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2007-05-10T18:34:00.000-07:00

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.

2007-05-10T18:32:00.000-07:00

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.

2007-05-10T18:29:00.000-07:00

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.

2007-04-25T19:53:00.000-07:00

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

2007-04-25T19:42:00.000-07:00

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

2007-04-25T19:41:00.000-07:00

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.

2007-04-25T07:02:00.000-07:00

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.

2007-04-25T06:30:00.000-07:00

Chapter 1

1.The woman point of view.

2.The woman sees a poster in the window. It is list of things she can bring.

3.A few days pass between the appearance of the notice and the rest of the events. She has packed all the things in her house away. She locks all the stuff in one room, she lets the bird free and she kills her dog.

4.The woman buys twine, and two rolls of tape. She tapes the boxes with the tape and ties up her dog with the twine. Mr. Lundy might keep insisting that she can pay him later because he knew she was going in to an internment camp.

5.The family possessions that the woman and children pack are not much. They are some clothes and a picture and the boys baseball glove. It shows that they are not very attached to the past. The bonsai tree shows that they are letting go of their Japanese roots.

6.The woman was following the rules when it comes to packing and in the internment camp.

7.The woman kills White Dog because they could not take him. She does not really say anything about his disappearance except affirming that the dog is old and cannot hear well. She also lies to the children about where they are going and such.

8.The boy is so insistent on keeping his hat on because it is a present from his father.

9.She is of Japanese descent.

10.She asks her mother to make her practice for her piano lesson so that she could have some authority, but she always does.

11.She begins to cry when she sits down after freeing the bird. She relates to the song “La donna e mobile”.

12.The author is so vague about their destination because the people who were headed to internment camps did not know where they were going, and they went blindly in to the desert.

Chapter 2

1.The girl’s point of view dominates this chapter. The author begins to describe the girl.

2.A day has passed since the family has left their home, and they had ridden on the bus, having people stare and soliders bausing them around.

3.She has not had time.

4.She sees people coming home from church, a couple riding bikeson a bridge.

5.The soldier tells her that so that people in towns could not see the passengers on the train and would no throw thingslike they did.

6.The boy had a new interest in horses because of his time at a horse stable, the grownups tell him to grow up to be a big strong American boy. But he is American born.

7.He is on that train and had to give up his money.

8.I think the story about her father is true because of how international his affairs were to make him seem threatening. She may tell Ted that her father never writes to her to make him feel sorry for her.

9.It is striking that the boy actually chooses not to bring along the umbrella.

10.He is in jail.

11.Tanforan is a horse stable, the boy and girl worked there and the boy realized he wanted to be a jockey there.

12.The woman is observing this crossing, and the quote may mean that since they are moving to the desert she needs to remember the sound of water to live.

2007-04-12T06:41:00.000-07:00

On December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, On March 18, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9102, "Establishing the War Relocation Authority in the Executive Office of the President and Defining its Functions and Duties. There were more than 110,000 people of Japanese descent living on the West Coast of the United States. Within a few months, this entire population was gone. Out of fears of espionage and sabotage along the Pacific, the government removed Japanese American men, women, and children from their homes and placed them in internment camps in the interior of the country. Two-thirds of the internees were U.S. citizens. None of them was ever charged with a crime.

Two of the larger camps that received the trainloads of people were located in Arizona. One was the Colorado River Relocation Center, on Colorado Indian lands near Poston, and La Paz County, that had a peak population of about 18,000. The other was constructed at Rivers, on Indian lands in west central Pinal County, and was known as the Gila River Relocation Center with a population of about 13,000. While extant, these sites became two of the larger centers of concentrated population in the state. Until it closed offices on June 30, 1946, the Authority carried the responsibility of housing, feeding, employing and otherwise providing services for citizens who had been hastily and summarily placed in an alien social and geographical environment by their federal government in a fevered time of world war.

The engineers typically designed the fenced camps in block arrangements wherein each block contained 14 barracks, 1 mess hall and 1 recreation hall on the outer edges, and ironing, laundry, and men's and women's lavatories on the interior. Households were assigned space in the spartan 100 by 20 foot family structures of wood and tar paper according to the number of people in their household. At one camp, a honeymoon cottage was set aside for the exclusive use of newlyweds; at another, 662 babies were born while 221 adults spent their last day on earth behind the wires.

