... their particular cruelty to prisoners of war. The bombing of Pearl Harbor destroyed a huge amount of American bomber planes and naval fleets that were parked and harbored on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. As well as destroying the planes and sailing vessels, the Japanese killed over 2000 members of the US Navy, and numerous members of the army and a small margin ... direct manner that allows the survivors' stories to speak for themselves. Hersey avoided making himself a part of the account to make the experience as direct as possible until the final chapter when he adds a bit with the add...

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... our incompetency and could this have been avoided? Consequences linked with overpopulation include an increase in demand of natural resources, increase in pollution, erosion, advanced global warming, etc. In Chapter four, the first section describes the nature of the environmental problems and their costs. There are 3 things that are disrupting the ecosystems severely. The first is that the increase in ... economic growth. Even though the building of cities and buildings are important because they are creating jobs, they are also taking away land that could be used to grow natural resourc...

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... Invasion of Soviet Union. June 1941 (8) A: Three million German troops broke the treaty and decided to invade the Soviet Union. R: The world was shocked and S.U. forces had to retreat but used the "scorched earth" policy by burning crops and vehicles as they retreated. They were waiting for winter to take its tolls on the German soldiers. Lend-Lease Act. March 1941 ... "Asia for Asians" which is self -explanatory. R: Many Asians wanted this at first but then Japan was very mean to them and they did not like it. "The Great Mobilization". (13) A: The allies got their countries to produce ...

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... south central Japan in the town of Kobe and Osaka, Japan's second most populated and industrialised area, after Tokyo. The shock occured at a shallow depth on a fault running from Awaji Island through to the city of Kobe, which has a population of 1.5 million. The earthquake, measuring at a magnitude of 7.2 (mj) began at 5:46 am, and the strong ground shaking lasted for about ... spread and were uncontrollable for more than 4 weeks, and caused losses almost as much as the ones resulting from the shaking. The direct damage caused by the shaking was approximately 13 trillion yen (147 bill...

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... surprise attack by Japan on December 7, 1941, that devastated the U.S. naval base Pearl Harbor, which took the war for the first time to a global scale. The attack on the small island of Oahu, located in the Hawaiian islands, was the first major step in which the south-eastern Asian countries, such as Japan, began to apply themselves as major powers in ... of Japan for peace. There was no reply at all. Late this same day, the U.S. code-breaking service began intercepting a 14-part message from the Japanese and deciphered the first 13 parts and passed them on to the President and Secreta...

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... later developed into an art of unarmed self-defense called karate. It is commonly believed that karate developed either on the Japanese mainland or on the island of Okinawa. But history shows that the teachings of Bodhidharma spread to other parts of China and Asia before arriving in Japan. It was the ... travels of the Chinese monks that brought karate to Okinawa and the people of this tiny island were responsible for developing karate into the art we study today. The most accepted version of how karate arrived in Okinawa is a story of shipwreck ... from China was caught in a typhoon an...

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... peace with them. A Japanese ambassador even asked for a peace discussion with the secretary of state. The meeting did not go threw with the two nations. Japan then attacked Atu (an island off of Alaska), in hopes to draw the American forces up North which was proved ineffective. Soon after this they planned out a sneak attack on Pearl Harbour, a military base for ... ? At the start of the war Japanese forces were very confident of winning the war against the Americans. They used methods such as bombings and air raids to try to defeat the Americans. In 1943 the US turned the tables by isl...

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Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is an inlet of the island of Oahu, Hawaii, six miles west of Honolulu and the site of one of the principal naval bases of the United States. At first the United States obtained exclusive use ... " Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Major General Walter C. Short were the men. There was several other places attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941 such as the Philippines, Guam, Wake Island, Midway Island, Hong Kong, British Malaya, and Thailand. The next day the United States Declared war on Japan, as did every other country on the allied powers except the USSR. The Japan...

