The Japanese Internment was the movement of 110,000 Japanese Americans along the pacific coast of the United States into camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. 62 percent of those who were interned were American citizens. Japanese Americans during the time of the Internment that attended SJSU were forced to leave in order to go to the assembly centers during this time.
Ruth Asawa is a Japanese American born 1926 in Norwalk, California. In 1942 her family was moved to an assembly center during the Japanese American Internment. She graduated High School in the internment. She is a well known Sculptor and is the creator of the Japanese Internment memorial in San Jose.
The memorial depicts a variety of scenes in a somewhat time line order of the Japanese Americans being removed from their homes and into these camps. One scene from the memorial that caught my eye was a family with children getting off of a train going to the camp, standing close by the family is a soldier with guns. I can imagine how intimidating and scary this would be not only for the family but for the children, who most likely do not understand what is going on. Another scene from the memorial that I found interesting was how the families still did family activities or normal things even though they are being forced to be in these uncomfortable location.
In my opinion I don't think that something like this will happen again, but maybe that is just hope that people will not be ignorant and think things through.
Ruth Asawa is a Japanese American born 1926 in Norwalk, California. In 1942 her family was moved to an assembly center during the Japanese American Internment. She graduated High School in the internment. She is a well known Sculptor and is the creator of the Japanese Internment memorial in San Jose.
The memorial depicts a variety of scenes in a somewhat time line order of the Japanese Americans being removed from their homes and into these camps. One scene from the memorial that caught my eye was a family with children getting off of a train going to the camp, standing close by the family is a soldier with guns. I can imagine how intimidating and scary this would be not only for the family but for the children, who most likely do not understand what is going on. Another scene from the memorial that I found interesting was how the families still did family activities or normal things even though they are being forced to be in these uncomfortable location.
In my opinion I don't think that something like this will happen again, but maybe that is just hope that people will not be ignorant and think things through.
Capitalize Pacific Coast. Don't capitalize sculptor.
ReplyDeleteDon't start a sentence with a numeral. Spell it out.
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