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    destroyed lives‚ and lead to murders and deaths. As the Jews in Germany were persecuted‚ the Japanese were in the United States. Many of these Japanese had lived in the United States all their lives. In Farewell to Manzanar‚ Jeanne W. Houston explains her experiences on an interment camp at Manzanar. The prejudices against the Japanese forced them to move to interment camps. These consisted of‚ usually‚ temporary barracks surrounded by barbed wire fence and guard towers. These barracks were about the size

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    Unexpected Arrivals All over the world there have been unexplained happenings that many believe to be other types of life forms. Do you believe in unidentified flying objects (UFOs)? People all over the world think about if other forms of life exist and there are plenty of files to support extraterrestrial activities that occur throughout the world. The government has hidden many documents containing these unexpected arrivals‚ such as Area 51‚ and many files were missing pieces of information

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    effects on the prisoners were starkly different. The books Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand show the stories of the Wakatsuki family in America’s Japanese internment camp Manzanar and Louie Zamperini in the Japanese POW camps (despite Zamperini being sent to multiple camps‚ Naoetsu

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    To begin with‚ In the novel farewell to Manzanar by James D. Houston and the Article “War changed my dad” by Michelle Crough‚ the two authors use of imagery is different because‚ they both talk about a type of war but “war changed my dad” the imagery is more calm then Manzanar. An example of this is in the Article “when they got home‚ Peter surprised everyone by grabbing his kids‚ giving them a big hug.” Additionally‚In the novel farewell to Manzanar by Janna Wakatok and the article “War changed

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    Farewell to Manzanar: Essay Question #2 Jeanne’s father‚ Ko Wakatsuki‚ shows many sides of himself throughout the novel‚ from Pearl Harbor Day to the day he dies in 1957. Papa starts out as a typical father figure‚ who’s very demanding and stubborn. However‚ when the family moves to Manzanar‚ Papa becomes more of an abusive and demanding man. He even threatens and comes close to killing Mama when he was drunk‚ and started blaming and hitting her for things that wasn’t even her fault (68-69). Even

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    Farewell to Manzanar Book Review " What is Pearl Harbor?"(4). The book I read was Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki. This is what started World War II. During these times Japanese people were treated like animals. They were forced to live in internment camps throughout Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 was approved by Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt‚ this order ordered the military to place Japanese or Japanese Americans into these internment camps. This is where this story takes

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    move to Manzanar‚ California; the Wakatsuki family is one of them. Many Japanese accept the move because they are afraid of Caucasian aggression‚ but some simply see it as an adventure. Families have to put on identification number tags on their collars. Riding on buses to Manzanar‚ Jeanne falls asleep on the bus‚ nearly half of which is filled with her relatives‚ and wakes up to the “setting sun and the yellow‚ billowing dust of Owens Valley.”(pg 19) As they enter the camp‚ the new arrivals stare

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    1. Because the Wakatsuki family is of Japanese descent‚ they are forcibly brought into Manzanar after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Once they get there‚ they are faced with circumstances that no human should face after being forced out of their homes and old lives and into an unknown terrain that diminishes every last bit of pride and dignity they had worked for. One morning‚ Mama Wakes up to find her family covered in sand from the sandstorm that had happened the night before. Mama gets Woody to

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    Life Experiences in Farewell to Manzanar The book‚ Farewell to Manzanar was the story of a young Japanese girl coming of age in the interment camp located in Owens Valley‚ California. Less than two months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor‚ President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066‚ which stated that the War Department had the right to declare which people were a threat to the country‚ and move them wherever they so pleased1. Since the West Coast had a large number of Japanese immigrants

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    Sive By John B. Keane * ‘Sive’ is set in Ireland in the middle of the 20th Century. The action of the play takes place in a small farmhouse in a remote part of County Kerry which is home to the Glavin family. * Poverty is made obvious in the opening stage directions “the kitchen is poorly furnished” * The relationships between the Glavin family members are strained. The hostility that exists between Mena and her mother-in-law‚ Nanna‚ is obvious from the very beginning of the play

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