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Jack London Pacific Ocean
554 wordsJohn (Jack) Griffith London (1876 - 1916) was born in San Francisco, California. His mother, Flora Wellman, came from a wealthy family. As an infant, Virginia Prentiss, a major mother figure, raised Jack in Jacks childhood, an ex-slave. She was obligated to care for Jack because Jacks mother was ill. In his teenage years, Jack worked very hard jobs he served on a fish patrol catching poachers; he pirated oysters on the San Francisco Bay; he sailed the Pacific Ocean on a sealing ship; and he join...
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One Of The Greatest Northwest Passage
853 wordsCaptain James Cook~ World's Greatest Explorer Captain James Cook, an English Navigator and explorer, discovered Austria and the Hawaiian Islands on three famous voyages through the south pacific. Cook became an explorer because of his love of adventure and curiosity about distant lands and their people. Cook was born in Yorkshire, England in the year 1728. Then in the year 1755, Cook joined the British Navy. As a member of the Navy, he became an expert surveyor and astronomer. He was privileged ...
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Global Positioning System Gps Receiver
1,007 wordsHave you ever been fishing all day and it wasnt going well, until the end of the day when you just found the perfect hot spot. But the problem is that night is about to come and you have to get your boat back to the dock before darkness falls. And you dont want to leave because you are just finally starting to catch big fish and you know you wont be able to find that spot again. So what do you do? You can rely on dumb luck and hope you can find that spot again? Or you can buy a Global Positionin...
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Lowest Common Denominator Literary Technique
1,452 words... s? Explore your own world, the streams where you live, your own intellect, and mind the seas and inlets of the moral mind. He writes: It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. If you want to travel, explore yourself. Thoreau left the woods because he learned all he could there; his feet had worn a pa...
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Hymne To God My In Sicknesse
673 words"Hymne to God my God, in My Sicknesse" The poem is probably written late in Donne's life, definitely following his conversion to the Anglican faith. Donne seems to be dying of some incurable illness that the doctors do not know how to cure. He begins by saying that he is coming a holy room, possibly in his funeral. Upon entering this holy room, probably a sanctuary, he joins up with the saints of old which he hopes to join. However, he must "tune the Instrument here at the dore" before entering ...
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20 Th Century 16 Th Century
1,009 wordsColumbia, a republic in South America, is located in the northwest region of the continent. Its neighbors are Panama and The Caribbean Sea, also Venezuela and Brazil, to the south theres Peru and Ecuador, and to the west theres the Pacific Ocean. Did you know that Colombia is the only country in South America that has coasts on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean? The Capital of Colombia is Bogot, which is also the largest city in the country. Prior to the settlement of Europeans in the...
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Thousands Of People Pacific Ocean
740 wordsThere was a terrible disease on an island far off the Pacific Ocean. There were five people, six totals including me. I was the only one who had the medicine that can cure the disease. Only problem is, the medicine is enough for one person and one person only. Who will I choose? Ok lets just get this straight. There is a 41 year old male with five kids, a 16 year old female who wants to be a nurse and help people, a 34 year old male is the wealthiest man on earth, a 77 year old female who loves ...
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Germany And Italy Pearl Harbor
756 wordsBy the year 1941, WWII was in full effect. Germany seemed to be the victor, gaining control of France and Poland as well as successfully bombing England. Many people believe that Germany would have indeed won the war if not for the intervention of the United States. Because of the horror Americans had witnessed in WWI, the United States did not originally want to get involved in the conflict. In the early morning of December 7 th, 1941 all that changed when the Japanese air fleet scattered in th...
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Million Years Ago 000 Years Ago
1,209 wordsSoutheast Asia is the location of a small country called the Philippines. Formally, Republic of the Philippines, the archipelago consists of roughly 7, 100 islands that are located in the southwest Pacific Ocean just Southeast of China. Natives of the country are called Filipinos. The term formerly originated when lowland Christian Spaniards, called indio's, began referring to themselves as Filipinos (Dolan 76). The ethnic background of a modern day Filipino is as complex as a typical Americans;...
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World War Ii August 6 1945
1,212 wordsAt 8: 15 am on August 6, 1945, approximately 300 to 500 feet above the highly populated city of Hiroshima Japan, the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was detonated. Only minutes later 60, 000 to 100, 000 people were dead, most were vaporized leaving only an eerie shadow of carbon behind. In the year and months that followed hundreds of thousands of people died of radiation poisoning and radiation provoked disease. Children born in months immediately following the bombing were occasionally ...
