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    (1) Helen Zia‚ in the article‚ Reinventing Our Culture‚ quotes a hapa (mixed heritage Asian American): People say that were a cultural bridge‚ or the other extreme‚ that we represent cultural degeneracy and we will dilute the culture Which viewpoint do you support? When the person explained that a person with a mixed heritage can be looked upon as a cultural bridge‚ or a representation of cultural degeneracy‚ I believe that they are a cultural bridge. I think that if more and more Asians became

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    Maya Productions‚ n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2013. . "Daily life." In the Concentration Camps. National Education Network‚ n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2013. "Japanese-American Internment." Japanese-American Internment [ushistory.org]. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2013. . "Jewish Life during the Holocaust." Jewish Life during the Holocaust. The Jewish Federations of North America‚ Inc.‚ n.d. Web. 25 Oct. 2013. . Lyons‚ Michael J. World War 11 A Short

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    The Second World War ultimately began because Germany wanted to avenge its loss in the first World War. Fascism became popular in Italy and Germany during this time. In Germany‚ Hitler wanted to take over German speaking countries surrounding Germany‚ such as Austria‚ and parts of Czechoslovakia. Although‚ he was offered an appeasement‚ Hitler broke his promise and he demanded to get those countries back. Hitler and the German army started spreading across Europe‚ killing thousands of civiians.

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    people; it is outrageous. Maybe‚ as a solution‚ for the greater good of our community‚ we take away this problem. Put them away; build isolated communities to house the gay. The government can go about this the same way they did the Japanese and the internment camps. Homosexuals are a threat to society‚ to the value of marriage and the proper structure of family. If we as a community let this stand‚ it will ruin the lives of thousands. Children will grow up wrong and heterosexual marriages will never

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    The Question on Loyalty

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    1ELS Academic Year: 2012-2013 The poem‚ “The Question of Loyalty” by Mitsuye Yamada‚ reflects the experience of Yamada during the World War II. During the war‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the U.S. signed an executive order stating the internment of Americans or Japanese Ancestry. She‚ together with her mother and brothers‚ was sent to the Minidoka Relocation Center and was ordered to renounce her allegiance to the Japanese Empire. However‚ she refused to do so and had herself incarcerated

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    written by Eliezer Wiesel there was a war in Sighet‚ Romania. The Jewish community had suffered two years of torment ‚ under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Eliezer a young boy who shares his perspective through experiences in Hitler’s internment camps and shares life before‚ during‚ and after the war. These experiences will compromise the faith of Eliezer and the associating characters throughout the story. Even those who had incredibly strong faith find it hard to maintain it by the end

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    from working. Money was needed to buy certain things that the government did not provide such as personal items‚ clothing‚ and shoes (Fremon 43). Many Japanese careers were interrupted as they lost private business or civil jobs in the process of internment (Fremon 26). Austin Anson‚ the secretary of a farm organization stated‚“We’re charged with wanting to get rid of the Japs for selfish reasons. We might as well be honest. We do. It’s a question of whether the white man lives on the Pacific Coast

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    When people come to America and decide to live here one of the first things that they think of is that this is “the land of the free.” In reality‚ it is not so simple. A person’s freedom in America is limited by many different factors. Citizenship‚ gender‚ race‚ religion‚ class all play a part in how free one can be. We are not all equal. In recent years‚ this question of how free we should be has come up again and new limits to our freedoms have been created. After the World Trade Center was attacked

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    Poem of Hercules

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    HW: 2N Imitation (a poem); write a parody of “Internment.” You may use the work you  started in class‚ but must cut and paste into the Doc I shared with you.    The Labours  by Ankit Dixit    The goddess of marriage  out of jealousy‚  made him insane by treachery‚  by then it was too late‚  the blood had been spilled‚  all was lost  and both of his loves were long gone.    Later after he woke from his temporary insanity‚  his hands bloody‚  a knife lay beside him‚  his wife and children bleeding

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    written and interesting Of course ‚ it was very depressing and dark ‚ but that can only be expected of the subject matter . All of Ding Ling ’s struggles and hardships make for a touching ‚ dramatic story . Truly ‚ the struggles she faced during her internment are just as touching to read about today as they must have been when she originally wrote the story ‚ back in 1979 after just having experienced the situation So ‚ all in all ‚ I would say that I enjoyed Ding Ling ’s story ‚ Sketches from the

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