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Abel and Tayo had developed PTSD from their experience fighting in the Second World War. While in the military, we can guess that Abel had lost many of his friends overseas. Tayo had lost his cousin Rocky during their time as prisoners of war. Rocky died in Tayo’s arms in the middle of a death march in the Philippines. Throughout each book Abel and Tayo experience flashbacks and their perception of the world sometimes altered by memories of their terrible experiences. Tayo has visions of his…

The term internal colonialism describes a way in which a country’s dominant exploits minority groups for its economic advantage. Using the video about internment camps that was a part of our chapter 9 module, a functionalist would argue that the US government made the video as propaganda in order to convince the public that the Japanese people in the internment camps were happy and furthermore even helping make supplies for the war. Using analysis, one could start by questioning whether this was…

After considering the documents I’ve been given I’ve come the conclusion that only one group really got a true positive change they wouldn’t have had before. All social groups got hit with something during the war and after the war,life for everyone changed, some more positive than others. Woman got the biggest positive change out of all social groups. Many of them began to play sports, work in factories, and in their own little way help protect the country. Much of the propaganda for the women…

As a child of the immigrants in the United States, my life revolves around being open to new ideas and change in a new country. A big influence to my personality and my behavior have been developed because I have to deal with differences. By being in the 21st century, I radically oppose oppression and exploitation of people. Since I am Asian American, I am different from many other Americans. Although being different can bring benefits, it also makes life difficult because I am not your average…

The concentration camps and internment camps started at separate times but there similarities are racial prejudice, hate, fear, and national security. They both started because of hate. It all happened so quickly. The Japanese on the West Coast of the United States had made lives for themselves in spite of discrimination, but on December 7, 1941, everything changed To panicked. people after the attack on Pearl Harbor, every Japanese could be a potential spy, ready and willing to assist in an…

“Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.” (Benjamin Franklin, 224)Native American’s experienced tremendous struggles and discrimination. Many of the reasons for this judgement were and still are today, are because different races feel as if they are superior to another. Some interesting points that were in the reading were the contrast in values and respect between Native Americans and English. The…

There are many contrary opinions when people mention the Japanese-American Internment Camp. Many people allegedly claim that this action was imperative, others held a differing opinion. In this essay I will be explaining why I believe this extrinsic and racist act was not essential. I agree with the article we read that was against the act of the internment camps because it was really unnecessary and racist. This should have never happened. Additionally, the Japanese-American Internment camp was…

As was mentioned above, there are of course alternate theories as to why the Japanese people attacked the American Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. One such theory states that the Japanese attacked the Americans at Pearl Harbor to keep the US out of the war by crippling its Pacific fleet . This theory makes some sense at least at the most basic level of analysis. Japan had joined Germany and Italy in the war effort. Also, the Japanese and Germans were gambling that the US could not fight a war on…

Forcefully separating a family and sending them to camps on just a suspicion. Does that sound like what over one-hundred thousand Japanese Americans expected to encounter when doing nothing more than living their lives in a new country? It was a horrible and demoralizing thing that Japanese Americans went through during the early 1940’s when the United States government signed into action Executive Order 9066, authorizing the use of internment camps to hold Japanese Americans after the bombing…

In early December in 1941, Pearl Harbor had been attacked by the Japanese, resulting in the deaths of over 2,400 American soldiers. This infuriated the U.S and caused them to officially join the war. Four years later, on August 6, 1945, a US B-29 bomber had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima instantly killing about 70,000 people. Three days later, a second bomb had been dropped on Nagasaki which caused the deaths of 40,000 more people. The United States’ decision to drop an atomic bomb on…