most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. These Japanese Americans‚ half of whom were children‚ were incarcerated for up to 4 years‚ without due process of law or any factual basis‚ in bleak‚ remote camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. They were forced to evacuate their homes and leave their jobs; in some cases family members were separated and put into different camps. President Roosevelt himself called the 10 facilities "concentration camps." Some Japanese
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citizens in the name of national defense. After enforcing this order 120‚000 Japanese people living on the West Coast‚ most of who were U.S. citizens‚ were excluded from certain areas and incarcerated. Many were forced to live in camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. Most of the Japanese were incarcerated for up to four years. With a total of ten “concentration camps” there was inadequate medical care which led to some deaths. According to Roosevelt the Executive Order was a “military necessity”
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(“Holocaust”) They added almost 2 million Jews for Hitler.(“Holocaust”) Jews were forced to move into ghettos surrounded by walls and barbed wire.(“Holocaust”) They would put six to seven Jews per room‚ and this was an easy way to spread sickness.(“Holocaust”) Being crammed together like this and Jews not being healthy‚ the death rate rose to 1% a month. (“Holocaust”). Jews who were taken
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Within all stories lies truth. Although One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is published as a novel of fiction‚ it is clear‚ that due to the immense detail present within the novel‚ that this novel is not a book stemming from imaginative thought. The author‚ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn uses this work of literature‚ to inform others of this horrific era of the governance of the Soviet Union‚ by injecting his personal recollections of his time served in the Siberian Gulag camp system‚ serving as the
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In the short story‚ “What Happened During the Ice Storm” written by Jim Henyen‚ a group of young boys are forced to contend with their conscience when put in the situation of determining the outcome of the life or death of another creature. The story begins with an introduction of the environment‚ it describes the winter weather as deceptive‚ stating that it is beautiful and enchanting‚ but on the other hand‚ states how harsh and cold and treacherous it can be. The story takes place in a rural farming
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Alcatraz Alcatraz is a super max prison that is located in San Francisco. In the prison they put steel bars instead of aluminium and they put barbed wire on all of the fences. They put gun holes so they do not have to risk getting hurt and they put tanks above the cells that drop gas on the prisoners. They also had prison guards in every part that the prisoners could be in such as the movie theater the yard and most of the other places on that island in the San Francisco bay. The hole
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the makers Nick Park and Peter Lord‚ who are well known for their short films‚ Wallace and Grommet. Chicken Run has a simple storyline‚ but this does not detract from the masterful way in which it is told. A group of chickens are kept behind barbed wire fences in the Tweedy’s chicken farm. They are continually forced to
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Through the use of projected images‚ music and dialogue‚ distinctively visual texts represent challenging aspects of life effectively. This is portrayed through texts such as John Misto’s play The Shoe Horn Sonata‚ Kevin McDonalds docu-drama Touching the Void and Roberto Innocenti’s picture book Rose Blanche. The shoe horn sonata by John Misto is a play that deals with the brutality of World War 2 by locking at the stories of two financial characters‚ Bridie and Sheila. When he wrote the play‚ Misto
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According to Oxford University agriculture is the science or practice of farming‚ including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food‚ wool‚ and other products (“oxforddictionaries.com”). Agriculture‚ natural resources‚ and related food industries have been important to Florida’s history and remain a significant force in the economy of Florida to this day. Agriculture is an important part of Florida’s economy‚ and still is today because it was an
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the battle took two years to plan! Hitler thought that the perfect race was blue eyes and blonde hair‚ but on D-Day we crushed that idea. We made the Nazis surrender on the beaches and freed France. There also was the "Atlantic Wall" which had barbed wire fences and obstacles in the oceans to rip off the bottom of ships. There were mines too that killed soldiers and exploded ships. Although the battle was a success‚ there were many fallen soldiers. Many families lost their loved ones and soldiers
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