Guam

Master Sergeant Felix L. Perez Jr distinguished himself with exemplary meritorious service in positions of great importance and increased responsibility throughout his 29 year career and service to the U.S. Army. His career culminated as a Senior Non-Commissioned Officer, Engineer, Observer/Coach – Trainer for the 3-315th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 177th Armored Brigade; a multi-component training brigade within First Army Division East. Master Sergeant Perez's meticulous insight, direction,…

Recycling is defined as “the process of making or manufacturing new products from a product that has originally served its purpose” (Dictionary.com), which simply means reusing old things and process them to produce new useful items. Recycled aluminum cans can be melted down and created into new aluminum cans or parts of bicycles (Recycle Everywhere). Recycling is known to be beneficial to the environment. It uses less energy to create new materials, prevents pollution by reducing the need to…

prohibits the U.S. territories from voting in a popular vote or having representatives in the electoral college. Currently, there are about 5 million U.S. citizens who are not allowed to vote because of where they live; this includes: Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. In a recent video, John Oliver, of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, he states, “residents of America 's island territories can 't vote because the Supreme Court…

World War two started for the United States in December of 1941. Be that as it may, the world was at war on three continents; Asia, Europe and Africa. It began with small battles between Japan and China over “Japanese imperialist policy aimed at expanding its influence politically and militarily in order to secure access to raw material reserves. Other economic resources in the area, particularly food and labor, and engage war with others in the policy context of aggressive modernized militarism…

ambassador to the US had given America peace medals, unaware of the attack that was to take place only hours after he had actually left America. What many of people don 't know, Pearl Harbor wasn 't the only place the Japanese attacked they also attacked Guam, Midway, Hong Kong, and even the US territory of the…

The first 12 years of my life I avoided reading or writing because I associated it with school work and if there was one thing I avoided at all cost it was that. My first year and a half of school was on a tiny island named Guam and the school was probably far, far below any standards back then. The teachers could spank the children in front of the class and my teacher in particular chose a whale bone as the weapon of choice. I think one of the hardest things was that we were not taught in…

Spanish-American War took place in 1898. On the April 12th, Theodore Roosevelt resigned his executive position and quickly organized the “Rough Riders” to fight in the war. Americans defeated the Spanish easily then became an imperial power taking over Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Things were still a little heated between the two of them; and on May 1st, George Dewey led the U.S navy into Manila. Furthermore, the U.S destroyed the Spanish fleet and stayed in the Philippines for…

grandfather and how much of an impact he is on my life. I learned a lot from my grandfather and I enjoyed shadowing him. He is actually like a mini GPS because he has been almost everywhere because he was stationed many places in the navy. He went to Guam, Iceland, Alaska, Virginia, Scotland, and Washington DC and soon he ended up here in the town of Claremont North Carolina. But a little bit after being in the navy he decided to marry my grandmother Teresa Isenhour at age twenty one and then he…

was fun and stuff because my dad is in the military. First, we had moved to England and stayed there for three years. Then after that, we headed back to the US and went to Utah for six years, and that’s where I started school, after that, I went to Guam for about a year and a half, and it was a peaceful tropical place. Finally, we left again, but we took three planes to head back home. First, it was Hawaii, then California, and last Utah to stay at my friend’s house for few days. Well after…

War is sometimes the main reason for people skedaddling their homes. Before war or other catastrophe, refugees had good lives, they had everything that they needed, good clothes, houses, food, and financial progress, but after war their lives got twisted ‘inside out’, they had to skedaddle their homes. In Inside Out And Back Again page 1 stanza 2, it says, “Every Tet we eat sugary lotus seeds and glutinous rice cakes. We wear all new clothes even underneath”. In ‘Children of War’ by Arthur Brice…