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...The Mosaic is a collection of writing from international students at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. Read poetry, short stories and personal experiences by students from more than 10 different countries as they use English as a common language to share what matters in their lives....

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...s. My Evil Self Three Dreams Where the Light Enters You Teach me How to Dance Almost the End of the World The Book of Mormon Saving the Face of Hawaii Nature My Best The Broadway Incident The Biggest Disappointment Peculiar Letter from Hell Oye Tu! Remember not to Forget Globalization: Good or Bad for Developing Countries? Comfort Stations Homecoming Natu...

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...ir, to a sect – I believe my sect, and that in which my ancestors laboured – which has enjoyed, and partly failed to utilise, and exceptional advantag... ...y self-purged of its old and bloody faith; they were embraced, almost on their arrival, with enthusiasm; what troubles they supported came far more fr... ...leasant rooms, even your pen perhaps would have been stayed. Your sect (and remember, as far as any sect avows me, it is mine) has not done ill in a w... ...es the ear of the defeated, it is held by plain men of no pretensions that his mouth is, in the circumstance, almost necessarily closed. Your Church a...

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...aneous interest nearer home. – R. L. S. T HERE WA S A MAN of the Island of Hawaii, whom I shall call Keawe; for the truth is, he still lives, and his ... ...enson his way to so many islands; but he, too, sold it, and was slain upon Hawaii. For, once it is sold, the power goes and the protection; and unless... ... abated, “I have been thinking,” said Lopaka. “Had not your uncle lands in Hawaii, in the district of Kau?” “No,” said Keawe, “not in Kau; they are on... ...fro, along the balcony, like one despairing. “Very willingly could I leave Hawaii, the home of my fa- thers,” Keawe was thinking. “Very lightly could ... ...et me take the good along with the evil.” So it befell that he returned to Hawaii by the first steamer, and as soon as it could be managed he was wedd... ...his rate they soon grew to be remarked in the town; and the strangers from Hawaii, their riding and their driving, the fine holokus and the rich lace ... ...l after the first with the T ahitian language, which is indeed like to the Hawaiian, with a change of cer- tain letters; and as soon as they had any f... ...young woman, will you 89 Island Nights’ Entertainments help a daughter of Hawaii?” “Ah,” said the old man. “So you are the witch from the eight islan... ...ancient. For this reason no man was more consulted in all the King- dom of Hawaii. Prudent people bought, and sold, and mar- ried, and laid out their ...

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... or an efficient pidgin, what is called to the westward ‘Beach-la-Mar,’ comes easy to the Polynesian; it is now taught, besides, in the schools 9 Rob... ...f dropping medial consonants. Here is a table of two widespread Polynesian words:— House. Love. Tahitian Fare Aroha New Zealand Whare Samoan Fale Talo... ...same, the structure itself continually varies; and the Marquesan, among the most backward and barbarous of islanders, is yet the most commodiously lod... ...nly at times a block piped like a bird. Oceanward, the heaven was bright with stars and the sea with their reflections. If I looked to that side, I mi... ...seen, I am told, in the Marquesas; and yet even these were insufficient for the teeming people, and the annals of the past are gloomy with famine and ... ...of the islands, all point to the same fact of former crowd- ing and alarm. And to-day we are face to face with the reverse. To-day in the Marquesas, i... ...shy vicinity of their plantations. How plausible! And yet the Marquesans are dying out in the same houses where their fathers multi- plied. Or take op... ...of Polynesians; and they are two of those that perish the most rapidly. Here is a strong case against opium. But let us take unchastity, and we shall ... ... count. Thus, Samoans are the most chaste of Polynesians, and they are to this day entirely fertile; Marquesans are the most debauched: we have seen h...

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...fono seems (for the moment) to be final. The absolute chiefs of Tahiti and Hawaii were ad- dressed as plain John and Thomas; the chiefs of Samoa are s... ...he tongs. Suf- fice it to say that in Queensland, Fiji, New Caledonia, and Hawaii it has been either suppressed or placed under close public supervisi... ...ree incidents: the ar- rival on the scene of a new actor, the visit of the Hawaiian embassy, and the riot on the Emperor’s birthday. The rest shall be... ...information of the captain’s doings”: surely supererogation of deceit. The Hawaiian Embassy. The prime minister of the Hawaiian kingdom was, at this p... ...n this character of a Mormon emissary that he first came to the islands of Hawaii, where he collected a large sum of money for the Church of the Latte... ... armed and fitted out the cruiser Kaimiloa, nest-egg of the future navy of Hawaii. Samoa, the most important group still independent, and one immediat... ...n, was chosen for the scene of action. The Hon. John E. Bush, a half-caste Hawaiian, sailed (December 1887) for Apia as minister-plenipotentiary, acco... ...the Germans. So might a fly irritate Caesar. The arrival of a mission from Hawaii would scarce affect the composure of the courts of Europe. But in th... ...e enjoy most of the advan- tages and all the pomp of independence; news of Hawaii and descriptions of Honolulu are grateful topics in all parts of the...

