Ancient Hawaii

Surfing and Bodyboarding are both watersports that millions of people participate in (3). Surfers and body boarders can be found all around the world at beaches and reefs. Both these sports are very popular. Both offer different sets of manoeuvres that are commonly seen and used within the sport. Surfers and bodyboarders have often fought over the superiority of the respective sports, however the reasoning behind this is often vague at best (4). Bodyboarding is a water sport in which the rider…

The history of the festival can be traced back to 1912, when Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo donated 3,000 cherry blossom trees to the city. Today, they seem to be an inherent part of the D.C. cityscape. However, the process to bring them over took many years of collaborative effort, beginning with Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, an American writer and geographer, who would go on to become the first female board member of the National Geographic Society. In 1885, after returning from her first trip to Japan…

For centuries Native Americans have been oppressed and targeted by white males and there seems to be no end in sight for them. White men have taken away their land, culture and identity. They makeup only 1.7 percent of the population and today they are still being ignored and are not receiving certain rights that they lawfully deserve. Standing Rock: A New Movement For Native-American Rights displays, once again, the disregard that government and industries have towards the environment and…

When reading about the history of America, one shall find stories of racism, fear, and hatred. These three factors were present during the time of the civil rights movement with African-Americans, and it had become sequentially present in the time of World War II towards Japanese-Americans. It was December 7th, 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. There were over two-thousand casualties and the Americans were scarred by what happened. Americans had not witnessed an attack on their soil…

For my method I chose to draw and paint an outline of the Island, while using different colors to show the different type of land (untouched/touched/lava flow). As I stated in my map proposal, I thought this map would have a larger concentration of “touched” land. I was correct, it shows the overwhelming amount of land that has been changed in order to get more tourist to come visit this Island. I thought having a painting would be best because usually when people think of Hawai’i they think…

isolation and left Americans panicked, scared, and livid. To help ease the worries of the people, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized Executive Order 9066 and declared all Japanese-Americans should be relocated away from the Pacific West coast and Hawaii (Executive Order 9066). It was done as a precaution, because it allowed Americans to have a sense of security and nearly everyone had suspicions towards Japanese-Americans. Though, there were negative drawbacks because it racially…

Hawaii is surrounded by crystal clear and refreshing water. There are many types of marine life that are swimming around in the beautiful waters of Hawaii, such as green sea turtles, humpback whales, and manta rays. The Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle is one of the first turtle species ever discovered in Hawaii. The can be spotted from the beach. Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles are the largest hard-shelled turtles in the ocean (Murphy). They are regularly found resting under underwater ledges, basking on…

On the 19th of February 1942, the Japanese came in with their airplanes and land-based bombers to bomb Darwin. This attack on Darwin happened 10 weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor under the same commander, Mitsuo Fuchida. The Japanese had 54 land-based bombers and around 188 attack aircraft which were launched from 4 Japanese aircraft carriers in the Timor Sea. On Darwin’s Harbour there were 46 ships docked there yet the boats couldn’t prevent the attack from the Japanese having around 900…

World War II, also known as the Second World War, involved the clear majority of the world’s countries including a time of horror for Japan. Life became difficult for the Japanese Americans sent to internment camps during World War II and for those who lived in Japan also faced the effects of the war. The internment of the Japanese during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country of approximately from 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japan who…

Can you remember a time when you had to go through a difficult time? What were some things that help you get through this tough time. Throughout February 19, 1942 to June 30, 1946 many Japanese Americans were taken for their homes and could bring few things. They were taken and put into camps because they thought many of them were “dangerous”. This all happened because of Pearl Harbor. The american government assumed that they were spies because of their ethnicity. They had to under tough…