Although the Chinese were a hated minority‚ the aerial attack on Pearl Harbor created a significant shift. American culture became more tolerant and accepting of Chinese Americans as “over 13‚000 Chinese Americans were serving in all branches of the Army Ground Forces and Army Air Forces.”‚ which made it the highest percentage of any other American ethnic community (McNaughton). One of these men was Captain Francis B. Wai. During the recapture of the Philippines from the Japanese‚ American troops found
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American ethnic literature ENG301 2/4/2013 Tiffany Altvater What makes American literature American? America has long been fans of the superior writers‚ such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald for their various works including “The Great Gatsby” and “The Old Man in the Sea”‚ America has been known for its fondness of short stories. American literature aims to embody the values and morals of the American culture. The foundation of American values include the rights to liberty‚ justice‚ freedom
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To what extent were the 1970s and 1980s the most significant period in the quest for Native American rights between 1865 and 1992? “From 1865 to 1992‚ a consistent and prominent aspect of Native American civil rights aspirations was the right to retain elements of self-determination. While the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and government policy of termination in the 1950s constituted a process of ‘Americanisation’‚ under which the Federal Government looked to award what might be termed as ‘conventional’
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Between the years 1880 and 1930‚ the United States received a wave of 25 million new immigrants arriving into the United States. These new immigrants left their homeland and traveled to the United States in search for new opportunities. Although many of these immigrants did meet new opportunities‚ their arrival caused cultural tensions within American society to increase. As the number of immigrants increased‚ so did the cultural tensions between the American society and the American Indians‚ as
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Americans have changed Chinese Food The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer Lee demonstrates clearly what Chinese food has become around the world. From the history of fortune cookies and the real meaning behind them‚ to the real history of what General Tso’s chicken really is. Certain areas of this novel may change the way certain ordinary people view Chinese food. Then novel states “There are some forty thousand Chinese restaurants in the United States” (Jennifer Lee). This crazy number is
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history of our great country. There are so many reasons as to why it’s such a significant thing to teach children in school as well as new American citizens about our past. When it comes to the era of Japanese -American internment camps it is a positive thing to ensure that history doesn’t repeat itself. As well as their being knowledge of empathy of social injustices that occur which unquestionably defined what Japanese-American internment camps were. Summed up‚ it was a devastating tragic event which
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The basic justification for all countries was that it would provide a better and more productive way of life. Although that may have been the basic principle as with anything that involves power it can get out of control. The British‚ French and Americans all had justifications imperialism somewhat alike and one was overproduction. Their theory was that they had an overproduction of things and it was
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Differences of Educational System between Japan and U.S. American and Japanese school structures differ in many different ways. The first‚ and most significant way‚ is that Japanese schools incorporate a national curriculum created by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Thus‚ unlike the educational system in the United States‚ in which each state determines its own curriculum‚ the federal government decides on what each school must teach‚ how to teach it‚ and even what books to teach it with. A second
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Chengcheng Xiang ENG-108 11.11. 2011 Bumblebee! What are you doing in China? In recent years‚ the number of Chinese movies has been rocketing dramatically. Movies have really changed Chinese lives because watching movies has become ordinary entertainment in China. Since the founding of new China‚ Hollywood has occupied almost the entire Chinese movie market. Contrasted with American movies‚ the improvement of Chinese movies is much slower. At the time when movies first came into China from western
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African Americans were able to obtain their freedom but this freedom came at a cost. They were no longer slaves but still had a battle to obtain the rights that came with being free such as being paid for work‚ ability to vote‚ own land and participate in government without
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