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Carvings Of The Whare Kai Land And Sea Life
1,026 wordsBrigham Young University -Hawaii Campus Land, to many of us, is a place of growth and development. When the Pakeha, or white man, saw the fertile land of New Zealand, he saw opportunity and investment to make more money. But did the Pakeha really know what land is to those who live as though their land is everything they had? Of course, they must have known that land is precious to them, but did they realize just how precious land was to the Maoris? Land was life to the Maori people, and if it w...
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World War Ii Bombing Of Pearl Harbor
771 wordsThe museum I visited was the Japanese-American National Museum in Little Tokyo. I kind of excited when I visited the Japanese-American National Museum because it was my first time to go to museum. I felt that Japanese-American Museum was really exquisite in its presentation. Overall, this museum was very interesting in the way it presented their respective heritages. When I first arrived near the Japanese-American National Museum, the museum was eye-catching. A new museum that opened up only mon...
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Make Fun Quality Time
1,339 words... ted to be alone. If I was alone that meant that no one liked me and I failed at another relationship. " She told me that it has always been hard for her to let go of a person even if staying with them was not in her best interests. She had a few flings in college, but nothing proved to be serious. Before she met her husband, Drew, she was with her last boyfriend for over two years. After the first year she said, "I wanted to end the relationship, but I was afraid of being by myself. I was so...
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Sugar Cane Great Grandfather
544 wordsIn 1913 my Great Grandfather Man Kum Paik immigrated to Hawaii to work in the infamous sugar cane plantations. He first arrived in Koloa, Kauai. My Great Grandmother came over two years later. They moved to the Big Island where my Great Grandfather worked in the Plantation fields in the Paala plant. After having his first child he moved the family over to Hilo because the school that was around Paala only went up to the sixth grade. He wanted his children to be educated at a high school level so...
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Washington D C Math And Science
1,053 wordsJon Meacham recently said, Everyday in every corner of America, we are redrawing the color lines and redefining what race really means. As we approach the end of this Millennium year, many are thinking, What is race? Is it still two distinct divisions; white and non-white? Many think that it is not. If this is true, how will people treat each other if there is not a distinction anymore? These questions are coming up everywhere. America is no longer black vs. white. We are in what many call the A...
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Million Years Ago Hot Spot
346 wordsA hot spot is said to be a volcano that is recognized by an age progression from one end of the chain to the other. An active volcano commonly serves as an "anchor" at one end of the chain. After minutes of searching the web I found a hot spot that was not included in the Hawaii or Yellow Stone hot spots. I found my hot spot near India by the island of About 66 - 68 million years ago present-day India was above the hot spot and great volumes of basaltic lava erupted to produce the Deccan Traps. ...
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College Students College Life
1,084 wordsWow! Its been 18 years already and Im off living on my own now. What a change it is for me, now on my own. Its not at all like I thought it would be when I came here. For a while I thought college was like how they portrayed it in the movies like American Pie 2, Higher Learning, and Animal House just to name a few. You know lots of parties, girls, and alcohol. Being from Hawaii we only have movies that show us what college is like. So when I first arrived here in Oregon all that I could think ab...
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Church And State Homosexual Couples
1,004 words... s unconstitutional to deny marriage licenses to homosexuals (Victory 1). In response to the ruling, the Vermont state government enacted a law permitting civil unions of gay couples to be performed. Civil unions give exactly the same privileges to homosexual couples as are afforded their heterosexual counterparts. Homosexual citizens in the state of Vermont are now permitted to join in civil unions if they choose to do so. These couples were then given the same rights as their heterosexual c...
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Pearl Harbor Attack Attack On Pearl Harbor
2,008 wordsThe Bombing of Pearl Harbor: Its Impact and Repercussions Abstract: A devastating incident occurred on Pearl Harbor raises historical question to citizens of US as well as the entire world. The tangled web of events leading up to the damage of the United States Pacific navy at its anchorage on December 7, 1941, is among the most fascinating sequences of historical drama ever enacted. All the great powers of the world at war but one that last one on the brink of war, in possession of the secret c...
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Early 20 Th Century War With Spain
1,513 wordsThe end of the nineteenth century was a turning point in United States foreign policy. The paper analyses what motivated United States to move from isolationism to expansionism. The paper discusses how the U. S. saw its position in the world by the early 20 th century. Outline Introduction Discussion Late 19 th century politics Isolationist and expansionist views Economic and geographical causes for expansionism Political causes Conclusion The U. S. History Powerful and productive in the world o...
