In Response To Executive Order 906 Summary

Writers such as Dwight Okita and Sandra Cisneros were greatly influenced by the American culture. "Response to Executive Order 9066" by Dwight Okita, and "Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros both authors establish the topic of American identity. In Okita's poem, American identity has more to do with how you experience culture than with where your family came from. Both Okita's poem and Cisneros's short story show that cultural heritage and physical appearances do not determine what it means to be American.

The background of both narrators of “Mericans” and “In response to Executive Order 9066” comes from a Japanese or a Mexican-decent who are realizing cultural differences from their American life. However, the mistreating of a girl by her best friend compared to a girl who finds significant change between her two worlds that is tested by every cultures costumes of being victims of racial discrimination. The short story “Mericans” and the poem “In response to Executive Order 9066” can be a universal conflict between diverse heritage and cultural backgrounds that are determined by how America sees society.

Frida Kahlo , the disabled optimistic artist , and “Legal Alien”, by Pat Mora are the same but differ in many ways , concerning back towards Cultural identity . They both differ in cultural identity , but have similar futures is tone , conflict , theme / message.

In the poem “In Response to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Centers” , by Dwight Okita, a young Japanese-American girl gives us her point of view on being the race she is at the time. She expirienced recism, at it's finest, and endured it like a champ. In the short story "Merican's," by Sandra Cisneros, a young Mexican-American girl gives us her experience growing up in an American household with a Hispanic grandmother that detested Americans. Both works show that cultural heritage and physical appearances do not determine what it means to be American.

The poem hints that a woman lived with the man in the old farmhouse and that she appeared to be a homemaker. Kooser makes this known when the speaker mentions “the bedroom wall papered with lilacs and the kitchen shelves covered with oilcloth” (10-11). The food choices that the woman had available to feed the family really makes the reader think about the poverty that they may have lived: “money was scarce say the jars of plum preserves and canned tomatoes sealed in the cellar hole” (13-14). What food they had needed to last, as the man had failed to produce any food for his family in his untended fields.

The author of "Response to Executive Order 9066" builds characterization through two groups of people during world war 2. The literary analysis of the story is that Japanese-Americans are not enemies to the united states , and that they are citizens just like everyone else. The excerpt shows how the author is indifferent from the rest of society and that she is the same as any American teenage girl because , she shares the same language , interest , and hobbies as other girls. The authors tone in the "Response to Executive Order 9066" is confused because she as an individual has done nothing wrong to have these type of actions evoked on her.

The poem describes the weather and its effect on cotton flower by pointing out the dying branches and vanishing cotton. The image of insufficiency, struggle and death parallel the oppression of African American race. The beginning of the poem illustrates the struggle and suffering of the cotton flower; which represent the misery of African Americans and also gives an idea that there is no hope for them. But at the end the speaker says “brown eyes that loves without a trace of fear/ Beauty so sudden for that time of year” (lines 13-14). This shows the rise of the African American race, and their fight against racism. The author used mood, tone and

The Author in the Poem “Today was a Bad Day like TB” takes pride in her heritage as a Lakota Indian to the point of being understandably bitter. In one situation for example she was talking to a “young blond Hippie boy” ( ) about a pipe and she notices how ignorant he was about the significance of the pipe or from what tribe the pipe came from. The young boy was naïve about Native American culture but pleasant, but as she stated, “ he said all friendly & Liberal as only those with no pain can be “She sees him as someone who does not value or understand the suffering of the Native American people, and only uses the pipe as a prop or a trendy object. She is mad; she feels that her culture is only meant as a stereotype or at tool for enjoyment, as she holds her culture in high value, against what she perceives as being stereotyped by a white boy. While her anger is understandable it appears bitter and an overreaction to a kid who

After the Japanese attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. USA enters a war against the Japanese and President Roosevelt declared the 19 February 1942 Executive Order 9066 . The executive order 9066 consisted of transportation and introduction to anyone who was Japanese or Japanese descendent consentracion camps. Many of the transladados were Japanese and American resulado was forcing more than 100,000 people to leave their homes and belongings to be imprisoned only because of their race. The justification of the American govierno for aprensar and detain suspected Japanese Americans since the govierno believed they could have helpers or spy in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The camps were closed until after the reelection

During the Second World War the Americans held 120,000 Japanese Americans in camps that was isolated, uncomfortable, and overcrowded. Even if their families were treated this way 33,000 Japanese Americans still served in the military. The Americans would see their Japanese neighbors as aliens and untrustworthy, however the Journalist would have false reports about them, which then made the suspense against the Japanese Americans bigger. Executive Order 9066 was signed on February 12, 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and had 120,000 of his American soldiers go to the detention camps until the war was over. A few weeks after, there wasn’t any trials, so they had to force the Japanese Americans to go to the camps and had to abandon their

In the early 19th century, the world fell into the fires of war that consumed the world- a conflict between different beliefs, nationalism, and militarism that dragged more and more of other countries due to alliances. The world was in turmoil and unrest before the official outbreak of the first Great War, but the formal commencement of the entrance of the United States led to an abrupt change to the general opinion of the Asian American communities within America. The Filipinos, Koreans, Asian Indians, Chinese, and especially the Japanese were pulled into the commotion of disruption and change. As the war progressed, “America’s image of itself as a democracy” became questioned with the passing of Executive Order 9066, the formation of all

In A Petition to the President, Szilard and his cosigners, used their knowledge about atomic bombs to try and persuade the President of the United States, to not to allow the authorization of atomic bombs during the war. They write about the destruction caused by using an atomic bomb and the potential fall out from using such a weapon. Before the devastating bomb dropped on Japan by America, there were scientists who tired to bring awareness of such an event.

"In Response to Excecutive order 9066" by Dwight Okita and " Merican" by Sandra Circero's. Both help develop the common theme of national identity by using Point of View, They both use a, similar tone, and they use Imagery to help describe their situations. In Okita's Wrights poem's she uses Monologue while Sandra Cisnero's story uses Connotation. Okita's helps develop the common theme her poem by using Monologue.

After watching their grandparents get “arrested” by a Russian convoy, the Abramikas family fled from their quiet farm in Lithuania unsure what future would hold for them. Six months later, the Abramikas had finally boarded the boat that would deliver them to the crowded, super saturated city of New York. The Abramikas would reach their destination in Chicago, Illinois where my grandmothers uncle was waiting for them. Almost everything in this new life would be difficult for them to get used to, especially buying food. It wouldn’t be the long lines, for they had seen those at the internment camps. It would not be the concept of a non-negotiable price either, it would be the variety and quantity of the foods. As the years went on, the Abramikas adapted to the Chicago lifestyle and my grandmother would eventually meet my Lithuanian grandfather which would change the family name to the Milaitis family name. My father was their first child and while growing up on the Southside of Chicago, there was plenty of trouble to get into but my grandmothers cooking kept him around the house. Both my grandmother and grandfather were working and decided the best way to keep the Lithuanian heritage strong in the family strong would be to send

One particular conversation really got my attention. It started with comments about who would imagine seeing a Black family walking up the stairs into the most famous house in the world, as the Boss. That comment migrated into alledged executive orders. That's Johhny Reb type talk! The first such comment in reference to what Johnny claimed the first Executive Order was to be. The order was for the groundskeepers to build a watermelon patch in back of the White House. The next so-called Executive Order was the Inaugeration Dinner was going to consist of fried chicken, collard greens, back-eyed peas, corn bread, and of course chitlins. Desert would consist of nanner puddin, sweet potato pie, or some kind of cobbler. There were other comments