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    Executive Order 9066

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    Sample Student English 2 April 28‚ 2014 No Japanese‚ No Fair: Understanding Executive Order 9066 Discrimination is when one group of people treats another group unfairly because of some type of prejudice or hatred. It can happen when people have bad feelings about another person or group of people based on their race‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ sexuality‚ etc. Unfortunately‚ the US has a long history of discrimination and even if something seemed like the right thing to do at the time‚ discrimination

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    California History

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    Final Review Sheet ( 2pgs) Be prepared to write yet another thoughtful essay! Your exam topics will come from a combination of the ideas listed below. Make sure to go back and study the essay assignments that you have already written and pay careful attention to the marks and suggestions that I have written on those essays. 5 parts: Moore‚ Shlain‚ lecture‚ roadtrips and notable californians Moore: 1. Why did people choose to live in Richmond before the war? What affect did encouraging

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    States for this research paper. Back on December 7‚ 1941 the Japanese attacked US Naval forces in Pearl Harbor located in Hawaii. The next day the US declared war on Japan and everyone was in a panic wondering what would happen next. The United States joined World War II and all Japanese and Japanese-Americans were being rounded up and put into camps‚ because the US government was afraid that there could spies or that the people with a Japanese heritage could turn against America. Executive Order 9066

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    Korematsu vs. United States Essay Fred Korematsu was born in the U.S. in 1919‚ but his parents were born in Japan. Even though his parents were not natural born citizens of the U.S‚ he still was. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ Americans of Japanese ancestry were seen as a threat which ended up forcing U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue what is known as the Executive Order 9066‚ or Exclusion Order. This order stated that any descendents or immigrants from enemy nations‚ who

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    Composed after World War II‚ Alice Yang Murray’s book “From Historical memories of Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress‚” is rather equivocal. The novel embodies the idea that every human has a right to freedom‚ water‚ food‚ and security. In Murray’s book‚ Dillon S. Myer‚ head of the War Relocation Authority‚ exclaimed: “The need for speed created the unfortunate necessity for evacuating the whole group instead of attempting to determine who were dangerous among them‚ so that

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    but follows them through the intricacies of dealing with an intercultural friendship‚ especially one considered so dangerous‚ during the time of cultural persecution and internment following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. ​Henry Lee is the American born child of Chinese immigrants‚ while Kieko is the American born child of Japanese immigrants; the Panama Hotel is on the corner of the dividing line between Japantown and Chinatown‚ offering the perfect location for children of both worlds to play together

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    Manzanar‚ a Japanese-American internment camp. On Sunday‚ December 7‚ 1941‚ in Long Beach‚ California‚ the family — consisting of both parents‚ Jeanne’s four brothers and five sisters‚ and Granny — are startled by news that Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii. FBI agents arrest Jeanne’s father‚ Ko‚ for allegedly supplying oil to Japanese submarines and imprison him at Fort Lincoln‚ near Bismarck‚ North Dakota. In February 1942‚ President Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066 ordering Japanese-Americans

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    between the Americans and the Japanese. These beliefs were heightened during WWII with the Pacific War in December 1941. The book shows the Americans view of the Japanese as well as the Japanese view of the Americans and the differences between their propaganda. I think the main difference is that Japanese propaganda is not as degrading as American propaganda. The Americans viewed all of the Japanese as Simian creatures derived from apes. They used derogatory names for the Japanese such as Japs

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    report to a Japanese internment camp in California after Pearl Harbor. He then sued the government claiming discrimination. The case eventually made it to the Supreme Court and is one of the most famous Supreme Court cases. (2 points) 2. According to the first paragraph from the excerpts of the majority opinion‚ what did the U.S. government believe some Japanese Americans would do if they were allowed to remain free on the West Coast? Answer: Many people thought that Japanese Americans would become

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    deserves to be in a cage. Japanese had no option but to live in concentration camps for 3 years. Throughout Farewell to Manzanar‚ being brave and not letting other people put them down emerges as an important message in the text. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston talks about her life in the concentration camps and after she left how people saw her. Japanese people went through a lot‚ American wanted Japanese to fight against their own people. Jeanne was ashamed of being Japanese‚ but was brave enough to survive

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