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The United States (U.S.) government has no greater role in today’s world than to provide strong leadership to the global community and to ensure that we safeguard our national and strategic interests from physical and economic encroachment and provide unfretted protection to our U.S. citizens in an uncertain and unpredictable world. America’s prosperity as a nation remains unapparelled in the world history and our leadership within the international community serves as an exemplar for all states…

The occasion in this particular speech is the nation being addressed about Japan’s multiple attacks on pacific territory of the U.S including Pearl Harbor. This is supported by the text when it states: “the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan”. Moreover, the third component of SOAPSTone…

Shackleton Case Study: Was He a Successful Leader? Summary In late 1914, the ship Endurance, left the port of South Georgia Island for their final stretch to their South Pole destination. Sir Ernest Shackleton, their illustrious leader, had been at sea before and had even attempted this perilous journey prior to this sailing. Shackleton was starting this journey with renewed vigor as he could sense this would be one of his last chances to accomplish his life-long goal of traversing the southern…

Over the years, our world has become filled with so much trash. Not only has the land become filled with trash, but the oceans and bodies of water around us have become more polluted with trash. What people do not understand is, it is not very hard to pick up a piece of paper, or a plastic bottle that is lying around them. Our country’s citizens have become too lazy to care about what our country looks like. These pieces of garbage are not only making our country’s environment look bad, but is…

How Stuff Works, MNN, and Discovery news agree, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a large amount of garbage that has been thrown into the ocean or runoff debris from land. This collection of waste is made up of trash, toxic runoff, fishing gear, plastics and other pollutants. According to One Green Planet, the Garbage Patch is 2x the size of Texas and has 3 million tons of litter. Most people believe it is trash visible with the naked eye, according to National Oceanic Service and Ocean…

Narwhals are, From many perspectives, the dominant form of life on earth. Narwhals continue to dictate and control many of the ecosystems the inhabit. Narwhals have undergone an interesting history as they evolved from their Bohaskia monodontioides ancestor. They have a long horn that come out of their head. They are like the jedis of the sea. The life cycle of a narwhal starts out with it being born at 5 feet and with no horn/tooth or spots. For 20 months it stays by the mother. The adult…

emigrate there with all his Maori friends. This inquiry will help me to look at two push factors and two pull factors that may have affected my ancestor and all the Maori people who came with him to emigrate to another island at the bottom of the South Pacific. Push factor 1: One of the huge problems in Hawaiki is that there was an overpopulation. Too many people can end up in a riot causing wars and even overcrowding. Dangerous war had happened all around the island. Mostly civil wars.…

up of lots of lava and volcanoes, is a place with a very unusual history and it is one of the most visited places in the world. Hawaii is one of the places in which I have not been to yet and I really want to go there. Hawaii is located in the pacific ocean which makes it the only State in the world that is completely surrounded by water. Hawaii is also broken up into 7 different islands. As many people may know, not every island is populated with people. Hawaii is also one of the only main…

The Panama Canal. For quite a long time, travel between the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean required a long trip. A canal in Panama would shorten the voyage between the two oceans greatly. This was the basis of the idea unto creating the Panama Canal. In 1881, a private French company had previously attempted to construct such a canal as well. The project would last twenty years and would later eventually be scrapped due to financial problems. In the end the French had ended up spending…

Chinese - American Immigrants There are two topics I would like to talk about: education and immigration. Education played a crucial role in my life. Education is important to improve the level of national knowledge, update the living standards, get a decent work, gain a comfortable life, and help others. When I came to the United States, as a new immigrant I encountered many problems. For example, nobody could tell me how to do paper work, how to look for a good college and how to find a good…