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Education
University of Hawaii Maui College
Maui Community College exists no longer, it has now become the University of Hawaii Maui College: an official four-year university.
Legitimating Inequality: My American Education
Going to elementary school in Hawaii proved to me that the educational system hides the truths behind everything. For example, I was never told about the true circumstances that led Hawaii from being an independent kingdom to a State. In my history books, it was glazed over with a simple short paragraph, that implied that [...]
自己紹介のエッセイ
私の 名前は ケアリ－・ バラオ です。 七月 生まれ です。 それで 28さい です。 母は 韓国で 生まれた から、韓国語を 話す けど、私は 英語を 話します。 でも、大学で 日本語 を 習って います。出身は ハワイ です。 そして すまい は キヘイ です。 1985 年に キヘイへ 引っ越しました。 私の家 は 海岸 から 近いです。 それ で 便利な家ですが、 宿題が 沢山あるから、海岸へぜんぜん行きません。 そして 家は学校と仕事から遠くて、うるさいから あまり好きじゃありません。 私はマウイ短期大学に入っています。そして３年生です。せんこうは社会学です。 マウイ短期大学が好きだけど、マウイ短期大学の授業料はとても高いです。2009年の春学期の後で卒業するつもりです。 卒業をした後で、大学の先生に成ろうと思うけど、まだきめていません。 将来、お金持ちに成れたらいいけど、先生に成れたら、お金持ちになれなくても、大丈夫です。 Related Posts:Culture and [...]
Equal Roles, Not Equal Pay
The rate for unemployed men is much higher than for women. Currently, the National unemployment rate is at 9.8% which includes men and women, but if we were to look at the unemployment rate by sex, 8.5% of women are unemployed where as 10.3% of men are unemployed (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2009). Time magazine [...]
Culture and the Right to Vote
Culture and the Right To Vote Starting in late 1800s till the mid 1970s, the United States and other European countries granted the right for women to vote. The last European country to grant the right was Switzerland in 1971. However, around the world the on going battle for women’s suffrage still continues. A major [...]
Hawaiians in Film
Films have been made in Hawaii since 1913. The most famous of these films—Hawaii starring Julie Andrews, Blue Hawaii starring Elvis Presley, and the recent 50-First Dates starring Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler—are the only way Hawaii is brought in to the homes of many people around the world. The overall benefit of these films [...]
Online Education
There just one more week until the Fall Semester begins. This is the first time when all of my classes will be online. I’ve done a few online classes before, but only one or two at a time. I now have five online classes. It’s a big step from having to attend classes and limiting [...]
The Creation of Kurdish Nationalism
Introduction The Kurdish people live in southern Turkey, Western Iran, Norther Iraq, and smaller populations in Armenia and Syria, with immigrant populations world wide. Their language is similar to Farsi, the spoken language of Iran, and their genetic profile matches those of the Persians. The contiguous populations of Kurds encompass an area known as Kurdistan, [...]