Thursday, May 10, 2007

ch-3
1. The name of the chapter is also the name of the book.
2. The boy thought he saw his father because all Japanese men look alike.
3. The boy might have heard this from the other Americans who feared the Japanese.
4. The boy hears people talking in German, which leads to the Holocaust.
5. People might think that he sides with the Emperor and he has dreams of the emperor because he wants to do things on his own.
6. The mom starts to work a lot more, the little girl is just shy and kind of stays normal, and the boy just tries to do everything different and wants to try new thing.
7. Mrs. Kato began talking to her self and it seemed she was having a nervous breakdown. They were all taken from there homes and thing they love and confined to a terrible desert.
8. No it's not very reliable because the girl is not very truthful about everything.
9. He leaves out things about his dreams or the turtle's scrabbling claws because he thinks they will censor it.
10. His father was a small handsome man with delicate features. He was extremely polite. He was always on time. Hi father was never disloyal to the US.
11. His mother thought the sun aged her. She began to get wrinkles and bags under her eyes.
12. Her watch had said six o'clock for weeks. Their mother didn't knowwhat day it was.
13. At the end of the season, they came back wearing brand-new Florsheim shoes. But, some said they would never go again because they were treated badly.
14. He would never reach the emperor. They are in Japan. They turtle wanting to get free but he eventually gives up.
15. He had never seen his father leave the house without a hat before. he had seen Elizabeth's face.
16. They had all been Japanese items. She had to destroy her heritage.
17. It better to conform to these things than to let it destroy you. if you caused trouble you would be labeled disloyal. They aren't themslves and they don't abide by them.
18. She's going through puberty. She begans to act strange.
19. He was responsible for the turtle. He should have taken better care of it. But he's not. She is serious and he does believe her.
20. His father didn't care. he was too proud and ashamed to look back at what he was leaving.
21. The mother becomes depressed, lazy, and sick. She seems to forget everything and she keeps on thinking about how she didn’t get the father a glass of water.
22. They are sent because they said that they were not willing to serve in the armed forces. It’s ironic because this nation is a free nation.
23. Gloria the flower has sprouted from the peach can. These two are connected because they both symbolize life and give the boy hope. I think the vision is real.
24. The inmate is shot because he was seen “trying to escape”. They think he was trying to pick a rare and beautiful flower.
25. The boy imagines everything that was good in the past. The father comes back with the pearl earring that the mother lost on the train.
1. In the cartoon, there are Japanese people, U.S. military, a US flag, art portraying Japanese people as terrorists with TNT.
2. The TNT is a symbol which means that the Japanese were ready for suicide attacks.
3. The military is on edge and all Japanese are spies.
4. The very heavy tension going on at that time and the Japanese are to blame.
5. I disagree because of how they portray the Japanese people.
1. They had to protect themselves against espionage.
2. President Roosevelt issued the order under all executive departments.
3. He gave the job to the Secretary of War and the military commanders.
4. He authorized the Secretary of War and military commanders to take whatever steps necessary.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007


Dear Journal,
My life here in the concentration camp is like nothing anybody has ever imagined.I was transported here by train. So far I have been here for a little over a month. Nobody that I know is still alive. They have all died from starvation or have been executed. I fear I might soon be executed as well. I am getting sick and if I get too sick to work they will kill me. I also haven’t eaten in two days. I must eat today to survive, although the food here caries many diseases and many people just get sick from eating the food and are executed. If I don’t eat today, I will soon die. I actually might not care if I die. This place is so horrible I have almost lost the will to live. The only thing I have to wear is a colored outfit with a yellow triangle, indicating that I am a Jew. They kill more of us than anybody. My living conditions here are treacherous. We are cramped into tiny little barroks. We sleep in little wooden bunks that are very overcrowded. There is no water at all, no plumbing. Disease here is spreading very rapidly. It seems that the number of people that die double each day. There is a doctor here but the only thing that he does is experiment on people and if you’re chosen to be experimented on, you will die from it. Every body is fenced in with no free space to roam. The fences are barbed wire and they are electrical. There are soldiers guarding every inch of the fence to make sure nobody leaves, so there is no way to escape. I must go to work now, or they will kill me. If I am injured at work today they will kill me also. I do not know what tomorrow holds for me. Maybe I can write again tomorrow, if I survive today


Sincerely,


Mark


Dear Journal,
I feel like I am being robbed of my right to pursue happiness, and my right to live life. These internment camps are sucking the joy out of life. I am being watched at all times as if I were a terorist because of my skin color. My own government is treating me like a trader when I have done nothing wrong. I am eighteen years old and a Japanese-American. My ethnic background is the only reason I am here,because I have done nothing wrong. My life has been taken from me. I have been imprisoned by the country I love, because of where my parents are from. Here I have nothing but dreams, but these dreams can’t be made reality. The reality here is that those dreams can’t be made true, because I am being held captive by the very government that promised me rights. Everyday seems to get more and more difficult. I keep trying to remind myself that there is still hope, but hope is graduley slipping away. I keep telling myself someday things will be back to normal. I keep telling myself conditions will improve, but I am beginning to realize people don’t care. I must keep on living, because I can’t give up. Throughout this experience I have learned perseverance. It is the only thing positive I have been able to take away from this experience.I want to conclude this journal entry.

Sincerely,

ping
American Foreign Policy Question Responses

1. The purpose of the Monroe Doctrine was to end European influence in the Western Hemisphere.
2. The United States responded to the end of World War I by putting up a policy of isolationism.
3. The incident that drove the United States in to World War II was Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
4. The developments that led to the end of the Cold War was the cost of the war along with all the lives that had been lost.
Bernice Bobs Her Hair

1. Fitzgerald portrayed wealthy people as optimistic and conservative.
2 .A girl has to have long hair to be considerd a "modern girl".
3 .A flapper was a young woman in the 1920s that wore the right clothes and was stylish with a conventional style of behavior.
4 .Bernice bob’s her hair because she feels that she will get more attention.
5 .In the 1920’s people were really serious about the perfect way to dress and the perfect length of hair. Today, young people still want to dress nice but they do not all have to have the same hair style.
6 .I think that Bernice's actions were justified because Marjorie pushed her into bobbing her hair, so she cut some of Marjorie's hair.
7 .At the beginning of the story, Bernice was self-conscious about the way she looked, but at the end of the story she was confident in the way she looked and acted and was more social.