Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is just one of those stories that someone who experienced it wrote down to be remembered. Manzanar worked in different areas of Ko and Jeanne Wakatsuki's unique personalities to bring about both growth and destruction, and simultaneously offer them insight and infuence into each other's character. Ko Wakatsuki lost everything he had left of his pride and dignity at Manzanar. ... Jeanne Wakatsuki described Manzanar as something of a birthplace. ... Therefore, Jeanne Wakatsuki was able to be shaped by Manzanar and yet rejected that her...

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• Grade Level: High School

Farewell to Manzanar is Jeanne Wakatsuki's memories of her experiences at Manzanar during WWII. ... This whole bus is full of Wakatsukis!" ... There was no privacy at Manzanar, no place to be alone. ... For the first year the Wakatsuki's were at Manzanar, they had to live without "Papa". Ko Wakatsuki is the patriarch of the family, he did not go to Manzanar with the family because he had been arrested and was imprisoned at Fort Henry as a spy. ...

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Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is the true story of a Japanese-American family's detention in California's Manzanar internment camp during World War II. ... She also tells what she took away from Manzanar after it was closed "a feeling of shame and determination to be accepted as an American. ... New School - (Queen Carnival) After leaving Manzanar, Jeanne begins to understand what all her problems meant. ... Jeanne does not want to think about Manzanar, but as she grows, she realizes that her life began and was shaped there. For her to be able ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This is what happened to the Wakatsuki family and many other Japanese-American citizens as told in the book Farewell to Manzanar. ... It authorized the War Department authority to define military areas in the western states and to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort (Wakatsuki Houston & Houston 15). ...

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One such book like this , Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston. ... Shortly after that, Jeanne and her family are relocated to the Manzanar camp for the Japanese for the duration of the war. ... For example, unlike the concentration camps, Manzanar allowed people to remain with their families and did not have the awful conditions of the camps in Europe. ... In Conclusion, Farewell to Manzanar is a novel written to educate us about the hardships of the American - Japanese in WWII. ...

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In the book of Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston and Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals are all about life challenges between two girls named Jeanne and Melba. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is one of a daughter of first-generation Japanese immigrants in United States. ... They were forced to live in a camp called Manzanar and treated them as an inferior class. ... When Jeanne and her family finally leaves Manzanar, she continued going to school. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I read the book "Farewell to Manzanar", by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. ... The book tells the story from Jeanne Wakatsuki, the main character, and how she and her family struggled to make it through this time period in American history. ... Also what it was like being taken from her home and being put into the Japanese internment camp of Manzanar. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

USA Post-Pearl Harbor vs. USA Post-9/11 When the September 11th Tragedy occurred, the American people were devastated. Many sat in front of their television sets watching the horrifying images of the planes hitting the towers over and over again. Others took their aggression out by attacking and in some cases murdering those who looked like they were of Middle Eastern descent. When the World Trade Centers came tumbling down, the news broadcasters publicly stated that this has been the biggest attack on America since Pearl Harbor. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School