The Second World War (WWII) was one of the most significant events in Canadian History. Although Canadian soil did not see battles, Canadian Families were profoundly affected, both during and after the war. ... Canada's entry into the War on September 10th , 1939 led to the mobilization of women on an unprecedented scale. ... By the end of the war 1.2 million women had entered the workforce (Veterans Affairs Canada, 2013). ... Although Canadian children were not eye witness to the destruction children were also not immune to the effects of the war. ...

• Word Count: 2120
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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

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

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

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