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Pacific Ocean South America
849 wordsThis aspiring explorer and adventurer spent his childhood as a page at the Portuguese court doing errands and chores. He also went to school at a monastery. When he was only 10 years old, Magellan's parents died. About 5 years later, the King of Portugal died, and Magellan's brother-in-law, Duke Manuel (sometimes called Emanuel), was made the king. In 1506, Magellan went to the East Indies, taking part in many exploratory and military expeditions in the Spice Islands. By 1510 he had been promote...
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Sq Km Pacific Ocean
1,920 wordsTraveling to New Zealand New Zealand is an island country, located in the South Pacific Ocean in about 2, 000 km southeast of Australian continent. It consists of two main islands, the North Island (about 120 sq km) and the South Island (about 160 sq km) m separated by Cook Strait (about 3, 600 m), and a number of small widely scattered islands, like Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, Bounty Islands, Stewart Island, Campbell Island, etc. New Zealand is the largest land territory, belonging to ...
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Coat Of Arms Costa Rica
832 wordsby Costa Rica Costa Rica by Brandon Noll Costa Rica's official language is Spanish. And nearly all Costa Ricans speak Spanish, but many blacks still speak a Jamaican dialect (local form) of English. About per cent of the people belong to the Roman Catholic Church. The basic money unit is the colon which is worth about a penny in the U. S. The total land area is 19, 730 sq. mi. In Costa Rica there are three main land regions: the Central Highlands, the Carribean Lowlands and the Pacific Coastal S...
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509 wordsGiovanniFdsag Giovanni Da Verrazano Giovanni da Verrazano was a Florentine explorer and navigator. Although he was Italian, he was employed by the kind of France to find a passage to the Pacific Ocean. The exact date of his birth and death are not known, but historians believe that he was born in 1480, and he died in 1527. In 1524, he started on a voyage and discovered Cape Fear. He is believed to have been the first European to sight the New York Bay, but it was not explored until Henry Hudson'...
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Pacific Ocean San Antonio
909 wordsFerdinand Magellan was a Portuguese sea captain who commanded the first expedition that sailed around the world. The Voyage was the first positive piece of proof that the earth is round. Magellan was born around 1480 in northern Portugal. His parents were members of the nobility, died when he was ten. He became a page at the Portuguese court at age twelve to Queen Leonor. His position served as a means of education for sons of the Portuguese nobility. While at court, Ferdinand learned about the ...
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Jules Verne Pacific Ocean
370 wordsFROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON AND AROUND THE MOON BY: JULES VERNE From the earth to the moon and around the moon by Jules Verne, a book about how he foresaw man reaching the moon. Through the infamous Gun Club which was nothing more than a group of disfigured and excitable old war veterans. Since there was no war, they needed to create some grand project as an outlet for their destructive energy. Illustrated in many of the attitudes of the Gun Club members was how they feared no obstacle and were c...
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World War Ii Persons Per Square
4,081 wordsOutline I. Japan &# 038; America A. OvervieLocation 2. Population 3. Language 4. Flag 5. Map of Japan 6. Cultural Overview B. World War Pearl Harbor 2. Declare War 3. VJ Day 4. Postwar Japan 5. Re-Arming Japan C. InternmenInternment 2. Relocation 3. Requirements 4. Aftermath D. Religio Buddhism 2. Kamakura Diabusta 3. Converting 4. Role of Religion in Japanese Culture E. Japanese Economy 1. Trading Partners 2. Technology Race 3. Stock Market Systems 4. Management Styles 5. Recent Banking System ...
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Air Force Base United States Senate
3,073 wordsJohn Herschel Glenn Jr. was born on July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio. He was named after his father John Glenn Sr. John Glenn Sr. had fought in France during World War I, and his hearing had been impaired as a result of the fighting. After the war he started a plumbing business and managed to make a comfortable living for himself and his family. John s mother Clara Sport Glenn wanted a large family, two of her children died while they were infants. After John was born, the family adopted a young...
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Pacific Ocean Science Degree
544 wordsNeil Alden Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930. He was born on his grandparents? farm in Auglaize County. He has a sister named June, and a brother, Dean. His father was an auditor for the State of Ohio, he lived in several communities like: Warren, Ravenna, Jefferson, Upper Sandusky and St. Mary? s before the family decided to live in Wapakoneta. At age 15, he took flying lessons at an airport north of Wapakoneta. Back then, lessons were $ 9. 00 an hour. He worked at a lot of jobs in town and ...
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U S Government Panama Canal
1,909 wordsIntro In the 16 th century, Europeans dreamed of building a ship canal across the Isthmus of Panama. Spanish kings considered building a canal to carry treasure from their South American colonies back to Spain, but no attempt was made. Such a project only became possible in the 19 th century, with the machinery and knowledge produced during the Industrial Revolution, the transition from an agricultural to a mechanized economy. In the late 1870 s a private French company won a concession from Col...
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