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    There was no reason for us to try and get rid of all of our Japanese-Americans.There were 3 main causes of Japanese-Internment. One reason was because at the time there was a lot of racism in America. Another reason for Japanese-Internment was that the Japanese as a country had bombed Pearl Harbor. The final reason was that the Americans were afraid that the Japanese Americans would take all of the production and money that came out of farming.The final reason was the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The

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    The Japanese Internment camps were a way for our government to make us feel safe during World War 2. The reason as to why they locked up Japanese Americans was because during World War 2‚ Japanese were the enemies and the U.S. predicted that there would be spies in the U.S. that could give away valuable information‚ such as the routine of naval ships. To avoid any type of spies‚ the U.S put anyone of Japanese ancestry into some camps. Some of the public were skeptical about how they were being locked

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    the very first family camp. In his searching he came across government owned land in rural and isolated Crystal City‚ Texas. This old migrant camp was geographically the ideal location for the establishment of the family camp. The location was both strategically far enough from both the East and West Coast‚ and it was close enough to house the transported families from Latin America. On December 12‚ 1942‚ thirty-five German families that were being held at Ellis Island and Camp Forest entered the unfinished

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    Natasha Welch AP English Mrs.Meyer 2 February 2014 Are Zoos Internment Camps for Animals? Majority of people are familiar with the popular animation movie‚ Madagascar. The plot includes four spoiled zoo animals that escape to the wild and quickly find out that it’s not what they expected. Now this movie has quite the comedic take on a much bigger issue: whether the zoo is an internment camp for animals that should be shut down or not. Zoos are seen as a tourist attraction while the animals

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    Ethics of Identity: Japanese-American Internment Since 1893‚ when Fredrick Jackson Turner announced that the American identity was not a byproduct of the first colonists‚ but that it emerged out of the wilderness and only grew with the surfacing of the frontier‚ America has placed a great emphasis on the notion of a national identity. However‚ the paradox of the American identity is that although the United States is a melting pot of many different traditions‚ motives‚ and ideals‚ there are nevertheless

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    Visiting the Japanese American Museum was an extremely moving and often gut wrenching roller coaster ride of emotions both of happiness and sadness alike. The stories of triumph were ostensibly plastered along the walls in glass cases‚ but so too were the stories of terror and internment of Japanese Americans on no further grounds than their original origin. The Japanese were interned in barracks to supposedly prevent espionage from the US to Japan. The internment of the Japanese was akin to the

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    Most of the Japanese POW camps involved doing hard labor for war profit. The prisoners were put to work in mostly mines‚ fields‚ shipyards‚ and factories with only the energy they got from only 600 calories or less a day. Some of the camps were located at mine sites. In the these mine sites‚ POWs were forced to work in dark tunnels with little light‚ rusty rail carts‚ low cave

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    concentration camps‚ when the war ended there were 3 million people. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor President Ford put the japanese americans and the immigrants into internment camps because they looked like the enemy‚ the Japanese were not able to fight in the Military because they looked like the enemy. When Hitler became Chancellor he chose to put the Jews in concentration camps because he thought they looked like the enemy‚ Hitler made sure that everyone hated the Jews. Japanese internment camps

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    The japanese American International Camp is a concentration camp. 62% of the internees were United States citizens. During WW2‚ between 110‚000 and 120‚000 japanese people were taken into a concentration camp. Thousands of people were tortured there and were fed very little. Months later after japanese bombed pearl harbor‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed some papers saying all Japanese-Americans to go to the west coast for evacuation. All japanese-Americans were sent to a camp. In 1945‚ They

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    2 Honouliuli Internment Camp vs. Tule Lake Internment Camp Located in Honouliuli Gulch near Kunia and surrounded by fields of sugar cane lived Japanese Americans and prisoners-of-war (POW) at one of the internment camps mandated by Executive Order 9066. Tule Lake Internment Camp located thousands of miles away in the drylands of California also held Japanese Americans and POW’s. However‚ the experiences of the internees greatly differed. Life at Honouliuli Internment Camp was dull for the

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