Japanese Internment Analysis

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In the article "Japanese-American Internment [ushistory.org]." 2008. 26 Apr. 2016 it informs us of the mistreatment of Japanese-American people during World War 2. The author of this article develops the thesis with facts and background information that are supported with the details. The purpose of this article is to explain to readers of the hardships and the unjust way the Japanese people had to live for years. The article uses a formal tone to an audience of Americans that yet haven't realized the injustice that Japanese-Americans went through.

The article about Japanese internment camps has much information on what they did to the Japanese living in America during WW2 thus making it a useful source. The information inside the article is full of facts and and great information making the source reliable. The article was not biased because it was more on just facts and information on the way Japanese people were treated America. The goal of the article is to let people know of the horrors of the Japanese internment camps and unfair way the Japanese were treated and to make people realize it is not the right thing to lock up thousands of innocent people.
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The article helps me explain to people the evilness that the internment camps had and the way the Japanese people were treated there. The article helped shape my project by giving me good facts about what Japanese people experienced at the camps. The article has made me realize that Japanese people where not only the attackers of World War II but where also the victims of those dark

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