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South Padre Island, TX : A Family Vacation Paradise

South Padre Island is part of the world’s longest barrier reef island and is located near the most southern portion of Texas. The island is connected to the mainland by the Queen Isabella Causeway. “The Island” as the natives refer to it offers spectacular beaches with the promise of fun in the sun. The Island ...

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Visiting Guam

The island of Guam, owned by the United States since 1950, is located southeast of Asia, south of Tokyo and east of Manila, in the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by the Philippine Sea to the west. It is the largest and southernmost island in the Marianas Archipelago. The island is very small, only a ...

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Iwo Jima: D-Day of the Pacific

Apprehension. Agony. Fear. Those were the feelings shared by 60,000 United States Marines on 880 ships whose latest job was to storm the beaches of the little island known as Iwo Jima. The island, just over four and half miles long and two and a half miles wide, was within bombing distance to the main ...

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The Tempest and Its Island Setting

William Shakespeare’s The Tempest incorporates an array of different characters, conflicts, themes, and other literary tools in its development as a play. The play’s island setting, however, is vital to the framework of the play as a whole, creating the foundation for these literary elements. The island, with its many features, can be viewed as ...