Mary Matsuda Gruenewald‚ Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps 1. Why are interned Japanese Americans referred to as the “silent generation” (p.x)? They were referred to as the silent generation because many of them did not speak about their experiences to anyone‚ not even their children after their times in imprisonment. They were a silent generation. 2. What were the specific challenges Gruenewald and other interned Japanese Americans
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What would you do if your child developed diabetes from being obese? Obesity is a widely known problem that most Americans are enduring in this world today. According to the medical dictionary‚ by Farlex‚ obesity is an abnormal accumulation of body fat. With more and more Americans becoming obese at a shocking rate due to numerous factors‚ obesity may be developing into one of the most dangerous health problems in the United States. The obesity crisis in America is attributed to many causes; some
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Public Enemies People magazine gave it four stars and critics choice. The Washington Post says‚ “A wild and amazing story‚ and Burrough tells it with great gusto... It is hard to imagine a more careful‚ complete and entertaining book on the subject‚ and on this era.” Newsweek proclaims‚ “A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a getaway car through a wheat field.” All of these nationwide publications have high praise for Public Enemies‚ America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the
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Kudzu was first introduced to the United States in 1876. It was discovered that animals would use the plant for forage and was later used as cattle fodder. Additionally‚ kudzu was found to be a great tool for erosion control due to its strong root system. The plant also helps fix the nitrogen content in the soil. Kudzu also contains several medical chemicals‚ daidzen and genistein‚ which fight inflammation‚ infections‚ cancer‚ and promote estrous cycles. Although kudzu seemed like a wonder plant
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Enemy mine Fiction or Reality? Description Enemy mine is an excellent movie of scientific fiction made in 1985 in which two involved warriors in a wild future war between the Earth and the Dracon planet‚ where in a middle of a spaceship fight they are forced to land in a desolate and inhospitable planet. The principle‚ the human being (Dennis Quaid) and its enemy‚ a foreign reptile (Louis Gosset‚ Jr) are determined to mutual destruction
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Europe since World War II. Mainly perpetrated against Bosniaks by the Serbs‚ the Bosnian War left the country of Bosnia in ruins and left millions displaced and thousands killed. John Moore’s Behind Enemy Lines portrays the final days of the war as an American navigator attempts to get out of dangerous enemy territory. Due to the fact that this film focuses on the experiences of US soldiers and that slight differences are made between this movie and the historical event‚ the connections between the two
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Public Enemies Public Enemies apprehends perfectly the political condition of our time. A film that talks about the tumult and disarray of the Great Depression released at a time when America had entered an unusual recession. The film tells the story of John Dillinger‚ a bank robber who had little prospect of finding employment because of the economy’s downturn‚ and decided to rebel against the failed economic system of democracy. Dillinger knew what he wanted‚ and was willing to
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thing- destroying the enemy. Many people soon imagine the enemy as a lower- type of animal in order to dehumanize the enemy to attack the enemy and shoot at him/her. In the video‚ “Faces of the Enemy‚” Doctor John Dower even claims that “Psychologically‚ this process of dehumanization facilitates killing.” People must first visualize their enemy as an enemy and not a human being. Within the same video‚ Sam Keen States‚ “Before we make a weapon for war‚ we make an image of the enemy. First‚ we think
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Most people who are different suffer through many punishments that are not very fair. People who are different consider themselves as normal and find nothing wrong with themselves. In the short stories The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury‚ The Enemy by Pearl Buck‚ and The Bully by Gregory Clark‚ being different is a key issue. Many people‚ societies‚ and countries consider some people different because of what they believe in or their appearance or their life-style. For being different‚ these people suffered
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the moral center of their universe could not hold because the people themselves although normally English‚ were blends of their European ancestries and the folk culture of generations before them. Puritan philosophy was rooted in the search for spiritual perfection. Witchcraft was viewed by Puritans as evidence of the man ’s spiritual weakness. Therefore‚ Puritan philosophy‚ as later reflected in The Crucible‚ was the natural enemy of witchcraft.<br><br>A Puritan ’s first responsibility was to serve
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