... Times. Author, Frank Bruni, has been an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times since June 2011. Bruni wrote this article to show how the American population tends to blow things out proportion, and make them worse than really are. He feels as if Ebola is simply a small issue that can be ... proud Americans, should not only care about the question that Bruni offers, but care enough to want to change and take action against these threats that destroy our population. Bruni uses a logical appeal here to make the reader question why we are making such a big deal out of something so small. It ...

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... lay the island group of Tokelau. It consists of Atafu, Nukunonu, and Fakaoka. According to Historian Betty Ickes, Tokelau traditionally included the Swains Islands or Olohega before becoming a territory of American Samoa in 1925 (Ickes 3). In the mid 1860's, along with other islands around the Pacific, the people of Tokelau were taken from their islands to become labor workers in Peru ... twentieth century, the government encouraged its people to migrate to further their education (Glenn 10). It seemed natural to take advantage of the free association with New Zealand. Currently, the po...

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