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    SAISE Summary – US internment camps during WWII Analysis – not much taught in our schools about US internment camps‚ taught about German and Japanese camps‚ US had many camps/detention centers – some were almost as bad as the German concentration camps‚ not called concentration camps – had a negative connotation – camps sounded better‚ number varies in research 24 – 30‚ Seagoville most unusual camp run by INS‚ set up like a college campus‚ had dorms‚ had many luxuries‚ had more freedom than those

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    that laws implicate people who are undocumented in this country. Legal violence creates conditions that hurt those who are immigrants in the United States. Internment of the psyche is the internment that produces multiple forms of power and control of a human. Legal violence and internment of the psyche own two different definitions. Internment of the psyche is the mistreatment in an approach that is unspoken. It is almost as if an innocent person who is being watched and hold the possibility of being

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    Japanese-Americans living in the Pacific Coast into internment camps inland. The Japanese-Americans lived in the camps for a majority of the war. In the camps they were fed‚ had places to sleep‚ children were educated. Life continued for the Japanese Americans. After Pearl Harbor Japanese-Americans faced discrimination and in order to protect other U.S. citizens and them‚ Roosevelt moved them into internment camps. Roosevelt put Japanese-Americans into internment camps for multiple reasons. Those who oppose

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    questions of the Japanese internment camps. During 1940‚ before the United States entered World War Two‚ they secretly helped the Allies‚ mainly the United Kingdom‚ through the Lend-Lease Act by transporting army supplies which were a hefty help for boosting morale. A year after‚ Japan aircrafts surprised attack Pearl Harbor and eventually lead the United States to join World War Two. On February 19‚ 1942 the Executive Order 9066 was put into action which made internment camps for Japanese Americans

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    Mary J. Pastoril English Comp II Professor McFadden November 14‚ 2012 Internment Camps It all started in World War II when the Japanese signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. They then became known as the military alliance called “Axis”. (“World War II” 2012) During WWII the Japanese had suffered a shortage of oils and natural resources which lead them to have the ambition to displace the United States. In their effort they attacked American and British forces in Asia in order to

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    Report of Japanese Internment during ww2 After the Japanese’ entry to the war (Pearl Harbour) on December 7 1941 the Canadian government became more paranoid that Japanaese Canadians were spies and would guide Japanese naval ships through a shipping canal in Canada.(Sunahara) Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbour‚ 21 000 people of Japanese descent were ordered to move 160km inland from the west coast. They were first held in barns at Hasting Park‚ Vancouver’s Pacific National Exhibition grounds

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    Korematsu v. United States Japanese Internment‚ Equal Protection (1944) When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7‚ 1941‚ the American military became concerned about the security of the United States‚ particularly along the West Coast. At the time‚ about 112‚000 people of Japanese descent lived on the West Coast; about 70‚000 of these were American citizens. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War or any designated

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    away and ignored such as the right to life‚ the right to liberty‚ and the right to security of person. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been violated through the Bosnian Genocide‚ the Rwandan Genocide‚ and the Japanese Internment Camps. During the Bosnian Genocide of 1995 human rights were stripped from the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina such as the right to life‚ liberty and security of person.

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    divinity the Emperor‚ in the eyes of Americans had lost all of his power. This correlates to what had happened to all of the Japanese in America. They to had also lost all of their power. They were not treated as equals anymore. They were put into internment camps and had no voice or power to do anything against it. When America made the Emperor announced that

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    broke out‚ Japanese living in Pacific states were sent to internment camps. Korematsu refused to go to an internment camp. In 1942 he was arrested and sent to a camp. The U.S. Supreme Court supported his conviction in 1944 on the grounds of military necessity. In 1983‚ Korematsu appealed his conviction. Later that year a federal court in San Francisco overturned the conviction. In 1988 Congress passed legislation apologizing for the internments and awarded each survivor $20‚000. While the American concentration

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