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    Australia is the smallest continent. Most people these days’ associate Kangaroos, and the pop artist, Iggy Azealia to the country. I myself was guilty of that until I had a conversation with someone from the Oceanic country and became enlightened. In order for the employees to enter or leave the Magic Kingdom, they have to get brought in by a company authorized bus, unless you are one of the very few that has been granted gate access. As I sat on the bus, to head back to my car after a long day…

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    James Cook Research Paper

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    12. James Cook James Cook, a captain of the English Royal Navy and fellow seaman, disproved the theory about the “Southern Continent” when he led the first expedition to cross the Antarctic Circle. Throughout his expeditions, Cook created numerous charts of unexplored islands in the Pacific Ocean. On his third voyage south he discovered many islands, including Hawaii. Cook’s discoveries and numerous charts became invaluable to the future English explorers. 13. Vitus Bering The Danish explorer…

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    Ni Ihau Culture

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    Hawaiian language is a language that has one form associated with it and all communities found within Hawaii have spoken this same language since the land was first discovered by Polynesians in the island of Ni‘ihau (the forbidden island). The Ni’ihau community is what I will be focusing on in this paper, since it is known to be the first island in Hawaii that was Goddess Pele’s first home (Ni`ihau Cultural Heritage Foundation). After the islands were inhabited by the early Polynesians,…

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    Egypt and Australia: The Power Behind European Domination Treading along the shore with Jared Diamond, New Guinean local politician Yali casually asks, "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?" (Diamond 14) As a response to Yali, Jared Diamond first negates the assumption that the biological differences in humans from different parts of the globe affected the rate of development of their civilizations…

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    James Cook, the British navigator and explorer, rose from humble beginnings to become the most legendary seaman of his time. Moreover, he discovered and accurately charted the entire coastline of New Zealand and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and he was also the first person to explore the Antarctic region. Born on 27th October 1728, at Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, James Cook was the son of a Scottish farm worker, and he spent most of his childhood on a farm near Great Ayton, where he…

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    Walmart Level 2 Unit 4

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    'A path from a point approximately 330 metres east of the most south westerly corner of 17 Batherton Close, Widnes and approximately 208 metres east-south-east of the most southerly corner of Unit 3 Foundry Industrial Estate, Victoria Street, Widnes, proceeding in a generally east-north-easterly direction for approximately 28 metres to a point approximately 202 metres east-south-east of the most south-easterly corner of Unit 4 Foundry Industrial Estate, Victoria Street, and approximately 347…

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    The reading that is more informative and useful for a person who knows nothing about the sugar plantations in Hawaii is Article 1 “Hawaii The Land of Many” because it involves more of the plantation life and what the laborers do, while in Article 2 it speaks about the demise of the sugar industry in Hawaii. It states in Article 1 paragraph 2 that the bulk of immigrants coming to Hawaii began in the mid 1800s. Hawaii’s sugar industry was booming hastily, and sugar plantation owners were in need…

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    My great-aunt likes to cook. Since she was a teenage girl, she learned how to cook either by books or in culinary schools. She quits learning now and focuses more on her job, but she still cooks a different food each day. In the kitchen cabinet, there is hundreds of bags of flour and seasoning. She also bought an average-sized freezer to store even more food…

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    Have you ever wondered about how people back then worked? Back then so many things were very different. It wasn’t easy as it is now. People that worked in the 1800 in Hawaii can show that. Plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800s was not easy. Living conditions were harsh, the reason why is because of living situations, racial and gender differences, and labor with working in the fields. Conditions were crowded. Often, two couples would share 10-foot-square room that had a kitchen and a home-made…

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    supporters of captain James cook believe that James cook is one of history's smartest British naval officers. in this lecture James cook encyclopaedia Britannica argues that “in 1768 the royal society in, conjunction with the admiralty. was organizing the first scientific expedition to the Pacific, and the rather obscure 40-year-old James cook was appointed commander of the expedition. hurriedly commissioned as a lieutenant.(“James Cook”). Based upon this research, it is clear that James cook…

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