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    Reading furthermore of the text we can see how greatly the girl is affected as she states that her best friend is a white girl named Denise. She has been affected by her best friend simply because her family culture is completely different from her friend Denise. The little girl in the story also sees herself as part of the american world because she states activities that an American would do with her friend, Denise. For example, her and her friend watch boys together. The little girl "feels funny using chopsticks" because it's not an American trait, but she loves hotdogs. Though this little girl in not American she still acts and feels like an…

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    Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1942, was a controversial order signed by president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, endearingly referred to by historians as FDR. Under the terms of this executive order, more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent were forcibly moved to internment camps located in the Western United States. FDR, at the time a third-term president who had just guided the nation through the Great Depression, was faced with the first foreign attack on US soil since 1918 –…

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    People often hate being told what to do. Whether it be a command of doing a chore, or a new law that changes a person's life. It is often even worse to be told who you are, having someone else tell a person their identity is often frustrating, and frankly is unfair. In both, "Response to Executive Order 9066," by Dwight Okita and "Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros highlight that American identity should not be judged by what people see on the exterior, it should be self defined by the individual.…

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    had discussed in a private meeting with President Roosevelt about allowing equal employment opportunities and to desegregate the armed forces. President Roosevelt explained to Randolph he would address this issue however as time passed, no order was given to the armed forces. Randolph had organized March in order to bring awareness to Roosevelt and his administration to desegregate the armed forces. Thousands of African Americans have received word of…

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    Executive Orders There has been much controversy over the topic of Executive Orders. On the one hand, there are officials who support the President’s power to issue Executive Orders. On the other hand, however, there are those who are against it. To determine if Executive Orders serve a significant purpose, we must delve inside the world of politics and analyze the positive and negative consequences – the pros and the cons. But first, it would be most important to define the term and learn of…

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    EXECUTIVE ORDER 13735 Executive Order 13735, “Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of the Treasury,” was issued on August 12, 2016 by President Barrack Obama. This executive order lays out the order of succession should the Secretary of the Treasury be unable to perform his or her duties due to death, resignation, or is unable to fulfill their duties of the office. The Executive Order also describes the exceptions to the order. One exception to the order provides that the…

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    War makes for harsh measures, but it made no exception for what enacted on February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066(EO 9066) was made, and forced upon the west-coast of the United States of America(USA). Executive Order 9066 was an act of prejudice, racism, and injustice against the Japanese-American(J-A) citizens of the USA. It was an unjustified rule that besmirched the name of the USA and what it stood for. The first thread of my claim. Executive Order 9066 was racist, it was designed to…

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    Executive Order 9066 A possibility opens to the scene from a rumor amongst many people. Japanese immigrants sailed to the United States due to a rumor of new possibilities and a better lifestyle than the one from their home land. A better life for the people who were treated like dirt in their home can now hope for the better in their lives and their children’s. This all seemed fine but the immigrants sailing over possibly did or did not know of Japan’s future attack on Pearl Harbor; a military…

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    President Trump’s executive order, signed January 30 of this year places Dodd-Frank squarely in the administration’s crosshairs. The impact of this executive order would not be so daunting if the legislative process had not been outsourced to the Federal agencies charged with implementing the legislators’ perceived wishes through regulation—a defect that future lawmakers might want to amend. The driving force behind all that is wrong with Dodd-Frank is regulation rather than law. As a result,…

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    Background. Jan 25, 2017, the 45th President of the U.S. signed an executive order to implement border security. It has character of urgency, so he orders to start immediately the building of an impenetrable barrier to impede that “bad hombres” and “very bad hombres” access to America’s territory, mostly from Mexico. In Addition, Mr. Trump expresses Mexico will pay “the great wall” not a fence. He has supporters at all levels of American society. For example, Silvio Canto Jr. states, “very bad…

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