Pacific-10 Conference

Chile is the longest north-south trending country in the world at over 4,600 km in length, however on average it is just 150 km wide from west to east. The main indigenous people of southern and central Chile are called the Mapuche. Today just 5% of the population is Mapuche or other native people. The official language of Chile is Spanish. Chile is home to some 17 million people (17,216,945) as of July 2013. The capital city of Chile is Santiago which has a population of around 7 million…

Canada is the second largest country in the world, after Russia, and covers approximately 10 000 000 squared km. Canada’s population is 35.16 million as of 2013 and their unemployment rate is 7.1% in 2015 which puts them above both the U.S and the U.K. With mountains in the west, vast open greenland, and many forests and rivers, Canada has huge access to both natural and agricultural resources and because 90% of Canada is inhabitable, they have huge amounts of resource wealth and are a…

This Is who I am Living in Hawaii all my life I grew up with the hawaiian culture all my life. Our famous dessert is the sweet haupia dish. My culture identity involves food, education, and hobbies. These things make up of who I am and how I identity myself as. My first culture identity values is food. In my culture as a Hawaiian we always eat are Lau Lau, Poke, Sweet Potato, Haupia, Poi, Kulolo, Lomi Salmon, squid luau, chicken long rice, to our ono Kalua pig, and many more we enjoy. We…

“Drowning the Oceans in Plastic” Summary The article, “Drowning the Oceans in Plastic,” by Mark Gold and Cara Horowitz is about how marine pollution is a global and international problem that costs billions of dollars each year to clean. To mend the problem, the people of this world should not litter. To begin, plastic garbage is extremely costly. In the article, it states, “… 20 million tons of plastic pollution enters the ocean each year… litter is also costly.” (1) This shows how a lot of…

On the early Saturday morning, October 3, 2015, I took the Blue and Gold Ferry from pier 41 of San Francisco to Angel Island to attend a Nikkei Pilgrimage organized by the Nichi Bei Foundation. Since I grew up and got educated in San Francisco, Angel Island is not a strange place for me. Throughout the years, I have taken many school field trips to Angel Island to learn about the tragic history of the island. I have learned about the “Chinese’s Angel Island experience” so I am familiar with the…

Pahoa, Hawai`i Versus Huntington Beach, California: Contrast Paragraph (First informal draft) Moving to Pahoa, Hawai`i from Huntington Beach, California I have noticed how different the lifestyle is in three ways. I see this when I am driving, when I am communicating with locals, and when I am making purchases. First significant differences occur between driving in Pahoa verses Huntington Beach. People in Pahoa seem to drive a lot slower, always taking their time. On the other hand, in…

Shensi China Jan 23 1556 This earthquake occurred in the Shaanxi province (formerly Shensi), China, about 50 miles east-northeast of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi. This earthquake has took 830,000 lives and ground fissures landslides and city walls were destroyed. This quake also affected Liuyang 500 miles away from shensi. 2. 1964 Alaska Earthquake. A magnitude of 9.2 earthquake shook alaska and created many damage in communities. Anchorage has many damaged because of no earthquake proof…

The Blacktip Reef Shark is native to the tropical coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The Blacktip is listed under kingdom animalia, phylum chordata, class Chondrichthyes, order Carcharhiniformes, family Carcharhinidae, and genus Carcharhinus. This shark was given its name based off of the blacktip at the end of its dorsal fin. This fin appears very vivid in the shark’s youth, but fades with age. The Blacktip Reef Shark will most likely grow to be 4.9 feet and weigh roughly 40 pounds,…

i believe that giraffes are a great part of the ecosystem. A giraffe’s habitat is in africa, usually they roam around in tall grasses and open planes. They can also survive in woodlands, giraffes will move to anywhere they can find food. Their home range is between 8 and 50 square miles, their natural habitat seems to be shrinking due to humans building roads. Their habitat is getting smaller and smaller leading them to going back to the same feeding areas before it has really had a chance…

Easter Island can be a representation of today’s modern world view and actions. Historians speculate that the people from Easter Island became extinct due to the society using too many resources too quickly. Due to the island being so being so remote they only had a small amount of resources that they could use. With the people not realizing that they have a limited resource base they used many trees to move a lot of the stones around the island. This is what caused a chain of events to occur.…