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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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    several different concentration camps created between the 1930s and 1940s. Hitler’s main goal was to capture all of the Jews and assassinate them. He did not want any Jews to come out breathing after everything he planned to do. The Jews were most likely thinking that exact same thing. Hitler made thousands of camps all over Germany‚ stating that one was not enough. The first camp that he had ever established was called the Dachau. “The Dachau concentration camp was established in March 1933. It

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    government to abandon their homes and possessions on the west coast into internment camps. Taking innocent Japanese Americans away from their homes and livelihoods with no compensation is deplorable. They were sent to internment camps for the duration of the Pacific War. The big question that everyone wants an answer to is why the American government and people decided on this path to act. Japanese internment camps were unfair to the vast majority of the Japanese people who would not have engaged

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    day of camp. The Saturday volunteer cancelled. My game plan was crumpled up and trashed. “Why hadn’t I thought of backup plan?” I asked myself‚ on the verge of pulling out my hair. I hadn’t taken into account all the variables and now I was receiving the repercussions. I had no idea becoming the Transportation Coordinator for a camp would be so stressful. Before summer began‚ I applied to become a counselor in hope of giving back to Camp Mosaic‚ the camp I participated in as a young girl. Camp Mosaic

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    Shirley Lim‚ No. 9‚ Jln Mesra‚ 47600 Subang Jaya‚ Selangor. 10 December 2005 Dear Shanti‚ Hi‚ there! How are you? I am sorry I was not able to reply your letter earlier. I was at a camp. T he camp was called ‘Discover Yourself’. It was an enriching experience as I have never attended such camp before. My uncle‚ who is one of the organizers‚ roped me in. At first‚ I was very apprehensive about the whole thing. But later I realized I needed some motivation to boost me for the coming SPM

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    It all started in the summer of 2010‚ where I was sent off to Massachusetts for the next seven weeks. I was going to Camp Winadu‚ which is a summer camp that my dad attended from ages four to nineteen. My Dad and I boarded our flight at O’Hare‚ and during the whole two hour flight I was nervous about being away from my parents for almost two months. Adding even more onto my nerves‚ I was the only camper that wasn’t from the East Coast. After we landed‚ I was whisked away in a van (in a good way)

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    has attacked‚ entered‚ and conquered concentration camp Buna within Poland. The Red Army has been trying to infiltrate the concentration camps to stop the mass amount of murdering that is currently happening within those camps‚ death by gas chambers‚ the enormous crematoriums‚ or just shooting the Jews. Not only has the Red Army invaded camp Buna‚ they have also saved many Jews who were in the infirmary. There was also news from the leader of the camp Buna invasion‚ Marshal Edward Rydz-Śmigły‚ “We’d

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