to attend a segregated school in Chinatown. Japanese Americans weren’t the only people to be interned during WWII‚ Italian immigrants were also assigned to internment camps. Italians‚ Germans and Japanese were called "enemy aliens" and the U.S. government did not discriminate. Non-nationalized Italians‚ Germans and Japanese (diplomats‚ students‚ visitors etc) were treated differently‚ classed as enemy aliens and‚ theoretically‚ could be interred without due process. But unlike Japanese only non-citizen
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familial background. I simply thought that‚ culturally wise‚ I was just a German/American; my mom was a first generation from German and my father was a many generation from who knows where. I have fondness for both the German flag‚ as well as the American flag‚ though growing up I was careful who I told about my half German ethnicity after being asked if I was a Nazi one too many times. It was nice knowing information about German beyond that of World War II and the Nazi’s‚ to be able to understand that
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The strange thing about this essay is that he is not describing the Germans completely negatively‚ but rather comparing them as sometimes living a simpler‚ more pure lifestyle than his more excessive modern Roman contemporaries. That said‚ Tacitus does portray Germans as fairly barbaric and seems to focus on their warlike tendencies. This essay will briefly examine how Tacitus frames the positive and negative aspects of the Germans and how he uses their portrayal to comment on Rome of the time.
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were friends of Russia. This meant that German would be attacked on both sides of the country‚ so Germany wanted to avoid spreading the army into two to defeat France quickly and then attack Russia. The German Army Chief of Staff‚ Alfred von Schlieffen was asked to plan a war on two sides. He think that it was important to get a fast break attack. Schlieffen wanted to attack France through Holland‚ Belgium and Luxembourg. He planned to use 90% of the German army to deliver a knock out blow to France
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12.IB Does language shape culture? Most questions of whether and how language shapes thought start with the simple observation that languages differ from one another. And a lot! Just look at the way people talk‚ they might say. Certainly‚ speakers of different languages must attend to strikingly different aspects of the world just so they can use their language properly. The word order can be completely different among languages. And also there are tenses in some languages that we do not
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wage. Another aspect that added greatly to the up surging or nativism in America was the World Wars. With the rise of the Kaiser and the Nazi party Americans became more and more anti-German. American opinion of Germany was already ill-disposed‚ but was further inflamed against the Kaiser and Germany when a German
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be conflicts. Further on the punctuality is also one aspect to be mentioned here. Germans are always on time‚ whereas Spanish people don’t take punctuality too serious. Another point to be mentioned here is the extrovert an talkative character of the Spains. Germans are more introvert and quiet. This might also result in some irritation between these two cultures. To summarize‚ according to Lewis’ Model‚ Germans are very task-oriented and highly organized planners. Spanish are more people-oriented
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Sanaz M. Shaghaghi Period 3‚ APUSH 1/8/13 Irish and German Comparison The new world experienced high immigration rates of German and Irish decent during the 1830’s to 1860’s. Many comparable hardships were given to them which caused them to leave it all behind to hopefully find a future in the prosperous America. Both of these German and Irish races moved to America because they were forced to leave under harsh times and for economic prosperity. During this era almost more than half
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of these headlines are: -“Belgium child’s hands cut off by Germans” -“Germans crucify Canadian officer” Anyone caught spreading the truth would be arrested. Propaganda aimed at Women While the men were fighting it was left to the women to do the men’s jobs and treat injured soldiers. To get the women to do this propaganda was used. Untrue stories: “Monks in Antwerp were being forced to ring bells to celebrate the Germans invading the city. The monks refused to do this so were tied
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especially with the dominance of the bluff that overlooks the beach used this situation of the Omaha beach. There is a concave shape of the shoreline that would permit the delivery of direct fire from three directions. There were concrete remains of the German defense with its numerous fighting positions along the bluff. The allies also considered the existence of the cliffs that flank the coast from which observers would deliver indirect fire to any location of the beach. The allies were determined to
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