The first country they spoke about was Japan. Scientists are predicting Japan is going to shrink almost half its size by the end of the century. ... The average amount of children per woman in Japan is 1.3. ... In contradiction to America and Japan's statistics, the average child per woman in Sub-Saharan Africa is 6. ... Our generation's response to this challenge will be judged by history, for if we fail to meet it---boldly, swiftly, and together---we risk consigning future generations to an irreversible catastrophe" (PG 01). ...

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THE GREATEST GENERATION--TOM BROKAW I. ... Realize the way our generation can never live up The Greatest Generation Tom Brokaw What's with kids these days?!? This was a phrase I heard but seldom understood why it was said until I read The Greatest Generation, by Tom Brokaw. ... This generation of Americans was extremely humble. ... The Greatest Generation had an extremely profound impact on me. ...

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My parents are first generation immigrants from Japan, and I do not have any ancestral background coming from the US. ... In Japan, Jeans are immediately recognized as the American icon of "The wild, untamed land of the West." This is partly because Japan has long since been tamed by humankind, while America is still a fairly new country. ...

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I don't know that I should have to pay for someone who did [own slaves] generations before I was born," (Slavery Reparations). ... Government has had to deal with is that in the case of Japanese-Americans interred in camps in the U.S. during WWII. In 1988, the U.S. issued an apology and paid $20,000 to each Japanese-American who was taken from his/her home and held in internment camps during World War II from 1941 to 1945. ... First, the $20,000 compensation to the Japanese-Americans was paid to the individuals and/or their families who actually were interred in camps during WWII. ......

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Also what it was like being taken from her home and being put into the Japanese internment camp of Manzanar. It begins with her father being taken away for supposedly supplying oil to Japanese submarines on the coast while he was fishing. ... Most of the Japanese who were put into these camps, were Japanese-Americans, and had never been to Japan, but knew about it from what they had heard from others about the country and had some of the traditions passed on to them from other generations. ... There was fear of a Japanese attack on the west coast, and that only helped create an even nervous s...

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These experiments resulted in genetically mutated embryos, abused human test subjects, and a whole generation of children which knew neither father nor mother. ... The Japanese were so loathed and such a threat that along with the bombs all Japanese-Americans and all Japanese residing in America were put in concentration camps, I mean internment camps. Granted the Japanese weren't experimented on or starved to death, but it sure wasn't paradise being forcibly removed from your home and thrown into to a tar-papered "home- with dirt floors, barbed-wire fencing, and guns pointed in y...

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We have a feeling of violence in each story; in almost every story the ending finishes in a violent way; when Felix gets killed by a Japanese bomb, broken necks, car accidents and heart attacks. ... If peace is important to us, then the rights actions must start in the house at a young age to try to give a just and none racist education to the young generation. ... It's also similar to the situation of the Japanese that were living in North America during World War 2; since the United-States were at war with Japan, all American Japanese were taken into custody. ... The important one is wi...

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It also shows that women have learned from the past where they were badly treated, and have blocked the repetition from generation to generation by protesting and changing habits. ... On August 6 1945 the U.S.A who, for the first time in history, used atomic bombs to bomb Hiroshima, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the atomic bomb had never been used before and it's affects had never been tested, men discovered it's destructive powers and now fear them and are aware of them. ... For example at the beginning of the last century in America there were slaves who rebelled and hav...

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The stories of the English, African, Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Japanese, and Jews are all intertwined in this book for a nonjudgmental view of the neglected truth. ... The second and third generations of the Irish immigrants became highly educated and the percentage of Irish in universities increased. ... The "Giddy Multitude" was found across America, representing Africans, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Irish, Mexicans, and Jews that were of the lower classes. ...

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China, Singapore, Japan, Korea, and Liechtenstein are the top 5 ranks respectively (Ryan). In Jean Twenge's novel Generation Me she states that in today's education system, "There has also been a movement against 'criticizing' children too much. ... " As I stated before, if a significant push in academics were to happen early then, given time, that generation of motivated students will pursue education. ... It all starts early and is a process that will take time, but the next generation will pave the way to a more diverse and accepted future....

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After much extensive studying and research, it has been concluded that supply and demand is the most basic concept of the economy and throughout time its definition has remained the same, but the people of each generation come up with ways to show the extent of its meaning. ... In the Global Economy, since that tsunami hit Japan in 2011, all automobile sales have decreased and/or have been in jeopardy. ...

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On April 20, 1999, two high school students in Littleton, Colorado changed the way my generation live our lives. ... The gothic music capital of the world is Germany, all our violent video games originate from Japan, and Europeans watch the same gory horror flicks we see, yet these countries combined to embody only 5% of the deaths caused by guns that happened here in America. ...

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The Fast and Furious generation of automobile modifiers has it all wrong. Immediately after the movie came out, the streets had become littered with ridiculous looking Asian imports as well as domestics. Fortunately the European car population was not hit nearly as hard. As a few years have passed s...

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For example, instead of only giving the account for what the determining factors were for America in World War II, a teacher should give the entire account by giving the reasons for the Japanese attack. ... With their full education, future generations may begin to remember and respect the cultures that have given them so many traditions. ...

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But there should be something that makes those many different ideals as united as one, because, For a short generation, various culture has been created in one society. ... In 1990, there were 24,000 Japanese immigrants and there was great racism against. ...

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In the years after the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire, a dizzying prosperity spread through the United States, while a tense, prolonged, and dangerous global Cold War against the Soviet empire and Maoist China took shape. ... The literary world of the early 1950s was energized by a confident and diverse new generation. ...

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