Since Japan did the bombing in Pearl Harbor, many Americans believed that Japanese Americans could not be trusted. Japanese fought because there was “A Tremendous Hole” in the Constitution and they would not tolerate being treated as less than a citizen. By the end of the war in Europe, the soldiers in 442nd, consisting most of Japanese Americans, were told by President Truman “you fought for the free nations of the world…you fought not only the enemy, you fought prejudice-and you won” (Takaki 349). Yet discrimination still existed. African Americans found themselves being targeted by hate crimes and violence.
Dale Chihuly After we watched the video in class of Dale Chihuly, I became fascinated with the work he does. The creativity and how exquisite the work is just blows me away. It got me so interested that I decided that I wanted to research more about him and his work for one of my extra credit papers. Dale Chihuly was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1941. Chihuly has a huge influence on the world of studio glass.
When I came to know that I have been asked to take English remedial class, I was a bit mad at first, but then I thought that this class would make me better. I view remedial classes as practice, very much like professional athletes view training, because the best athletes practice to become better. As well, once students complete a degree with finishing the English remedial and begin seeking employment, they will find many companies emphasize good communication skills. So, It doesn’t matter if you know everything or nothing, what matters is that you benefit in every class (even if it’s a remedial). Soon, after my graduation I will be joining my dad’s business.
Myah Clark Professor Collier English112.SMRT 2 21 November 2014 Essay #2 Public Schooling: Draining Students of their Freedom and Creativity In John Taylor Gatto’s “Against School”, he explains how he thinks public education cripples our kids and why. He starts his article out by making a point that both the students and teachers are suffering from boredom. The students also pointed out the fact that the teachers didn’t seem to know much more about what was being taught then the students themselves. On the other side of the spectrum the teachers are just as bored because they feel the students are rude and only interested in the grades. He then continues on to say that we shouldn’t blame the teachers or the students; in this case, we should blame ourselves.
This side is shown when he complains to his mom about how the “food is bad” and how he cares if there’s any “bedbugs” (245). These traits of caring too much about his own health and hygienes shows that he's more concerned abut that rather than the real war in front of his own eyes. When he notices this, he changes his attitude and tries to act more manly by signing his letter with “Soldier Heinrich” instead of a more sincere closing to his mother. Homosexuals are mistreated in the world, even still today because of how some countries or even states in America banning gay marriage. Griffin connects the Germany’s hate toward homosexuals to a murder
They prepared to storm the island on April 1st, 1945. The Japanese were really quite underdressed; they had a lot of gap to try and cover to avoid being absolutely slaughtered by the Americans. The Japanese found a way to keep up with America and even inflict very heavy losses of American lives: the dehumanization of Japanese soldiers’ lives. “Once it crossed the rubicon of accepting state-organized suicides as a legitimate military tactic, the Japanese commanders learned that it might we regain some of it’s lost ability to strike the Americans and perhaps stave off unconditional surrender” (Hanson 36). With all regard for life being dismissed, it now became a simple task of killing as many American soldiers as possible.
Professor Richard Alba of the University of New York asked a group of Harvard students about what they thought about assimilation. The majority had negative thoughts about it. He states “The Assimilation era is now condemned for the expectation that minority groups would inevitably want to shed their own cultures, as if they were old skins no longer possessing any vital force, and wrap themselves in the Anglo-American culture” (pages 1-2). That’s how many people see assimilation today, even if it isn’t a popular term anymore. Another thing that makes assimilation bad is the fact that people use it so much that they don’t see that it could be a danger in the future.
The Murk of Failure ITT Technical Institute (also known as ITT Tech) is clouding Information Technology field with unqualified graduates by giving students a false sense of security, burying students in debt, and hindering the learning potential of students by employing instructors who are often unqualified to teach the curriculum . One of the ways this “clouding” happens, is by giving students a false sense of security. This inflated perception of competence comes from ITT Tech speeding through the courses in an attempt to hurry students through toward graduation . Most graduates only retain a fraction of the information they learned. This is especially detrimental because the information the graduates were presented with was incomplete and poorly composed .
All this leads me to believe that not only were you not prepared for these people, but you also want to show your authority and make these Japanese-American people realize the life conditions they were now stuck with, to prove to them how powerless they truly are. Secondly, you have forced these people to sign loyalty acts when you are making them so weak and powerless, and treating them inhumane. You treat them as though they do not belong in this country, yet you are forcing them to agree to this loyalty document. Like I stated previously they are loyal as they have proven in war. There are few that may be questionable, but is it necessary to punish an entire race, every man, woman, and child, when none of them have done anything wrong?
He said that Japan has the potential to progress a lot. He was trying to warn Japan not to go astray with this potential of theirs and to take only the best from the west. Tagore wrote in a letter to C. F. Andrews, “Japan is the youngest disciple of Europe – she has no soul – she is all science – and she has no sentiments to spare for people other than her own.” Debjani Sengupta writes that, “The contrast between the traditional Japan's love for beauty and the ugliness of her modern westernized life was shocking to Tagore.” When Tagore delivered his first speech in Japan, it was taken very negatively. The newspapers’ headlines read “Tagore vs. civilisation.” The response that he got was very lukewarm. The Japanese said that he sounded like the song of a ruined country and they thought that whatever Tagore had said was just because he was