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Thank you for inviting me to this forum, I am grateful to all who organized the event especially Fr. Peter Stravinskas who certainly knows how to bring people together from different disciplines and dioceses’ for the purpose of Catholic Education.

Japanese American families were sent to internment camps located at a desert in Utah almost in less than 24 hours during World War ll. It was supposed to be luxurious and a dream, yet it was the complete opposite. In the book, When the emperor was divine, Julie Otsuka describes each character and their stories through different points of views. She tells their story by recounting each of the main character's emotional experiences while showing the life of Japanese Americans and how they were labeled in others eyes. Otsuka writes not only about the venture of being taken to an internment camp, but how each character changes in the process. Through each person comes a story and why they changed into somewhat the opposite of their

Dreams of Denial Dreams tell people what they subconsciously want, they allow people to see the obvious and enable people to see what is truly happening to them. In Julie Otsuka’s novel, When the Emperor Was Divine” a family, a young boy, a young girl, and their mother, are forced out of their home and into an internment camp, while the government takes away the father. They stayed in the camp for over three years, and when they all returned home they all changed physically and mentally, and so has the world. In the novel, Julie Otsuka uses symbolism through dreams to show the family's want for freedom and how even if people don't realize it when they truly want something, even if they haven't accepted it, they subconsciously keep thinking

Quinn Kawaja 9th English - Maximiliano 12 Mar. 2024 Past America and Future America: When the Emperor was Divine In “When the Emperor was Divine” by Julie Otsuka, a family is separated because their dad is sent to an internment camp. In the years following, the rest of the family including the Boy, the Girl, and the Mother are sent to a separate internment camp. As the Girl navigates through her life in the internment camp, she embodies the American dream of embracing the present to shape the future, even in the face of adversity.

Have you ever been separated from your dad for a while? We already know that the dad’s love cannot be compared with another thing in the world. The relationship between a father and his son is one of the most important things in life. In the novel “When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka shows the relationship assists in making a boy recognize the love of his father while he is in the internment camp for a long time. We may see through the third chapter as the father and his boy encourage their self-confidence to overcome their own experiences of being separated from each other. We are able to see how this relationship become strong and how it is linked for the boy’s feelings. Through this essay I would like to prove the importance of the father and his son, and how they illustrated this love in the novel “When the Emperor was Divine”.

Who am I? Losing your identity takes over a person, it brings you painful memories of who you were at a point in time. In the novel When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka, the message of the novel is about the cause and effects of identity loss. The author, Julie Otsuka, creates pathos to get the theme of identity loss across to the audience. Using pathos helps the reader sympathize with the characters in the story and helps the reader understand themselves in the situation.

A tragic hero is a protagonist of noble birth with heroic qualities, who makes a judgment error that inevitably will lead to his own defeat. The tragic hero eventually causes his own downfall because of his tragic flaw of his basic human nature. Through this hero’s loss, however, humanity is validated, and showing to have redeeming qualities. Three main theories of the tragic hero are the Aristotelian model, the Shakespearean model, and the modern tragic hero. For instance, nobility is characterized by being upper class and having elevated character.

A lot of teenagers deal with self-consciousness. However, the boy and girl get stuck with an extreme version of that at such a young age. In Julie Otsuka's novel When The Empire Was Divine, the reader sees the boy and girl experience their childhood life in the internment camp during World War I and how it affected their lives after their release. Due to the Internment camp, the children lost themselves and they lost all confidence in being comfortable with who they are. To show a lack of confidence in the children the reader can see the children envisioning themselves as the enemy, discussing how to stay under the radar, and showing a lack of self-confidence due to their identity.

In the book Revolutionary Characters by Gordan Wood, the degree in which he portrays the personality and personal philosophies that informed the politics of these early American leaders, especially Thomas Jefferson, shows that contrary to popular belief that these men were not some unflawed perfect beings, but they are just like us with their many fears and insecurities. These flaws appear in all of the founding fathers and this adds a level of realism to them. It also shows that flaws are a part of human nature.

When you are young and they ask you what do you want to be when you grow up? Many answered doctor, lawyer, police, and so on. But when it came for my turn to answer that question I didn 't know exactly what to say. None of those things interest me at all. I was always focus on school and getting good grades. My mother and father has always told me you have to do well in school in order to have a better future. Until this day they still tell me this. In harvest of empire by Juan Gonzalez it says “between 1961 and 1986 more than 400,00 people legally immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic and another 44,000 moved to My parents are from the Dominican Republic and they came to the United States in the late 80 's in order to have a better future. My father came into this country to play major league baseball, back in his hometown Consuelo, San Pedro de Macoris. He is known for his baseball skills and grew up with baseball player Sammy Sosa. Although I don’t much about my father, I could tell you he never made it into major league baseball. He wanted to make sure he was always there for his kids. I don’t see my father that often anymore as I used to when I was a kid. My mother came to this country at a young age to get a better education. Both of my parents have resided in the Bronx since they got here to the United States. I was born into a lower middle class family which later on in my life it became a lower class due to the circumstances I been through.

To what extent does marginalization define an individual’s identity? The Holocaust. Jim Crow laws. From religion, to race, to gender, several groups of people throughout history have been marginalized.

Segregation, a prominent social injustice in American history, is depicted in both Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and Kathryn Stockett’s The Help. By definition, segregation is the separation of someone or something. During 1960s America, colored people were mistreated regularly. Laws separated those who were white and those who were not. Both groups lived apart and were given separate bathrooms, libraries, and more. However, the colored facilities often were worse in quality, and many endured racism from their white counterparts. There was a wide spectrum of hate crime that varied in severity, as some people were even targets for brutal crimes simply for the amount of melanin in their skin. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

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The idea of a lifetime goal is a difficult concept for me. I used to believe that my goal was to become a successful lawyer like the one’s on crime shows. But what is “successful”? And what happens when I do become a lawyer? Is it just, “Done. Lifetime made.”? No, a lifetime goal is so much more than that. It’s something that I am trying and will probably never stop trying to piece together.

My Life as Emperor by Su Tong tells the story of a young emperor’s rise to and fall from power. The main idea of this novel seems to be that the fictional Xie Empire, like most real historical empires, was doomed to fall apart within a matter of a few centuries due to internal and external complications. The grim prophecy that “calamity will soon befall the Xie Empire” repeats throughout the novel until the empire is indeed destroyed, giving credence to this. At the start of the novel, fourteen-year-old Duanbai, the fifth son of the newly deceased emperor, falsely ascends to the throne through the machinations of the late emperor’s mother, Madame Huangfu. Throughout his reign, Duanbai is incapable of properly dealing with various problems,