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When you see those pictures of clear watered, beautiful, and perfect small paradises, what do you think about? Do you think about where that could possibly be, or how that could exist. I think of the island of St. Croix, a small virgin island just off the coast of Puerto Rico. It is an island of beauty, culture, and color. St. Croix is the most beautiful place I have ever seen, it looks like those pictures you see of small paradises. This tiny island is made up of huge hills covered in…

Kokoda Track WWII The Kokoda track or otherwise known as the Kokoda trail is commonly known for the battle taken place between Japanese and Australian/American/Papua New Guinean forces. This battle went on for a treacherous four months and both sides had to withstand Papa New Guinea’s climate, tropical terrain, lack of food and lack personal hygiene. The Australian side contained over 56,000 troops, which were always contributing by either being on the ground or taking part in air and sea…

The Real Story of Pi’s Journey What it would be like to live with one of nature’s most dangerous animals? In the book, The Life of Pi, Pi is on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger for 227 days. The reader will learn about his journey and how he survived with the tiger. Interactions or life outside the wilderness with nature’s most dangerous may seem impossible; but loyalty and dominance have not been taken into consideration. Regardless of the animal, they can show loyalty as long as there is love…

Many people know that trash is a big problem on planet Earth. Trash has become a problem in outer space too. Tons of “space junk”are in orbit around the planet. There are more than 22,000 pieces of junk in space around the earth according to BBC news. And these are just the items that we can see from the surface of the earth by telescopes or radars. There are also millions of smaller pieces of junk that we can’t see. Bits of old space rockets or satellites move around the planet at very high…

Santa Cruz Residential Recovery is part of the larger organization Encompass Community Services, an organization that is more of an amalgamation of smaller organizations united under one umbrella organization. Encompass Community Services and all of its various programs serve the local Santa Cruz county area, which includes westside Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Aptos, Capitola, Live Oak, Soquel, and Twin Lakes. The majority of the services offered take on a patron-client type relationship as is…

was the most expensive U.S. construction project costing at 350 million dollars. Also it gave power to the U.S. and exemplified them as a world power also. In the video it summarizes how the U.S. has been gaining power throughout countries in the Pacific, and the Panama Canal would allow it to grow even more power linking it to Atlantic Ocean countries also. This evidence basically summarizes of how the Panama Canal gave the US power and linking the oceans would create easier paths for US…

Sugar was beginning to take up root in Hawaii. It would inevitably change the face and fate of the Sandwich Isles, causing foreigners to invest in the industry exponentially. But it is not sugar that is as essential in holding Hawaii for now. It would be land. Land, in foreign eyes, was a pivotal element of maintaining influence there, and they needed more of it. More land to cultivate crops, more land to seemingly make the native populus more productive, more; because it was a right (Cachola).…

In the summer of 1944, the allied advance in the Pacific theatre had reached the Marianas island chain. The second largest island in this chain, Saipan, lies 1,464 miles from the Japanese capital of Tokyo. With the completion of the Marshall Island campaign, US command determined that due to its proximity to the Japanese mainland, the Japanese held island of Saipan would be the next target. On 25 May, 1944, Task force 58 set sail from Hawaii to begin preparations for the assault. Strategic…

Hawaii would be a rather uncomfortable place to live by the end of this century. The number of tropical storms striking the archipelago, which is the strip of water containing the islands that make up Hawaii, is expected to rise in the Pacific. When climate change increases significantly, researchers from Japan, China and Hawaii have calculated an increase in the number of cyclones reaching the shores. On average an extra one or two cyclones per year are projected to affect Hawaii, as opposed to…

The country Japan is off the east coast of main land Asia neighboring the Pacific Ocean. It is also known as “the land of the rising sun” or simply “Nippon.” It has very mountainous terrain and Archipelago Island, offers lush forest, hot springs and active volcanoes, and the most notable Mountain is Mount Fuji. Many small kingdoms came to together to united around the capital Nara; around the 4th and 8th centuries. Around this period, agriculture improved dramatically and adopted new ideas from…