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    Reilly Quiambao Ms. Minter American Lit, Period 1 Due 25 April, 2024 [Essential Question as Title] The book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet strikingly depicts the truth of the events that occurred during World War II about how Japanese Americans were treated along with being incredibly useful in bringing awareness to the problem of cultural globalization by using past experiences to describe the different cultural backgrounds in America and the effects that globalization played a role on…

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    Truth can be defined as something that is in accordance with reality. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, written by Jamie Ford, is an accurate depiction of the 1940s, as a Japanese-Internment camp is a very prominent setting in the book. The bombing of Pearl Harbor changed racial relations in America, shifting hatred for Chinese-Americans into camaraderie, and made Japanese-Americans an enemy of the people. On February 19th, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order…

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    I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Rich Matteson’s Jazz Corner. I listened to two other tapes, and they were all equally interesting. Rich Matteson’s broadcast had a very relaxed feel; even the tone of his voice is relaxing! I really like that he knew exactly what he was talking about; considering his prolific career and vast knowledge of music and jazz, everything he said was relevant, and he was very well-spoken. His broadcast is excellent for discovering jazz songs and jazz artists, as well as…

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    In the novel Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, the Panama Hotel represents both bitter and sweet in Henry Lee’s life. The Panama Hotel is an important landmark to Henry because he has many mixed memories of it. The novel takes place from timelines between 1942 through 1986 in Chinatown, Seattle. The hotel was built in 1910 and bought by the current owner, Jan Johnson in 1985, and held belongings from displaced Japanese Americans from internment camps. In this novel, Jamie…

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    and changed. Today’s language, especially that found on the internet, coins special phrases and sayings for just about everything. One such phrase that has seen growing popularity on social media is “relationship goals”. In the novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, the main character, Henry, develops three main relationships that contribute to shaping his character. The first relationship expressed in the novel is that between Henry and his father. Henry’s father is…

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    Who’s in My Corner? I consider friendship to be one of the most important parts of my life. For me it can be a person that makes me feel a combination of things that leave me feeling content with my own life. True friendship is unconditional. It is when I care for a person no matter what faults and failings they might have, and they treat me the same way. I need to have an array of different people in my life, not essentially just to make me happy, but because not one person can satisfy all the…

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    relationships in everyone's lives and there are three important aspects that everyone should have and they are family, friends, and lastly love. These three different types of relationships are portrayed in many different ways through the novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. Henry developed many important relationships throughout the novel that were all special in their own way. This plays into society because Henry's relationships all had a special meaning to him, and…

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    trading was “unnatural,” “deranged,” “evil,” because it was detached from the “selling of wheat actually in sight.” Overall, the economic and labor challenges were met with violence through cultural expression and through social action. The short film Corner In Wheat, displays the laboral and economic problems citizens were facing, and puts the blame on wealthy businessmen. The predominant businessman in the movie dies tragically. This violent death reflects the public’s inclination to resolve…

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    the case maybe they shape over time, just like the attack on Pearl Harbor shaped America into a war torn country. People are daft when it comes to this, because everyone has their own relationship. This idea coincides with the novel, Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford showing the reader the many different relationships within the novel. Changes affecting Henry are shaping his personality as we can see with the relationship between Henry and his father. Henry and his fathers…

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    Humans practice the art of imitation, by mimicking other human beings. This is something that is so simple, something that is done subconsciously and yet something that is almost a necessity for survival for humans and animals. An elevator experiment was conducted at Bethany Lutheran College; in this experiment students were facing the opposite direction when the doors opened. The majority of the test subjects stepping onto the elevator followed suit and faced the opposite wall, even though…

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