Manzanar Annual Pilgrimage Rhetorical Analysis

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1. The Manzanar Annual Pilgrimage has come a ritual where Japanese American travel to the site that they were kept during the world war. These Japanese Americans where stripped from their lifestyles and forces to come to different camps around the United States, due to the dear of them helping the Japanese in the war. The United States dismantled these sights after the war, one because they knew it was wrongful in the eyes of what the constitution and the states were built on. The critical faith theory is having Americans take responsibility for they knew it was a wrong situation and learning from the mistakes that were done. (What I found to be very interesting about knowledge was watching the film and seeing how today it is literally only a sign to represent actually happened there in these camps like the states just tried to hide the wrongful doing. What amazes me is how many travel all around the world to pay its respects to the people that passed away there and more.)

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What makes an intellectual is a work they do in a critical way, that is they enjoy and explore the vast knowledge that is learned within the topic. It is stated, that everyone is an intellectual in a way. Some intellectuals have more influence than others due to the access to large numbers of people, media base and more. For example, someone as LeBron James access to the minds of different people would have a greater impact on some say as a high school teacher. I believe I personally, fall towards the bottom of the scale. Because of the fact, that I am a mobile college student, I am still figuring out my life, and I have no steady access base to a large number of people. I believe once I become more involved in my career path I will reach out to becoming more involved to the access of the many people and educate my work to

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