.

Asian Americans and Christian Ministry

Author : Inn Sook Lee
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725225360
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Asian Americans and Christian Ministry written by Inn Sook Lee and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian American Christian churches have been serving Asian immigrants not only as their "spiritual home" providing nurture, comfort and uplifting of spirituality during their times of adjustment but also as a generative womb leading the alienated immigrants toward a meaningful integration into the larger society. The articles included here attempt to provide theoretical and theological foundations for understanding the Asian American predicament, and explore psychosocial experiences individually and collectively. Also included are articles, which relate theological and biblical insights to the unique experiences of the Asian American faith communities with the hope to reconstruct a better future.

Anna

Author : David Pearce Penhallow-Scott
Publisher : Jane Lasswell Hoff
ISBN 13 : 1707269777
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Anna written by David Pearce Penhallow-Scott and published by Jane Lasswell Hoff. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Penhallow-Scott and Jane Hoff have written a fascinating and charming biography of Anna and the five generations of her family as it settled in the Hawaiian Islands. They came as missionaries and sea captains but grew to be power-brokers who mingled and intermarried with royalty. Family photographs and letters complete the intimate look into the sometimes eccentric goulash of relatives who left an indelible mark on Hawaii as it grew from a kingdom into a U.S. territory and state.

Jan Ken Po

Author : Dennis M. Ogawa
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824803988
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Jan Ken Po written by Dennis M. Ogawa and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1982-12-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jan Ken Po, Ai Kono Sho" "Junk An'a Po, I Canna Show" These words to a simple child's game brought from Japan and made local, the property of all of Hawaii's people, symbolize the cultural transformation experienced by Hawaii's Japanese. It is the story of this experience that Dennis Ogawa tells so well here.

Writ of Execution

Author : Perri O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0307423476
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Writ of Execution written by Perri O'Shaughnessy and published by Dell. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterful storytelling ... gripping legal drama ... relentless suspense -- these are the hallmarks of Perri O'Shaughnessy's work. Critics hail her legal thrillers as "terrific ... will keep you turning the pages into the night" (USA Today) and "a real puzzler ... with twists diabolical enough to take to court" (The New York Times Book Review). Now the New York Times bestselling author of Move to Strike returns with Writ of Execution, an electrifying tale that plunges attorney Nina Reilly into a shadowy world of high-stakes money and cold-blooded murder. In the mountain resort town of South Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly is known for taking on the underdog cases, the kind that can make -- or break -- her one-woman law practice. Her latest case begins in the middle of a summer night when she is called away from a very personal visit to her investigator Paul van Wagoner's hotel room to meet with a desperate new client at her office who gives her name as Jessie Potter. The frightened young woman has just hit a huge slot machine jackpot, and the men in suits are waiting to hand her the check just as soon as she tells them her real identity. With time running out, Nina helps her client devise a brilliant plan to collect the money while keeping her true identity a secret. Unfortunately, powerful interests have lined up to grab the money. The gaming commission thinks the jackpot was rigged. The man sitting on the seat just before the jackpot hit says it's his, and he doesn't mind going outside the law to get it. And the wealthy man stalking Nina's client has retained an unscrupulous local lawyer, Jeff Riesner, to attack the jackpot winnings using a legal maneuver called a Writ of Execution. The odds of Jessie ever collecting are starting to look hopeless. For Nina, what began as a fight for an underdog in federal court soon escalates into something very different and far more dangerous. Jessie has a secret, and she needs that money for a very good reason. By the time Nina discovers that Jessie is withholding vital information, it might be too late for her client and even for Nina herself. Because somewhere in the darkening Tahoe night, people are dying. A cold-blooded, obsessed killer will stop at nothing -- including execution-style murder -- to get that jackpot in a case where the Writ of Execution has become more than a legal maneuver; it's a death warrant. Sweeping from the glittering casinos of Tahoe to the drama of a packed courtroom to the darkness of a woman's secret past, Writ of Execution is spellbinding entertainment -- Perri O'Shaughnessy's most intricate and compelling novel to date.

The American Surfer

Author : Kristin Lawler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136879846
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The American Surfer written by Kristin Lawler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the surfer, one of the most significant and enduring archetypes in American popular culture. Lawler sets the surfer against the backdrop of the negative reactions to it by those groups responsible for enforcing the Puritan discipline, offering a fresh take on the relationship between commercial culture and counterculture.

Chasing the Kahuna

Author : Lucille Gabriel
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465317007
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Kahuna written by Lucille Gabriel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Airman Jeremiah, who is stationed at Hickam Air Base in Hawaii, meets the kahuna lapaau and learns the Hawaiian philosophy of hooponoponothe art of forgiveness and compromise followed by the harmonious merging of soul and body. On his next assignment in Korea, Jeremiah falls for a beautiful chaste Korean girl and marries her. When his family is found murdered, Jeremiah is the prime suspect, forcing him to go AWOL. In Hawaii, he chases the kahuna in search of redemption for his sins. However, the kahuna is not convinced that Jeremiah is a murderer and uses all his powers of kahunaism to seek the truth.