...USS Arizona Memorial and Tourism One of the world’s greatest infamies happened seventy-four years ago. Thousands of country men died for our freedom, and till this day, visitors come to show respect and honor. This dignified place, known as USS Arizona Memorial, stores most of its history and memories. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor due to an oil embargo placed by the US. Within minutes after it started, all resources that were supposed to be used for the attack were destroyed and crew members were killed. It marked Pearl Harbor as an important base for the US navy and till today, this place attracted Japanese and American tourists due to a historical importance of both countries. As Hawaii changed...
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...Tracy Ngo, Cahle Williams – Per. 5 Tracy Ngo, Cahle Williams – Per. 5 The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific This military cemetery is located at the Punchbowl Crater in downtown Honolulu. It is the final resting place of countless veterans who had fought in World War II and defended at Pearl Harbor. The monumental cemetery is a tribute to all the lives lost in defense of our nation. The Future of Hawaii Places to See: Military Edition Places to See: Military Edition Aloha, Hawaii! Pali Lookout The Pali Lookout is a landmark that was present in the infamous Massie Case of 1932. This scenic attraction was the site of Grace Fortescue and her accomplices’ capture as they set out to dump the body of Joseph Kahahawai. The victim was a local man wrongly accused of the rape of Thalia Massie. The event further stirred the tension in Hawaii between the locals and the military, which was strife with conflict. Iolani Palace Iolani Palace was the center of the Hawaiian monarchy before the Overthrow in 1893 and after for the American government as their seat. It is known for being the site where American militarymen and rebels had executed a coup d’etat against Queen Liliuokalani and imprisoned her. The palace was used as the capitol building during the Provisional Government era, after the Queen was overthrown. Iolani Palace Iolani Palace was the center of the Hawaiian monarchy before the Overthrow in 1893 and after for the American government as their seat....
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...That is why we have the USS Arizona Memorial today. It is located at Pearl Harbor built right above the sunken USS Arizona. To this day, 74 years later, oil from the USS Arizona still leaks out. It is said that about nine quarts of oil spills out each day from the USS Arizona. On December 6, 1941, the ship had gone out to acquire oil for its future voyage to the mainland. On the inside of the memorial lies a wall containing a full list of all casualties from the attack. Some survivors of the attack chose to leave their remains in a urn under one of the gun turrets of the USS Arizona. Others wish for their ashes to be spread throughout the different ships that were involved in the attack. The memorial itself is the most visited landmark in all of Hawaii with over 1,700,000 visits per year. The memorial never would have existed if it weren’t for Elvis Presley. Former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower proposed that a memorial be built in remembrance of those who suffered from the December attacks. Funds for the project were low, and it wasn’t until Elvis Presley raised money to finalize the project. The memorial was officially finished on May 30,...
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...pearl. It was 8:05 when my bomb pierced its target. The bomb had hit the forward powder magazine of the USS Arizona. The mighty explosion split the great ship in half, taking only nine minutes for her to sink (A Summary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, 2012). Now that we are out of the box looking in, this is what a Japanese pilot might have felt as he flew his plane on that haunting yet unforgettable mission to that bay at Pearl; for he was on his way of creating history from the destruction of an entire fleet in anchor. This Japanese warrior and his culture of war would not know the consequences of his emperor’s actions; for it would only unite an entire country in a fit of rage from this horrific and unprovoked act initiated by the rising sun nation of Japan. This battle would not only be the beginning of WWII for the United States, but it would be the beginning of the end of a military force in Japan. It was this mission and Japan’s cultural importance of war that would lead to the consequence of these pilots on that eventful day in December, for this mission eventually would only bring fire and a vast amount of immense pain and suffering upon their own people. The once fearless strength and courage of the Japanese warrior who would not face defeat upon their own eyes would be brought to their knees in the disgrace of surrender upon the deck of the USS...
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...It was approved three days after the attack and it only had one opposing vote. Three days later Italy and Germany, who are allies with Japan, declared war on the United States. Two years after World War Two had started, America had joined the war. During the raid on Pearl Harbor, The Japanese managed to sink eight enormous battleships. The USS Oklahoma, USS California, USS West Virginia, USS Utah, USS Maryland, USS Pennsylvania, and USS Tennessee had severe damage and were later repaired. The USS Arizona and USS Nevada were both sunk and were not repaired. The USS Colorado was having a yard period and was not at Pearl Harbor during the...
