South Pacific

The biggest issue for the annexation of Hawaii dealt with American-Hawaiian sugar planting corporations. Perhaps if Hawaii decided to become a territory of the United States, most of this business could abstain the McKinley tariff. The McKinley tariff had a terrible effect on Hawaii. Over time Hawaii had gained the interest of American businessmen in the remunerative sugar trade. Because of the Federal Government, providing noble terms to the sugar planters of Hawaii in the convention of 1849…

Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, is known as one of the most prominent explorers in the history of navigation. Da Gama was employed by the king of Portugal to find a trade route to India. The successes from his explorations and discoveries had a significantly positive impact on his home country. However they had quite the opposite on the countries which he came across on his journey. The explorer Vasco da Gama was born in Sines, Portugal in about the year 1460. Da Gama always had great…

Post-Apocalyptic Life in Hawaii Hundreds of years ago, our founding fathers made the Islands of Hawaii their own kingdom. Since the beginning of time, Hawaii has always been independent. Looking through the history of our home state, we have come a long way. The people have been through many trials and tribulations, and if we were able to get through those many things, whose to say that we can’t get through this as well. For many years, our people have continuously fought for our rights and…

resources using APA style guidelines as needed. Seattle is located at latitude 47.60’N, longitude 122.33’W (Worldatlas, 2015). Seattle is located on Puget Sound which connects to the Pacific Ocean (Worldatlas, 2015). Seattle is in the northern-western part of the State of Washington between the Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Mountain Range. Map: Image source: (Worldatlas, 2015) 3. Regional Significance: What is the geographic significance of the area of your country or city’s location within…

lancehead viper. It is the only place the so-called ‘world’s deadliest snake’ is known to live. Access to this island is banned by the Brazilian Government. In the past, many humans have been killed by its deadly inhabitants.” There are many mysteries in South America. Snake Island is one of them. From the species of snakes, to the stories, to the island itself, Snake Island has many questions that have yet to be answered. One of the things that makes Snake Island so mysterious is the species…

theory’s for why and how the Polynesians spread across the pacific, but there is no definite answer. So I’ve collected information from many different websites to create an explanation on how the Polynesians travelled across the entire pacific. The early Polynesians were intelligent explorers who settled in remote islands in the pacific. The Polynesians are descendants of the Lapita people who lived on the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The Lapita people settled in Fiji, New…

The lessons that the readers can learn from this text is to always be cautious about Hawaii’s ecosystem. In paragraph 1, it says,” They have strict rules for importing animals. They carefully screen all incoming pets. Who could blame them? They've had problems with new animals in the past”. In this section, they are talking about how Hawaiians are wary of letting new animals in. They are wary because of one past experience that went wrong. In paragraph 2, it explains how the Black rat was…

Before the Battle After the Battle of the Coral Sea in May of 1942, the Japanese still sought to capture portions of the Pacific Ocean and land within those portions, including the Midway Island. The mastermind behind these plans, Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, was mainly hoping to secure the Samoa Islands, Fiji and Australia to expand territory, with the capturing of the Midway Island only being a problem due to its proximity to the United States. The plan for the Island contained a ruse that…

Tsunamis can form in a variety of ways; they are produced by earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, and other seismic disturbances of the sea floor. In the deep open ocean, tsunami waves are usually less than 1 meter and are hardly noticeable. However, they are much longer and travel much faster than ordinary wind waves. They can have wavelengths of 240 kilometers and travel at over 700 kilometers per hour. As tsunami waves approach the shore, shoaling occurs and the waves become dangerous.…

Amache Relocation Center December 7 1941, Japan launched a devastating attack on America’s naval base in Hawaii, like fuel in a fire we were engulfed into the burning war with the Axis. Executive Order 9066 was signed 75 days after Pearl harbor and 74 days after America joined World War 2 on February 19, 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The order evacuated and rounded up 120,000 fellow Americans with Japanese heritage in to one of 10 relocation camps, or also called internment camps.…