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    Between 1942 and 1945‚ Japanese Americans were being forced to leave their homes and businesses and move to internment camps run by the U.S. Government. This was happning because the president announced Executive Order 9066 in February 1942‚ he authorized the evacuation and Japanese-American child who will go with his parents to Owens Valley. Within months‚ many places in California‚Washington and Oregon had been stated as military areas. This was the start of moving thousands of Japanese Americans

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    Buchenwald Concentration Camp Buchenwald was a German Nazi camp. It was one of the advance and largest concentration camps in Germany. The camp was built in a wooded area on the northern slopes of Ettersberg. It was about 5 miles northwest of Weimar in east central Germany. Two hundred and fifty five Jews died of their mistreatment. The Buchenwald concentration camp was also recognized as the birthplace of German fundamental democracy in 1919‚ the Weimar Republic. Political prisoners

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    Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp entrance. This picture basically sums up my grey and gloomy experience. Before going into the camp‚ I was ready to take a lot of pictures and go into this camp with an open-mind‚ instead of thinking about how many human-beings were tortured and killed. I had a feeling the tour of the camp and the atmosphere would feel creepy and sad‚ but it was not necessarily creepy‚ just mainly unreal that the Holocaust really happened and this was the actual camp that kept so many people

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    Concentration camps were first set up in 1933. They were camps in which large numbers of people‚ especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities‚ were deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities‚ sometimes to provide forced labour or to await mass execution. The age range of the people in the cmap varied from very young to very old. In all the camps‚ the detainees were dehumanised and treated as mere objects. Most of the concentration camps in Germany

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    the privilege to work as an office assistant‚ a barista‚ and a camp counselor. Each of these positions has left me with unique experiences and skills. I am very organized and thorough due to my time working in the office. From my experiences as a barista‚ I am able to work quickly and efficiently under pressure. Finally‚ I am very adept at dealing with conflict‚ solving problems‚ and working through my own frustration as my work as a camp counselor was very challenging for me. The most important thing

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    he will die to feeling quite sure that it will be okay. His father‚ his uncle and himself are camping. Nick remembers‚ with shame‚ how he got scared thinking about how he would die one day. When he was alone‚ he summoned his uncle and father back to camp‚ by firing three shots into the air with a rifle. The uncle is frustrated‚ thinking that Nick is a coward. However‚ his father is more understanding. When they arrive‚ Nick lies to them. He tells them that he had heard an animal instead of saying he

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    The Relief Camp: Not so Relieving After All Relief Camps were set up in 1932 and were intended to provide work for unemployed men. However in the end‚ these relief camps became a national disaster in the eyes of many Canada men. Their pay was horrible and their health care was appalling. But worst of all‚ they were isolated from family‚ friends and the rest of Canada. The men that worked in relief camps deserved a much better pay. They received only 20 cents a day. They worked in dreadful

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    "Suppressed Desires" by Susan Glaspell is a two-scene play about a woman‚ Henrietta‚ who is obsessed with dream interpretation and seems unable to stop over-analyzing the dreams of her husband‚ Stephen‚ and Henrietta’s unsophisticated sister‚ Mabel. Mabel knows so little about psychoanalysis that she think it is "something about war‚" though she has seen a psychiatrist‚ Dr. Russell‚ the same psychiatrist who cares for Stephen. Henrietta respects psychoanalysis until eventually‚ her mind changes about

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    significant emotion is happiness. Happiness can range from something as a big as winning the power ball to something as miniscule as a pet. The miniscule things are what tie us down‚ and make sure we stay sane. In the play Trifles by the playwright Susan Glaspell the thing that tied down a Midwestern farmwife Minnie Wright‚ was her little canary. The one miniscule thing that kept her sane from all of the sadness that surrounded her caused by her emotionally abusive husband. With the death of it‚ came

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    are some moments when it must be taken” (Amistad). Those who are repressed seek expression; those who are trapped…freedom. The human spirit rebels against dominance‚ propelling those effected into action. The short dramatic play‚ “Trifles‚” by Susan Glaspell showcases the repression of American women by a male dominated society during the late 1800’s. The protagonist‚ Minnie Wright‚ remains unseen throughout the play. Just as women of the playwright’s time were silenced in matters that affected

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