Pacific War

immigration policy can be affected by external international circumstances, and how the government found ways to construct legislation regarding these events to serve their own interests. Examples of this are shown in the prohibition of strikes through the War Labour Policy of 1918, massive deportations, and the overall exclusionary policies towards groups with “peculiar habits” and assumed to possess a “probable inability to become readily assimilated” (p. 187). For much of our country’s…

idea that “He who holds Alaska will hold the world,” became popular during the Second World War and focused attention on a little known theater of that war. Alaska was a gateway for both the United States and Canada to the Pacific. Though the United States already had the Pacific coastline with Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Washington, Alaska was strategically useful for trade, resources, and even possibly war. While some American decision-makers found strategic value in the Aleutian Islands…

While war in Europe and in the Pacific was in full scale, the United States remained neutral. It wasn’t until December 7, 1941 that America was forced to enter the war by the Empire of Japan. After Japan’s invasion of Indochina in 1940, diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Japan deteriorated. To discourage any further aggression President Roosevelt moved the U.S. Pacific fleet from its previous base in San Diego to the island of Hawaii. Japanese high command feared that the U.S. Pacific…

happen? People! Guess who can stop that, EVERYONE! Innocent animals are dying because of litter in the ocean or any body of water. What are we going to do about it. So many sea animals are dying because of littering. Most of it is happening off the Pacific Coast. The animals are eating the litter and getting stuck in it. Leatherback turtles have been around for 100 million years, and they're endangered. The hammerhead shark mistakes plastic bags for jellyfish. These sharks are also…

I picked the Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch from all other options because I use products made of plastic daily and I wanted to learn something new. From the documentary title, I knew I would learn something new because I never heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and I did not know what to expect. One of the main ideas that I took away from the documentary was the fact that plastic is virtually impossible to destroy. In the documentary, it illustrated how the beaches…

When someone throws a plastic wrapper out the car window, or down the sewer drain, does it ever occur to them where that trash goes? According to litteritcostsyou.org, 1.9 billion tons of litter ends up in the ocean each year. Plastic is polluting Earth at a disturbing rate; humans are essentially killing themselves and killing everything else that surrounds them off this planet due to prolonged littering. What most people don’t know, is that litter such as plastic bags and cigarette butts, do…

The film Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a documentary directed by Angela Sun and was released on April 22, 2014. This film dives into the desolate "island" known as the great pacific garbage patch which is actually not an island despite what people think. This "island" actually lies underneath the water's surface, which leads to it being unnoticed by the public. Plastic is the main cause of this issue and not only litters the oceans, but it is also harming the marine life.…

Introduction The two men that I will be comparing today are Louis Riel and John A. Macdonald. Both of these men have contributed many things that have shaped our country that we see today, and are arguably two of the most important figures in Canada's history. Louis Riel was a Métis man who was born on October 22, 1844, on the Red River Settlement in Saint-Boniface. Riel was fluent in both English and French. During his lifetime, Riel achieved many great successes and inspired many people.…

militaries besieged U.S. troop in Philippine Island. The supplies were difficult to transport to island and the bad situation caused debility of soldiers. John Conroy’s letter also referred the bad living condition on Guadalcanal, an island in southern Pacific Ocean, and he described there were “little food or hope.” Allen Spach’s letter had more description, “with no supplies coming in we had to eat coconuts, captured rice, crab meat, fish heads.” Under difficulties, militaries had to collect…

In the summer of 1944, the allied advance in the Pacific theatre had reached the Marianas island chain. The second largest island in this chain, Saipan, lies 1,464 miles from the Japanese capital of Tokyo. With the completion of the Marshall Island campaign, US command determined that due to its proximity to the Japanese mainland, the Japanese held island of Saipan would be the next target. On 25 May, 1944, Task force 58 set sail from Hawaii to begin preparations for the assault. Strategic…