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The Land of the Rising Sun The county that I chosen for my third country analyses is the island of Japan. The main reason I chose to write about Japan is because their economic prosperity is second in the world trailing only the U.S. Another reason I thought researching Japan would be ... world war. The following are my findings on the people, economy, resources, and industries that make up the nation of Japan. There are over 126 million people living on the island of Japan. These people live in an upper-class country and have a low level of impoverished people. Japan has made its surge into...

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... earthquake because, it is located along the Pacific activity zone of the "Ring of Fire". Luckily only 570 people were injured, and no casualties occurred. About 34,00 on the island of Hokkaido were urged to leave because of the possibility of tsunamis, aftershocks and the collapses of damaged buildings. Only about 5,600 actually left. The tsunamis were smaller that expected ... fire on Sunday. One the cause is not known of. The other is believed to be caused by the aftershocks. The Japanese were very fortunate, the last quake on the island in 1993 killed 230 people. I chose this story b...

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... groups to prepare food for the students. June Trips Students in grade 8 to 10 of Prince of Wales Mini School visit places such as Alberta, the San Juan Islands, Vancouver Island and Ashland, Oregon at the end of every school year. These trips are essential when learning about teamwork and individual effort while aiming for a common goal. Along with working cooperatively ... to work with people you do not know as well to build strong friendships. Carmanah The grade 8 and 9 classes of Prince of Wales Mini School visit Carmanah Valley on Vancouver Island to learn about the old growth fores...

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... Two has had an everlasting impression on our society. December 7, 1941 will have the most memorable affect on America throughout the decade as Japan bombed our naval base on an island in Hawaii and took us knee deep in the world's largest international war. Franklin Delano Roosevelt became our President in 1932 and the expectations of America soared as we were ... into Roosevelt's fourth term as President and less than a month away from the surrender of Germany to the Allies, Roosevelt died. Pearl Harbor, located on the southern coast of Oahu island in Hawaii, is one of the largest and ...

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... down the red blood soaked beach, the sand is almost non-visible from the bodies of our brothers, husbands, sons, and fathers that were fighting for their lives on a deselect island in hopes of putting an end to the battle. A soldier is forced to step over the body of a friend of his from base on his journey to get off the ... Emperor Hirohito to act - not the defeat of the Japanese army on Okinawa, the destruction of Japan's cities, the starvation blockade, or the threat in allied invasion of their home island. After Hiroshima, nothing else was needed to convince Hirohito to order surre...

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... throughout Japan asking for surrender. The consequences included a "Rain of ruin from the air, the likes of which have never been seen on this earth". The Japanese public had been used to leaflet threats, so the public chose to ignore this threat as well. But On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic weapon in warfare of Hiroshima. Another bomb fell ... operation in the history of the world, dwarfing the invasion of Normandy. Operation Downfall had two main stages. The first stage, Operation Olympic, consisted of a massive invasion of the southern island of Kyuusu. Over 750,0...

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... the Axis powers in the European theater, all that was left was the war in the Pacific. The Allied forces made the decision to drop an atomic bomb on the island of Japan with hopes of pushing the Japanese to surrender. It did not take just one atomic bomb, but two to force the country to surrender. The Japanese could have ... prevented the use of the atomic bombs by simply surrendering. The war had been going on for almost six years; the American Marines fighting in the Pacific had island hopped their way closer and closer to Japan. The Americans had a foothold close enough they were abl...

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... land fourteen American divisions with the support of the largest naval fleet ever assembled, a total of more than 450 American vessels. After seizing the southern third of Kyushu, the southernmost island of Japan, the Americans would use this area as a staging ground and airbase for Operation Coronet. "Y-Day" was the beginning of Operation Coronet, and was to take place ... on March 1, 1946. Twenty-five divisions would invade the island of Honshu, the Kanto Plain, and ultimately Tokyo itself. The Japanese had well laid plans of their own to defend the islands from occupation, and this p...

