Carol Dowe Blog for the 13th

Come on Hawaii enough is enough with the rain. Well, today
was our last lecture. It was a wet day but not to bad. I
woke up at the usual time got ready had breakfast and went
to the lobby to wait for others, so we could catch the bus.
We had two lectures. One was given by Sumner La Croix and
the second lecture was given by Dylan Boylan. Professor La
Croix focused on the economy of Hawaii. Mr. Boylan focused
on current issues of Hawaii.
To understand the future of Hawaii's economy, I had to
learn about the history of the economy. Hawaii thrived using
various industries such as pineapple and sugar. Hawaii is a
very diverse for place, and this is one of the reasons why.
Many Koreans, Japanese and Portuguese were brought over to
help work for a certain amount of time. Now Hawaii's
economy is based on tourism and the military, and the
industries they use to rely on is reduced to pretty much
nothing. However "resource based economies aren't always
the growth leaders". It can lead to the government
regulation is less focused on public goals than private gain
and "Dutch Disease".
The Lecture given by Mr. Boylan overlapped with the one
by Sumner La Croix because the economy is a major issue in
Hawaii. Mr. Boylan was extremely amusing and made the
lecture very interesting, as we dealt with real issues.
Tourism, traffic, weather, and education are some of the
important current issues Hawaii is dealing with. Even though
we want people to visit Hawaii the Homeless paint a picture
that we don't want others to see. Since the island of Oahu
is very small the traffic, seems to be awful because people
have a lot of things to accomplish in a small area.
Education the test scores on standardized test isn't
because of intelligence but because of the language barrier.
It was a great day even though we focused on very
important topics. No worries just visit Hawaii and you'll
see all of its wonderful glory.