Reed's Essay "America: The Multinational Society" In this essay, Reed explains how American culture is portrayed as if it consists of a civilization created by the people of Europe. ... In his "America: The Multinational Society" essay he said " Is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which includes Turkish marches, a part of Western civilization, or the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century French paintings, whose creators were influenced by Japanese art? ... What I would like to add is that the word America is the biggest propaganda of the US. That is, America was really called for the e...

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The story of Cio-cio-san, the eternally faithful heroine, is one of the most wrenching (and well-known) in all of opera. A young geisha is so blinded by hope for a better life that she does not see the truth about the man she loves until it is too late. But look deeper, there is more to this story t...

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This extraordinary novel tells about a Japanese family that struggles to remain a family while living in an internment camp. ... In my opinion, "Farewell to Manzanar" is about Japanese-Americans during World War II. ... The language is not difficult at all, but you might want to read the foreword before you read the book, just to get the Japanese terminologies. I recommend this book to anyone who has some idea of what went on in America during World War II. ...

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