Naomi is very small at the time of the war and did not really fully understand what was happening to her race. ... The novel discuses the camps that the Japanese families were sent to in Hastings Park during the war. ... All and all I would have to say this novel helped me a lot in understanding what happened during the Second World War. ... Obasan is a very good novel for anybody who did not know what happened during the Second World War. ... Obasan was a good novel to help better understand our Canadian history....

• Word Count: 640
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The Vietnam War was a time of sadness for many families across the country. ... Four months before Timmy's 18th birthday, his mother told Timmy that they were selling the house and moving to Canada. She knew that if they lived in Canada he could not get drafted (Surrey 105). ... The sentiment in Canada was not welcoming (Surrey 107). There were already many American resisters, draft dodgers and their families moving to Canada (Surrey 108). ...

• Word Count: 1045
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In "Where the World Began" Margaret Laurence is saying that the land she grew up in, the Canadian prairies, is lodged deep in her soul and has stayed with her throughout her life. ... These dead included grandparents, uncles, who had died at a young age in the war and whose corpses really lay buried in France, and parents who died at a relatively early age. ... Not only uncles died young as soldiers in the war, but also parents. ... The author expresses her love fro the Canadian land and how it has remained rooted in her soul. ... For her, the Canadian land is special and has a magic that no o...

• Word Count: 1153
• Approx Pages: 5

She ignores the prejudice trials and tribulations of the war and retains her quietness. ... (Kogawa 76-77) In Naomi's childhood, she fails to understand why they are both enemy and Canadian. Because of Obasan's protective silence and Stephen's alienation from the Japanese culture, Naomi couldn't know and understand the tragic fact of Japanese Canadian's situation during World War II. Aunt Emily is a Canadian born Japanese. ... (Kogawa 35) Not only through her action and speech, she declares herself as "I am Canadian" (Kogawa 41) on her manuscripts and crosses all "Jap...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

At the page 53 in the book, he mentioned that when he entered the elementary school, there was a form needed to be filled, and one of the empty block named as 'Racial original', and he wrote Canadian. The teacher, however, told him that he should be Chinese, and Canadian was not a racial identity, which made him confused. Racism is a concept that never works because it causes discrimination; for instance, according to the Diamond Grill, Chinese people were at the bottom of the Canadian society in the past several decades；also, it has profound negative influence on the freedom of m...

• Word Count: 581
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

"Since the introduction of "no-fault divorce" in Canada 30 years ago, the rate of marital break-up has soared 600%. ... One-fifth of Canadian children have lost a parent to divorce, with an effect that some sociologists now say can be "worse than a parent's death." ... Sometimes when they are unable to resolve their conflict, the warring parties may join together to focus attention on another family member as a way to avoid dealing with the real problem. ... The World Situation e.g. war and unrest, especially where this seems imminent; the state of the planet. ...

• Word Count: 1707
• Approx Pages: 7

It has happened in every war whether it was the Roman crusades, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War; the American Civil War and in this past century alone; The World Wars, Korea, Vietnam and countless conflicts such as those in the middle East, Bosnia and now Afghanistan. ... For all of the people watching broadcasts of the friends and family from Petawawa of Sgt Robert Short and Cpl Robbie Beerenfenger, the latest casualties in the Canadian Armed Forces, does it not occur to you why that despite the immense tragedy and loss that these people have suffered that they still support the miss...

• Word Count: 773
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Sam took great interest in anything about Israel and was deeply moved at the stunning victory that Israel achieved during the Six Day War in 1967. ... After a few years in Liverpool, England, Sam immigrated to Canada to join his brother Shalom in a business venture trading with Indians and fur trappers in the wilds of Ontario. ... My father has been a witness to what has happened in Israel from the Yom Kippur War, the Entebbe rescue, the first and second Lebanese Wars, the Gulf War (which I even remember being dressed in a protective yellow hood type gas mask, and being terrified by the sire...

• Word Count: 1623
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If anything, usually it's something negative about the government and how, if there is another republican voted into office he's moving to Canada. ... The reason being, my mom doesn't feel like the entire world is out to get us like my dad does so when topics like gun laws, and money, and war are brought up the seem to hit a bump in the road and begin to argue that white people are either heartless careless people or that they mean well for the most part. ...

• Word Count: 2511
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Months later a strange man came to our door , it took me a while to realize it was father , returned form the war. ... At the end of that summer it became clear that if our family wanted to stay in Canada we would all have to learn English, but in order to do so we would yet again move to a place called Rockville Ontario. ...

• Word Count: 2372
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School