Reading Prompts 3

Captain James Cook and Hawaii [Prompt 7]
1. He was a captain in the Royal Navy, which was an uncommon feat for a commoner. He was also a surveyor for the Navy,, informally, and is credited not only mapping most of the pacific regions he traveled to, but doing so with surprising accuracy considering the tools of the day. In his travels through the Pacific he proved the inaccuracy of the "Great Southern Continent Idea". He also brought plausibility to the idea of a North-west Passage.
2. Cook and Hawaii are historically linked because his is the first European to set foot on the Hawaiian islands. He later died on the Big Island.
3. Gary was an island native that Horowitz's group found at the Cook monument. When they found him at the monument they thought be was besmirching the monument. Gary was actually cleaning the monument off, as part of his job.Gary and the Clergyman agree that James Cook objectified women and, like many European explorers of his day, spread syphilis. in his story, Horowitz show both sides view of the myth left behind of James Cook on the Island.
4. Shalin believe that the Hawaiians did not really believe Cook was a God, or they figured out quickly that he wasn't, but they act that way. Obeyesekere believe, as well, that they didn't think Cook was a God, but he thinks it because they couldn't feasibly think a pale/white man who didn't speak their language could be one of their Gods. I think that the history of such events is written by the winner, so since generally speaking Cooks men, the English and other white historian write the history of James Cooks voyage of course he is portrait as a god, like Cortes; even if it not the most reasonable answer.
5. Horowitz describes the events of February 14 (1779), chronologically, based on journals and memoirs that have survived since then. In doing so he find a few ironies, like the fact that Cook advised his men not to use any violence against the indigenous people, but he took ten marines with him to reclaim a boat. Other irony is that Cook, a Quaker, allegedly died with a musket in his hands. Again as a Quaker, he commissioned the natives to make Iron spikes, that would later kill him. And finally that the people who killed him were not know to be violent, or war-like.

American Missions and Business in Native Hawaii [Prompt 8]
1. The Sugar industry in Hawaii started around 1852.
2. the Sugar and Pineapple Industries, like cotton in the US South, created a need for a strong Labor force, and thus increased the islands migration.
3. People migrated from Asian nations like China, Japan and Korea, as well as Portugal. They new work force lived in terrible conditions and work more than twelve hour workdays.
4. Stanford Dole's dad was a Missionary.
5. Dole, politically, promoted the ideals of democracy instead of the Monarchy system for Hawaii.
6. The Bayonet Constitution was a document that took away all of the Kings power over his subject and transferred most of that power to the Whites.
7. Thurston was an attorney who helped Hawaii become a Democratic territory of the US, rather than a monarchical nation.
8. The Committee of Safety was a group of White business men that in 1893, over through Queen Lili'uokalani (who was very anti-white).
9. Stanford Dole ascended to the Presidency of the Republic of Hawaii in 1894.
10. President McKinley annexed Hawaii in 1898.
11. Stanford Dole was the first Governor of the Territory after it annexation, which is no surprise since the annexation was due largely to his actions.
12. James and Standford Dole were cousins.
13. James purchase Lana'i and transformed it in to a huge Pineapple Plantation.
14. The Missions wanted the natives to be treated as equal, and obviously to become Christians. The businessmen didn't care what happened to the native as long as their crop earned money, but they needed a labor force. Both side influenced Hawaiians enough, religiously of financially to aid the Americanization.