African diaspora

No-No Boy by John Okada is a story about a twenty-five-year-old, second generation Japanese-American named Ichiro Yamada. The year is 1946 and Ichiro, a former undergraduate student at the University of Washington, returns home to Seattle after spending two years at an internment camp and federal prison. He was punished for refusing to serve in the Armed Forces and to swear allegiance to the United States. At that time, he became a “no-no boy.” The reason behind his resentment was because was…

Her father was studying law in Tokyo, Japan. A young and ambitious man, at the age of 25, he sailed to the United States with hope of making enough money to continuing his education, and becoming an American Lawyer. Her father, young and naive, would soon learn that the land of opportunities, was hard and racist. He would find himself working many different type of jobs, to include: laying ties for the railroad, field work in eastern Washington, working on ships as a cook, and laboring in a…

People set forth on a new journey for exploring unknowns, and a journey could always help them in knowing what they want inwardly. François Villon and Matsuo Bashō have gained tremendous inspirations while travelling/exiling, and both of them hope to be free spiritually. However, they do have various different altitudes since they are from different cultures and have different religious beliefs. But to some extent, Villon and Bashō have the same value towards death. From François Villon’s poems,…

Discuss the role of women during the 1641 Rebellion. The 1641 Rebellion was the result of discontent with the British in Ireland due to a number of reasons, including but not limited to the failures of the Ulster Planation. During the Ulster Plantation many Irish lost their land and were left with less desirable land. As well as land and economic reasons, another factor resulting in the rebellion was Catholics unhappiness during the English Lord Deputy, Thomas Wentworth’s rule, many were…

There have been many research studies on the topic of LGBT characters in media, but I decided to make my study unique by studying how they are understood by a certain cultural group. I chose Japanese Americans because Japan and America have very contrasting views and distinct understanding on the LGBT community in society. With this, my audience based research question was the following: how are Mitch and Cam understood by the Japanese American community? To answer the question I created, I…

The great famine or the great hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. [1] Mainly the Irish were farmers and their major dependent was on farming but what changed the situation is the number of historical reasons. During the famine, approximately 1 million people died and a lot of them emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%. [2] The famine was caused by a potato disease commonly known as…

The novel, No-No Boy by John Okada is about the Inability to function as either Japanese or American. The novel focuses on Ichiro, who is a twenty-five-year-old Japanese man released from prison camp and jail for refusing to join the U.S. Army. The novel is set in Post World War II and is narrated in a third-person point of view. The narrator shares the story of Ichiro, who is a first generation Japanese American. Ichiro struggles to find his place in society and after Pearl Harbor is bombed…

The Donnelly’s were a family who emigrated from Ireland because of the Potato Famine. They immigrated to London, Canada. In Canada, they were not the most favourite family in their township. In their township which was called the Biddulph Township, there was a lot of violence which was shown by sheep killings, arson, fights and by murders. This shows that the township was not very peaceful and there was a lot of problems and violence. This was common for them. In the text it says that the…

Summary Chinese-Americans found themselves in the middle of racism even though they weren 't considered the enemy. The enemy being the Japanese. Many Chinese-Americans, found work hard to come by. Many Chinese-Americans even contemplated returning to their home country after being schooled so they would not have to face the racial discrimination. However, Chinese-Americans found the opportunity to find work and fight against the enemy. While the Chinese-American men and women went off to fight…

What happened during the Armenian genocide still today affects those who survived that horrific experience and even the family members of those victims who didn’t make it through and of those who did survive the genocide. The reason for the genocide was that the Ottomans believed that the Armenians were a problem in Turkey ands they needed to get rid of them in order to save Turkey and also because they were non-Muslim and believed them to be second-level and this is what led to the mass murder…