The Legend of Eddie Aikau

1. Eddie Aikau saved the Hawaiian culture from getting overrun by the Americans and Australians, and he risked his own life to save others making him in my mind the hero of Hawaii and the Hawaiian identity.

2. Document Elements
 a) Topic: Eddie Aikau
 b) Focus: The Hawaiian identity and surfing career of Eddie Aikau
 c) Angle: Eddie Aikau was the embodiment of the Hawaiian identity because of his dedication to the Hawaiian culture and compassion for others.

3. The documentary was made as part of ESPN's programming because it shared the film's content around surfing and sports itself, and the history and story of Eddie Aikau. The filmmakers audience's expectations were that the documentary was more action of the film then historical acts because of the documentary being played by ESPN. Also the expectations of it being more of a sports based film brings in viewers of the sports based fans.

4. The film would have been made differently by PBS or the History channel because these programmers would have focused on more of the historical evidence. Focused more upon the Hawaiian culture and identity of Eddie and his historical influence on Hawaii.

6. The annexation of Puerto Rico was between the United States and Puerto Rico. It had affected the Puerto Rican economy and people, which reduced the cost of cash crops and led to less wages for laborers of the territory. Puerto Ricans had thought after the Jones Act of 1917 they would behaving the same rights as the Americans, but really the Americans had taken advantage of the territory's resources leaving them with a different economy.
Topic: Annexation of Puerto Rico by the United States
Focus: Impact of Annexation of Puerto Rico on the Puerto Rican economy and people
Angle: Americans had a hungry appetite for cheap cash crops of other countries and laborers. Americans had taken advantage of the Puerto Rican laborers, which led to a growing reduction of food on the island.

Eddie Aikau Surfing

Phrenology

My job was to describe in detail what the group members did and how they described and looked up the description of the bust. My group looked up information and definitions of the artifact and the purpose of the item. Understanding the importance of phrenology and connection of it to the artifact and Franz the German Scientist who helped to mention the brain and started the conversation about brains in general. Lorenzo Fowler who created the artifact of the bust which included ideas of the brain and maps. Provenance is the place of origin or the earliest known history of something, and the record of ownership of a work of art or antique used as a guide to authenticity or quality. I learned from the group members about when researching put the whole description or title of the artifact to find out the real information on the bust. To say the words said on the bust itself and descriptions of color and size and any details to help narrow the focus down. This bust could be used as a primary source if you are changing it to ask a question about the company and how the artifact was being produced by it and the time period of it being used makes it a proper primary source.

Phrenology Artifact

City Life Research Essay

Central Park was known as the “first urban landscaped park” that started construction in 1857 that was stated in the article of New York City The History of Central Park. Two main key effecters of this park were Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the winners of the park contest called the Greensward Plan. Together these two architects created a park that was viable to being ecologically, governmentally, working, economically, artistically, and very sociable park in the United States from the book Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities By-Alexander Garvin. Central Park portrays a trend of evolution of urban life and urbanization towards New Yorker’s living around the park.
This park was designed to be a serenity to New Yorker’s, like the backyard to their homes. It was constructed to show European styles that Americans did not have, which caused more to visit. There was a sudden growth of people moving closer to the Park, in the newspaper article The Sun Apartment Renting Guide New York. Also this primary source about apartments sold near Central Park The Sun- Apartment Guide New York. It pictures the growth of apartments and need for urban life. Since the park ran through 5th Avenue prices of houses and apartments were more expensive. This maintained an idea of Central Park being “the playground for the wealthy”. Around the earlier years,1950’s, this park was visited by wealthy New Yorker’s because of it’s social attractions, carriage rides, being able to be insight in the park It also gave an opportunity to the lower class not to drink all day but advantage from a clean environment and enjoyable activities. Around the park consisted of residential homes that the wealthy resided in, which caused urbanization to grow. Olmsted and Vauz wrote, said in Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities By-Alexander Garvin  “[…] Let us consider, therefore, what will at that time to be satisfactory, for it is then that the design will be judged…No longer an open suburb[…]”. The park had several conflicting view points about the construction of the park and the way that the land was being used for, but this park caused many rapid developments that New York City needed.
When this 840 acre land stretching from 59th street to 106th street and 5th to 8th avenue was opened it turned to the publics eyes. They saw it as a beautiful place, that was constructed aesthetically. Central Park had created a need for more parks in the city which changed the scene of urban life in the city. The primary source shows a newspaper The Sun, April 27, 1919, Section 7 Magazine Section, Image 69, that talks about the author of the article having a friend from Japan walk through the park, saying, “How much this all is like home, like Japan.” The country Japan consist of Japanese gardens, with beautiful flowers, that this person saw a similarity in Central Park to his country and gardens. The European styles made the Park seem less American and more of a different perspective.
Their was one problem with the use of public money for urbanization in the city. Tammany Hall’s misuse and fraud of the public money jeopardized the chance of gaining more public parks in the city. Before smaller parks and recreational areas could not be allowed financially by this corruption. The Citizen’s Union did not want the public money to go to waste by this act of corruption, they were against the stinginess and wrongful doing of the economy. In the primary source Small Parks and Recreation Piers for the People- jstor it states that“A liberal, thorough, careful expenditure of money is demanded by the present needs of the people and the prospective needs of future generations in Greater New York.” This then allowed the proper use of money to go into funding public parks and a overall growth of urbanization.
Without the creation of Central Park, the growth of residential areas near the park might have never came to be seen. The park as of now consists of a skating rink, a zoo, and is centrally located in the city. This development still would cause urban life, because of the benefits of the park to the classes of New York. Without this park the city would seize to grow economically, governmentally, working, ecologically, artistically, and a sociable park.
Central Park was a domino effect of mass urbanization and growth of urban life in New York City, and other cities in the United States. There was a need for more parks in the city, which also caused the park to be more visited.

