Samoa

latter-day saints. And if he didn’t go on a mission, he would not have met my mother, Talau’ula Sauniaumalemanu. He was upon arriving home from his 2 year mission, while my mother was leaving for hers. They met in the Pago Pago airport in American Samoa. It was love at first sight. When my mother got home from her mission, she and Kapeneta got married the summer of 1993. They had four beautiful kids, me being the third, and their marriage prospered. If my great grandmother, Sunema, hadn’t built…

and it touched audience everywhere. The movie Moana was set at the end of that era, about two thousand years ago, on a fictional island in the Central Pacific Ocean, which drew inspiration from elements of the real-life island nations of Fiji, and Samoa. Moana shows us how we are all ent for a bigger a deeper meaning in life. Moana opens with her grandma telling all the kids of…

resources, bigger army, and more power, but the cons are that the United States could have a conflict with European countries, being disloyal to the government, and this could happen to us. We also took out Japan for trading ,Alaska for resources, Samoa for land, Hawaii to overthrow the queen,…

(“Four Reasons”). Approximately 120,000 Puerto Ricans found themselves unemployed after 1938 (Wilson). In more recent years, President Barack Obama made an executive decision to suspend the wage increase after seeing the damaging effects on American Samoa (a U.S. territory near Fiji) between 2007 and 2009 (Wilson). Raising the wage also means employers have to spend more money on labor costs. In theory, that is fine; however, someone has to pay the money whether it be the consumer or the…

Soccer is played around the world in many different countries and is known as “futbol” outside the United States. The oldest soccer club in the world is Sheffield, which is in South Yorkshire, England. This soccer club was created in 1857, 6 years before soccer rules were even created. When the rules were finally established in 1863, there were 11 teams. (“9 Oldest Soccer Clubs in the World”.) Soccer is the most played sport around the world and is watched and played by at least 1.3 billion…

14 territories. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, a territory is “an area of land that belongs to or is controlled by a government” or one of the parts of the United States that is not a state. These territories include regions like American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and various others. Being a colony also means that the citizens or habitants of these regions do not enjoy all the rights that the residents of the 50 states are entitled…

My family is originally from Afghanistan but I was born in Pakistan and raised in the United States. Growing up, I have always had trouble identifying myself to one particular ethnic group or race. The closest term in the lexicon of our racial language in the U.S. that I would be able to relate to is “Arab”—on the basis of having the same religion but not the same culture. Afghanistan is neither considered an Arab country nor can it be considered Asian. Being a third cultured kid, I have always…

Wiltshire’s case that he makes a home for himself abroad and family too and no longer calls Britain as his home, he calls it a white man’s country. We believe that this story is realistic because it was based on Stevenson’s own experiences on the Samoa that he applied in his novella. From beach life to the local dialect he made it sure that everything is close to real if not actually…

Department of Homeland Security. Among the Hispanic immigrants, 80 percent of them were raised in the Catholic faith. New Catholic immigrants also come from Puerto Rico, Philippines, Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan, Laos, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Tonga, Samoa, Asian India, African countries, and all over the…

The major causes of World War I The Great War (1914-1918) started in Europe as a result of tensions building up between the great European military and political powers. Among the principal causes listed by historians were: imperialism, nationalism, militarism, the system of alliances, domestic political factors and the eastern question regarding the Balkans. In the years leading up to WWI many European nations had empires but the largest of all was the British Empire. Great Britain was…