George Takei

My primary source is from a TED speech of George Takei, an 80-year-old Japanese-American actor and activist, a grandson of a first-generation Japanese immigrant. With his face smiling, George Takei started his 2014 presentation by introducing himself as “a veteran of the starship Enterprise soaring through the galaxy, with a crew of people from all over the world with different ethnicity, boldly exploring strange new world and seeking new civilizations”. “The crew of people” simply implicates the

floor are that of explosions to a child like 5 year old George Takei. George was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans forcibly stripped from their lives and placed into concentration camps. The book They Called Us Enemy by George Takei is a first-hand account of a Japanese American family who were forced into an internment camp by the US government for fear that “all of Japanese descent” were spies as a result of the Pearl Harbor bombings. George narrates his confusion as a child in this chaos, and the

George Takei, a Japanese-American actor and activist, discusses why he loves the country that was once unfaithful to him in his TEDTalk at Kyoto, Japan on June 2014. February 1942, Japanese-Americans were forced to stay in concentration camps by American soldiers ordering them out of their homes (Takei, 2014). George Takei and his family were once of many Japanese-American families that were sent off to the camps. After the war, everything was taken away from them, they had to build themselves up

In the long-running debate over the Star-Trek-or-Star-Wars conflict, both sides have presented rational, strong arguments on why one show is better than the other. Star Trek argues for the storyline, while Star Wars is known typically for its visuals. However, what distinguishes the two genres from one another is the complexity and overall meaning behind the films. What really defines and separates Star Trek from Star Wars is its pro-technology stance, the diverse lead of characters, and the primary

stories from an interview with a famous actor experience in an internment camp during World War II to the elections of 2016 which all revolve around the idea of being an American. In the first story centers on the life of Japanese American actor George Takei, who has firsthand experience of being the enemy in a land he calls home. Throughout the interview he described his experience in the camp and his parent. The older he got, the more he understood about their circumstances. “When I became a teenager

Nate Joseph Dr. Leenerts ENGL 203 10 March 2024 Godspeed, George Takei What is worse than being looked down on by another person due to the ethnic background of a person? They called us enemies, by George Takei, shined a light on how America treated people of Japanese origin during the early 1940s. The memoir showed how Japanese Americans were forced into concentration camps, lost their property and or forced to sell it for a small amount of its original worth, and faced xenophobia. Suspicion is

George Takei’s graphic novel, “They Called Us Enemy”, uses both literary and visual elements to tell the story of his childhood experiences in Japanese internment camps during World War II. One of the main themes is the injustice of prejudice and racism. Through his personal story, Takei shows us how these negative circumstances affected him, his family, and the rest of the Japanese American community in these tough times. First, Takei uses personal anecdotes and dialogue to highlight the impact

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, who gives a first hand account of what he experienced while living through Japanese incarceration. Takei had to experience all of his trauma in a way much like grief. He had to go through all of the motions of self-blame, anger, sadness, and acceptance. On pages 140-142 of They Called Us Enemy, George Takei can be seen expressing his anger towards his father for not protecting him more through this experience as he questions “Why

exaggerate an aspect of something, known as "intensify." While the second is to discredit it, which is referred to as "downplay." Al Franken, Jeffrey Snyder, Harlan Ellison, and George Will, have all written persuasive articles about gun control. In reading all of the various articles on gun control by authors, I found George F. Will's The Last Word to be the most persuasive. Will wrote his piece about

Then, Roger gives a face to the name George Kaplan by stepping into George Kaplans hotel room, and essentially into his life. Everyone around him slowly fails to recognize Roger as Roger, but as George. His face is even plastered on the newspapers as murder, George Kaplan. Policemen see his face and recognize him as George Kaplan, not Roger. With this absolute new identity, Roger is forced to notice the manipulative behaviors that