Hawaii Tokai :: Blog :: Student Presentation Day, Spring 2009

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Student Presentation day took place on June 10, with six of the College's Liberal Arts classes participating.

Jeffrey Mead’s SP 151 students showed a video they had made about the the usefulness of the iPhone.

Doug Fuqua’s HIST 241 class, which studied about civilizations of Asia before 1500, gave two PowerPoint presentations, the first devoted to the Chinese novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and the second focusing on Confucianism and its continuing influence.

Deanna Madden’s Creative Writing students read some of their stories and poems that appear in the latest "Hawaii Tokai Review."

Toake Endoh’s POLSCI 220 (International Relations) students gave a PowerPoint presentation about “soft power” in international relations versus “hard power” (force or violence). Examples of “soft power” included the Japanese anime and the concept of mottaimai, Sweden’s welfare system, American jazz, the Fulbright Program, Libya’s rejection of nuclear power and terrorism, and South Korea’s soap operas and movies.

Robert Holliday’s PSY 170 (Psychology of Adjustment) class performed several skits demonstrating concepts they had learned this term, including Freud’s ideas about the Id, Ego, and Super-Ego; positive and negative reinforcement; cognitive-behavior theory; how people get depressed; and Type A and B personalities.

Freshman Experience students from Seleena Harkness’s HUM 100 class concluded the presentations by explaining the theme they focused on this term—Fate, Destiny, and Free Will—and summing up their thoughts after having read and discussed works such as Oedipus the King, Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark,” Amy Tan’s memoir, The Opposite of Fate, and a story from Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. (article contributed by Dean Deanna Madden)