Hello Everyone,
Today’s lecture covered Current Issues in Hawaii. Our instructor, Professor Dan Boylan, was very energetic and happy to discuss with us a few internal affairs impacting Hawaii’s prosperity. He starts his presentation by stating that Hawaii has a three-legged stool that has build up its economy. The sugar plantations established when the missionaries came in increased the economy’s wealth. However, because of the demand of land by tourism the plantations declined. There is now one large operating sugar plantation located in Maui. The strategic placing of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean is the reason why the U.S. military wanted the Pearl Harbor. Currently the U.S. military occupies portions of Hawaiian lands that help to maintain the economy. Lastly, he stated that Hawaii’s economy makes it’s living off of tourism. Japanese tourist have invested a lot of their money into Hawaii that has given a boost to the economy.
Boylan also discussed the expensive cost of housing and food. The cost of housing is extremely high because there is not much land. The cost of food is highly priced because they are mainly shipped or flown in. He mentioned that in education the private schools are well educated and are only opened to people with Hawaiian blood. But, the public schools rank low in education. Relaying the Hawaiian sovereignty bill being disputed in Congress in ends the lecture. I thought the lecture was pretty interesting. I am curious to know how the bill is resolved.
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The points made in this lecture were pretty spot on, Hawaii makes a great deal of its money from tourists, however, this lecture was one of the hardest to sit through-or so i thought. He was very energetic on how we had to spend a lot. What i found interesting was the controversy on education, this peaceful state seemed to have no issues, but these classes were very informative in showing us new comers that that isnt quite the case.
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