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    I would define Canadian culture as multicultural. Canada is a nation of various cultures blended together to form something unique and couldn’t be measured. I feel that every time different countries come to Canada it’s like we adopt the differences and intergrade them into our society and then it becoming normal to us. For example if you go to school and hear unusual music or see different clothes that person wouldn’t be ostracized because were most likely already familiar

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    Pearl Harbor resulted in President Franklin D. Roosevelt issuing the Executive Order 9066‚ which placed all the Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants in internment camps. The United States government “believed that West Coast Japanese helped plan the attack on Pearl Harbor and hoped the internment would prevent further acts of disloyalty. Studies indicate‚ however‚ that anti-Japanese sentiment‚ which had been building on the West Coast since the late nineteenth century‚ played a role in forced

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    Doesn’t it sound exhilarating to race a motorcycle in an organized race on a hand-built track with many large jumps and tight turns? I know first hand that it sounded very nice to me as a young kid‚ in fact I rode at my first motocross track when I was only 3 years old. The memories I made there are unforgettable and are just too plentiful to name off‚ but I do have one that I hold near to my heart. On a bright early Florida morning during sometime in the year 2001 I was woken to the noise of the

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    1 Japanese-Canadian Discrimination during World War II In history‚ numerous acts of atrocities have shocked the world and caused people to wonder how governments and citizens can be so ignorant towards minority races. For instance‚ the use of concentration camps in the killing of millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust has thoroughly disgusted generations of people to this day‚ and caused citizens of Canada to rejoice in the safety and multiculturalism of this peaceful and prosperous

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    America during World War II. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor over two years after the war started‚ Roosevelt had a difficult and important decision to make. Fears and anxieties broke out among the U.S. people that the Japanese living in the United States would sabotage America and turn against them in the war. A couple of months after the U.S. started fighting in the war‚ Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which required all people of Japanese descent to abandon their homes and move

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    Essay on the Japanese –American Internment During WWII Based on prior experience‚ the framers of our Constitution understood the value of dispersing power and authority amid the assorted governing divisions in order to circumvent corruption. For this reason‚ a process of checks and balances was written into our system to guarantee that no singular branch of government became too powerful. The perception of balance in our administration‚ however‚ deserves scrutiny from time to time‚ as a few historical

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    I was absolutely freezing. I had been tired all day‚ and attributed that to the large amount of time I spent sitting on my bed working on a school project. I had not been eating that day because I was saving my appetite for a buffet I knew my boyfriend‚ Cotton‚ and I were going to that night. Every time I did get up‚ I felt weak. My heart would pound‚ and my breathing was labored. I sipped at some OJ‚ thinking that maybe I was coming down with something‚ that the Vitamin C would help‚ and maybe it

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    “Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment‚ and I like who I am. (Asawa)” Adversity is defined as difficulties or misfortune. In the years from 1942 to 1944 over 120‚000 American born citizens‚ of Japanese descent faced an overwhelming amount of adversity when they were placed in a few different internment camp along the west coast of the United States of America. This reassuring quote comes from a girl named Ruth Asawa who

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    looks back to notice Roosevelt to be the president who signed an executive order to condemn‚ and relocate all Japanese Americans living along the West Coast to internment camps. Roosevelt signed the Japanese Americans off to be personally humiliated and in some cases‚ to die. During this time of World War II the Japanese Americans were not protected when they were put into the internment camps‚ and they were left to fight against the racial discrimination that fell upon them that caused all

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    Japanese Internment: racist or not? The “Japanese Internment” was an incident that occurred in World War II. The internment was to place all Japanese citizens into holding camps‚ wither American citizen or not. Some argue that the internment was solely based on racism‚ because the US were at war with Japan. In February 1942 President Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066‚ which declared that the U.S. armed forces could designate military areas in which certain people had to be expelled

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