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    Jack London’s Life’s Impact on “Aloha Oe” Jack London is quoted as saying once, “no mentor but myself”. He gave this quote when he was speaking of other writers, and critics in the title of one of his books (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., 2014). What a writer he turned out to be on the world, and upon literary societies as a whole. A truly talented mentor to himself and others. Most importantly what was he mentoring to himself, and in so doing mentoring and teaching to us also of his lifestyles and

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    About Hawaii The capital of Hawaii is Honolulu (the star on the map shows where the capital is). People have a nickname for the state, they call it the “Aloha State” The current population for Hawaii is 1,360,301. It's pretty small compared to some of the mainland states. Hawaii is located at (21.3000°N, 157.8167°W). Honolulu is 4,957 miles from New York City. We acquired Hawaii in 1959. What happened was a group of sugar and pineapple businessmen, aided by the American minister to Hawaii and supported

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    Filipinos are the second largest ethnicity group in Hawai‘i, right after White or Caucasian. The Filipino race and culture have become a very big part of Hawai‘i’s diverse society. In the 20th century Filipino ancestors took the risk, a gamble taken by many around the world to travel 5,445 miles from the Philippines to Hawai‘i. Hawai‘i’s elite haole were in need of laborers in the rapidly growing sugar industry, because sugar was king. The Filipinos were the last race group to arrive in Hawai‘i

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    ASSIGNMENT 1 Student Name: Rohan Jain Student CWID: A20378201 1. US Telecommunication Act of 1996 ● The Telecommunications Act of 1996 represented the beginning of a new era in Internet, cable TV and Telecommunications regulations in the United States. It was sanctioned by the U.S. Congress on February 1, 1996 and signed by President Bill Clinton on February 8, 1996. ● This was the first major change in the telecommunications regulations since the original 1934 Telecommunications Act since it

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    verifies the absence of other traffic before transmitting. In case of any transmission going on then the transmitter waits for random period and then transmits data again. CSMA protocol was basically developed to overcome the chances of collision in ALOHA so as to increase performance. As we know CSMA is based on carrier sense principle in which the station senses the channel state to be idle or busy before transmitting any frame. Many devices try to use the network when it is busy reaching to a collision

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    have purchased tickets and some even flew out from where they lived to watch the women play at the soccer match. The Aloha Stadium has an answer to assuage their anger by refunding soccer tickets however there should be some extra repayment for most of the audience of the now canceled soccer match who had to pay for hotel, and other necessities. The Women’s Soccer Team and the Aloha Stadium are at fault because of things they could of done before canceling the matches. The Women’s U.S soccer team

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    factory worker, pirate, sailor, gold prospector, etc., it shows that his background experience of many labor jobs can be related also to Stephen in Aloha Oe, who happened to have many job descriptions like the entertainer, surf instructor, etc. Jack London could in some ways have been inspired on his life experiences to write on the character of Stephen in “Aloha Oe”. Based on the inspiration he got from his travel to Alaska, the Klondiak region and what transpired, it became a passion for him to always

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    throne from the overthrow. Some groups have succeeded to annex Hawaii. After that Hawaii was no longer independent. The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was unjustified because Queen Lili’uokalani wrote a new constitution to restore her throne and the Aloha Aina attempted to revolt the provisional government. Queen Lili’uokalani was overthrown from her Hawaiian Kingdom. Her new constitution stated that it will increase the voting rights of Native Hawaiians and deny voting rights to foreigners(Pitzer)

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    Letters were given to each employee that March 8th morning, so there was no prior notice of this bankruptcy. Aloha Airlines was in a very difficult situation. After the news was announced, many of the employees thought the company would still keep operating and was simply filing bankruptcy similar to how it did in previous years. There wasn’t a thought of Aloha Airlines actually shutting down. Some management employees stayed after receiving their letters, and many workers still helped

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    “Giving back to Hawai’i” Hawaii is been such a great help for me ever since I got here on this beautiful island. If it wasn’t for Hawaii’s ALOHA spirit, i wouldn’t have take the opportunity to reach out for my goals or my dreams. All thanks to my beloved family for helping me out to stay strong and stay focused on accomplishing my goals, also, my teachers for helping me learn more than I’ve expected, for forcing me to face all the difficulties throughout every school year, and last

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