The Canadian Japanese Internment The Japanese-Canadians were some of the WWII worst human collateral damage our country will ever see and much was learned and still has to be learned from that incident. The mentality from seventy years ago is not the same as today’s ways of thinking. People were not treated the same way they are treated now, nor did they respond well to situations of great magnitude such as the bombing of Pearl Harbor of December 7 1941. The Japanese-Canadians were brutalized and treated poorly because of a war they had no connection to. In British Columbia, Canada, there approximately twenty one thousand Japanese residents and out of the whole number, seventy percent of them had citizenship status, making them just as Canadian as any other citizen.
YOU TELL STORY The description of Garret Hongo’s Kubato dream relates to the way Kubato remembered the Japanese Americans that died after the attack on Pearl Harbor. “One of his laterns was on it and written in small, neat rows like a sutra scroll, it had been decorated with the silvery names of all our dead.” (Hongo, last paragraph) kubato recited his story to Hongo to emphasize the importance of telling the world about the discrimination that his people experienced. “You tell story.” (Hongo, 1) Even though he was born an American citizen, Kubato was still suspected of espionage and held for several days without being charged. The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, many Japanese American people, including Kuato, were taken in for
However, when information is removed from textbooks, part of history is distorted. Due to this alteration of facts, the agony and despair felt by the victims of unimaginable and devastating acts would be forgotten. For example: “Leilani Muir was 10 when her mother committed her to Alberta’s Provincial Training School for Mental Defectives. On the Basis of a single IQ test, she was labeled a ‘moron’. Four years later, she was admitted to the school clinic, supposedly to have her appendix removed.
Two months later, Smith called Ott and some of his friends to say that Ott was a bad husband. Ott found this very upsetting, and left a message for Smith pleading with him to stop the harassment. Undeterred, Smith sent another email to
Students in Ontario taking English should only study Canadian literature because we are completely swamped and more influenced by the American culture around us. Although Canadian tradition has always been a “branch plant” of another country starting with England and France; meaning that our own culture has never had the chance to develop since we have always been under the thumb of a more powerful foreign culture. For years, a student in Ontario would study Shakespeare and other British writers; even today they may also study American authors such as Fitzgerald. It’s evident that many schools limit a student’s exposure to the Canadian novel to ISP reading lists. In this sense, Canada is an attic in which we have stored American and British literature without considering our own.
Upon the bombing of the two cities, the Japanese citizens that lived near the explosion had been through a devastating and horrifying experience. These experiences are told by John Hersey in his book “Hiroshima”, where he interviews survivors from the bombing. One of the survivors he interviewed was named Miss Tashinki Sasaki; she worked as a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works during the crisis. When the blinding flash from the bomb had taken place, she was about to talk to the female worker on her right but had become paralyzed with fear from the light. Within seconds the ceiling collapsed along with a bookshelf that fell on Miss Sasaki, leaving her unconscious for three hours.
James Harper English 2100 Writing and Editing “Why I Write” In Joan Didion's"Why I Write", the author uses concrete examples and tells a story through first person narration to do exactly what she has set out to do: explain to the reader exactly why she writes. She explains early on in her essay that she is not a "thinker". She would try to analyze situations while in college but would find her mind reflecting back to tangible ideas and the images that surrounded her. Didion explains that by the time she graduated from Berkely, she knew that she was not a thinker, but an instead a writer. This did not mean that she could not explore abstract ideas, but instead that she must write down the thoughts and images she had
For example, it ends the story by being a resolution. Since Liz is now reborn, she won’t remember her past life as Liz anymore, she’ll be a completely different person. Also, she’ll get to live her life differently and she will get to do different things because she has a different family. As well as that instance, the epilogue states that she will have a fresh start. Since Liz doesn’t remember her past life, she can make better decisions than she did before , based on pure judgment.
I want my daughters to always know that you can never get to old to learn new things. I also want them to know that it is very important to have an education and it is even better to have some type of college degree. After, doing this week assignments I found out that I am
Some suggest that the dropping of the bomb may have ended World War II, but it started the Cold War (History.com Staff, 2009). Ending one war just led to another. The United States was the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry when they dropped the bomb on Hiroshima (History.com Staff, 2009). The decision of whether to drop the bomb was challenging, left lasting effects on the Japanese, and was one President Truman had to truly consider on his