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Book Hawaiian Alphabet

Download or read book Hawaiian Alphabet written by Lori Phillips and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the Island Alphabet Books series, which features languages and childrens' artwork from the U.S.-affiliated Pacific. Each hardcover book contains the complete alphabet for the language, four or five examples for each letter, and a word list with English translations. The series was co-published with Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, a non-profit corporation that works collaboratively with school systems to enhance education across the Pacific.

Book Letters from the Hawaiian Islands

Download or read book Letters from the Hawaiian Islands written by John Augustine Zahm and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chuukese Alphabet

Download or read book Chuukese Alphabet written by Lori Phillips and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with children's artwork collected by the Regional Educational Laboratory at Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), the book features 4 or 5 illustrated examples for each letter as well as a word list of English translations.

Book Let s Learn the Hawaiian Alphabet

Download or read book Let s Learn the Hawaiian Alphabet written by Patricia Anderson Murray and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A word beginning with each letter of the Hawaiian alphabet is illustrated.

Book Mark Twain s Letters from Hawaii

Download or read book Mark Twain s Letters from Hawaii written by Mark Twain and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1975-07-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever." --Mark Twain So Samuel Langhorne Clemens made his excuse for late copy to the Sacramento Union, the newspaper that was underwriting his 1866 trip. If the young reporter's excuse makes perfect sense to you, join the thousands of Island lovers who have delighted in Twain's efforts when he finally did put pen to paper.

Book Marshallese Alphabet

Download or read book Marshallese Alphabet written by Lori Phillips and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the Island Alphabet Books series, which features languages and childrens' artwork from the U.S.-affiliated Pacific. Each hardcover book contains the complete alphabet for the language, four or five examples for each letter, and a word list with English translations. The series was co-published with Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, a non-profit corporation that works collaboratively with school systems to enhance education across the Pacific.

Book Hawaiian Language

Download or read book Hawaiian Language written by Albert J. Schütz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With color and black-and-white illustrations throughout, Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future presents aspects of Hawaiian and its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major characters in this book make up a diverse cast: Dutch merchants, Captain Cook’s naturalist and philologist William Anderson, ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia (the inspiration for the Hawaiian Mission), the American lexicographer Noah Webster, philologists in New England, missionary-linguists and their Hawaiian consultants, and many minor players. The account begins in prehistory, placing the probable origins of the ancestor of Polynesian languages in mainland Asia. An evolving family tree reflects the linguistic changes that took place as these people moved east. The current versions are examined from a Hawaiian-centered point of view, comparing the sound system of the language with those of its major relatives in the Polynesian triangle. More recent historical topics begin with the first written samples of a Polynesian language in 1616, which led to the birth of the idea of a widespread language family. The next topic is how the Hawaiian alphabet was developed. The first efforts suffered from having too many letters, a problem that was solved in 1826 through brilliant reasoning by its framers and their Hawaiian consultants. The opposite problem was that the alphabet didn’t have enough letters: analysts either couldn’t hear or misinterpreted the glottal stop and long vowels. The end product of the development of the alphabet—literacy—is more complicated than some statistics would have us believe. As for its success or failure, both points of view, from contemporary observers, are presented. Still, it cannot be denied that literacy had a tremendous and lasting effect on Hawaiian culture. The last part of the book concentrates on the most-used Hawaiian reference works—dictionaries. It describes current projects that combine print and manuscript collections on a searchable website. These projects can include the growing body of manuscript and print material that is being made available through recent and ongoing research. As for the future, a proposed monolingual dictionary would allow users to avoid an English bridge to understanding, and move directly to a definition that includes Hawaiian cultural features and a Hawaiian worldview.

Book Hawai i Is My Haven

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nitasha Tamar Sharma
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2021-08-02
  • ISBN : 1478021667
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Hawai i Is My Haven written by Nitasha Tamar Sharma and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with both Hawaiʻi-raised Black locals and Black transplants who moved to the Islands from North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Nitasha Tamar Sharma highlights the paradox of Hawaiʻi as a multiracial paradise and site of unacknowledged antiBlack racism. While Black culture is ubiquitous here, African-descended people seem invisible. In this formerly sovereign nation structured neither by the US Black/White binary nor the one-drop rule, nonWhite multiracials, including Black Hawaiians and Black Koreans, illustrate the coarticulation and limits of race and the native/settler divide. Despite erasure and racism, nonmilitary Black residents consider Hawaiʻi their haven, describing it as a place to “breathe” that offers the possibility of becoming local. Sharma's analysis of race, indigeneity, and Asian settler colonialism shifts North American debates in Black and Native studies to the Black Pacific. Hawaiʻi Is My Haven illustrates what the Pacific offers members of the African diaspora and how they in turn illuminate race and racism in “paradise.”

Book A is for Aloha

    Book Details:
  • Author : U'ilani Goldsberry
  • Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
  • Release : 2010-10-08
  • ISBN : 1585366323
  • Pages : 42 pages

Download or read book A is for Aloha written by U'ilani Goldsberry and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completing our acclaimed Discover America State by State series is A is for Aloha: AHawaii Alphabet. The landscape of Hawaii is as exotic as its history and people. Written and illustrated by native Hawaiians, U'ilani Goldsberry and Tammy Yee, Ais for Aloha is a lovingly created introduction to one of the most-visited places on Earth. From the meaning of the word aloha to the plight of the state bird author U'ilani Goldsberry answers questions that most Malihinis have about this lush multi-island paradise. Author U'ilani Goldsberry was born on the island of Maui, in the small town of Pu'unene. She now lives in La'ie on the northeastern coast of O'ahu. She has written a variety of books including three Auntie U'i books. Illustrator Tammy Yee grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii. She currently lives in Windward O'ahu.

