In the video Forgotten Ellis Island‚ I was able to learn about a place I had never heard of in detail before‚ the Ellis Island Hospital. I was amazed by the fact that around 6‚000 immigrants were checked daily. That is a significant amount of people. It was also interesting to see that many immigrants were cared for and sometimes even cured. However‚ the hospital had its issues. One of them was the fact that many families got separated because of the health condition of its members. I cannot imagine
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Sometimes I can brainstorm until my head hurts while I am trying to find a topic to write about. When searching for a topic to write about‚ I first think about is what topic comes to mind and how it would be of interest to my audience. The Hawaiian Island of Kauai would make a great topic for me to write about. If I were to write about Kauai‚ I could give details about what I experienced during my visit. I just wouldn’t
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During the last school holiday‚my family and Iwent to a little known paradise on the Island of Borneo.We spent a wonderful vacation at Tanjung Simpang Mengayau‚a cape in the nothermost tip of Borneo. We met our guide in Kota Kinabalu and he took us by four wheel drive car.And it tooks us about 30 minutes to the cape.The road we took had potholes and was uneven but suprisingly it was a smooth ride because our guide was an exellent driver when it comes on rough road.Mid way on our journey we
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The plot of the great book seller Small Island (2004) is formed around four characters: Hortense‚ Queenie‚ Gilbert and Bernard. Each character has a different past‚ identity‚ ideology‚ dreams and expectations. But they also have one thing in common: all of them change after the war. Although‚ everyone experiments the war in a different way‚ all felt affected by it. At this point‚ all that they have experience before or what they believe in seems lost‚ with no sense (Gilroy‚ 2004). This war is not
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allowed me to effectively decipher it. To whomever finds this letter‚ I was one of the sailors aboard the Sanlúcar‚ the Spanish cargo ship that crashed near the shore of this accursed island: Ship-Trap Island. We were on a cargo run to the port of Southampton after we left Spain‚ but while crossing near this island‚ we took a turn to a channel. That channel did not exist‚ and our boat capsized and I have no memory of the events immediately after. Me and twelve other sailors found ourselves awake
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Thomas Hobbes postulates that education civilized the naturally violent and cold-hearted tendencies of mankind‚ whereas Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued that schooling and society bastardized our natural instincts of compassion and kindness. The book The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells exemplifies both philosopher’s belief of the effect of education on human nature. Particularly in chapter eight‚ “The Crying of the Puma‚” Wells emphasizes Hobbes’ opinion that education civilizes. When the narrator‚ Edward
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INTRODUCTION Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI) is a civilian nuclear power plant (NPP) located on Three Mile Island in the Susquehanna River‚ south of Harrisburg‚ Pennsylvania. It has two separate units‚ known as TMI-1 and TMI-2. The TM-1 is a pressurized water reactor with a net generating capacity of 852 MWe while TMI-2 was also a pressurized water reactor but with slightly larger output of 906 MWe. The plant is widely known for having been the site of the most significant accident
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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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Across The Dark Islands was written by Floyd W. Radike who was an officer in the National Guard. He wrote this book to show his experience in the National Guard before and after the war and to also show us how the conditions were in the front lines of the war.He was with his unit in the Battles of Guadalcanal‚ New Georgia‚ The battle of Luzon and also for a short amount of time in Japan. Floyd W. Radike was a junior officer who served firstly as a line company platoon officer and then as time went
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TRIP (SEMPU ISLAND) Sempu Island is amazing island‚ located about 70 kilometers south of the center of ’Malang’ city‚ East Java. Technically‚ this island is a nature reservation under the jurisdiction of the natural resources conservation station (BKSDA IV) in Malang. The most interesting part of the Sempu Island is there are lake and lagoon inside of this island. The Lake called "Segara Lele" is a brackish water lake‚ and the unique one is why there is brackish water on the island surrounded by
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