Pacific Ocean

many theories have emerged about how and where the famous pilot died. According to some researchers, new discoveries on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro may bring us closer than ever to the discovery of what might’ve happened to her. Amelia Earhart’s daring flight around the world was cut short when her plane, the Lockeed Electra, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on June 2, 1937. Shortly after, rescue workers began scouring the area for signs of her and her navigator, Fred…

Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that allowed for the relocation of all those living in coastal Washington, Oregon, and California with Japanese ancestry. Those living on the West coast were relocated to desolate places far away from the Pacific Ocean and placed in camps with other Japanese Americans. There were a few reasons for the relocation of Japanese Americans in the middle of February of 1942 and up until 1945 when some were just barely beginning to be released. The reasons for their…

Yann Martel mentioned this in his famous novel “Life of Pi”，a piece of literature which was then remediated into a movie in 2012. It mainly illustrates the development of the protagonist, Piscine Molitor Patel, and his legendary journey in the Pacific Ocean with an extraordinary companion, a tiger named Richard Parker. This romance narrative follows the narrative circle by possessing childhood curiosity, going through teenage initiation, and finally, overcoming underworld threats and resisting…

each other and the capital of the USA, Washington, D.C., are in North America in between Canada and Mexico. The state Alaska is in the northwest part of North America and the state Hawaii is an island in the Pacific Ocean. The United States is the world's fourth-largest country by area and is the third-largest by population. The largest city in the United States is New York City in the state of New York. A long…

Erosion in Hawaii Introduction: Coastal Erosion is a natural process along the worlds coastlines that occurs through the actions of currents and waves and results in the loss of sediment in some places and accretion in other places. (center for ocean solutions n.d.) Hawaii is one of the most eroded places in the world along the coast. Hawaii is located 4165km West of California and the mainland. (Map of Hawaii. 2014) The two main islands that are been worked on the most for coastal…

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi documents the life of a young man who survives 227 days adrift the vast Pacific Ocean with a tiger on a life boat. Piscine Molitar Patel (Pi for short), was a simple but bright young man who was born to an Indian family. While growing up in Pondicherry India, Pi’s father maintained and operated a zoo, where he was let to roam the zoo and interact with animals and staff. Yet, due to India’s Political unrest, Pi’s family decided to move to Canada and in order to do so they…

Acocella, Joan. "Slaying Monsters." The New Yorker 2 June 2014: 70. Student Edition. Web. 14 Nov. 2015. This literary criticism is about how a man named John Ronald Reuel that many encouraged him to translate the poem Beowulf since the author of this poem is anonymous and unknown. Although he did publish the piece of literature, he did not publish it. Eventually, his son published the piece of literature forty years after the death of his father. Making Beowulf a popular poem at that time. The…

In 1475 Vasco Nunez de Balboa was born in Jerez de los Caballeros, Mexico into a poor family. As a young boy, Vasco Nunez de Balboa dreamed of becoming a famous explorer and a Olympic fencer. However, his Olympic dream never came true and he later became a Spanish conquistador and an explorer to search for wealth in the New World. After Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, Vasco Nunez de Balboa joined an expedition to South America in 1501. A year after joining the expedition,…

Hawaii and Kahoolawe. Honolulu is located on the southeast coast of the third largest island in Hawaii, Oahu. The city is in the North Pacific Ocean and south…

I. Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450 A. The Pacific Ocean 1. Over a period of several thousand years, peoples originally from Asia crossed the water to settle the islands of the East Indies, New Guinea, the Melanesian and Polynesian islands, the Marquesas, New Zealand, and other Pacific islands out to Hawaii. Polynesian use of the sweet potato, domesticated in South America, suggests that they may have reached the Americas. 2. Polynesian migration and establishment of colonies was aided by…