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    Japanese-Americans faced during WW11. Japanese-Americans were forced to leave their daily life along the West coast and relocate to internment camps throughout the West side. The cause of their imprisonment was the bombings of Pearl Harbor and the American fear that grew from it. This lead to Executive Order 9066‚ which order people of Japanese descent to be put into camps. “All across the West‚ relocation notices were posted on April 30‚ 1942. All people of Japanese ancestry – including those with only 1/16th

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    Canadian government took the Japanese community from their homes and treated then harshly during their time in the camps. Firstly‚ the Japanese-Canadians were removed from their homes.” On March 4‚1942‚ the BC Security Commission was established to carry out the ‘systematic expulsion’ of the Japanese from the

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    the “College Assistance Migrant Program” (CAMP). CAMP at UTRGV is a program that serves migrant students by enhancing their education‚ to ensure the success of their students. It benefits migrants by offering academical‚ financial support to strive for a great future. Once a semester parent meetings are arranged to inform them about migrant family rights. During one of the meetings‚ we conducted an interview with the family of Stephanie Alonso‚ a current CAMP student. Stephanie is an eighteen years

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    Having the opportunity to attend sleepaway camp has shown me the type of person that I truly am. After continuing my summers at the same camp‚ this past summer I had the opportunity to be a Counselor In Training. Taking all of the lessons I had learned over the my time there‚ I applied myself and became a responsible role model. I was able to comfort children who were coming to this camp with the same fears that I was initially faced with and make them feel at home. My days with the younger children

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    been attending Camp Sankaty for 5 years now. I am a captain in one of the dormitories‚ meaning I am responsible for teaching the younger campers the ways of camp‚ keeping the dormitory cleaned‚ and helping staff members with various jobs. I have won various awards during my tenure here at camp. I won awards for basketball‚ checkers‚ and volleyball. This past year I was awarded the Tiger Woods scholarship by the Ouimet Foundation. Also‚ this year I am one of the editors of the annual camp newspaper.

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    Tragedies Can Be Life Changing The Joy Luck Club is a book that explains the tragedies that happened to four Chinese women during World War Two. All four of these women have daughters whom they hope will have a better life in America‚ but also wish to share their Chinese culture with them. Their Chinese daughters have assimilated to the American culture‚ so their mothers explain the pain and anguish they had in China to show them how good they have it in America‚ and shouldn’t abandon their original

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    The Joy Luck Club’ is a touching‚ inspiring‚ and artfully crafted story of four mother-daughter relationships that endure not only a generation gap‚ but the more unbridgeable gap between Chinese and American cultures. Amy Tan represented herself as Jing-Mei Woo in the novel. Her parents are both Chinese immigrants who raised her as a American. In her early teens‚ she learned that her mother had been married before in China. Just like Suyuan‚ Amy’s mother fled China‚ leaving behind her daughters

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    concentration camp refers to a place in which people are detained or confined‚ usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal normality of arrest and imprisonment that were acceptable in a constitutional democracy. In Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945‚ concentration camps were an integral feature of their government (from the Holocaust Encyclopedia at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). The main reason that Hitler and his Nazi Party sent Jewish people to the camps was because

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    It all started in the summer of 2010‚ where I was sent off to Massachusetts for the next seven weeks. I was going to Camp Winadu‚ which is a summer camp that my dad attended from ages four to nineteen. My Dad and I boarded our flight at O’Hare‚ and during the whole two hour flight I was nervous about being away from my parents for almost two months. Adding even more onto my nerves‚ I was the only camper that wasn’t from the East Coast. After we landed‚ I was whisked away in a van (in a good way)

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    Yes‚ in the Roaring Twenties you may have heard of Lindbergh’s’ flight through the trans-Atlantic flight. But surely just by a quick glance you would’ve heard of the boss named Capone. The Capone the public of knew of him was a highly well known and charismatic mob boss of Chicago. At one point‚ this very Capone would even reached national news through the costs of lives taken involving him. Of course that would make him disliked by the government‚ but that didn’t changed that some liked him and

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