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wanted the best for me and for my future of being successful. Not only does my family want that for me, but I also want to be successful in life independently. After graduating from high school in 2018 I plan on going into a 4 year community or university college. I’m not sure what I want a degree in yet but I know for sure that I want to graduate from college. What motivates me to go to college is cause my mom got a degree in business and she is doing an excellent job in the government for…

“Drowning the Oceans in Plastic” Summary The article, “Drowning the Oceans in Plastic,” by Mark Gold and Cara Horowitz is about how marine pollution is a global and international problem that costs billions of dollars each year to clean. To mend the problem, the people of this world should not litter. To begin, plastic garbage is extremely costly. In the article, it states, “… 20 million tons of plastic pollution enters the ocean each year… litter is also costly.” (1) This shows how a lot of…

On the early Saturday morning, October 3, 2015, I took the Blue and Gold Ferry from pier 41 of San Francisco to Angel Island to attend a Nikkei Pilgrimage organized by the Nichi Bei Foundation. Since I grew up and got educated in San Francisco, Angel Island is not a strange place for me. Throughout the years, I have taken many school field trips to Angel Island to learn about the tragic history of the island. I have learned about the “Chinese’s Angel Island experience” so I am familiar with the…

Pahoa, Hawai`i Versus Huntington Beach, California: Contrast Paragraph (First informal draft) Moving to Pahoa, Hawai`i from Huntington Beach, California I have noticed how different the lifestyle is in three ways. I see this when I am driving, when I am communicating with locals, and when I am making purchases. First significant differences occur between driving in Pahoa verses Huntington Beach. People in Pahoa seem to drive a lot slower, always taking their time. On the other hand, in…

Shensi China Jan 23 1556 This earthquake occurred in the Shaanxi province (formerly Shensi), China, about 50 miles east-northeast of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi. This earthquake has took 830,000 lives and ground fissures landslides and city walls were destroyed. This quake also affected Liuyang 500 miles away from shensi. 2. 1964 Alaska Earthquake. A magnitude of 9.2 earthquake shook alaska and created many damage in communities. Anchorage has many damaged because of no earthquake proof…

The Blacktip Reef Shark is native to the tropical coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The Blacktip is listed under kingdom animalia, phylum chordata, class Chondrichthyes, order Carcharhiniformes, family Carcharhinidae, and genus Carcharhinus. This shark was given its name based off of the blacktip at the end of its dorsal fin. This fin appears very vivid in the shark’s youth, but fades with age. The Blacktip Reef Shark will most likely grow to be 4.9 feet and weigh roughly 40 pounds,…

i believe that giraffes are a great part of the ecosystem. A giraffe’s habitat is in africa, usually they roam around in tall grasses and open planes. They can also survive in woodlands, giraffes will move to anywhere they can find food. Their home range is between 8 and 50 square miles, their natural habitat seems to be shrinking due to humans building roads. Their habitat is getting smaller and smaller leading them to going back to the same feeding areas before it has really had a chance…

Easter Island can be a representation of today’s modern world view and actions. Historians speculate that the people from Easter Island became extinct due to the society using too many resources too quickly. Due to the island being so being so remote they only had a small amount of resources that they could use. With the people not realizing that they have a limited resource base they used many trees to move a lot of the stones around the island. This is what caused a chain of events to occur.…

Flack, Marjorie, and Kurt Wiese. The Story about Ping. New York, NY: [Viking], 1933. Print. Ping was an adventurous duck who lived on a beautiful wise-eyed boat on the Yangtze River. He liked his life on the riverboat just and liked his large family and his kind master. He didn't like to be the last in line to board the boat at night, for that unlucky duck got a loud spank. So what did Ping do when it seemed that he would be the last on line? What else but set out on his own to explore the…

Life of Pi is a fictional novel about a boy from India who, after a shipwreck, is lost at sea with a tiger. Dictionary.com defines a motif as “a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.” Three motifs found within the text of Life of Pi are the themes of coexistence, overcoming fear, and religion. The book by Yann Martel has a main idea of coincidence, predominantly between the beliefs of science and religion. One of the first settings of the book…