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... marrying. However she still did regardless, she is quite different from other Japanese women at that time. Second, Edna attempts self-expression through artistic activities, and so does Tome. In chapter 19, she spends a lot of time painting, and asks her two sons, the nurse, and the maid to all sit and model for her. It seems the only way she ... sees writing haiku as a way of self-expression and of self-assertion. Finally, marriage binds them tightly. Edna becomes torment in her marriage life so at the end of the chapter 18 by stamping on her wedding ring and shattering the vase, she e...

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... hyakuhachinin no hitori (The 108 heroes of the popular Suikoden all told) fueled not only the popularity of the warrior figure, but also that of the tattoo itself (Kitamura 2001:13). The prints contain heroic samurai in full body tattoo. These prints were widely distributed and mass-produced in a time where there was no television, radio, Rambo movies, or New York ... many prints designed without this double utility in mind were nonetheless well suited for use as tattoo designs" (Kitamura 2001:13). Firemen were especially intrigued by full body tattoo. Firefighting brigades, established...

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... most women spent an average of 1,247 hours a year working, compared with 1,431 hours in 1971 which had dropped about 15 percent. Even men saw their average hours decrease by 13 percent. Not only more women were working, more were working part-time for only part of the year which meant more women on the unemployment rolls. In the 1960's the ... unemployment rate for females was 3 percent and ten years later increased to 7 percent. Since June 1982 the unemployment rate for men was 11-13 percent and the women's just above that rate which could also exceed that of the men near the end of th...

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... ", which is mostly hydrogen and carbon monoxide. This can be converted into fuel. The other byproduct is something that looks like molten black glass, which can be ground up and used to make asphalt. Sounds, wonderful, doesn't it? All our garbage, going into a space age converter, that is energy negative, and produces usable byproducts. You know the old adage, "If it ... have been studying this technology for years, and no plants have been built. Three ex-trash executives have started a company, U.S. Energy, and have made plans to build a plant on Long Island which will have 6 such conve...

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... that came with it were also a factor in the decision to drop the bomb, as said in document A. The dropping of the bomb was not entirely used to stop the Russian progression. If the allied forces had invaded mainland Japan, many lives on both sides would have been lost. Most probably more than were ... lost in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki put together. The plans that the allies had used up to this point had cost hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides. This was when the Japanese only had maybe two or three thousand men ... on an island; whereas on the mainland millions of ...

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... that came with it were also a factor in the decision to drop the bomb, as said in document A. The dropping of the bomb was not entirely used to stop the Russian advancement. If the allied forces had invaded mainland Japan, many lives on both sides would have been lost. Most probably more than were ... lost in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki put together. The tactics that the allies had used up to this point had cost hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides. This was when the Japanese only had maybe two or three thousand men ... on an island; whereas on the mainland millions of...

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... against Japan in combat. On July 1, 1945, the committee submitted a report to President Truman stating that: 1. The bomb should be used against Japan as soon as possible. 2. It should be used against a military target surrounded by other buildings. 3. It should be used without prior warning of the nature of the weapon. The Interim Committee decided against warning the Japanese about the atomic bomb ... without prior warning. From this point of view a demonstration of the new weapon may best be made before the eyes of representatives of all United Nations, on a desert or a barren island....

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Geographic Factors Geographic factors often have an important influence on the history, economy, and culture of regions and nations. Three geographic factors are Monsoons, Nile River Valley, and Island locations. Each of these have good and bad effects on an area, depending on the temperature, climate and/or other mother nature controlled elements of the world. The geographic features ... people create a means of measurement in order to see the boundaries of the flooding. They also developed engineering skills like to dig big ditches and canals which were to be used for the villages irrigat...

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... are not educated enough about radioactivity and what it truly means and does. The article also emphasizes how the main problem with cleaning up the radioactive leak is that water used for cooling the rods might have leaked and mixed with the groundwater. I chose the article because even though the article covered the incident that happened five years ago, I completely forgot ... learned in class, surrounding nuclear radioactivity. This article affects my life because it raises some concerns of mine about living so close to a nuclear power plant in "Three Mile Island", especially since i...

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