These interned citizens represented a broad spectrum of the Japanese community in America at the time including, the elders who arrived in the early 1900s, the second generation born in America, and the also generation born here but educated in Japan. The mixture of individuals and administrators in the camps, coupled with the social, political and psychological dissonances of the relocation conditions, engendered numerous responses in their combined efforts to construct community from chaos.

Camps were an essential part of the Nazis' plans of mass murder of Jews, political adversaries, and others considered socially and racially undesirable. There were concentration camps, forced labor camps, extermination or death camps, transit camps, and prisoner-of-war camps. The living conditions of all camps were brutal. Dachau, one of the first Nazi concentration camps, opened in March 1933, and at first interned only known political opponents of the Nazis: Communists, Social Democrats, and others who had been condemned in a court of law. Gradually, a more diverse group was imprisoned, including Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, dissenting clergy, homosexuals, as well as others who were denounced for making critical remarks about the Nazis.

Six death or extermination camps were constructed in Poland. These so-called death factories were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibór, Lublin (also called Majdanek), and Chelmno. The primary purpose of these camps was the methodical killing of millions of innocent people. The first, Chelmno, began operating in late 1941. The others began their operations in 1942.

In the beginning of the systematic mass murder of Jews, Nazis used mobile killing squads. The killing squads consisted of four units of between 500 and 900 men each which followed the invading German troops into the Soviet Union. By the time Himmler ordered a halt to the shooting in the fall of 1942, they had murdered approximately 1,500,000 Jews. The death camps proved to be a better, faster, less personal method for killing Jews, one that would spare the shooters, not the victims, emotional anguish.

In September 1941, the Nazis began using gassing vans--trucks loaded with groups of people who were locked in and asphyxiated by carbon monoxide. These vans were used until the completion of the first death camp, Chelmno, which began operations in late 1941.

On December 7, 1941, the Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog) order was issued to deter resistance by allowing military courts to swiftly sentence resisters to death. Those arrested under this order were said to have disappeared into the "night and fog." In January 1942, SS official Reinhard Heydrich held a meeting of Nazi government officials to present the Final Solution. At this meeting, known as the Wannsee Conference, the Nazi officials agreed to SS plans for the transport and destruction of all 11 million Jews of Europe. The Nazis would use the latest in twentieth century technology, cost efficient engineering and mass production techniques for the sole purpose of killing off the following racial groups: Jews, Russian prisoners of war, and Gypsies (Sinti-Roma). Their long-range plans, unrealized, included targeting some 30 million Slavs for deat

Starting early in 1942, the Jewish genocide (sometimes called the Judeocide) went into full operation. Auschwitz 2 (Birkenau), Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibór began operations as death camps. There was no selection process; Jews were destroyed upon arrival.

Ultimately, the Nazis were responsible for the deaths of some 2.7 million Jews in the death camps. These murders were done secretly under the ruse of resettlement. The Germans hid their true plans from citizens and inhabitants of the ghettos by claiming that Jews were being resettled in the East. They went so far as to charge Jews for a one-way train fare and often, just prior to their murder, had the unknowing victims send reassuring postcards back to the ghettos. Thus did millions of Jews go unwittingly to their deaths with little or no resistance.

The total figure for the Jewish genocide, including shootings and the camps, was between 5.2 and 5.8 million, roughly half of Europe's Jewish population, the highest percentage of loss of any people in the war. About 5 million other victims perished at the hands of Nazi Germany.

By the end of 1943 the Germans closed down the death camps built specifically to exterminate Jews. The death tolls for the camps are as follows: Treblinka, (750,000 Jews); Belzec, (550,000 Jews); Sobibór, (200,000 Jews); Chelmno, (150,000 Jews) and Lublin (also called Majdanek, 50,000 Jews). Auschwitz continued to operate through the summer of 1944; its final death total was about 1 million Jews and 1 million non-Jews. Allied encirclement of Germany was nearly complete in the fall of 1944. The Nazis began dismantling the camps, hoping to cover up their crimes. By the late winter/early spring of 1945, they sent prisoners walking to camps in central Germany. Thousands died in what became known as death marches.

Japanese Internment camps were much easier then the German concentration camps. U.S. never killed the Japanese, but the Germans killed to kill. The Germans wiped out over half of the Jews in Europe. That is all I need to say about that subject.

2007-03-26T07:00:00.000-07:00