Samoa

words "national park" in their official title, there are as many as 417 national parks, spreading over as many as 84 million acres across America, even extending into territories, including parks in Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. In fact, the National Parks System…

Throughout the Industrial Revolution, many Germans immigrated to the United States in search of a new life. By 1830, 37% of the population spoke German, making it the most commonly spoken language after English. Yet the German immigrants ' ability to coexist with the rest of society was made especially difficult from the late 19th century to World War I. Scholars and authors can agree that American sentiment towards Germany and German-Americans shifted quite rapidly from being tolerant to…

In the Industrial age Progressivism was a central idea (Schultz, 2013). It began with the idea to clean up the cities of the nation. It sought to make changes to reduce poverty, create labor reform and improve housing conditions. Two important groups to this were women and the Social Gospel movement. The Social Gospel movement fought to end poverty and prostitution. Women fought for water sanitation, garbage collection and education for the poor. They fought to end violence against African…

economy and culture. America began to find as many foreign market as possible where US goods can be sold which included the countries in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. In the Latin America, America focused on two countries; Hawaii and Samoa. In Asia, their target was China because of its large population. The route to China was considered to be Philippines so America wanted their influence in Philippines. The political leaders, rich people and merchant, and banks were the main…

conclusion came about through lack of interaction with female members of the community. To counteract this inequality several anthropologists mirrored the actions of previous anthropologists, for example Margaret Mead chose to single out the women in Samoa to study adolescence. Mead has often been criticised for the lack of male interaction included in her work, despite the lack of female interaction included in the work of past anthropologists. Derek Freeman in particular set out to correct…

The Polynesian Islands are a cluster of islands in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean. The secular hymns, or himene, of Tahiti and the French Polynesian Islands serve many purposes. These include storytelling, entertainment [bringue parties], celebration, and spreading cultural awareness. The music of the French Polynesia is logogenic, which means it is word oriented rather than melody oriented. The words in French Polynesian songs must be clearly annunciated, while the accompanying melody is mainly…

R.L. Stevenson Born in 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson grew up in Edinburgh where his father was a well-respected lighthouse engineer. Stevenson almost followed his father’s example, studying engineering at Edinburgh University, but at twenty-one decided to become a writer. His early works consist of essays and travel writing, his first book, An Inward Voyage (1878), describes a canoe trip to Belgium and France. Despite his success with this style of writing and having been a writer of fiction…

The overall cause of World War I is very debatable; however most historians agree that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife was the most immediate cause. This assassination led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia. When Russia began to mobilize due to its alliance with Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia. Finally, Great Britain entered the war against Germany a couple days later and then was against Austria-Hungary. The drivers of these…

Talofa from American Samoa! I am Lusia Pereira, a college instructor at the Teacher Education Department at our community college. I recently returned to full time employment for nearly a year now, after serving in the ministry with my husband and family for twelve years. Prior to ministry work, I had served twenty years as an elementary and high school teacher in public schools. Five of which were served as a developmental English teacher at the community college. I continued as a…

again, Henry Cabot Lodge was one of the main leaders in pushing for advantages in commerce. He wrote that, “In the interest of our commerce...we should build the Nicaragua Canal...we should control the Hawaiian Islands and maintain our influence in Samoa”(Doc B). He also wrote about Cuba, saying, “the island of Cuba, still sparsely settled and of almost unbounded fertility will become to us a necessity”(Doc B). This shows how the first thing that jumped to people’s minds when discussing a mostly…