Japanese people

was hard to believe that the education board of Arizona had such a problem with the Latin Studies Program. In high school, I took both AP US History and AP European History. In both of these courses, we learned about radical thinkers and doers and people who decided to revolt against the status quo. Both of these courses are fine for students to learn, it’s fine for us to learn about Napoleon and the American Revolution, so what makes the history of Latin American different? Is it because we…

basis, being forced to help the Japanese during the war and not being fed. When people discuss World War II they tend to mainly discuss the troubles in Germany and about the bombings in Japan, but never talk about the 140,000 prisoners in Japanese prisoner of war camps. One in three men in these camps either died of starvation, work, punishments, or diseases that were untreatable due to lack of medicine. These camps were based in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and other Japanese controlled countries.…

Conceptual Anomaly”. Dorinne Kondo is a Japanese American Professor who research in Tokyo, but due to her place of work not being move-in ready,she was offered to stay with native Japanese family in which developed a struggle of her identity as a Japanese American and her own view of her identity. Ms. Kondo’s research which explores the strict lifestyle within the Japanese community and discrimination against Japanese Americans. This excerpt also…

something the nation is not ready to assume. Mass Deportation suggests that the best method to combat Illegal Immigration is to gather over 11 million people residing here illegally and deport them to their home country. This theory is rather impossible to enforce, for the US to be able to locate, apprehend and process this amount of people it would cost an estimated of $400 to $600 billion. That is a sum that this nation cannot afford to do so, that is not factoring the amount of staff,…

provided some commercial and cultural contact. The publication of Western book in Japan was not allowed, but the books in Japanese discussing Western advances were available. There was really no relation with the West until the middle of the 1850’s. This was when Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo Harbour. He opened trade relations with the islands of Japan. The Japanese were worried about accepting any other culture because they felt like they would go against their own. During this…

one party to another--but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the American People.” Trump considers his people to be the first priority. The nouns “administration,” “party,” and “Washington, D.C.” are all broad terms which concern general groups who carry power. Contrastingly, he specifies the conversion of power to the proper noun of “American People.” The pronoun “you” also accentuates this priority in his citizens, which overall establishes Trump as a…

saw from the old television series, I Love Lucy, someone who reduces France into a set of stereotypes will find themselves hard-pressed to fully acclimate to their surroundings, and blend in with the culture. France is more than just the stereotypes people consolidate it as. And indeed, this is true for most, if not all parts of the world. But what we can also find, as we observe France, its culture, its laws, its art, and most importantly its history—is that it’s no so far removed from the rest…

One of the best ways to respond to conflict is to maintain a positive attitude, because it causes people to be more appreciative of their surroundings, it keeps spirits up, and it helps people remain true to themselves no matter what situation they are in. There is a commonly-used phrase that says, “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.” This is exactly how Anne Frank felt when she had…

Conner Yoshimoto Mrs. Marino 21 September 2015 Short Story It started one morning in February, 1942. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066. It stated that all Japanese Americans are sent to internment camps in the United States. A news anchor reported this too. Little did I know that this moment changed my life forever. One morning I awoke to raised voices. I could recognize my mom’s voice, but the other was foreign. As I walked downstairs I saw what must be an official with…

Hongyong Baek, who grew up in Korea and had to experience the repressed roles assigned to women within the society. It examines the gender, religious, and racially oppressed individual between world war II and the Korean Civil war. She left during the Japanese occupation and again during the korean civil war that now divides her family, but be becomes victorious and continues her successful ch’iryo practice in California. Occasion: Lee is the author of national bestseller Still Life With Rice,…