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In novel No-No Boy, Japanese-American writer, John Okada, tells a story centered around the life of a young Japanese-American boy named Ichiro Yamada who was seen and treated as a “No-No boy” during/after World War II. After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States government ordered the mandatory relocation of people with Japanese ancestry regardless of their citizenships and incarcerated them in internment camps. In internment camps, Japanese Americans who refused to sign the Loyalty Oath

When I Was Puerto Rican is a memoir detailing the author Esmeralda Santiago’s life, which began in her native home of Puerto Rico. Macun, a rural barrio is where she spends the beginning of her childhood, exploring and living off the land. As the novel progresses she constantly moves from place to place in Puerto Rico because of her parents rocky relationship. Towards the end of the novel as she’s getting older her mother decides that it is time to make the border crossing and move to New York City

simple and do not realize the little things in life. I had no other worries except for, “What’s for dinner?”. The military made me realize how much I appreciated and very much needed my loved ones. Travelling far away to Marine Corps Recruiting Depot, San Diego California and starting my very own journey was one of the toughest decisions at that time to make for myself. My mother is a sweetheart. She is known for her little giggles even when she is just talking casually with someone. She is light skinned

“I shall never forget the impression which our first landing on the beach of California made upon me,” Richard Henry Dana fondly recalls in his book, ‘Two Years Before The Mast” (60). In 1834 Dana, a nineteen-year-old law student, set sail from Boston to California, by way of Cape Corn. When Dana set sail on the Pilgrim he could have never conceptualized that which he would encounter nor could the Spaniards and Indians foresee the ramifications of his journey to their coast. Six years later

and moved down to Costa Rica. It is in Central America, everyone speaks spanish and a very relational culture. Costa Rica has only two seasons consisting of winter and summer. Winter is rainy while summer is hot and sunny. We moved August of 2004 to San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, and started a language school there. We attended the school for a year and learned spanish. We move about two and a half hours away to a place called Siquirres. We worked with an orphanage of about one hundred kids

Chinatown of San Francisco There are many Chinatown in this world, and the Chinatown of San Francisco has much historical significance; The Chinatown of San Francisco is the largest Chinatown in the United States, the largest community of Chinese Americans outside of China. Today I want to write about the of San Francisco base on my personal experience because there are many historic things I can illustrate. Before I started traveling this field trip, I did some researches carefully in San Francisco

town under construction that is surrounded by many farms and empty acres of land. The atmosphere of Los Banos is the complete opposite when compared to the atmosphere of San Francisco. I realized this when I moved out and I realize it every time I came back to visit my parents and friends in Los Banos. I feel that people in San Francisco are always either stressed out or in a rush whereas in Los Banos the people are chill and mellow. The phrase,” I am stuck in traffic” does not seem to exist here

After WWII ended in 1945, xenophobia amongst the white populace, coupled with an inflexible definition of who or what represented “American-ness”, prevented Asian Americans from claiming an American identity. Alongside this exclusion, the post-war period also witnessed the assertion of American identity formed by culture and family in the Issei and Nisei community. This essay will argue that through Ichiro Yamada’s struggle to integrate, Okada’s No-No Boy represents the fracturing belief of a monoracial

The reasons for immigration to the "land of opportunity" called America in the early years of our country are clear. America was seen as a place where an individual could start over with an equal chance of success or failure, offered jobs, no matter what country he or she came from. This proved to be true for Irish immigrants, German-American immigrants, English and black immigrants that came to America. However, this was not the same for many of the Japanese immigrants. One of the many challenges