Culture of Hawaii

Clarence Darrow states “History repeats itself, and that one of the things that’s wrong with history.” We all know history will repeat itself in its own way but the way people are treated during these times needs to change with the history. For example the treatment of the Japanese and the Muslims after the terrorist attacks is seen as unfair and is questioned if it was necessary. Even though these two ethnic groups were viewed differently they had a lot of similarities to how they treated…

Environmental racism is a concept that segregates low-income or minority communities from the wealthy or richer communities because their community is chosen to place hazardous, toxic waste in proximity of their environment, which creates pollution and an unhealthy physical and mental state over higher income communities. Environmental justice, in turn, is the movement that sprouted due to the unjust concept of environmental racism. Environmental racism is apparent in regions where Indigenous…

Pearl Harbor, “a date which will live in infamy”, but the period following December 7, 1941, Japanese Internment, would be just as infamous. Pearl Harbor was a devastating event. Japan launched a massive air strike on Pearl Harbor, a naval base in Hawaii, killing 2403 American citizens and many more were wounded. The bombs sunk eight battleships, four naval vessels, three destroyers, and demolished three light cruisers. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to destroy the naval fleet in the Pacific Ocean,…

Brianna Nicole Dingle Dr. Edwins English 309 16 October 2016 The Portrayal of Native Americans in American Literature The American perspective on Native Americans has changed steadily throughout time. This is shown extensively in American literature, which has portrayed Native Americans in numerous ways. In some literature, such as in earlier years, the Europeans viewed Native Americans as savages—recognizing them as inhuman and comparing them to animals. While, later on in literature, the…

The second article targeted the history of Assimilation of immigrants into the U.S and how the new immigrants have taken a new view on the country. Similar to the first article, this article has a main focus on whether or not legalizing millions illegal immigrants and then trying to make them fully assimilated into the United States. Throughout this article they found out that immigrants who earn their U.S. citizenship have less attachment to their new home than native born Americans. The people…

The court case Korematsu vs. United States was considered by many to be many to be an integral case in the internment of Japanese Americans. Fred Korematsu was born on January 20, 1919. He was twenty-two when the attack of Pearl Harbor, during this time the racial distrust between Japanese-Americans and the main population was at the culmination. With the attack it caused mass distrust, and eventually resulted in executive action. The result came in the form of an Executive Order 9066. The order…

Are Bacon’s actions justified and is it right? Many historians believe Bacon’s Rebellion was unjustified and wrong, but many other historians believe his actions are benevolent. Bacon’s attack on the Natives is correct because the government was neglecting the citizens, teaching Natives the use of firearms, and the Natives stealing major crops from the citizens. Bacon played a major part in history, especially in the year of 1676 when Bacon’s Rebellion started. The rebellion started out by the…

During World War 2(WW2), there were many questions asked about the Japanese Occupation(JO). One of the most frequently asked question was the reason why the Japanese thought that they were superior.The invasion all started due to the following reasons. Firstly, they were having high birth rates during that time. Due to that, the food resources was not sufficient to tally the needs of people in the country and they needed to implement food rationing. Thus, in order to get more food resources,…

Minorities are racist. Not towards other races, rather to one another. They take the views placed upon themselves, enhanced them and when others do not live up to the stereotypical expectation, they are seen as traitorous .Sherman Alexie writes a multitude of texts which all showcase how people in a minority group, in this case Native Americans, as well as individuals outside of that minority, all take part in oppressive actions. Someone who is not within the minority believes they have this…

Issues with the American judicial system and mass incarceration are subjects that we, in our modern state, hear and see often on all major media outlets on what seems like a daily basis. Of course, when we do hear about judicial issues like mass incarceration, we typically only hear about these abuses of power in relation to African Americans and the struggle they face and we very seldom hear about those of other groups. Native American’s are one of those groups that face this form of prejudice.…