Solomon Islands

Polynesia, a small island northwest of Tahiti, is a beautiful vacation spot with the right amount of peace, relaxation and amusement. “Bora Bora, the land of coral beaches, pink ginger and tropical perfumes will be the bit of paradise you return to in your dreams, time after time”(Williams 15+). When traveling in Bora Bora, people can go around the whole island in only one day. Bora Bora is known as the best island around. It is also known as the most romantic place on the island in French…

June 1 1937, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan departed from Miami and began their 29 000 mile journey heading east. One place they planned to land was on Howland Island, located between Hawaii and Australia. However, the island was a difficult spot for landing, only being 1,5 miles long and half a mile wide. On the 2 June 1937, Amelia Earhart and Frank Noonan just simply disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. The U.S Navy and coast Guard launched…

In Death of a Salesman there is a large amount of false hope present throughout the entire film. Linda provides the support her family needs in order for them to all stay together, even if the things she supported were not true. She supported her husband, and two sons even as they were lost and disorganized. Linda’s support toward her family leads the audience to recognize the theme of lost identity. Throughout the film Linda’s positive attitude influences Willy, Biff, and Happy. Willy’s…

in 1954, the novel demonstrate of a boy Ralph, whom was not the strongest boy but show better understanding of people, which gives him better leadership character than of Jack. The novel is about a group of British boys who got stuck on a deserted island and without any adult supervision they tried to govern themselves that ended with a disastrous result. In the story, there are two older boys; Jack and Ralph,…

daydream and talks to the pig’s head on the stake. In Simon’s hallucination, the head becomes the Lord of the Flies. The pig says that this Beast is something you can not hunt or kill and that he is within all humans. While a great storm builds over the island; Simon starts to walk back towards the other boys. As he stumbles through the jungle, he discovers the beast that the twins thought they saw. It was a dead man who had parachutes from the sky and fell onto the rocks. The scene scares him…

Do you know what the Roanoke colony was? The Roanoke colony is referred to as the “lost colony”,because nobody knows what happened to them.In late 1500’s the English tried to make their first settlement in the New world off the coast of North Carolina.The first settlers soon returned to England because of a shortage of food and Indian attacks.In 1587 a seconded colony went back to the same place where a man named John White became their leader.John White returned to England to get more supplies…

Flight has always been the dream of men. Since the time of Chinese military kites, mankind has utilized the air as a method of war, exploration, travel, and thrill. Pushed to the side were women. Before 1908, no woman had ever soloed in an airplane. In September of 1908, Thérèse Peltier, a French woman, set that record with a 200 metre flight in a Voison boxwite at Turin, Italy. Two years later, two women in the United States would follow Peltier into the sky: Blaunche Stuart Scott and Bessie…

Kim Edwards was born on May 4, 1958 in Killeen, Texas. Though, she was raised in Lexington, Kentucky. She teaches in her former University, the University of Iowa. She does not have much information about her personal life rather than just basic facts like her birthday and birthplace, in the back of her works, let alone the internet. She does share some information though in a 2007 Barnes and Noble Interview in which she shares a bit of her wit. This interview reveals her as a very witty,…

pessimistic in bleak situations, then the group loses its self-confidence and optimism. For example, Ralph is the democratically elected leader of the school boys, whose plane crashed on the island. His first order of business was to make a signal fire for passing ships to notice that there was someone on that island that the ship was supposed to rescue. Furthermore, Ralph had the group of boys go up the mountain on the…

My favorite book is ''Portas Abertas: Três meses na Europa sem um centavo no bolso''. It's about a woman that traveled for 92 days in Europe and visited 14 countries without money. Aline Campbell is a Brazilian plastic artist woman that decided to live a unique experience just believing in the goodness of strangers. She traveled for three months where she took rides and stayed in the house of strangers, she just bought the airline tickets and flew to Germany to start this adventure. She tell…