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    Lovely Hula Hands

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    TraskHaunani-Kay‚ From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai‘i‚ revised edition (Honolulu: UH Press‚ 1999) Trask’s object of study is the historical and contemporary American popular conception of Hawaii‚ Native Hawaiians‚ and Native Hawaiian issues‚ such as rights‚ sovereignty‚ tourism‚ and institutional racism. Trask primarily interrogates the issues of colonialism‚ neocolonialism‚ and sovereignty in Hawai‘i and how these debates are framed in disparate contexts/around

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    Professor A. Priesman English 100 13 March 2014 The Prostitution of the Hawaiian Islands Lovely Hula Hands: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture written by Haunani Kay Trask was written in 1993. Trask wrote this paper to inform Americans about what she thinks of tourism‚ a “colonial imposition” towards the Hawaiian culture. Trask incorporates ethos‚ pathos and logos throughout her essay to show how tourism effects these three points in the Hawaiian culture: The homeland

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    Hula Dancers

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    experience of the hula movement session as well as hula itself is difficult to write about and analyze at length for a number of reasons. To start‚ hula is relatively simple‚ not to learn‚ but as a social wonder and characteristic of Hawaii. Although the dance possesses religious undertones – the documentary mentioned that sincere hula dancers appeal to the Hawaiian gods to assist them – it certainly isn ’t driven by an overbearing religious impulse. Furthermore‚ although hula and its sagas are

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    Hula Hoop

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    O’Neill. I’m talking about hooping‚ the modern evolution of the hula hoop. THESIS Today‚ I’m going to share some information about the hula hoop phenomenon. RTL Knowalil: Most of you might know a lil bit about hula hoops from playing with them as a child. This speech will help shed a new light on an old idea by providing you with new information about different uses for hula hoops. Knowalot: Some of you may have used weighted hula hoops in exercise routines. You can learn some valuable new

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    Hula Dancing

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    Hula Dancing Hula dancing is a Hawaiian tradition that‚ through dance movements‚ chants‚ and varying levels of instrumentation‚ tells stories. Most of the time they are legends or accounts of historical events. After reading the article I have realized that hula dancing is much more than just people moving their bodies to music. It is a tradition that runs very deep in Hawaii and it has been a very important part of their culture for hundreds and maybe even thousands of years. I have learned in

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    CD Music player‚ Kids Hawaiian Luau Party CD and 1 hula hoop per child. According to the music‚ children are encouraged to move hula-hoop at a high‚ middle and low level and to do the traditional hula-hoop movements. Children can stay in their space for some of the dance movements and can move into other space when they swing a partner. Children have to remember and follow the counts‚ appropriate steps and movements to synchronise the music (PE Central‚ 2015). The indoor environment is a preferable

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    Bolivar Trask Analysis

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    Bolivar Trask is more dangerous than Mystique because he has created a robotic guardians known as the sentinels only for the destruction of the mutants‚ created a device which could identify mutants so that he could kill them and also sells the military secrets. X-Men: Days of Future Past is the installments of Marvel`s comic. The main characters in the movie are Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)‚ Charles Xavier (James McAvoy)‚ Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage)‚ Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) etc. The movie is

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    In the poem‚ “Hand-Me-Downs” by Sarah Kay‚ the poet uses conflict and figurative language to show that anger is passed down from generation to generation. This is a problem because when a person “wears” anger‚ they do not ask themselves if the anger is worth it‚ and if it is having the affect it is supposed to have. The author uses conflict to show that the individual could not solve what he is trying to solve. In this poem‚ the character “wears” this anger‚ which had been passed down from generations

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    Karen Trask Analysis

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    When I first heard Ontario textile artist‚ Karen Trask‚ speak in our class on September 20‚ 2017‚ I was left hanging by a thread. In fact‚ it was Trask’s artist talk‚ combined with my research of Sheila Hicks and Joanna Close‚ that stirred something buried deep inside me‚ a yearning to rekindle my knowledge of textiles and fiber creations. Not as the stereotype of ‘women’s work’‚ but as art in fiber‚ my identity‚ and mindfulness. Traditionally‚ labour intensive skills of knitting‚ spinning‚ weaving

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    dancers share a circular drum and their dances are done in a circle. Not to mention‚ many of these traditional dances are done to spiritually interact with nature‚ for religious purposes and so on. Despite of many traditions becoming dysfunctional the Hula has maintained its function because they tend to rewrite‚ recompose or compose songs about the things that are happening today.

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