Book A to Z Cut Loose in Hawaii

Download or read book A to Z Cut Loose in Hawaii written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Imamura's stunning illustrations created using the Japanese art of paper-cutting, kiri-e, will delight young keiki learning their alphabet. Each letter represents the special things that shape and color life in Hawaii--the ubiquitous aloha shirt, the Hawaiian green sea turtle (honu), surfing toes-on-the-nose, and more. Celebrate the Islands while learning your letters from A to Z and marvel at the amazing, hand-cut kiri-e illustrations that highlight the beautiful colors and textures of Hawaii.

Book A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands

Download or read book A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands written by E. Alison Kay and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together recent primary source materials on major themes in Hawaiian natural history: the geological processes that have built the Islands; the physical factors that influence the Island's terrestrial ecosystems; the dynamics of the sea that support coral reefs, fish, and mollusks; the peculiarities of animals and plants that have evolved in the Islands and are found nowhere else; and the human impact on the land, plants, and animals.

Book From Aloha to Zippy s

Download or read book From Aloha to Zippy s written by Bess Press and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photos of objects and activities familiar to Hawaii toddlers and preschoolers fill this early-learning board book that will provide hours of entertainment for keiki and their caregivers. Each page is devoted to a letter of the alphabet, with 6 to 8 photos per page, with one hidden behind a secret door for the child to discover.

Book Shoal of Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gavan Daws
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Shoal of Time written by Gavan Daws and published by . This book was released on 1974-06 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arrival of Captain Cook and the debates concerning the territory's admission to statehood are given equal attention in this detailed history.

Book From a Native Daughter

Download or read book From a Native Daughter written by Haunani-Kay Trask and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1993, From a Native Daughter, a provocative, well-reasoned attack against the rampant abuse of Native Hawaiian rights, institutional racism, and gender discrimination, has generated heated debates in Hawai'i and throughout the world. This 1999 revised work published by University of Hawai‘i Press includes material that builds on issues and concerns raised in the first edition: Native Hawaiian student organizing at the University of Hawai'i; the master plan of the Native Hawaiian self-governing organization Ka Lahui Hawai'i and its platform on the four political arenas of sovereignty; the 1989 Hawai'i declaration of the Hawai'i ecumenical coalition on tourism; and a typology on racism and imperialism. Brief introductions to each of the previously published essays brings them up to date and situates them in the current Native Hawaiian rights discussion.

Book Unfamiliar Fishes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sarah Vowell
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2011-03-22
  • ISBN : 1101486457
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Unfamiliar Fishes written by Sarah Vowell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, an examination of Hawaii, the place where Manifest Destiny got a sunburn. Many think of 1776 as the defining year of American history, when we became a nation devoted to the pursuit of happiness through self- government. In Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell argues that 1898 might be a year just as defining, when, in an orgy of imperialism, the United States annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and invaded first Cuba, then the Philippines, becoming an international superpower practically overnight. Among the developments in these outposts of 1898, Vowell considers the Americanization of Hawaii the most intriguing. From the arrival of New England missionaries in 1820, their goal to Christianize the local heathen, to the coup d'état of the missionaries' sons in 1893, which overthrew the Hawaiian queen, the events leading up to American annexation feature a cast of beguiling, and often appealing or tragic, characters: whalers who fired cannons at the Bible-thumpers denying them their God-given right to whores, an incestuous princess pulled between her new god and her brother-husband, sugar barons, lepers, con men, Theodore Roosevelt, and the last Hawaiian queen, a songwriter whose sentimental ode "Aloha 'Oe" serenaded the first Hawaiian president of the United States during his 2009 inaugural parade. With her trademark smart-alecky insights and reporting, Vowell lights out to discover the off, emblematic, and exceptional history of the fiftieth state, and in so doing finds America, warts and all.

Book News from Molokai  Letters Between Peter Kaeo   Queen Emma  1873 1876

Download or read book News from Molokai Letters Between Peter Kaeo Queen Emma 1873 1876 written by Peter Kaeo and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book December 7  1941   Letters from Hilltop House

Download or read book December 7 1941 Letters from Hilltop House written by Cosette Harms and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, Anne Powlison was preparing to serve breakfast to her two daughters and three guests at their hilltop home in Lanikai, Hawai'i. The house overlooks Kaneohe Naval Air Station. Their attention was caught by flames and smoke billowing from the air base. They soon learned that it had been attacked by Japanese planes. Moments later, as they absorbed the shock of that news, Anne looked out the window and saw the second wave of Japanese planes flying by at eye level, unleashing more bombs on the air base. A plane could be seen crashing into the bay.The hours following the attack were filled with panic, rumors of invasion, blackouts, and emergency services fighting fires and tending to the dead and wounded.Against this backdrop of fear and terror, one of the Anne's first concerns was for her son Peter, a student at faraway University of Washington. While all these events were fresh in her mind, she immediately wrote him a detailed letter, describing the horror of the attacks and reassuring him that she and the rest of the family were okay.Anne continue to write to Peter every other day or so through the rest of December. In her letters she hopes that eventually the mail will reach him and entreats him to write soon and let them know that he is okay.These contemporary letters that begin on "the day that will live in infamy" are poignant and moving. In a few pages Anne conveys her fears, her mother's love, and a resolution to bear up under "the trying days ahead of us."For those of us who weren't yet alive in 1941 or for those who lived on the mainland thousands of miles away, Anne's letters bring alive emotions and fears of those who experienced the attack as no film or book could do.Peter kept the letters and eventually they were brought back to Hawai'i put into storage. Long forgotten, they were recently discovered and thus this book came into being.