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“Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan” (American). President Roosevelt said this the day after Japan decided to bomb Pearl Harbor. The bombing of Pearl Harbor affected America in a bad way because there were many causalities as well as many ships lost. The attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, was a tragic event in American history.…

as an outsider community, a group of people that “could not be assimilated” (Wong, 19) into American culture. Although racism was present in Portland, Portland’s Chinese community did not see as much violence as the Chinatowns in San Francisco and Tacoma experienced, and many associated Portland with a safe place for the Chinese. Therefore, the most important factors defining the Chinese American community in Portland were the Chinese Exclusion Acts,…

Being the child of an Ethiopian immigrant was often difficult and forced me to confront certain challenges not regularly faced by most children. First there were the economic difficulties. From the time that I was an infant until I turned eleven, my family lived in Section 8 housing. Despite the challenges of being an immigrant who could not speak English well, my mother worked very hard to provide for my brother and me. I remember becoming her translator after I had first learned to read. I…

Upon entering the Tacoma classroom, I was immediately struck by the overwhelming chaos and noise of the morning breakfast that had just begun. Some students ran about the room, racing with trucks and whooping yells, while other students sat at tables eating the breakfast provided. Because ninety-nine percent of students attending the school are from eligible for free lunch, the entire school is provided free lunch under Title I funding. Title I funding, as issued by the Elementary and Secondary…

Before I went to watch glassblowing, I thought that it was just a hobby and it would be almost impossible to make a living off of it. Upon arrival to the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, I realized that this art form has artists that are both doing this for a living and doing this for a hobby. Glassblowing is an art that everyone should know about but many people have never actually witnessed it. I had the honor of observing and interviewing Lino Tagliapietra, who is considered by most to be the…

Hot, melting cheesy lava dripping down my chin and hanging in strings towards my hands where a slice of pizza laden with black olives, mushrooms and shrimp tempts me to ignore the molten burning and take a bite anyway. I have gone to a nearly extinct pizza parlor of days gone by. My friends and I used to frequent a cousin of this particular chain to sing Karaoke every Sunday, but ours has been closed for over a decade and we have had to trek far from home to find ourselves in the paradise of…

disasters caused by flaws in their engineering design; from their unforgettable experience, engineers put more thought in to the design before crews start construction. For example, engineering students can learn from some well-known catastrophes involved Tacoma Bridge’s collapse, Space Shuttle Challenger explosion disaster, and the most well-known nuclear disaster, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion. An unprecedented nuclear accident connected Chernobyl with…

also had an impact on aspects in my life outside of school and I have had my struggles and triumphs. However, there was uncertainty with what I wanted to learn about this topic and thusly had to spend some time sifting through articles while at the Tacoma Community College library within the online database.…

Theodore Robert Bundy was a serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, burglar, and necrophile. During the 1970’s he murdered a great number of young women and girls. He would lure the young women in his car with his charm, on the passenger side of his vehicle there was no door handle so the women could not escape. He would carry with him many weapons to torture and kill his victims, he would mostly keep the weapons in the trunk of his vehicle. After bundy lured one of his victims into his vehicle he…

Hartinger is an author from Tacoma, Washington. Hartinger struggled as author for many years, because no one admired his work he was very much an amate ur writer. As the years passed Hartinger became a better writer and he wrote his first book that became his famous well-known book…