Midway Atoll

How a small atoll in the middle of the Pacific became the site of the most significant naval battle in American history should not be a complete surprise. The Midway Atoll was strategically placed in the Pacific Ocean for both sides knew of its importance. Approximately 1300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor and close to halfway between Japan and the West Coast of the U.S., Midway was already the site of a naval base. Fittingly, it would be the focal point of a calculated Japanese plan. One of Japan’s

The article I read was about Hawaiian monk seals. Obviously the seals are found in Hawaii. The seals have six main islands in Hawaii where they populate: Kure Atoll, Midway Islands, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Lisianski Island, Laysan Island, and French Frigate Shoals. The Hawaiian monk seals are named the official state mammal of Hawaii. The Hawaiian monk seals have a diet that ranges from fish, squid, octopus, and lobster. The seals hunt mainly at night and during the day they lay on sandy beaches.

Hours after Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan, gaining worldwide headlines, giving millions unanswered questions, the speech, Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation was given one day after the event. On December 8th 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a speech to be remembered today, by using rhetorical devices and figurative language to strongly picture his message to the public, making great use of parallel structure, personification, parallelism, and climax ordering to enforce his key point

The Hawaiian Monk Seal (Neomonachus schauinslandi) It is estimated that monk seals have been living in the Hawaiian island chain for 14-15 million years. It is believed that they reached the Hawaiian archipelago through the Central American Seaway, which closed approximately 3 million years ago. They are considered by many to be a “living fossil” due to the primitive nature of the species. Both remaining species of monk seal are in imminent danger of going extinct. While the Hawaiian monk seal population

As the contestants rose above the smoke, the dust, the eerie fog, I stared in absolute awe. The game had begun; the sirens, the flashing lights imitated that of many - therefore scaring the contestants, each dashing for the armory in the dead center section of the arena. Their screams, consequently, were furthermore spread apart, the killing had a rate climbing faster than that of a bullet straight across a plain; the last of the few remaining as some sort of squad, as a team. It sort of reminds

Every once in a while we come across facts that change our perspective of the world. One such fact is the existence of countries which when put together can probably cover half of the area of some cities from the rest of the large countries around the globe. These countries, like most countries, have their own set of laws, governance, cultures and picturesque locales. 1. Vatican City. Spread across an area of 110 acres, the Vatican City is a country within the city of Rome. With a population of

Hope for Melal The book “Melal “by Robert Barclay takes place in 1981 in The Marshall Islands of the South Pacific. The people known as the Marshallese are the natives to these islands. Overtime other cultures began to settle on these islands also, such as the Spanish, Japanese, and Americans. Out of these three cultures the Americans were the most domineering and devastating to the Marshallese people. The Americans took over the Marshallese native land and forced all of them to live on one island

Consequences of a Close Relationship With The United States Based on (name of video here), there are numerous factors that contributed to chronic and infectious diseases increase in the Marshall Islands. However, all of the factors evolve around the lack of social and political reforms that favored residents. Instead, policies were geared toward furnishing the military forces. Consequently there are three distinct results of this relationship which is as follows: exposure to radiation, displacement

In 1944, the Marshall Islands were taken by the U.S from Japan, where they built a missile base in Kwajalein. Marshallese were known as the masters of the pacific because of the navigations they created and their nutrition which consisted of vitamins and minerals that they grew; breadfruit, taro, fish, minerals, and bananas. On March 1st, 1954 the biggest bomb exploded, having the Marshallese to think the powder was from heaven so they began to rub it on their skins, leading to severe burns. After

with an annual decrease of approximately 4.5%. The Hawaiian monk seal is primarily found on the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands that are made up of coral reef atolls, seamounts, banks, and shoals. This is due to the fact that the monk seals primarily forage on the barrier reefs of the atolls, on submerged reefs, and on banks further from the atolls (Curtice et al, 2011). The monk seals are primarily benthic forgers and will search for food in a broad depth range up to 500m and over different substrates