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Ian Martins   2020 Kia’i of Hawai’i : How Our Nation Has and Continues to Overcome Global Crises Abstract :   This research project aims to introduce themes about Hawaiian cultural history, highlight important figures told through qualitative storytelling and interviews, in addition to quantitative data about disease associated between the introduction of leprosy disease (1865) and modern day Hawai ’ i (2020). Additionally, it aims to represent close relationships that modern education shares with global crises between era ’ s, and offer insight to personal connection in hopes of where space between elements such as time, history, people, memory, landmarks, and tradition, can invoke thoughtful and meaningful conversation about preservation of one ’ s homeland, historical culture, and responsibility (kuleana) to educate others.   I will delve into two historical education landmarks located on Maui, Hawai ’ i: Old Maui High School and Pu ’ unene School. Though the two histo...

  Audio Recording: Richard Newton's reading of Jodie Austin's story "Beneath the Flesh" Click here to listen to story And the story as text... Beneath the Flesh   Professor Jodie Austin, Ph.D.   July 1, 1893 My Dearest Margaret,   I hope this letter finds you in good humor. It was with heavy heart that I left you and our young son today, but I have decided to write to you as I would a diary, that the letters may be kept as an account of our successful expedition. My hope was to impart some measure of dignity to the event by having you attend the casting-off at the docks; it was difficult to discern your own expression at a distance, but I was made proud by Peter's solemn face as he saw his father off. A man must answer when summoned to serve his nation.   It has been nearly two days since word arrived that Captain XXX XXX 's body had been found– murdered, it appears, by the very fugitive with whom he was sent to retrieve. Given the relation of Captain XXX XXX ...