Central Park

Central Park Aerial View

Central Park Apartment Renting Guide

Greensward Plan by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux

Ice Skating Rink

Central Park Bridge

Sources

New York City The History of Central Park
This source told me the background information about Central Park and how it was developed.

Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities By-Alexander Garvin
Book about why Central Park was built and the benefits of it.

Primary Source: The Sun, April 27, 1919, Section 7 Magazine Section, Image 69
About the description of the parks design and how it was built to be a artistic scenery.

Primary Source: The Sun Apartment Renting Guide New York 
Showed the ads of apartments being sold and how urban life was affected, because it was around Central Park.

Primary Source: The Sun- Apartment Guide New York 
Showed the ads of apartment being sold and showing urbanization.

Primary Source: Small Parks and Recreation Piers for the People- jester
This source talked about the misuse and fraud of public money by Tammany Hall. How they used the money versus how they should be using the money.

       

Migration

People moving around the world are defined as immigrants and emigrants. Taking the PBS race quiz was confusing to me because most people did not appear to their actually race. Their identities are different from what people see. But migrants and migration can change the way you see people because you don't actually know what they are, from where, who, and where they live. It's all just one big mystery. Migration can occur anywhere in the world, especially coming to the United States, "for a better life". migration effects the way people look and perceive a person by their color of their skin or where they look like they belong. Most countries received significant amounts of people into their country for many years, especially the US, but one thing was weird was there were no migrants from the Soviet Union.

Migration Can Happen Anywhere

Philanthropy

Philanthropy to me is the act of actually helping people and making the world a better place and not just donating money, but also your time. I connected philanthropy to humanitarianism and helping other people around the world. Their are a lot of problems in the United States but also around the world. I think that the philanthropy that Rockefeller and Carnegie really helped the world in the certain aspects they wanted to contribute to. Rockefeller did his alma mater but Carnegie helped something outside of his beliefs and life accomplishments, which really made a more long lasting effect.

World Philanthropy

Thinking About Success

1. Hard Work
2. Opportunity
3. Skill
4. Luck

First to gain success you have to be a hard worker and have a strong work ethic. Opportunity is second because without any chances to be successful there is no way it can happen. There has to be a opportunity for you to lead to success. Having a high skill level in something is important because if you are good at one aspect in that job success will come to you because you stand out more than everyone else. Last is luck because some people may be lucky and the business deal is successful but others may not, and not receive anything in return except for failure. All of these factors contribute to success but in my mind the most important is hard work because if you don't have hard work to me you can't get anywhere in life.

Success

Business Innovation Research

While researching the business innovation I realized that most nice quality and branded items do not all come from China and Vietnam like people would think. I noticed that because of the high supply and demand and need for these clothing they create a more credible and centralized locations where the clothes can be distributed from efficiently. Also that H&M makes there clothing fit to two seasons which cuts back on the constant need for attaining new trends because of just having the two seasons. Some of the retail production does not happen in China and Asian countries but in the central European countries. I question how these items still have the same quality and time frame that they are to be produced in say China? How is it that people don't know the difference between the items made in the next door country and items made in a whole different continent? 

Zara in Spain