College Essay Draft

The college that would most likely to apply to is UH. UH does not require any essay so I decided what I am most interested in which is Sports Medicine.

As I was younger, I didn't have the right people to guide my way through school. The ones that I thought were going to be there for me, ended up not. It would mess up myself mentally by not focusing on my academics. The only way I could express my feelings were through sports. Playing sports helped me release all the fustrations that I've been going through out my life. Now that I'm in high school, I have learned and being able to manage both my education and sports at the same time.

I have been playing sports for a very long time. I have been playing basketball, softball, volleyball, football, swimming, and also surfing since I was 4 years old. While playing those sports, I have faced different injuries. Some examples of my injuries that I have had were a concussion, 2 broken wrists, a torn MCL in my knee, & many more. I have come to realize that I would want to learn more about these injuries and how you could prevent them from happening.

In the future, I would like to help our athletes so that they are have the opportunity to exceed in the higher level of the sport that they play. I would want to study the most common type of injuries that most athletes injure so that they are able to heal faster because I would know what to do. I would want to be the person that I can say honestly that I help that athlete to where he or she is now at.

College

I think the colleges that I would like to attend are Eastern Carolina University and also Hawaii Pacific University. I would like to attend Eastern Carolina University because they have a good softball system. I would like to attend Hawaii Pacific University because I would like to study Marine Biology as my Major.

Proposition (Take 2)

Article: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/global/Story.asp?s=12989791

Proposition: I think it is wrong for people to abuse animals.

Summary: Kamehameha Schools accepted a non-Hawaiian Student to attend the Maui Campus this school year. The non-hawaiian student was one of 45 students that were on waiting list for grades 10 through 12. The student was the had the highest scores that met the standards and criteria.

Pros:

-The non-hawaiian student got accepted to Kamehameha Schools.

-Princess Bernice Pauahi's will states, "to erect and maintain in the Hawaiian Islands two schools, each for boarding and day scholars, one for boys and one for girls, to be known as, and called the Kamehameha Schools." Bernice Pauahi felt that she wanted the children of Hawaii have the opportunity to have an education. It did not state that the children of Hawaii needed to have Hawaiian Ancestors or Hawaiian Blood. Here's the link to Pauahi's Will: http://www.ksbe.edu/pauahi/will.php.

Cons:

-The children of Hawaiian blood, aren't accepted to Kamehameha Schools because they didn't meet the admissions' policy.

-The Hawaiian children who needs the education are neglected because they didn't meet the testing and interview standards.

Articles: http://www.mauirealestate.net/blog/?p=316, http://mauinow.com/2010/07/14/kamehameha-schools-acknowledges-admission-of-non-hawaiian-student/, http://www.kitv.com/education/24200325/detail.html

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Blog 1: Describe your coming of age experience.

Coming of age is seeing the reality of what life is really about. As a child, we would take everyday things for granted. We rely on adults to take care of us financially, physically, & emotionally. As a child we take advantage that our parents would always be there. As we get older, we look at life differently. We are forced to become more responsible and independent. We learn to admit to our mistakes and make the corrections. We respect adults even more because we realize what they go through everyday.

Going to a small private elementary school, I felt that I was being harassed and stereotyped. My parents didn't make a lot of money and the school was mostly made up of wealthy asian people. I was never good academically and had a difficult time in writing and reading comprehension. My teachers would make me feel brainless. Feeling stupid has always been a huge weight on my shoulders.

Entering high school, I still have those feelings that I'm stupid. I had many obstacles during my first year which made my self esteem go down. My low self esteem took part in the mistakes that I made. I take full responsibility for those bad choices. There were things that I took for granted and in the end it back fired on me. I have learned from my mistakes and I am determined to better myself. With time I'm hoping to build up my self esteem and make better choices.

With age you learn from the challenges that you faced. The choices that you make will either make or break you. Only you can make the choices that will change you. Hopefully others will see these changes and see you differently.

Journal #20: The New Year's

All I could do is wait, waiting for a New Year to come. Ten Seconds were counting off, 9, 8, 7, ... 3, 2, 1. In every direction I turned, I could see colorful fireworks & people cheering saying Happy New Year. Aerials being lit and Chinese Crackling Ropes popping bringing smoke into the air. Two hours have passed, and I was sitting on the roof of my house, just looking at the stars thinking about the goals that I would want to accomplish. Happy New Year (;

KC3 Essay (Draft) "The Rise, The Fall, The Comeback"

Olelo Hawaii, or the Hawaiian Language is was one of the oldest living language in the world. Before Captain Cook arrived in Hawaii, the Hawaiian Language was a strict oral language.
Hawaiian was an oral language. The 19th century missionaries, however, were supposed to teach their converts to read the Bible, and created a writing system with an alphabet of only twelve letters for words of indigenous Hawaiian origin. The Hawaiian language became the language of the government, remained the most commonly used language in daily life, and was used between the numerous different ethnic groups who had all arrived here to work the plantations.The alphabet was later expanded to allow for two unique characteristics in the Hawaiian word that the missionaries had missed. First, there was the unnoticed consonant, a glottal stop. The 'okina symbol (') now indicates this stop. Secondly, the five vowels could all function as longer sounds, now symbolized with a short line above the vowel. It became clear that Hawaiian was just as diversified and complete as the familiar European languages.

Captain Cook and his companions recorded the Hawaiian language for the first time in Kaua'i, in 1778. They immediately noticed the great similarity to Tahitian and Maori. In communicating with the Hawaiians they used Tahitian words and gestures. The arrival of American Protestant missionaries (from New England) in 1820 marked another new phase in the development of the Hawaiian language. The missionaries wanted to convert all Hawaiians to Christianity. In order to achieve that goal, they needed to learn the Hawaiian language so that they could publish a Hawaiian Bible, preach in Hawaiian, etc. To that end, they developed a successful alphabet for Hawaiian by 1826, taught Hawaiians to read and write the language, published various educational materials in Hawaiian, and eventually finished translating the Bible. Missionaries also influenced King Kamehameha III to establish the first Hawaiian-language constitutions in 1839 and 1840. This is the 115-year period during which Hawaiian-language newspapers were published. Missionaries introduced newspaper publishing in Hawaiian and in English, and played a significant role in publishing a vocabulary grammar and dictionary of Hawaiian. Literacy in Hawaiian was widespread among the local population, especially ethnic Hawaiians. Use of the language among the general population might have peaked around 1881. Even so, some people worried, as early as 1854, that the language was "soon destined to extinction."In spite of a huge decline in the use of Hawaiian, compared to the era of its peak, those fears have never been realized.

Hawaiian was the primary language in Hawaii for many years. After the annexation of Hawaii as a territory of the United States in 1898, the language was officially banned from schools and the government. Use of the Hawaiian language was even banned at the Kamehameha Schools. It is important to note that this ban of the Hawaiian language was not made against the language in general. People were still allowed to speak Hawaiian on a daily basis. In fact, there were fourteen separate newspapers that were printed in Hawaiian. Notables are the Ka Lama Hawaii and Ke Kumu Hawaii, which began as early as 1834 and the Ka Nupepa Kuoka, which had a 66-year-run from 1861 to 1927.

In 1978, the Hawaiian language was recognized as the official language of the state of Hawaii. Federally funded language immersion programs began in 1989. Many students are choosing to study Hawaiian as their required language in college. Today, there are about 1,000 Native Hawaiian speakers plus over 8,000 people who can speak and understand the language fluently. It is a far cry from the original 500,000 Native Hawaiian speakers that were on the island during the time of Captain Cook, but it’s a good start at resurrecting a dying language. The numbers are continually growing.