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    George Orwell believes that “[Everyone] is equal but some [people] are more equal than others.” In Orwell’s famous book Animal Farm‚ all the animals are equal but somehow the pigs have more rights‚ this means the pigs can live a more comfortable life with more power while the rest of the animals don’t. In the book everyone starts equal but the pigs gain more power. Although all the animals have the same rights the pigs have more‚ for example everyone has the right to live but the pigs can change

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    Japanese Internment By: Ryan Ward In the 1940´s the U.S.A. put Japanese American citizens and aliens into camps. Its started when the war began and Japan attacked pearl harbor. ¨State representatives put pressure on President Roosevelt to take action against those of Japanese descent living in the US.¨ (http://www.historyonthenet.com) When there’s pressure on you it’s hard to ignore it. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Yeah some people believed that it was right to be afraid and other believed

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    Pidgin: Dialect of English Spoken on the Hawaiian Islands Pidgin is a dialect of English spoken in the Hawaiian Islands. It consists of the shortening of many words commonly used in everyday English speech. Some examples include‚ da (the)‚ odda (other)‚ Tre (meaning tree and three)‚ bra (anyone you know)‚ da kine (anything you don’t know)‚ cus (any friend)‚ and many others. Pidgin has it’s social barriers as well. It is primarily spoken in the lower class neighborhoods consisting of the Hawaiians

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    Introduction Chiba International is an American subsidiary of a Japanese company: Chiba Electronics. Chiba International is based in San Jose‚ California and has 70% of market share in the United States. They manufacture and sell high-quality electronics parts for integrated circuits. Chiba counts 14 out of the 24 top executives and 65 out of the 70 salesmen which are American. Japanese and American cultures are very different and the way to run a business is very different too. In this case

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    Life in the United States was anything but heavenly for Asian Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As vividly described in Mary Paik Lee’s autobiography‚ "Quiet Odyssey"‚ a very large majority of the Asian American population residing in America during this time period "never had enough money for a normal way of life" (Lee‚ p.9). They usually had to resort to difficult physical labor to barely get by‚ jeopardizing their health in the process. Japan’s subjugation of Korea

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    Imagine a calm sunday morning suddenly changing to a disastrous historical battle.Imagine all your friends turning on you‚ calling you offensive names‚ and making rude comments about your nationality. Imagine leaving your home‚ and everything you’ve ever known‚ to be taken far away to a cruel place unfamiliar to you. In the year 1941‚ this was a reality for Japanese Americans. During world war 2‚ in the year 1941‚ Japan bombed a place called Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. After this event occurred

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    Americans were divided about Japanese internment when it was occurring and Americans today are still divided. In the beginning of World War II‚ approximately 120‚000 Japanese Americans were forced to relocate to internment camps. President FDR signed the Executive Order 9066 which made them evacuate the West Coast in which they resided in. This order was signed two months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th‚ 1941. Some believe that this was necessary to make America more secure

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    The Internment of Japanese Americans by PBS goes into detail about the struggles Japanese-Americans faced during WW11. Japanese-Americans were forced to leave their daily life along the West coast and relocate to internment camps throughout the West side. The cause of their imprisonment was the bombings of Pearl Harbor and the American fear that grew from it. This lead to Executive Order 9066‚ which order people of Japanese descent to be put into camps. “All across the West‚ relocation notices were

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    During the 1900’s‚ the United States tried to force assimilation of the Native Americans into American society. Native American children were sent to boarding school to gain an education and civilize them based on white American standards. When they were sent to off-reservation schools boys were taught agricultural procedures and manual arts‚ while the girls were taught domestic skills. Native American tribes all around the United States were conflicted on whether they should send their children

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    Pearl Harbor was a big attack that the U.S was not expecting and it was very sad that the enemy had won and a lot of people died. Thousands of people died in Pearl harbor. President Roosevelt said that this attack was a scarfull attack. The Pearl Harbor Attack started In December‚7‚ 1941. In Arizona‚ Honolulu in the ocean in the morning. It started in the morning and the U.S actually knew it was gonna happen. Because they cracked the japanese code and the warning was sent from washington. But

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