been attending Camp Sankaty for 5 years now. I am a captain in one of the dormitories‚ meaning I am responsible for teaching the younger campers the ways of camp‚ keeping the dormitory cleaned‚ and helping staff members with various jobs. I have won various awards during my tenure here at camp. I won awards for basketball‚ checkers‚ and volleyball. This past year I was awarded the Tiger Woods scholarship by the Ouimet Foundation. Also‚ this year I am one of the editors of the annual camp newspaper.
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relocate to internment camps. President FDR signed the Executive Order 9066 which made them evacuate the West Coast in which they resided in. This order was signed two months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th‚ 1941. Some believe that this was necessary to make America more secure but the internment camps were unconstitutional and unfair to the Japanese. The Japanese internment camps in the United States were unjust for many reasons. The ten camps that the Japanese Americans
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relocated to internment camps across the United States. They were denied their basic rights due to the war hysteria that swept the nation. After almost 40 years‚ Congress apologized for the unfair treatment that was inflicted. Americans believe that the apology gave an end to the concept of internment camps in the United States. However‚ after the tragic event on September 11‚ 2001‚ the fear of the religion of Islam spread. Some now believe that the idea of internment camps seems possible once again
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The Japanese diaspora from their homes to the camps was unjustified. It was an act of hypocrisy. When the Japanese were in the internment camps‚ the conditions were very unhygienic. “The poorly built barracks were not much more than wooden frames covered in tarpaper. There was no insulation to ward off the brutal winter cold or the stifling summer heat. Inside‚ they had no running water‚ no kitchen or toilet facilities‚ and blinding dust storms blew dirt and grime through cracks in the walls”(Murphy
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The Unimaginable: The life in Japanese Americans Internment Camps By OUTLINE Introduction Thesis: Even though the Japanese Americans were able to adapt to their new environment‚ the Japanese American internment camps robbed the evacuees of their basic rights. Background I. Japanese Americans adapted to their new environment by forming communities at the camps. A. One of the first actions that evacuees took is establishing school system. B. The evacuees established self-government
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MARION CAMP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL The Marion Camp Memorial Hospital provides convalescent care for patients with long-term illnesses as well as for patients who require extended periods at physical therapy. The average length of stay at the hospital is for months. The hospital is supported through a combination of state and federal funding‚ medicare payments‚ and private donations. Less than 10 percent of the hospital’s revenue is derived from the patients. The hospital director‚ H. John (Big Jack)
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Keith Salenski Jen Stauss History 201 May 31‚ 2005 Japanese Internment Camps in WWII For over a century‚ the United States has been one of the most powerful and influential states on the globe. However‚ every nation has made mistakes in its past. Throughout our country’s history‚ certain groups have had to endure horrible injustices: the enslavement of African-Americans‚ the removal of Native Americans‚ and discrimination against immigrants‚ women‚ homosexuals‚ and every other minority.
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How would you feel if you were forced into an internment camp because of what other people of the same nationality did? From 1942-1945 numerous Japanese Americans were treated brutally because Americans turned their rage for a crime‚ which was the bombing of Pearl Harbor perpetrated by the Japanese. This action made the Americans loathe the Japanese. Inevitably‚ after the bombing attack on Pearl Harbor‚ the United Stated was filled with panic. Residents‚ along the Pacific coast of the United States
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Canadian government took the Japanese community from their homes and treated then harshly during their time in the camps. Firstly‚ the Japanese-Canadians were removed from their homes.” On March 4‚1942‚ the BC Security Commission was established to carry out the ‘systematic expulsion’ of the Japanese from the
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Japanese-Americans faced during WW11. Japanese-Americans were forced to leave their daily life along the West coast and relocate to internment camps throughout the West side. The cause of their imprisonment was the bombings of Pearl Harbor and the American fear that grew from it. This lead to Executive Order 9066‚ which order people of Japanese descent to be put into camps. “All across the West‚ relocation notices were posted on April 30‚ 1942. All people of Japanese ancestry – including those with only 1/16th
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