national director for Every Home for Christ (EHFC) and their workers. Brother Daniel‚ the Pacific regional director for EHFC‚ whom I met in Vanuatu last year‚ arranged for me to teach here in their Bible school. In many Pacific islands (including Hawaii)‚ visitors are welcomed with a floral lei put around their neck‚ but here they place a floral wreath on the head‚ so when I arrived the girls placed two floral wreaths on my head. I was confronted immediately once again with heat and humidity! However
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Filipino Americans My name is Mely‚ a Filipino American‚ born and raised in the United States. Many people are not too familiar with Filipinos as they are other ethnic groups‚ such as the Chinese or the Japanese. Some people have confused me or my family as Chinese or even Hispanics because of our physical features being similar to either culture. I would like to give a background of my Filipino history. According to the U.S. Census Bureau‚ there has been a 99% increase of Asian Americans
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Johnnie and Dale) They remember hearing what sounded like their own military planes crashing‚ when in reality what they heard was the Japanese air force attacking the United States’ naval Pacific fleet stationed at Ford’s Island in Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii. This surprise airstrike attack for most of the soldiers stationed
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The Causes of Bombing Pearl Harbor On December 7‚ 1941 the United States Pacific Fleet and Pearl Harbor in Hawaii were attacked by Japanese aircraft. There was no warning for the attack‚ and it caused many deaths of U.S citizens. A pivotal event in American History was the bombing of Pearl Harbor which was a cause of the U.S not shipping supplies‚ Japan pursuing a policy which affected the U.S‚ and Japan becoming a threat to the economy of the U.S. The U.S‚ along with Britain and the Netherlands
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The Holocaust wasn’t the only depressing and tragic event. On December 7th‚ 1941 something unfortunate occurred-- the bombing of Pearl Harbor. On that day‚ Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii Territory. Japanese Americans lost our trust and their loyalty was questionable. Seventy-four days after Pearl Harbor‚ President Franklin Delanore Roosevelt issued Executive Order No. 9066. This order made many Japanese Americans to leave their homes in the Western Defense
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Roosevelt´s war message to Congress began with those famous words that briefly summarized what happened the day before in Pearl Harbor‚ near to Honolulu Hawaii. The attack on Pearl Harbor struck the United States of America by surprise‚ no declaration of war was made by one nation against the other one‚ but still Japan sent Bombers from distant aircraft carriers in order to attack the American Naval base that served as the western military outpost for the US. To understand the reasons behind this
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Pearl Harbor marks a very significant day in America. On Sunday December 7‚ 1941 Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor and put America in WWII. Japan’s reason for this surprise attack on the U.S. most likely goes all the way back to the end of WWI. In 1919 after WWI major powers of the world met in France to discuss the damage of WWI. In this meeting President Woodrow Wilson brought up his interest in creating a League of Nations to promote world peace and help future problems. Although
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participated in relocating the Japanese Americans. Hawaii did not participate in the internment camps and relocations‚ even though more than one third of Hawaii’s population was Japanese American. Between 110‚000 and 120‚000 Japanese were put into camps because they were enemies to the United States. The
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why did Barack wrote a book for his father? Dreams for my father Barack Hussein Obama was born in 1961‚ in Honolulu‚ Hawaii. His mother was a white American girl from Kansas and his father a black man from Luo‚ a Kenyan tribe. At that time their union was unusual‚ so Barack had to live with that combination of races. He grew up with his mothers family far from his father and thus to his black origins. Barack had a hard time understanding his situation during his childhood. He was lost
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There was finally hope that an immigrant in the U.S. could lead a successful life. “On the morning of December 7‚ 1941‚ something happened that would change America forever. Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor‚ a U.S. military base in Hawaii‚”(6). More than 2‚300 Americans were killed that day‚ more than 1‚200 were injured. Acts of terror like these strike fear. If one apple goes bad‚ then surely all the apples in the orchard have gone bad as well. This was the direct mentality that the
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