Kamehameha was the king of Hawaii. He became king after he unified the Hawaiian islands. He had help while ruling the islands from advisers, who were loyal friends and warriors. Once the war was over foreigners came to Hawaii trading and bringing new things. So since this happened Kamehameha had to become a more effective leader. Kamehameha was an effective leader because he was strict, intelligent, and truthful. Kamehameha was a very strict leader. This was a good thing because he had to be strict
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Aleuts, The Aleuts call themselves Unangan, meaning we the people. They descended from Inuit (also called Eskimos) who settled on the islands thousands of years ago. But the Aleut language differs from that of the Inuit.Russian explorers discovered the Aleutian Islands in 1741. Russian traders and fur hunters later forced the Aleuts into labor and killed many of them. Many other Aleuts died from diseases brought by the Russians. The Aleut population once numbered between 12,000 and 15,000 people
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Aloha! Greetings from Kilauea Volcano, located on the Big Island of Hawaii! As you can tell, the landscape is a sea of orange lava as far as the eye can see. Around 1,500 years ago, this region was inhabited by the natives of Polynesia, a region in Oceania (“Australia and Oceania: Physical Geography”). This polytheistic group believed that Kilauea was home to Pele, the goddess of all volcanoes. They would offer sacrifices to keep her happy. Also, when Kilauea would erupt, they believed that Pele
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Island Biogeography Theory To determine the advantages and disadvantages of applying the Island Biography Theory to establishing a biodiversity preserve, we must first fully understand the theory. The larger the land mass, the more diverse and the more species that will be present. Verse a smaller land mass that will not have as much species in the area. This land mass does not technically have to be an actual island but a piece of land that may be cut off from outside resources. For example
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to the operator the faults were all in different parts of the system. After hundreds were trapped in cable car gondolas for around 90 minutes due to a fault, preliminary checks have shown a 42 cm bearing on the haul rope pulley wheel at the Airport Island Angle Station to be slightly worn. “We found no safety problem with the system. It is the reliability of service that is in question,” said Frank Chan-fan, Ngong Ping 360’s Director of Electrical and Mechanical Services, adding that the system’s six
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Current Events in Business Research Working as a team on a Spanish broadcast television network Telemundo-Providence one uses research as a part of the daily routine. As a broadcast television network, Telemundo-Providence has to rely on research to provide reliable information to its viewers. Directors, managers, executive assistant, journalists, and production understand the importance of research and each department strives to implement research during business. According to Cooper and Schindler
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(2611 WORDS) The Falklands War was a conflict over what seemed an insignificant archipelago of islands in the South Pacific, 500 miles from the coast of Argentina and 8000 miles away from the British mainland. The conflict was the result of 149 years of unsuccessful diplomacy[1], which resulted in an Argentinean “recovery”[2] of what they held as the “Malvinas” islands. This led to the outbreak of the last successful conventional campaign of the twentieth century. After the Argentine
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repo is referred to as “an accounting maneuver used to shift the assets off Lehman’s books in return for a promise to buy back the securities at a premium days later.” In this agreement, the company entered into agreements with banks in the Cayman Islands to sell the bank their “toxic” securities amounting up to $50 billion with the stipulation that they would reacquire them within a short time. Not only did they take $50 billion from the bank, they used the funds to pay off some of their debt items
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Транспорт сформировался как отрасль хозяйства в последней четверти XVIII в. - Начале индустриальной эпохи. Транспорт общего пользования делят на несколько основных видов: железнодорожный, водный (морской и речной), автомобильный, авиационный. Рассмотрим транспортную систему на примере Австралии. Авиационный вид: Крупные международные аэропорты находятся в городах Сидней и Мельбурн. Каждый день здесь принимаются сотни рейсов из стран Европы, Азии и Северной Америки.25 авиакомпаний имеют представительства
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A friendly neighbour Neighbour war is a relatively common phenomenon now a day, though it is seldom that it goes as far as it does in the text: A friendly neighbour by Adam Johnson from the year of 2004. In this short story there is an ongoing conflict between the two neighbours Roger, and Frank Walker, which quickly evolves into and direct war between the two neighbours. Roger continuous to take a step further to prevent the evil deeds he anticipate his enemy to do, which leads to some pretty grim
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