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How I Started Playing Basketball Do you remember the first time you started playing your favorite sport? If so, when did you start playing your favorite sport? I remember when the time I started playing my favorite sport, which is basketball. I started playing basketball at a very young age. It was back at home where I started playing basketball and during my middle school year, that’s when I start to get better. I glad I started playing basketball at a very young age because I could say that I…

locations feature the words "national park" in their official title, there are as many as 417 national parks, spreading over as many as 84 million acres across America, even extending into territories, including parks in Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. In fact, the National Parks System…

Hospice care has been around longer than one may think. It can be traced back as far as medieval times. The word hospice came from the root word ‘hospitality’ and became known as simply ‘hospice’ in the 1800s and more accordingly was used to describe caring for dying patients. In the beginning a hospice was a place for ill or tired travelers to rest. It became what we now know them as after a physician by the name of Dame Cicely Saunders began working with people with terminal illnesses. She…

Pros and Cons of American Imperialism America is one of the most powerful nations of the world. Its sheer size, economy, territories, and technological advancements make it so influential that many smaller nations or cultures look up to America as if it were a god. Many decades ago, America established its dominance over other nations, particularly during the two world wars by showing off its military prowess and interfering with what are supposedly local affairs of other governments.…

launches a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor (USHMM attack on Pearl Harbor). The following day, U.S. President, Franklin Roosevelt declared war on the Japan (USHMM attack on Pearl Harbor). After Pearl Harbor the Japanese went to Guam and occupied it for a bit (USHMM attack on Pearl Harbor). “But the turning point in the Pacific came with the American naval victory in the battle in midway June 1942 (USHMM attack on Pearl Harbor)¨. After…

Fasten Your Seatbelts! The school bus safety in this time has gotten better and worse but the one thing you don’t see in school buses too often are the seatbelts. According to GHSA.org, 34 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have primary seat belt laws for front seat users. Of these: 18 states, D.C. and 2 territories include rear seats as primary enforcement, 4 states include rear seats as secondary…

his job and fighting in the civil war. As the Vietnam war began, the president of Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu, wanted South Vietnam’s military to protect Sagion. As the war ended, his father left immediately, which Lam and his family were already in Guam with other refugees. Few days after, Lam arrived the United States and lived in the apartment with only two bedrooms in San Francisco. His mother cried almost every night because she had not hear about news from her husband since the day she was…

Hansen disease. Leprosy can be found in many part of the world. It is common in temperate, tropical, and subtropical climates. About one hundred cases per year are diagnosed in the U.S., mostly in the south, California, Hawaii, and U.S. islands, and Guam.…

naval and military resources and many American lives were lost, also ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu. Oahu, Hawaii was not the only place attacked. Japan also launched an attack Malaya, Hong Kong, Guam, Philippine Islands, and Midway island. Later after the attack, he got the call from Henry Stimson the secretary of war. Roosevelt immediately met with the members of his cabnet and close advisers and he was advised to do a speech outlining…

There has been some discussion on the conditions of North Korea and whether we should get involved. In my opinion I think we should not be indifferent to North Korea. The reasons for why are; it is repeating the past, costing innocent lives, and it is a oppressive dictatorship. Here is a bit of background on North Korea. After the Korean War Korea split into two different parts North Korea and South Korea. North Korea was founded by Kim Jong Sun ever since then it has been a dictatorship. The…