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...The Attack on Pearl Harbor There were many reasons leading to the attack at Pearl Harbor. One main reason for it was the economic issues (Anderson). The trade routes between America and Japan were cut off. The Japanese ships were not accepted in America either (Taylor 5), because of the two countries’ political differences (Taylor 6). On November 1, 1941 a ship came into the Honolulu Harbor. It had a Japanese flag on it. It was a forbidden Japanese ship. “The name of the ship was Taiyo Maru.”(Taylor 4) This ship was not welcomed with the original Hawaiian customs. Normally the hula girls would be out at the dock welcoming the passengers with their friendliness and dancing in their grass skirts. This was a way of saying “aloha,” which means both hello and also good-bye in the Hawaiian Islands. This ship carried a few important Japanese men. These men were actually Japanese spies (Taylor 6). One of these spies was a man named Otojiro Okuda. Okuda was one of the most important of Japanese spies. He had an agent. His agent was Kohichi Seki. Seki had to stay in Japan for a few months to train to become a spy for Japan. Seki was a key man in Okuda’s success as a spy. He helped him get the important information that was needed most by Okuda. Seki took a taxi to Pearl Harbor every day. He did this so he could get the names of the ships in port and the ships that were out and away from port. He wrote letters to Okuda which had this information he learned in it...
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...distance, but just thought they were our own planes. That is until they started to drop the bombs, and started firing machine gun fire. The attack commenced at 7:48 AM. The Americans were not prepared in the slightest. The Japanese couldn't of asked for a better set up. The battleships were sitting side-by-side less than 500 yards from each other and the planes were also sitting on our field wing to wing. The soldiers tried fighting back but the Japanese had surprised them, many people were either sleeping or just waking up. The Japanese got really good hits on the battleship. They have 353 fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes. Eight battleships were damaged with four sunk, they later pulled all of them out except the USS Arizona, and the USS Oklahoma which is now a memorial. There were 2403 Americans killed and 1178 others wounded. The Japanese only lost 29 aircraft, 5...
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...December 7th, 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor On the morning of the seventh of December 1941, during the time of WWII, the United States was awoken by a surprise strike attack by an unknown force. The Naval Base in Pearl Harbor was attacked by the military forces of Japan. This attack essentially led to the United States’ involvement in the Second World War. During this time, Japanese aggression was consuming different parts of Asia and the Japanese military wanted to continue to grow. The United States, however, wanted to prevent further Japanese expansion by placing embargos that crippled their forces. The Japanese did not agree with the actions taken by the United States and decided to make some counter actions to end the United States’ involvement in foreign affairs. Soon, the Japanese planned a surprise attack against the United States’ Navy. In order to properly surprise the United States, Japan had to prepare for a long time, knowing that the United States’ government was on constant alert. In late November, Japanese military force began their journey across the Pacific Ocean, towards the Naval Base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The strike force consisted of six aircraft carriers, nine destroyers, two battleships, one light/two heavy cruisers, and three submarines which had to be secretly transported across the Pacific without being detected. On the morning of the seventh of December, the Japanese reached their location a few miles north of the island and at around six...
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...water. The lifeguards went insane but unfortunately Emma didn't see the shark, and I surfed by her and yelled," Emma shark!!" It was too late by the time I was on the grainy, squishy sand Emma was gone. The gray, feisty, and violent shark ate Emma up in one bite. I have always been terrified of sharks, so for the rest of the trip I am staying out of the water. “Now that we had our fun and games we have to learn something. Today is the informational time of the trip. "After all this is an educational trip," exclaimed Mrs. Spivey. Therefore, we are "excitedly" riding over to Pearl Harbor for a two through three hour program. Honestly this isn't as dull as I thought it would be. We got to look at the exotic wildlife, the USS Arizona Memorial, and USS Missouri Battleship. The boats were absolutely amazing they were underwater and rusting, but still full of life. Our class had the honor of setting flowers free in the ocean for those who lost their lives at the bombing of Pear Harbor. When we got we could do whatever we wanted to do. My arch nemesis declared a sand castle battle, and I couldn't say no. When I saw how talented she was at art I got incredibly jealous, so I knocked down her magnificent sand castle when she wasn't paying attention. When she figured out what I did we got into a fight. We were rolling around in the crunchy sand when we heard a high pitched squeal. We stopped our fighting and ran over to see a bottle nosed dolphin beached on the shore. She was...
