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It is with great news that I write to you on this momentous day, brother. I have finally landed in San Francisco. About time as well. I don’t think I was ever able to gain sea legs. Now, it is time for me just like our fellow countrymen abroad to serve Japan in expanding her influence. While aboard the ship, I was able to to study the guides. There was a lot of useful information in all of them. I believe I gained a great deal from How to Go to America Alone. We stopped in Honolulu to pick up more

Title: “Devil’s Island” General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about Alcatraz. Thesis: This morning, I am going to tell you about the purpose of Alcatraz, some of the famous criminals that were sent there, escape attempts, and the living conditions in the prison. Introduction I. Attention Grabber: Have any of you, if you are open to admit it, ever been to prison? A. Well, I have, but not in the way you would think. B. I went voluntarily on a tour and the prison was actually

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

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 city

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. Los

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

Love: Your Hippie Guide To San Francisco LEAD PARAGRAPH It 's the summer of 1967 in San Francisco and Haight Street is bustling with thousands of young dreamers craving social reform. The summer of ’67 is also known as the Summer of Love and was a time when artists like Janisce Joplin and Jimi Hendrix lived on these San Franciscan streets. Flash forward 50 years and the afterglow of this monumental peace movement can still be felt on Haight Street. Wandering around San Francisco, you 'll find that it

The 1960s Hippie movement was a major point in the American history. In the 1960s a certain class of young people associated their lifestyles with the ideas of freedom, peace, and love. Hippies acted against white upper middle class lifestyle because they thought it was based on the wrong ideology. Hippies were against consumerism and American suburban life of the late 1950s and early 1960s was embodied in itself the idea of consumerism. Hippies, on the other hand, felt better about communal life

In the year of seventeen-ninety-nine (1799), Conrad Reed found a seventeen-pound gold nugget when he was fishing. His family used it as a door stop for three years before they realized that it was a gold nugget! Once everyone found out that it was gold, they started looking for more gold in the Little Meadow Creek that Conrad found the gold in. The creek was located on the family farm in Cabarrus County. When the rest of the family looked for more of the gold, they found some more of it in the creek

California Gold Rush In January 24,1848 a carpenter named James W. Marshall found a piece of gold in the Sacramento Valley. News spread out to San Francisco's news paper. The gold rush began in the Sutter’s Mill , near Coloma in 1848. The gold rush continued though out 1850. California’s population went up to 250,000 in only four years. During the gold rush clothing for the miner was very important because, the clothing for the miner was based on his ethnicity. Thus used pans, sluice