Joseph Banks: The Art Of Surfing

I don’t know about you but I have never been surfing. (in the ocean ) My whole life I have surfed behind a boat. This is called wake surfing, it is where a boat tows you and there is a wave behind the boat and you can ride it. I am predicting from this poem that surfing is very hard, but once you get the hang of it you will progress fast. I can just imagine swimming all the way out to the ocean far enough to catch a good wave and by that time you might be tired. Once you find the perfect wave you swim towards it and turn around to ride the wave. As you are paddling very hard you stand up at the perfect time and carve into the wave to get some momentum. This is what I could imagine if I were surfing.

The SURFRIDER FOUNDATION is a non-profit organization that works to protect and preserve the world’s oceans, waves, and beaches. The site shows their dedication to bringing awareness to the problems our oceans are facing, cleaning up and taking care of the beaches that are both closed, and open throughout the world. Nationwide, in just about every state, some portion of the beach is public land, which means that all members of the public have the right to use that portion of the beach. Surfrider recognizes that access to public beaches is the public’s right of access to waterways. The foundation also realizes the safety hazards of having a polluted ocean. Polluted oceans can mean dangers for swimmers and for other sea creatures that are important to us and our well-being. This beach friendly foundation is working very hard to preserve and protect our oceans, waves, and beaches and is making progress in doing so.

Originating in California as a way surfers could be able to surf when the waves were flat. The original creator isn’t known as it seems that everybody seemingly came together with the idea at approximately the same time. The first manufactured skateboards were ordered in a Los Angeles surf shop in California. The shop owner Bill Richard organized with Chicago Roller Skate Company to produce skate wheels to be used with the boards. Towards the later 60’s, there was a trend of shops dedicated to skateboarding or “Street surfing” referred to at the time. The evolution of the board went from a rectangle piece of wood to resembling a surf board. As skateboarding continued to become more popular, the first skateboarding magazine, “The

Some would say it's like snowboarding, whereas others would say it's like skateboarding. I, on the other hand, believe surfing is unlike any other sport. Besides it being loads of fun and freeing your mind, it is also a great workout. Problem is, though, many people wonder how to get started and learn what to do. That's where I come in.

How did the Polynesians find their way to Hawaii, over two thousand miles from any other land? Was it over population at home, or political turmoil? Whatever reason for leaving these people used amazing knowledge and skill of the ocean and of the sky to navigate them to this new land. They faced the unknown and braved into the wide-open ocean for long periods of time. The real focus in this paper is on the navigation techniques that they used in these voyages throughout the Pacific.

Being a native to Hawaii was a helpful push towards legendary status for Eddie Aikau. The act of riding waves with a wooden type board originated in Western Polynesia over three thousand years ago (The Origins of Surfing). The first Polynesian settlers to land in Hawaii were said to be skilled in simple surfing, and after a few hundred years of riding waves in Hawaii, the well-known Hawaiian form of the sport emerged (The Origins of Surfing). Eddie Aikau propelled in surfing because of his love for the ocean, his job as a lifeguard, and his first surfing competitions.

Polynesia was a massive country forming a triangle that stretched between New Zealand in the west, Rapa Nui in the east, and Hawaii in the north. This triangle covered 10 million square miles. It was discovered by these amazing people who were like the astronauts of the time, because of their amazing exploration skills. Remarkably, these Polynesians arrived in Hawaii 1,000 years before Columbus sailed to the Americas. They were considered some of the greatest explorers in all of history. These explorers were able to discover every livable land mass and island in the Pacific, without the use of modern technology. All they had were canoes that were very similar to the Hokulea. Polynesian explorers relied heavily on the stars, winds, waves, and other signs from nature to navigate the ocean.

Bywater is a professor at Dixie State University, He teaches expository english and has his way of doing so. On every Tuesday of the semester a printed draft is to be brought into class for class evaluation and on Thursday the final draft is due. On Thursday Bywater gives the topic for the next paper. He teaches based on The Rules of Thumb 9th edition, a book written by Jay Silverman, Elaine Hughes, and Diana Wienbroer. He urges his students to use sentence level structuring. Sentence level structuring includes level one, two, and three sentences. These sentence levels make up the compound, complex, and complex-compound sentences. The way the paper should be set up is introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusions. Conclusions should give a sense of closure. Slowly but surely Bywater hands out sheets that give instruction based on the week's assigned paper. He encourages students to following a checklist, avoiding MLA , and he also prefers that the students tell the main story of the paper in the introduction.

Between 1878 and 1913, more than 20,000 Portuguese people undertook the dangerous voyage from Madeira, the Azores, and mainland Portugal to start a life in the Hawaiian Islands. The ukulele arrived to hawaii in 1879. The instrument was called the Braguinha,to Braga in Portugal. The Rajao, a similar 5-string instrument was converted to a Braguinha, the name that Manuel Nunes brought to Hawaii. Nicknamed the ukulele by the Hawaiians.Loved by the Hawaiians

Bethany Meilani Hamilton Dirks was born February 8, 1990 and raised in Lihue, Hawaii. Bethany Hamilton is the youngest out of three brothers Noah Hamilton, and Timothy Hamilton . Bethany’s parents knew she always has had passion with surfing. At just age four she started surfing when she immediately fell in love with it. Bethany was born to parents Thomas R Hamilton and Cherilyn Hamilton who also homeschooled her in middle school. Then attended Port Richmond High School. In 2013 Bethany got married to husband Adam Dirks on August 18th. Who then competed in the tv show The Amazing Race that had placed in the top three. Who in 2015 gave birth to their first

Waikki's Northern Beaches are renowned for world surfing championships. Have a scenic drive over to its northern border end, then get your camera ready for many outstanding photos, since there's certain to be lots of surfing activity.

"So there you have it…" Arnold took deep breath as he finally finished his story. He leaned back against his chair and waiting for Gerald reaction.

The quote from John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” shows how the protagonist, Neddy, fails to realize and accept the fact of reality, and only tries to escape from it. As the narrator indicates that Neddie is actually incapable of realizing the rudeness from the caterer’s barkeep and the mistress, readers might presume that Cheever is actually using these two characters to present the issue of social class and love as both are inevitably connected with the reality that the protagonist couldn’t dare to face. However, the issue of love and social class are actually part of the reason that why the process of growing up is so painful to the young as they start to realize that reality is cruel as no one is actually free in society and people are all restricted

In John Cheever’s short story, “The Swimmer” he conveys the transformation of the character through the use of setting. The story begins in the suburbs of Neddy Merill's neighborhood. After a night of partying and drinking, Neddy the main character seems optimistic, he has a perfect family, a high social status, and not many problems going on in his life. He feels young and energetic therefore decides to swim across town through backyard neighborhood pools.

Movie industry has changed a lot over the past decades, from the developments of technology to the material of plot. When it comes to surf culture, media and film industry have played a significant role on the representation of the surfing and the surfers. In the non-surfer crowd’s mind, the surf culture is defined by the way that the media and the surf related movies represent it and in the most cases, film industry shows the viewer want they would like to see and what is more convenient, and not the truth and the reality. In the modern time, the media and internet plays a huge role on people’s daily life and what they see in the screen become what they tend to believe. The usage of surf culture in Hollywood and film industry in general is