After spending forty seven days with out food and stranded at sea “ Louie and Phil were captured, and now they had to take a harsh beating. “The sun sank. The beating went on for some two hours, the Bird watching with fierce and erotic pleasure. When every enlisted man had done his punching, the bird ordered the guards to club each one twice in the head with a Kendo stick (302).” After practically being starved to death while stranded at sea, Phil and Louie get captured by the Japanese. They immediately get thrown into a POW camp and receive beating that lasts for two hours,making them not want to fight back. The crimes that was committed against the soldiers eventually led to death and for the survivors PTSD,causing them to mentally not be the same after the war.…
Belonging is usually defined as being accepted into and by members of a family, group, class, race, community or school. The term belonging means something different to everyone but most people will come up with the words acceptance, security and identity. In this speech I have chosen to talk about the aspects of belonging and not belonging in two of Peter Skrzynecki’s Poems, Migrant Hostel and 10 Mary Street and also in the 1997 film ‘Titanic’.…
Dachau was not horror camp not like Auschwitz and Belzec that killed over 1,700,000 together.Auschwitz was famous for being the most horrific camps,but it was not the first or long lasting concentration camps.Dachau camp was made of an old World War I munition factory.SS Weinrich Himmler announced the camps creation,so people (Jews) were put on trains to arrive at Dachau.All of the many concentration camps (Death camps) made medical experiments on some of their many prisoners. Dachau was still operating for 12 years near the Third Reich.This camp was known as concentration camp but not a "death camp".…
Describe the everyday experiences had by both prisoners and guards in POW camps. Compare the experiences of Australian POWs in German and Japanese camps.…
If I could change one thing about Australia, I would change the poor treatment of the Asylum Seekers from war-infested countries. In fact, Australia is the only country in the world to mandate the detention of Asylum Seekers. This Anti-Asylum policy has been at the spotlight of international criticism by various humanitarian organisations, calling the actions of the Australian Government "an act of discrimination and racism".…
Many people feel it’s not fair that these "illegals" are receiving federal and state benefits that they don't deserve. When this child is born, the child automatically receives many benefits if he/she is an anchor baby. Their parent is illegal and cannot work and so they apply for food stamps and many other governmental programs. These anchor babies are a burden on schools, hospitals, taxpayers, and so on. "If there's abuse in the system where , pregnant women are coming in to have babies simply because they can do it, then there ought to be greater enforcement," Said President Bush "That's [the] legitimate side of this. Better enforcement so that you don't have these, you know, 'anchor babies,' as they're described, coming into the country."…
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the internment of Japanese Americans on the West coast of the United States. On going tension between the United States and Japan rose in the 1930’s due to Japan’s increasing power and because of this tension the bombing at Pearl Harbor occurred. This event then led the United States to join World War II. However it was the Executive Order of 9066 that officially led to the internment of Japanese Americans. Japanese Americans, some legal and illegal residents, were moved into internment camps between 1942-1946. The internment of Japanese Americans affected not only these citizens but the United States as well.…
In the 1940´s the U.S.A. put Japanese American citizens and aliens into camps. Its started when the war began and Japan attacked pearl harbor. ¨State representatives put pressure on President Roosevelt to take action against those of Japanese descent living in the US.¨ (http://www.historyonthenet.com) When there's pressure on you it's hard to ignore it. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Yeah some people believed that it was right to be afraid and other believed that it was racist and to prove to everybody they're not racist they should do it to Germans and Italians.…
Imagine you live in a country with an oppressive government and even worse your enthnic group is being persecuted by that government, would you not want to leave even if it means selling all your possessions? This is a scenario faced by thousands of people every year who are classed as asylum seekers.…
If anyone knows anything about the concentration camps, you can imagine it would be a long hard struggle just to get through one day. But no matter what the Jews and other prisoners had to go through, “Prisoners strove to keep their Jewish identity” (Hazikaron, www.yadvashem.org). The Jews went through hardships every day. “Jewish prisoners in the camp during the holocaust suffered forced labor, starvation rations and the horrific daily lineups” (Hazikaron, www.yadvashem.org). “Prisoners were resourceful and heroic and strove to maintain their humanity” ( Hazikaron, www.yadvashem.org). Prisoners were dehumanized as soon as they walked through the gates and we treated like animals until they died. “So…
The Holocaust was a very tragic event for the Gypsies, Homosexuals, Polish, and especially the Jews. It was a genocide focused towards the Jews, and run by the Nazi’s. The Holocaust took place from 1933-1945 during that time millions of people died. The worst thing about the Holocaust was the concentration camps, and the propaganda that was made to be used against the Jews. The concentration camps were brutal and the Nazis treated the prisoners inhumanly and with no respect.…
The early 1980s were times of tension and turmoil the government and citizens of Central America. Over one million Central Americans fled to the United States seeking political asylum due to the violence from Civil Wars in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. The militaries killed thousands of people, including Archbishop Oscar Romero and four Catholic Sisters. Along with violence, these nations also became stricken with poverty and economic depression, spurring large-scale migration to the United States.…
The American Refugee Committee (ARC) is an international humanitarian organization that brings the kind hearts of the world together to ensure stable living conditions for displaced peoples. The ARC is well known across the globe for our efforts. For nearly 35 years, we have been demonstrating why humans are way more generous than some may think. When it comes to a humanitarian crisis, expect us and our constituencies to be there.…
The Holocaust was traumatizing event in the 1900s. It was a life changing event for the Jews. This time period went down in history. Rudolf Hoss, estimated during Nuremberg Trial that nearly three million people died while being held hostage in death camps. Also, ninety percent of the ones killed were known as Jews. In death camps the people who were known as “different” suffered from cruel treatment, harsh environment and immoral medical experiments.…
Relief camps were a National Disaster because of the working conditions and also the horrible pay. To be admitted into a relief camp you would have to have so many things such as ; you would have to be single, male, unemployed, not living at home, at least 18 years of age and not a political agitator. The Government would provide free transportation to the camp itself. If you sign up for a relief a relief camp you will receive a set of work clothes, soap and towel ,a bunk bed, three unhealthy and low calorie meals a day, and complete use of the crude an unsanitary showers, toilets and laundry facilities. Advertisement for the camps made them seem way better than th=ey actually were. When the workers got out to the camp they soon found the dreadful horror that awaited them.…