Battle of Long Island

California State Legislature petitioned the Federal Government to build a memorial monument that would long live the memory of Iwo Jima. A guy by the name of Felix DeWeldon, who was an outstanding sculptor, had a clay replica sculpted from the photo within 3 days of seeing the picture. President Truman, sculpture Felix DeWeldon, and photographer Joe Rosenthal met to discuss the future of the monument and the long years ahead to create the perfect memorial from the life-changing photo. The Iwo…

pure impression in the story. He is always helping the Littluns and any others that are vulnerable or scared. He keeps to himself in a tranquil spot in the midst of trees, but comes out and helps whenever he feels necessary. His death represents the battle in holding onto one 's sanity. His death took place in a time when nobody expected to. The other boys – too wrapped up in their savage dance – accidentally take his life. This inhumane act brings the boys one step closer to think irrationally…

The Battle of Midway is often regarded as the “turning point in the Pacific” as well as the most decisive victory in the history of the United States Navy (USN). The United States had been planning for a war with Japan for years, but when the time came, Japan was second in priority to Germany. The Japanese leadership of Admiral Yamamoto, Commander of Japanese Combined Fleet, and Vice Admiral Nagumo, commanding officer of the carriers, wanted to take charge in the Pacific by putting all of their…

Hero vs Hero There are many people in the world that can be portrayed as a hero, but what really is a hero. The dictionary states that a hero is “a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.” In the book The Odyssey, Odysseus was portrayed as the hero who saved everyone from the trojan war. Another hero who saves people and cares about others and not just himself is Iron man from the movie Iron Man(2008,2010,2013). Both of these heroes put…

It was 610 feet and 4 inches long. It was 9,600 tons. What had contributed to the weight was eight white Forster boilers, 4 Parsons geared turbines, about 70 guns, and 3 SC-2 Curtiss Seahawk airplanes. On April 1940 the Indianapolis move from west coast to Hawaii with the rest of the Pacific Fleet. On February 1942 the Indianapolis participated in raid on Bougainville in Solomon Island In the summer of 1943 the Indianapolis fought off the Western elevation Islands. The Japan had captured…

see a beautiful green island. Looks great right? That’s what you’d think. Until you got on the island, you didn’t realize you would stay there for months, and at some point you would be deported and sent back to your country in shame. Starved, tired, and lonely is how all the immigrants felt who passed through Angel Island, which was an immigration station from the years 1910 through 1940. Though it was torturous, it helped thousands of people rebuild their lives. Angel Island was founded in…

days left until he reached the spice island. From this, Ferdinand Magellan used 2nd century scholar by Ptolemy. Magellan learned the hard way. Ptolemy was out by over 11,000km. Among the oceans Pacific is the biggest one. The difficult moment cause problems such as no food that cause a starvation, for some they eat rats to fulfill their grounding…

they noticed was the fact that Japan was a lot of islands. So they decided to do island hopping. Island hopping is the strategy of going from island to island taking it over and setting up base there, then moving on to the next island until eventually reaching the mainland of Japan. Island hopping works perfectly on Japan because they are an archipelago. The first campaign of the island hopping was the attack on Gilbert Islands. The first island attacked was Makin. They were very unprepared for…

Alcatraz was a maximum security prison that operated on an island near San Francisco from 1934 to 1963. It is a popular tourist attraction today, but it was once known for housing some of the nations most notorious and dangerous criminals such as Al Capone. “The Rock”, as it is sometimes refereed to, was closed down because its expenses of operation became to high. The Rock has a long, dark history as it was also used as a military prison from the 1850s to 1933. It is reported that no inmate…

him the necessary credentials to go to Harvard and eventually graduate at the top of his class. He was the first to actually benefit from schooling due to his stepmother. King was a well-rounded Congressman, who didn’t serve in the military for very long but was impacted by it, had and opinion about the government and used his talents to convince others , and his life was extremely impacted in many way due to his support in the creation of the declaration of independence. Rufus Kings military…