Little Manila

On August 6, 1945, two atomic bombs were launched and dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. According to History.com's article on the "Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki", over 120,000 people died instantly including the 11,000 that suffered from blast induced injuries and burns due to radiation. Innocent lives such as senior citizens, animals, families with small children and babies died tragically. 90% of the population in those two cities were wiped out. As of 2017, the United States…

“Okay, I can do this. I can run this 26.2 mile long race.” This was what I had been telling myself since the start of the week in preparation for my marathon — which was happening today. The reason why I decided I wanted to run a marathon was because of the influence of my sister. It was up in Okanagan where my family and I cheered for my sister as she was participating in the Okanagan Marathon. As soon as she completed the race, and although exhausted, I saw how happy and relieved she was, and…

Millions know Louisa for her ever important children’s novel “Little Women,” but her abilities reached far beyond juvenile fiction, she also wrote autobiographical adult fiction, a sentimental adult novel, an experimental adult novel, and sensation stories (4). One of Louisa’s first big publications was a grouping…

T he Hindenburg was built by Germans and there were many people of different nationalities on board before it crashed including a German ministry (Colonel). This disaster started the end of the airship transportation. There was a total of ninety two people on the Hindenburg at the time that it crashed. The Hindenburg had a smoking lounge despite being filled with hydrogen at the time. The gas cells for earlier zeppelins were made of goldbeaters skin (the outer membrane of cattle intestines) the…

The beach was my favorite song. The gull’s obnoxious caws as they flew overhead hunting for snappers, the toddlers laughing at the mischievous waves that grazed their unexpecting toes, the running dialogue and staccato beats of laughter that danced between me and my friends: every sound was a note in the ever-familiar symphony of the bay. When I was here, the rest of the world seemed strikingly bleak. Nothing could compare to the rickety green dock called my name, the soft sand that warmed my…

I feel like most of my beliefs are extremely old fashioned especially when it comes to relationships, the way we dress, and technology. The majority of my beliefs about my relationships stem from being raised in the south and being a southern Baptist. I feel that a man should lead his family in all things, especially when it comes to religion. Also, because of my southern Baptist raising or spiritual beliefs, I am strongly against having sex before marriage. I feel like it is something that is…

Drafts of Nancy drew Case background When Nancy was driving, she saw a little girl. She was in the middle of the road and the truck kept on honking her. When the girl went to the side of the road she fell off a shallow cliff and Nancy went together. The little girl’s great aunt told Nancy to bring her in. The great aunt thanked Nancy for getting Judy backup. She said that Judy’s parents had died in a boat explosion and they left very less money for her. A cousin of the aunt's father, Josiah…

When we got home for Las Vegas I knew America was going to be so beyond mad at me but we had to get married in that moment, I can't describe the feeling I had for him right then and there and I had to do something to express how I felt so we said “Screw it, we're getting married” but now we're happily married laying on the new couch in Travis’s apartment. Im slowly getting eaten up inside waiting until America comes home so I can show her the ring and let her get her anger out for me going…

Illegal Book Report Book Hook: This little girl named Nora was left with her mom and grandma by her dad to go over the border from Mexico to America. Now she is 15 and lives with her mom and grandma. There dad stop sending money to help them pay for things. So with the money they have Nora and her mom decide to go over the border to go find her Dad. With the long exhausting trip over the border in the back of a fruit truck having trouble surviving in Texas is extremely difficult. Trying to…

Glenn Theodore Seaborg; born April 19, 1912 in Ishpeming, Michigan was a well-known Chemist. After moving to Los Angeles, California at the age of 10, he graduated valedictorian of his 1929 High School class at David Starr Jordan High School. In 1937, he received his Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley after enrolling at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1929 for his undergraduate degree. After receiving his Ph. D., Dr. Seaborg spent time as a personal…