The History of Kapahulu

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Susan Schultz

While navigating my way through Kapahulu, I make my way down to Kapahulu Avenue. Many shops and stores line the street, giving the neighborhood an exciting and vibrant personality. 

A large number of people walk along both sides of the street, giving good business to the multitude of stores. Antique stores fill the left side of the street, exhibiting an enigmatic persona with their odd shaped wooden objects through their windows. Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, and American cuisines give way to a variety of food choices, causing my stomach to grumble. The most notable place is Leonard’s Bakery. Found in 1953, Leonard’s has been a household name for delicious and scrumptious food in Hawaii. Tourists flock to the bakery everyday, craving the sweet batter that is covered with a heaven like blanket of sugar. It is one of the hotspots that one has to stop for when visiting Hawaii. Just like Leonard’s, Rainbow’s Drive In has also become a staple that is well known for Hawaiian food. The loco mock and teri-beef plates attract crowds of locals and tourists that come for the reasonably priced plate lunches. The well known restaurant exudes the definition of local food that it has been serving for generations of residents.

Kapahulu didn’t always have many stores and homes in the area. Kapahulu means 'worn out soil.’ The land originally belonged to the Hawaiian monarchy, but it was later available for private ownership due to the Great Mahele. Land could be bought for as low as 25 cents per square foot during the time, resulting in many owners buying property and creating unique houses that still last to this day. Houses between the H-1 freeway and Kapahulu Avenue are still remnants of that era. However, Kapahulu is always expanding. There are many new stores such as Safeway and GNC that add to the history-filled neighborhood. As an old antique stores closed down a few months ago, a new restaurant rose to take it’s place. But the neighborhood with it’s diverse amount of old shops, stores, and historical homes will always keeps it’s identity intact.

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The History of Kalihi Valley

Walking through the narrow streets of Kalihi Valley, I see parked cars spilling onto the roads and houses so clumped together that the children cannot run outside and play. There is barely any empty space left in Kalihi, except for a park on school grounds here and there. Kalihi, meaning “the edge” in the Hawaiian language, was named by King Kamehameha V., and is now considered to be the multi-ethnic and middle-working class district of Honolulu. In the early twentieth century, Kalihi became a first home to many of Hawai’i’s newest immigrants from Laos, Samoa, the Philippines, Marshall Islands, and Chuuk. At this time, many sugar workers also left the plantations and settled in Kalihi. Then, as more and more settlers of Chinese, Japanese and Korean ancestry arrived, the demand for affordable houses grew. Pig farms were replaced with Hawai’i’s two largest public housing developments. In the mid-twentieth century, Kalihi also became the receiving station for leprosy patients to either be treated or sent to Moloka’i. What used to be beautiful vegetable gardens, flower gardens, grazing land, taro patches, and farms are now crowded residential neighborhoods with churches and schools. Naohia Falls, also known as Kalihi Ice Ponds, is a set of three-tiered falls located in the back of Kalihi Valley. Once a hidden gem, Naohia Falls has become a favorite hike to many people, but is now considered an illegal hike that trespasses through property of the Board of Water Supply. Kalihi has become so populous that neighborhoods have begun to creep up the hillsides. The once quiet open neighborhood has become a robust neighborhood, bursting with diversity.

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Knowledge And Wisdom

It is important to have both wisdom and knowledge, and it is arrogant to focus on gaining one while losing focus on the other. Doctor Gawande provides us an insight into not merely the knowledge he holds, but also the wisdom he processes. By intwining between memoir and the historical facts of senior care home, he shows us the extensive knowledge he has on the development of senior housing, long term care facility and on other minor topics. It it critical to be able to bring out the materials he knows and successfully made them known to readers, this is where his wisdom comes in. His wisdom is in his skillful way of presenting his ideas and wording his feelings, so that majority of the readers emotionally connect to every stories he told, so that we too would see medicine as more than a magic tool for every problem. His wisdom is in the way he writes of medical surgeries and procedures and people could understand it without attending medicinal school. One important concept he seems to make known is that death is one thing that would be ultimately acceptable and fully known by everyone, it is something we all face, no matter our education background or race or social standing when our knowledge and wisdom seem to fade. It is thus critical that we start facing death and talking about it with family and accept it as a general topic

Wisdom + Knowledge = New Stage of Medicine

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It’s safe to assume to that throughout Gawande’s life, he has been working hard, excelling in his classes during his student career, and chasing his dreams of becoming a doctor. A huge portion of his life was built upon the basis that “knowledge is power”, having an extensive knowledge in medicine as a doctor saves lives. But suddenly, his entire preconception about medicine was broken when his dad refused treatment to extend his life. It came to him as a shock, when he’s unable of “fixing what’s broken”.

       In his book, “Being Mortal”, Gawande mentioned that although doctors are equipped with a comprehensive knowledge on medicine, they are unprepared when it comes to dealing with the death of patients. They lack the wisdom of dealing with family members.

       It wasn’t until the death of his father when Gawande realized that wisdom should be incorporated in to daily medical treatment. The combination of wisdom and knowledge would bring the medical industry towards a greater and higher stage of not only prolong individuals’ lives, but also help them find meanings to their life. A great example of how one incorporates wisdom into medical knowledge was when Thomas was implementing a change at a nursing home in from pages 116-120.

      Not only does this change require courage to challenge a nursing home culture/tradition that has been passed down from generations before, it also requires wisdom to know the medical merit it has for patients. He knows from knowledge that these patients need motivation to keep living, and he know about the three plagues that exist in nursing homes. Through experience he came up with a bohemian idea of bringing animals into the nursing home. By doing this, Thomas transformed a lifeless home, into a small zoo where all of the patients can receive medical treatment and meaning of life.