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Stem Cell Research Adult Stem Cells
936 wordsHUMAN CLONING The American public has been a haven of open scientific inquiry and it has always been a factor in creating globally accepted innovations in biotechnology and medicine. As the country is beset by several debilitating diseases such as cancer, Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons disease and diabetes, the medical community struggles to find a solution for these chronic and fatal diseases as each day goes by. Ironically, the potential solution in which they have stumbled upon is contested. ...
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Central Intelligence Agency President Franklin D Roosevelt
1,613 wordsIntelligence After the First World War, the European nations assumed that the United States (US) would continue to involve itself in international matters, particularly in helping to reconstruct Europe and help maintain the balance of power. However, the US showed no inclination to become involved. On the one hand, this was seen in Europe as evidence of selfishness and immaturity. On the other, whilst many Americans shared the Europeans sense of disillusionment with the war and its aftermath, th...
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Males And Females Racially Biased
1,391 wordsCommercials from Idea Studio during the TV show Baywatch. I have watched the show called Baywatch that was run on day television at 15: 00 - 16: 00 five days a week. The show is oftentimes interrupted by various commercials aimed at improvement of ones health as well as aimed at improving the body image. The commercials were developed by the company Idea Studio that focuses on the body improvement and gym equipment. The commercials were shown for approximately 12 minutes out of a 50 minutes show...
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Roman Catholic Church Allowed To Marry
1,363 wordsI Do or Please Dont: Hawaii's Same Sex Marriages With the recent decision by the Hawaii courts regarding the legalization of marriage between same-sex couples, a political debate across the United States has begun. Many people believe that this is a monstrous step to legalizing same-sex unions country wide, especially since legal tradition recognizes marriages performed in other states as binding within every other state, but also because Hawaii is known for its liberal, ground-breaking first st...
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Rest Of The World Hawaiian Islands
210 wordsNicole Maguire Prof. Mills Native Hawaiians Hawaii is an archipelago of enchanting and exotic islands that remained unknown to the rest of the world for thousands of years. When the islands were finally discovered they weren t desolate, they were inhabited by a whole group of people that were very capable. The natives of Hawaii had lived there for many years previous to the discovery unknown to the rest of the world because of their discreet location. Since contact with the outside world, the na...
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Russo Japanese War Open Door Policy
1,046 wordsImperialism is the pursuit of colonial empires. Many countries took part in this, but none quite like the United States. The motivation that the United States had to get involved in such an enormous task was first shown in Samoa in 1889. After that important part of United States history, there were many more events that occurred in the eyes of United States imperialism. There were many positive aspects concerning America s intervening with other countries affairs. These proved to shape the soci...
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San Francisco Jack London
1,411 wordsJack London was born John Griffiths Chaney and changed his name for unknown reasons. He was born on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco. His mother, Flora Wellman, was unmarried and of wealthy background. His father may have been William Chaney. Chaney was a journalist, lawyer, and a major figure in the development of American astrology. During his childhood his parents werent there for him and he was looked after by an ex-slave, Virginia Prentiss (Memmie Jennie). London dropped out of school at t...
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Shield Volcanoes Volcanic Activity
435 wordsKilauea Hawaii consists of a string of islands, or an archipelago. Kilauea is located on one of these islands, the central Hawaii island. Kilauea is one of the world? s most active volcanic craters. Craters are formed either by the massive collapse of material during volcanic activity, by unusually violent explosions, or later by erosion during dormancy (Compton's). It is situated on the southeastern slope of the great volcanic mountain Mauna Loa. Its elevation is 1111 m (3646 ft. ) above sea le...
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Baker Herman Bays Whale Watching Industry Whales
697 wordsHumpback Marine Mammals 1. Introduction Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) annually migrate from their summer feeding grounds off southeast Alaska to winter in waters off the Hawaiian Islands, Baja California Sur, Mexico and northern Japan (Baker and Darling). The number of humpback whales in the Hawaiian waters generally peaks from mid-February through mid-March (Baker &# 038; Herman, 1984). Calving and breeding is an important function of humpback whales while wintering at lower latitude...
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North And South Olympus Mons
1,609 wordsMars Mars Geology of Mars Mars is the planet that is the closest geologically to our own. Still we know little about the planet. All the information that we have is from what we see. We can speculate about the geology of the planet but we will never know for sure what the planet is really made of until we physically go there. The information is all from NASA sites or NASA related sites. Mars red color leads us to believe that the planet has large amounts of iron. This red color is the only color...
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