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...would be shocked, or he would give random strangers a half a million dollar gold chain. In the article "Elvis" Sandi had mentioned that "In 1974, he contributed to a fund for singer-songwriter Ivory Joe Hunter, who was hospitalized with cancer, and he paid for Jackie Wilson's hospital bills following Wilson's stroke in 1975." (Sandi 2011, par 7). One day Elvis was out and about and needed to make a phone call, but he did have a dime on him and neither did his friend so a random guy gave him a dime and Elvis got his address and name so he could send him a thank you note, so in that thank you note Elvis has thanked him and as well paid his mortgage in full. Another thing he did was in 1961; he performed at a concert to build the special USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor and raised a lot more than $65,000. And 12 years later, Elvis even donated the proceeds from his 1973 "Aloha from Hawaii" satellite-concert to the Kui Lee Cancer Fund. Elvis also presented a check for more than $100,000 to Mississippi Governor Bill Waller. There are plenty of more generous thing Elvis Presley did but not enough time to mention it all. Elvis Presley was a man who came from humble begins and through his hard work ethic and God given the talent he rose to be one of the most polarizing musicians on this earth. Most people would say he started a new genre of music. In the article "how did Elvis affect society" it says "many individuals in the world had finical issues, and they didn't have hope that their...
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...The Story of the Fourth of July The Declaration of Independence We celebrate American Independence Day on the Fourth of July every year. We think of July 4, 1776, as a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation. But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776). It wasn’t the day we started the American Revolution either (that had happened back in April 1775). And it wasn't the day Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence (that was in June 1776). Or the date on which the Declaration was delivered to Great Britain (that didn't happen until November 1776). Or the date it was signed (that was August 2, 1776). So what did happen on July 4, 1776? The Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. They'd been working on it for a couple of days after the draft was submitted on July 2nd and finally agreed on all of the edits and changes. July 4, 1776, became the date that was included on the Declaration of Independence, and the fancy handwritten copy that was signed in August (the copy now displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) It’s also the date that was printed on the Dunlap Broadsides, the original printed copies of the Declaration that were circulated throughout the new nation. So when people thought of the Declaration of Independence...
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...[pic] FIRST ARMY EQUAL OPPORTUNITY REPRESENTATIVE COURSE STUDENT GUIDE TO CULTURAL AWARENESS INDEX LESSON TITLE PAGE 1 Philosophical Aspects of Culture SG- 3 C1 Native American Experience SG- 4 C2 White American Experience SG- 23 C3 Arab American Experience SG- 43 C4 Hispanic American Experience SG- 53 C5 Black American Experience SG- 76 C6 Asian American Experience SG-109 C7 Jewish American Experience SG-126 C8 Women in the Military SG-150 C9 Extremist Organizations/Gangs SG-167 STUDENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR BEING FAMILIARIZED WITH ALL CLASS MATERIAL PRIOR TO CLASS. INFORMATION PAPER ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE Developed by Edwin J. Nichols, Ph.D. |Ethnic Groups/ |Axiology |Epistemology |Logic |Process | |World Views | | | | | |European |Member-Object |Cognitive |Dichotomous |Technology | |Euro-American |The highest value lies in the object |One knows through counting |Either/Or...
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...GLENCOE LANGUAGE ARTS Grammar and Language Workbook G RADE 9 Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Send all inquiries to: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 936 Eastwind Drive Westerville, Ohio 43081 ISBN 0-02-818294-4 Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 024 03 02 01 00 99 Contents Handbook of Definitions and Rules .........................1 Troubleshooter ........................................................21 Part 1 Grammar ......................................................45 Unit 1 Parts of Speech 1.1 Nouns: Singular, Plural, and Collective ....47 1.2 Nouns: Proper and Common; Concrete and Abstract.................................49 1.3 Pronouns: Personal and Possessive; Reflexive and Intensive...............................51 1.4 Pronouns: Interrogative and Relative; Demonstrative and Indefinite .....................53 1.5 Verbs: Action (Transitive/Intransitive) ......55 1.6 Verbs: Linking .............................................57 1.7 Verb Phrases ................................................59 1.8 Adjectives ....................................................61 1.9 Adverbs........................................................63 1.10 Prepositions...
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...Contemplating Realities and Paradoxes in the Global War on Terror John B. Alexander, Ph.D. Introduction The approach of this monograph is to examine paradoxes encountered in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). The intent is to spark debate on disputatious issues. Clearly, many of the existing situations appear intractable given the emotional investment that has been made by the public, and exacerbated by political manipulation of elected officials. Also unavoidable are the fiscal constraints that are becoming increasingly binding. Examined in Section One are problematic premises related to the four fundamental approaches to countering terrorism; increased security, eliminating the terrorists, attacking the support infrastructure, and altering conditions that breed discontent. Despite trite, albeit politically popular, commentary proposing those methods, execution of those concepts is extremely difficult, often controversial, and sometimes counterproductive. Section Two of this monograph addresses several other policy decisions that generate problems that are difficult to resolve, but directly impact the forces involved. Among those topics are; roles of contractors, individual loyalties versus national interests, alliances of convenience, foreign response to our policy on preemption of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), the consequences of our stated objective of spreading democracy, the impact of U.S. presence in the Gulf region, and quandary associated with defining...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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