There’s no other place in the world where I feel the most at home than being at Long Beach Island. There you can smell the fresh‚ salty air of the ocean as the warm breeze brushes across your face. It is a place where the sand‚ sometimes chilled by the water or boiling hot up in the sand dunes‚ fiddles its way through your toes one by one sending chills down your spine with every step. Off in the distance you can hear the chiming of bells as the ice cream men call children of all ages to cool themselves
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Postcolonial Nations‚ Islands‚ and Tourism examines how real and literary islands have helped to shape the idea of the nation in a postcolonial world. Through an analysis of a variety of texts ranging from literature to prison correspondence to tourist questionnaires it exposes the ways in which nationalism relies on fictions of insularity and intactness‚ which the island and island tourism appear to provide. The island space seems to offer the ideal replica of the nation‚ and tourist practices promise
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cared about its history‚ although‚ every year we would celebrate its liberation day from the Japanese and celebrate festive holidays significant to the islands history‚ I never really understood why we celebrated it. The Spanish Era‚ the American Period‚ & the Japanese occupation played a major influence on the island and its culture today. The island of Guam‚ Guahan in native Chamorro‚ is a truly multi-ethnic community that reflects the cultures of its original Chamorro inhabitants as early as 2
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Teddy Lewis‚ hands restricted with handcuffs‚ being escorted to the inmate airplane at Southwest Florida International Airport. “Move it‚ inmate. We don’t have all day.” the officer scolded. Teddy arrived to the airplane‚ with an apathetic expression. He sat down and watched as the other inmates wearing orange jumpsuits came aboard. As the seats began to fill‚ he began to think to himself about what kind of isolated and egregious life would await when he arrived at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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Puerto Rico‚ to me‚ is the greatest island on earth. (topic sentence) I was born on the island on a hot August morning in 1975. (supporting sentence) Born a sibling to an older brother‚ sister and two hard working parents. (supporting sentence) San Juan was the birth city‚ which also happens to be the island’s capital city. A city that stood out‚ like a stallion among mules‚ (metaphor) and like a shooting star in the sky. (metaphor)(closing) By far‚ the greatest island on earth. (closing) Like other
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Natural History of the Island in The Lord of the Flies Even for the observant reader‚ the island in William Golding’s‚ The Lord of the Flies‚ appears to simply be an uninhabited‚ deserted tropical island or a fantasy land that does not base itself in reality. Though Golding himself may have purposely attempted to create an illogical and chimerical paradise‚ he incorporated real parts of real tropical islands into his work. Whether Golding attempted to create an illogical island or he simply put no
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Fire Island National Seashore was established by congress as a unit of the National Park Service on September 11‚ 1964 but its roots date back to 1653. A man by the name of Isaac Stratford constructed a whaling station on the Island‚ giving it the name of Whalehouse Point. During the 18th and 19th centuries whaling was an essential part of their culture because whales provided meat‚ oil‚ and blubber. In 1825 the Federal government constructed the Fire Island Lighthouse at the western tip of the island
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The South China Sea Islands Disputes Name of student Name of institution The South China Sea Island Disputes Introduction China’s rise to the status of a global economic power has been viewed with both skepticism and hope by her neighbors. Skepticism by countries wary of China’s history of aggression as far as territorial disputes are concerned‚ and hope by countries wishing to benefit from trade partnerships with China. However‚ it is China’s activities in both the
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The Island Worlds are a series of fantasy and science fiction novels by John Maddox Roberts that are themed on intergalactic science fiction elements. The first novel of the series was Act of God that was first published in 1985 to much critical acclaim. After much commercial success with the first novel‚ Roberts went on to publish three more titles culminating in the 1990 published Delta Pavonis. The novels of the Island World series are about the interactions and interrelations between space and
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called the urban heat island effect. In scientific terms‚ it is the difference between the temperature recorded in the urban environment and the temperature recorded in its rural surroundings. Heat waves will become more frequent in the next years. The urban heat island effect is
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