Fred Korematsu

Richard Leonard Kuklinski was born in the Polish section of Jersey City, New Jersey. His mother, Anna McNally was a devout catholic and his father, Stanley Kuklinski, worked on the railroads. His father was an alcoholic who beat Richard regularly. Richard was one of four children and had an older brother who died from his parents abuse. Heather Mitchell and Michael Aamodt (2005) say that, “Childhood abuse has been given varying levels of blame in the development of serial killers. De Baker (1997) quoted Ressler’s research and stated that, ‘100 percent [of serial killers] has been abused as children; either which violence, neglect, or humiliation’ (p.55).’” (p. 40). Kuklinski began killing cats as a child. Research says “Violence is a pattern

People lost the ability to pay for things they once owned. People bought many things on margin in the years before the depression, they soon found this to be a rather unwise practice as they could no longer afford these purchases once the depression hit. Millions were out a job, and soon their homes followed; foreclosed on by the banks, the items they once purchased sold back. This left many families with little possessions and even fewer places to turn to and many ended up in shanty towns and Hoovervilles. There they lived out of cars and in makeshift tents like the family in picture 5. These places were overrun with undernourished people that rarely had their basic human needs

In the Korematsu v. United States case, Japanese Americans were being removed from their homes by executive order. It was deemed necessary

WWII brought on a lot of social changes for many types of people, especially minorities in America. Japanese citizens in America around the coastal areas or military bases were forced to sell their homes and shops, to go to live in internment camps. The U.S. government tried to sell the idea that it was to protect Japanese Americans and send the out of harm’s way, when in actuality it was more because of the fear Americans had in the Japanese, especially since they looked different. (Document 2) The discrimination within many people because Japanese Americans were so easily identifiable is why that group of people were specifically interned and why German or Italian Americans weren’t. The government tried to make it seem like Japanese Americans were happy to leave their homes to live in the government camps set up for them to live in during the war. Women also

     During this time of crisis in America, the Japanese people in our country were done a huge injustice. They were stripped their constitutional rights, relocated to a location with poor living conditions, and when America apologized it was just too late. The mental and physical health impacts of this event continues to affect tens of thousands of Japanese

In the course of and in the aftermath of World War II, American citizens were stripped of their rights and degraded because of the “time of war”. During WWII, Japanese American citizens were forced into internment camps because of the fear that they were all carrying out espionage. The government labeled this unsanctioned action under “national security”, but it was mostly to create a feeling of safety for Americans. After the war the Japanese Americans were released and compensated, because the United States government knew they were in the wrong. The internment of the Japanese was not the only display of Americans being stripped of their rights. Poor relations with the Soviet Union after World War II resulted in a Cold War where Americans were constantly in the fight against Communism. As a result of this, the Loyalty Acts were created where employees in schools, colleges, federal offices, etc. had to pledge their allegiance to the United States and swear they were not involved in the Communist party. If they did not pledge this or were found guilty of having association with Communism they would be fired from that job. The FBI was also destroying people’s privacy where they would perform unauthorized phone tapping, spying, and more, but people were okay with it because they felt as if they were being

In the 1930’s the world was entering the heated World War ll. The United States was still in the Great Depression and reluctant to join the war. Japan dropped the bomb on Pearl Harbor which ultimately dragged the United States into the war; this in turn opening up mass opportunities to many demographics. These demographics including African Americans, Women, and Japanese Americans. With the taking of these opportunities, it also offered a chance for more freedoms to be gained by some these citizens. Although many opportunities were presented to a huge extent, obtaining the freedoms that were thought to be promised along with the opportunity would be the ultimate obstacle for these citizens.

When the Nazi’s arrested Jews and sent them to concentration camps, the conditions were terrible. The men, women, and children in the camps were not treated with the rights they deserved, since they were forced into harsh labor, placed in killing centers where gas chambers were used to effectively and quickly murder thousands of Jews a day, and experimented on to find new medicines and so the German scientists could find out how much pain and torture they could endure until death. In America, over 120,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated into camps during the period of World War II. Even though these Americans were not treated as harshly as the Jews in concentration camps, they lost

A situation that created a stir in the Modern Era was Franklin Delano Roosevelt and The New Deal law he had passed. Around 1920, most people were struggling from financial debt that occurred from lack of funds to purchase the things they need to live such as a home. This caused many people to charge this on a credit card with no intentions to ever own their belongings due to high interest rates. This situation worsened as the stock market crashed in 1929 that was called Black Tuesday. Consisting of billions of dollar lost because, including the richest of them. Also, within that time many people were unemployed and left without anything but the clothes on their back. To make matters worse, a Dust Bowl from farmers over plowing states in Oklahoma,

The topic I choose to right about is the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. The question that I intend to answer today is: The Constitution guarantees American citizens no imprisonment without due process of law, yet has been violated by the federal government in at least two American wars. How did the government justify interning Japanese-American citizens in World War II? In order to understand why this happened we have to first look at what happened. We are going to look at a couple things in this paper: The Executive Order of 9066 and Korematsu v. United States (1944). As well as we are good to look at just why the U.S. decided to not give these people the basic

There was nothing to help families and the people in the United States., and they found themselves on the streets. “Some

Fred Korematsu was standing up for thousands of japanese-americans including himself even though no one else was helping him and having faith in him, even his family thought he was an embarrassment. According to Justice Robert Jackson, “the court for all time has validated the principle of racial discrimination … The principle then lies about like a loaded weapon, ready for the hand of any authority that can bring forward a plausible claim of an urgent need.” What this is trying to explain is that Fred Korematsu was never taken seriously in court, because of racial discrimination, that just because they are authority they think that they can load a weapon or because they are judges they have the right to discriminate and put citizens in

The main body of the essay begins by presenting instances in which the pre-1937 government protected business interests rather than those of the people. Businessmen like Henry Ford benefitted from prohibition because it kept their workers sober and consequently more productive. The founding of the United States was not free from criticism either. The constitution included protections for the slave-based economy of the South and the National Bank was created in order to support the new government which was floundering in debt incurred during the Revolutionary War. The author argued that the United States itself was created in order to provide a unified financial framework which would make paying the debt easier. The author then proceeded to explain the effects of the New Deal, which created a framework that allowed “the government to focus on its people and their civil rights.” The author included two paragraphs which described the change in policy that the government experienced post 1937. Before the essay concluded, the author attempted to address the argument that the Revolution of 1937 overextended the government by making it too inclusive, with Japanese internment as the primary evidence for this. The author refuted this argument by saying

During the time period in which Franklin D. Roosevelt gave “The Four Freedoms” speech it was a time of hardship for all Americans, not just the poor. “And that is why the future of all the American Republics is today in serious danger”. Even the president

Shortly after the United States entered into war with Japan, the federal government initiated a policy whereby 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were rounded up and herded into camps, 2/3 of these people were actually United States citizens. They were incarcerated without indictment, trial, or counsel - not because they had committed a crime, but simply because they resembled the enemy. These were similar to concentration camps that the Germans were using for the Jews, though no one was being killed and Japanese Americans were allowed to work within the camps. Not many Americans knew about the camps at that time, and some still don't know today. Like discussed in class, it was an embarrassing moment for this country. The book that was assigned in class, Desert Exile by Yoshiko Uchida, told the story of a family who lived through these horrible times. As we discussed in class