South Pacific

Canada has most of the richest people in the world. These people are very powerful due to high net worth. Mainly, their wealth comes from the investment they have made. They are the most powerful people in their cities. For example, David Thomson, who is the richest person in Canada, resides in Toronto and owns a company known as Thomson Reuters Woodbridge Ltd (Canadian Business, 2013).He is the most power in Ontario province due to his enormous wealth. His wealth in 2014 was $ 30.74 billion…

The 16th-century Spanish explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was a governor of an province in New Spain (Mexico), when he heard about the so-called Seven Golden Cities located in the north. In 1540, Coronado led a Spanish expedition up Mexico’s western coast and into the region that is now known as the southwestern United States. The explorers didn't findn what they were looking for but they did find something Grand! In the begging Franciso was Born in circa in 1510 into a noble family in…

that destroyed a few cities. This earthquake happened in Prince Williams Sound, Alaska. It had a magnitude of 9.2, and the earthquake had the intensity of VII. The fault that the earthquake occurs make the boundary between the North American and the Pacific plate. Paragraph B During the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake a lot of buildings and properties were destroyed. The earthquake caused a tsunami and many landslides that destroyed Valdez, Anchorage, and Seward. The earthquake caused the…

Hawaii is a state with a vast economy made up of many industries. The most prominent industries include tourism, military/government, real estate, and agriculture. Not only is the state bustling with tourists, but it is a major military area with bases for the Army, Navy, Marine, Coast Guard, and Air Force. According to Newsmax, Hawaii is “second in the nation for sugar cane production and the first in the nation for pineapple production” (Jones, 2015). The economy of Hawaii has been steadily…

The Suez Canal is a man-made waterway that connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. The canal was dug up through the dessert by hand. The Suez Canal became an important route in the world trade market that provided a shortcut between Europe and Asia by eliminating the long journey around the African continent. The Suez Canal is very similar to the much more known, Panama Canal. Ferdinand de Lesseps wanted the Suez Canal to be able to be used by everyone in the world…

Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that allowed for the relocation of all those living in coastal Washington, Oregon, and California with Japanese ancestry. Those living on the West coast were relocated to desolate places far away from the Pacific Ocean and placed in camps with other Japanese Americans. There were a few reasons for the relocation of Japanese Americans in the middle of February of 1942 and up until 1945 when some were just barely beginning to be released. The reasons…

character, Pi, is left without his family and only accompanied by an untrained Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, Pi is compelled to train the tiger for his own survival and faces several physical and spiritual challenges. The existence of these challenges is because of where the novel is set, Pi alone with the tiger, a lifeboat, a raft, and the Pacific Ocean. As a result of overcoming these obstacles, Pi is forced to change and further develop as a character. The…

Asian Story Theater The Asian Story Theater is located in my hometown of San Diego, California. The mission of the theater is to broaden multicultural awareness and understanding by dramatizing Asian and Pacific Island stories, arts, and themes for family audiences. The Asian Story Theater began in 1989, when they were dramatizing Chinese folk tales as a project sponsored by the San Diego Chinese Center. Their first production was The White Snake, presented at the Lyceum Space Theatre, and then…

The Ocean "The Ocean" written by Nathaniel Hawthorne was published in 1833. This poem describes the ocean and the symbolism that the ocean has. Being written over a century ago, this poem still describes the ocean as it stands today. The ocean is a very difficult place to conquer. It is always changing and is never the same. Hawthorne demonstrates these attributes to the ocean throughout his poem while giving in to a deeper meaning. Nathaniel Hawthorne is a very well-known author. One of…

likely be "that's impossible". But Yann Martel wrote a book giving similar instructions on how to do just that. In Yann Martel's novel, Life of Pi, readers follow Pi, a 16-year-old boy, throughout his journey of being stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger for 227 days. Throughout the book, the most definitive theme is survival. Pi is put through a lot of dangerous situations and the challenge of survival can be looked at, at many different levels. Not only does he learn to…