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...me you should have another Marquesan letter, the worst of the lot, I think; and seven Paumotu letters, which are not far out of the vein, as I wish it... ...e to steady her— she has no vices, but is unused, skittish and uneasy, and wants a lot of attention and humouring; lastly (of saddle horses) Luna—not ... ...hall abide. ’So consider your hand free, and act for me without fear or favour. I am greatly pleased with the illustrations. It is very strange to a S... ... one of the following alternatives: 1st, either come straight on here and pass a month with us; ’tis the rainy season, but we have often lovely weathe... ...ust answer this at once, please; so that I may know what to do. We would dearly like you to come on here. I’ll tell you how it can be done; I can come... ...in my mother’s letter is recrossed and I see it says the end of /94: so much the better, then; but I would like to submit to you my alternative plan. ... ...C. J. and the American Land Commissioner, and on the whole, and for these disgusting steamers, a pleasant ship’s company. I cannot understand why yo...

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...to provide myself with a good interpreter, in the person of an intelligent Hawaiian sailor, whose acquaintance I had made. “Now, Jack,” said I, before... ... a fence many feet high, the more effectually to exclude the wicked little Hawaiians. And yet, strange as it may seem, the depravity among the Polynes... ...ful quadrupeds, we may as well say some- thing concerning his success upon Hawaii, one of the largest islands in the whole Polynesian Archipelago; and... ...e name to the well-known cluster named by Cook in honour of Lord Sandwich. Hawaii is some one hundred leagues in circuit, and covers an area of over f... ...en thousand bullocks were slain, almost entirely upon the single island of Hawaii. The herds being thus nearly destroyed, the sagacious young prince i...

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...es- tions about the destination of the ship. He said the ship was bound to Hawaii, but that it had to land him first. “Where?” said I. “It’s an island...

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...s, 3,602,990 square miles. This does not include the Philip- pine Islands, Hawaii, or Porto Rico. A conservative estimate of the population of the Phi... ...estimate of the population of the Philippine Islands is 8,000,000; that of Hawaii, by the census of 1897, was given at 109,020; and the present estima... ... The area of the Philippine Islands is about 120,000 square miles, that of Hawaii is 6,740 square miles, and the area of Porto Rico is about 3,600 squ... ...out eighty- seven millions, including the popu- lation of the Philippines, Hawaii, and Porto Rico.] 436 Democracy in America distinct nations, unequa... ...out eighty- seven millions, including the popu- lation of the Philippines, Hawaii, and Porto Rico.] 446 Democracy in America within its limits, but m...

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...ly, Dec. 1910. First book publication in The House of Pride and other Tales of Hawaii, Macmillan, 1912. Koolau the Leper 355 black hair. The moonligh... ...have been to the other islands, some here and some there, to Oahu, to Maui, to Hawaii, to Honolulu. Yet always did we come back to Kauai. Why did we c... ...un, And summer was won by Maui. . . .”’ Born in the Islands myself, I know the Hawaiian myths better than this old fisherman, although I possessed not ... ...recite them endless hours. “And you believe all this?” I demanded in the sweet Hawaiian tongue. “It was a long time ago,” he pondered. “I never saw Ma... ...rth, and am not wise, O Lakana,” my fisherman made answer. “Yet have I read the Hawaiian bible the missionaries translated to us, and there have I read... ...g the length of day, and that the seismologists accept that all the islands of Hawaii were elevated from the ocean floor by volcanic action. Fortunatel... ...i! Its bait the red billed Alae, The bird to Hina sacred! It sinks far down to Hawaii, Struggling and in pain dying! Caught is the land beneath the wa... ...n, maybe to before the beginning. May not old Maui have only dreamed he pulled Hawaii up from the bottom of the sea? Then would this Hawaii land be a ...

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..., and partly failed to utilise, an exceptional advantage in the islands of Hawaii. The first missionaries came; they found the land already self-purge... ...thusiasm; what troubles they supported came far more from whites than from Hawaiians; and to these last they stood (in a rough figure) in the shoes of... ... any sect avows me, it is mine) has not done ill in a worldly sense in the Hawaiian Kingdom. When calamity befell their innocent parishioners, when le... ... circumstance, almost necessarily closed. Your Church and Damien’s were in Hawaii upon a rivalry to do well: to help, to edify, to set divine examples...

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...1 In retrospect, available inter- cepts pointed to Japanese examination of Hawaii as a possible target. But, another historian observes,“in the face o...