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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acting irrationally. My friends would always do things with spontaneity while I would get left behind sitting alone shrouded by my fear. As life gradually moved on‚ I grew to overcome my fears and not overanalyze situations with the help of a few moments in my life. One event I remember with startling clarity was when I was seven. Like many children‚ my brother and cousins loved to ride roller coasters and enjoyed the thrill that accompanied it. However‚ I never relished the execrable feeling of
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extra push I needed. I sat down with a pen and a piece of paper and began to write. With each word my view of the world shifted. Everything became brighter‚ each noise became just a little bit louder‚ and each action became sharper. I finally had the moment of clarity that everyone was raving about. And it all started with a feeling. When I get the urge to write it’s the most miraculous feeling in the whole world. Sweat coats my brow‚ my palms become damp‚ I become nervous that this image that crowded
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was the Japanese Internment Camp. Hundred thousands of Japanese were forced to relocate away from their homes and incarcerated into a camp. That being said‚ more than half of the hundred thousands of Japanese were legal citizens of the United States; however‚ because of their Japanese blood‚ they are seen as the enemy of the United States. To summarize‚ more than hundred thousands of Japanese that were citizens of the United States had their right(s) stripped away because they were Japanese. This clearly
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I wake up surrounded by suffocating darkness‚ gasping for a breath that won’t come‚ my heart pounding. I don’t know what time it is and for a minute I don’t know where I am‚ I’m still trapped in whatever hellscape I was in. It takes me another minute to realise that I am home in my bed‚ and another minute to calm my racing heart and even out my breathing. In and out‚ in and out‚ over and over again until I’ve calmed down. At this point I’m too exhausted to go to find my parents so I settle for trying
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The hands that I look down upon can’t be mine‚ why because they’re covered in blood. But they must be‚ I also taste the blood on my lips every time I breathe. I can’t feel my face‚ all I feel is the adrenaline rushing through me. The blood‚ the adrenaline‚ and the metallic taste‚ all mixed together is too much. I start running to my mom. I can’t yell because if I do the blood will get in and the taste will remind me of how hurt I am. How could such a childhood experience end in blood and a broken
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Have you never done something in your life that everyone else has done‚ maybe like skiing‚ going on a boat‚ go fishing‚ falling from a tree‚ etc.? I have never been on a roller coaster and everyone else has. You can’t really bond with people once they talk about their favorite subject that you haven’t yet done‚ until you do it. It was May 26‚ 2017‚ it was the day I had I have been waiting for. The day I would go on a roller coaster for the first time. I was happy the day before‚ I was planning nothing
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My memory may have failed me that day‚ but I knew I was going to get into the house one way or another. I had seen dozens of movies where people got into their house without a trace so my twelve year old brain thought I could pull off the same stunts as a million dollar movie. In my mind I had planned out the best idea for a break in and ended up with a sliced up a finger dipped in hydrogen peroxide‚ having to wrap plastic all over the windows so snow wouldn’t get in and overall forgetting my phone
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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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On December 7‚ 1941‚ after the Japanese attack on Peral Harbor during WWII‚ Canada was afraid. That fear became mistrust which‚ in turn became mistreatment of Japanese Canadians. The government was cruel‚ stripped them of all their rights as citizens‚ did not let them speak up for themselves and unfairly punished them in different ways. In an effort to protect Canada‚ the government wrongfully confiscated and sold the possessions of Japanese Canadians effectively taking away their ability to work
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