watermelon juice and chunks of the grainy fruit splattered onto my head. My campers cackled as I suffered the punishment of losing the camp-wide “Greasy Watermelon Soccer” tournament. Every session‚ the winning team of campers got to dump the contents of the jostled up fruit upon the counselor of the losing team‚ and it was my turn to be the victim. As a counselor at HoneyRock Camp‚ I relished silly moments like these. I had acquainted myself with songs about dancing mangoes‚ taken canoes of campers to spot
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significant events involving the mass death of civilians‚ including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare‚ it was the deadliest conflict in human history‚ resulting in 50 million to over 70 million fatalities. The beginning of WWII effectively ended The Great Depression in America by putting everyone back to work; 16‚000‚000 men in the armed forces and many millions of men and women in the various industries that supported the war effort. There was concern that when the war ended
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WWII has been one of the most memorable events in history‚ but beneath all of it are the deprived POWS and the confined Japanese-American internees. Louis Zamperini before he was stationed as a bombardier on a B-24 was a olympic runner. Louie had been captured by the Japanese after his B-24 crashed in the ocean and was marooned on a raft with two of his friends. Miné Okubo is a American with Japanese heritage and has a talent for making art. She was going to college for an art degree until she
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Isolation or Involvement in WWII: Debate As our nation’s sixteenth President once said‚ “Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation‚ whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion‚ and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose- and you allow to make war at pleasure”(Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy 38). This quote from Abraham Lincoln exemplifies the time before the United States joined into World War 2. Many
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9066 authorizing the secretary of War to designate parts of the country as “military areas” from which any and all persons might be excluded‚ and in which travel restrictions might be imposed. The Japanese Americans were soon forced into relocation camps around the country. The evacuation affected over 200‚000 Japanese Americans. However‚ there were no valid reasons with interning Japanese Americans during World War II. There was a fear of sabotage from Japanese Americans or Japanese nationals posing
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beginning. Since that trip I have maintained a daredevil’s sense of adventure both at home and abroad. Despite concerns about my previous understanding of such situations‚ my name was enrolled to many adventurous camps. I went to many hilly regions to practice rock-climbing. I ate "camp food" which I‚ in the past‚ felt uncomfortable eating. I had berries for lunch and relinquished my water bottle to a dingo‚ learned a new dance‚ slept in a ranch‚ and wiped out while street-lugging down a mountain
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“In the concentration camps‚ we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill‚ and the victims came to die” Elie Wiesel. Concentration Camps are specific places in which individuals are detained or confined usually under harsh conditions. They were used to hold political and religious enemies of the Nazi party throughout most of WWII and a majority of the camps were in Poland. They held Jews and various religious groups prisoner. The horrific acts committed
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World War II spawned the creation of many new inventions‚ inventions that were greatly needed in order for whole countries to survive the war‚ and one such creation was introduced by the Germans‚ the Blitzkrieg. The word "Blitzkrieg" is German for "lightning war‚" and it describes the military tactic used by the Germans and was coined by Western newspapermen in 1939 to convey the immense speed and powerful destruction caused by the three week German campaign against Poland. The term Blitzkrieg
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North Africa: World War II In 1941‚ Australians fought in the North African lands of Libya and Egypt. The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) divisions 6‚ 7 and 9 fought in those countries. Royal Australian Navy (RAN) ships served in the eastern Mediterranean and the Royal Australian Air Force provided air support. Australians fought their first major land battle in World War II on January 1941‚ when men of the 6th Division AIF‚ and other Allied troops‚ battled Italian forces at the town of Bardia
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Following decades of isolationist policy‚ World War II was an essential time in the United States history because it gradually opened up American society to once again receive immigrants who are in search of better opportunity and refuge. In the early 19th century‚ the United States began to re-think about its stance on immigration. As the numbers of immigrants increased‚ questions about the leniency of the American government on immigration were raised by the “Progressive Movement”. Consequently
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