Kenji Chapter Summaries

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There are many things that happened to Japanese-American immigrants during World War 2 that people in this time period aren’t really familiar with. A story from a Japanese woman, Jeanne Wakatsuki-Houston, who was born and lived in this era, with help from her husband, James D. Houston, explains and sheds some light during the times where internment camps still prevailed. The writing piece titled “Arrival at Manzanar", takes place during her childhood and the Second World War. In the beginning, Jeanne and her family were living a calm and peaceful life in a predominantly white neighborhood, until disaster struck the world and they were forced to move due to escalating tensions between Japanese Orientals and white Americans. At the time, Japanese-Americans, like Jeanne, were forced to live in an internment camp, which is a prison of sorts, due to the war with Japan. The text is being told through a first person point-of-view in which Jeanne herself tells the story through her experiences during the war. In that story, which contains only a part of the original text, much of the setting took place either prior to and during the time she was sent to the internment camps and describes her struggle with it. This story clearly states the importance of family and perseverance which is shown through her use of pathos, definition, and chronological storytelling.

Mr. Gawande starts his literature on washing hands. He introduces two friends a microbiologist and an infectious disease specialist. Both work hard and diligently against the spread of diseases just like Semmelweis who is mentioned in the chapter. Something I learned, that not many realize, is that each year two million people acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Mainly because the clinicians only wash their hands one-third to one-half as many times as they should. Semmelweis, mentioned earlier, concluded in 1847 that doctors themselves were to blame for childbed fever, which was the leading cause of

Sampson, George, and Rameck were three kids from the ghetto of Newark, New Jersey. They came from low-income families, and grew up without father figures. All three of them always did well in school, but others around them made a lot of bad choices. This caused many events that them caused them to go to jail. When they met each other in University High School, the three doctors decided to promise to each other that they would all go to college and become doctors. After they made the pact, there were a few problems, but these incidents never stopped them from pursuing their dream of becoming doctors. Today, Dr. Hunt is a Board certified internist at University Medical Center at Princeton

Only six months after Jackie was born his father deserted the family. This led to several hardships. The family lived on a sharecropper’s farm until the plantation owner used the father’s leave as an excuse to keep the whole crop the family had raised and to evict the widow and her children (54). Jackie’s mother gathered her young ones about her with bitter feelings and found work as a domestic servant.

When James found out that his stepfather had died James dropped out of highschool and he possibly failed all of his classes. “I virtually dropped out of high school after he died, failing every class” (McBride 6). James did not do well after his stepfather had passed away, he just didnt want to do good in life anymore. Moreover, James continued to not do good he really like his stepfather alot and that really affected his life, Hunter was like a father figure to James because his father had died before James was actually born. “Me and my hanging-out boys were into the movies” (McBride 6). James would continuously go to the movies with his friend, he even went for a whole year going to the movies with his friends. Jame’s sibling were very upset with him because James would just ignore them, his siblings were just concerned for him. Lasty, James dealt with his Stepfather's death by simply just ignoring it, James had stole from a drug dealer once after his stepfather's death, James has done a lot of criminal actions after his stepfather's death. “I snached purses. I shoplifted. I even robbed a petty drug dealer one. And the in the afternoons, coming home after a day of cutting school, smoking reefer, waving razors, riding the subway, I would see my mother pedaling her blue bicycle” (McBride 6). James wasn’t doing good he was not listening and he was skipping school and nothing mattered to him. During this time of his stepfather's death James would be coming home from ditching school and on his way home he would see his mother driving her bicycle. They were both doing what grieved them from Hunter Jordan’s

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In this chapter we start seeing a flow threw the book Etta Mae is getting back from another one of her trips and is coming to her home which she shares with her good friend Mattie Michaels. As she arrives in a new car , with a new outfit and carrying records. This chapter the author , Gloria Naylor adds in song lyrics to give us the reader some additional information on the evens happing . “I love my man I’m a liar if I say I don’tI love my man I’m a liar if I say I don’t But I’ll quit my man I’m a liar if I say I won’t I’ve been your slave, baby Ever since I’ve been your babe I’ve been your slave Ever since I’ve been your babe But before I’ll be your dogI’ll see you in your grave My man wouldn’t give me no breakfast Wouldn’t give me no dinner Squawked about me supper then he put me outdoors Had the nerve to lay a matchbox on my clothes I didn’t have so many But I had a long, long way to go”

When Jackie Robinson was born, things around him were not so bright. Racial tensions were at an all-time high, a horrendous flu epidemic had broken out killing over 550,000 people in the United States alone, and the Ku Klux Klan was running rampant once again. One of the grimmest factors was about a year after his birth, his father decides to leave his mother for the woman next door and leaves his mother alone to support him and his other siblings. Also, during this time the Ku Klux Klan could perform public lynching on African American people. They would burn down houses, hang men, shot them, and humiliate them in front of crowds of lower class white people. These factors made living during this time very grim.

The attack on Pearl Harbor is a day that neither Americans nor Japanese Americans will ever forget. Hours after the attack, FBI Agents were sent into Japanese American homes to search for anything that could have aided the Japanese in attacking Pearl Harbor on that fateful day. Soon after, the Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps, the two most prominent camps being in Rohwer and Jerome, Arkansas. Through the years of the Japanese Internment in America, the Japanese Americans need to help their children through their mantra, the desire to show that they were Americans by signing up for World War II, and the bond that the citizens of the camp formed while running the camps kept the morale alive and showed that these people were prepared

Predictions: My predicted of this chapter was that it was going to say the same thing that I was thinking. But guess not. But as I started reading further into the book it give you some interest ways to so what or who care. But my real prediction was that the writer of this book” they say I say “was give us permission to literally saying who care and starting an argument with the writer of the book.

​Due to her illness and low income Jackie moved to the east end to help cope with her sickness. She loves the town being it was where she grew up at the neighborhood is pleasant and helping. Jackie takes one day at a time. Her son Charlie wants to become an automacanic while James would do well in the production of making games and Enon is very outspoken at the same time being very short tempered.

The book carries a lot of detail about the Second World War and has many descriptions and feelings during and after the war. Also in this chapter we learn about Kabuo, his Buddhism and beliefs. These beliefs say that everything has a soul and shouldn't be harmed and so he feels he carries the burden of war. The Americans didn't think about, or take into consideration the fact that the Japanese Americans would be going out to fight their own kind, people from their homeland. Kabuo feels enormous guilt about this and carried it through out his whole life.

Cameron, C. M. (2002). American samurai: myth, and imagination in the conduct of battle in the First Marine Division, 1941-1951. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

“Trust Me, I’m Lying” exposes the manipulation and deception in the media. All media professionals should absorb the knowledge that Holiday offers in this reading. Although, most parts of the book can portray Holiday as a “Debbie Downer”, not all the topics in this book are negative. Holiday shows readers that as a media professional you too can manipulate the medium for your personal gain, but be warned, negativity spun in your favor can also be used against you.