Pacific

the island was turned into a major travel destination for Americans after the selling of Hawaiian culture (Honolulu). Honolulu is located in the state of Hawaii which is located on one of the major 8 islands, Oahu. Oahu is located in the northern Pacific Oceans, 2,390 miles from California and 3,390 miles from Japan (“Honolulu” Junior). “Honolulu’s foundation on the island of Oahu rest on the remains of two huge prehistoric volcanoes, Wai'anae and Ko'olau.” Honolulu's altitude ranges from sea…

Fontaine and Gaudin did not really object successfully or forcefully to the hardball tactics employed by Hauptmann and Zinnser. However, they were correct in noting the extreme importance of this contract for Pacific Oil, and some contract with Reliant, even a bad one, is likely better than no contract at all. Even so, Fontaine and Gaudin were not nearly forceful enough, and should have noted that they were making significant concessions already and were unwilling to go further. Hauptmann and…

Jacqueline morales Period:3 Oct.2,2015 Pacific pink salmons I believe that pacific pink salmon are important because they help the ecosystem. Salmons are very common fish. All kinds of animals eat salmons because they have protein.Salmon are very popular because they ar research for human beings.…

Nauru, is a small country located in the Pacific Islands that not many people know of. Nauru is located approximately twenty-five miles south of the earths equator, and it’s closest neighboring country is Banaba, another island that is about two hundred miles east of Nauru. The territorial size of the country is only about eight square miles, with a population of “9540” people (Nauru: 2016 Country Review, 3). Nauru “became an independent” country “in 1968,” making it the “smallest republic in…

Chile covers 756,950 square kilometers of land (292,258 square miles). It never gets wider than 240km (150 miles), but it is over 2,800 miles long. It is almost twice the size of California. Chile also includes two islands: Juan Fernandez Islands and Easter Island. More than 17.8 million people live in Chile. Santiago, the capital city, has a population of 308,000, but when counting Santiago Metropolis 6.68 million people live in that area. This is the largest city. The next on the list is the…

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an ongoing controversial topic. This is a partnership consisting of 12 countries, and the goal is to create free trade among the countries which threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement” (Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement). The TPP is not an effective strategy as it has little comparative advantages for Canada. As allowing the trade barriers and the tariffs in some…

In July 1862 Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act, which gave two large railroad companies, Central Pacific and Union Pacific, approval to construct and operate a railroad that would reach from coast to coast. Union Pacific began in the East, and Central Pacific in the West. Competition between the two soon became a race to see which company could lay the most tracks before the two met. Historians…

I. Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450 A. The Pacific Ocean 1. Over a period of several thousand years, peoples originally from Asia crossed the water to settle the islands of the East Indies, New Guinea, the Melanesian and Polynesian islands, the Marquesas, New Zealand, and other Pacific islands out to Hawaii. Polynesian use of the sweet potato, domesticated in South America, suggests that they may have reached the Americas. 2. Polynesian migration and establishment of colonies was aided by…

known as “Pacific Law Academy”. Through this particular vision of hers, she wanted to “make a difference in the lives of others” as well as “the idea of working with students who are interested in going into the legal field.” With that in mind, Pacific Law Academy boasts, having both “Law & Society” and “Mock Trial” readily available for students aspiring to go into the legal field. However what about making a difference within the lives of others? How does the school cover that? Pacific Law…

1. The patterns for the different parameters depend on the season. Atmospheric temperature is always the high in July due to summer. For instance, the atmospheric temperature in Virginia was nearly 0°C in January 2000 but rose to about 25°C in July 2000. This makes sense because temperatures are low in January and high in July. The temperatures started dropping again around October because of the change in season. The amount of precipitation depends on the region. Regions near the ocean…