Work In Progress. Hah!

By the end of this semester I am suppose to have at least fifteen blogs...yet I am slacking off a bit. I am pretty much frustrated, pissed off, and have the urge to be violent. This is too much work for us, juniors right now. We have TAKS testes coming up, not only that do I definitely worry about...I also have my SAT's coming up on a freaking Saturday at 7:45am at MacArthur high school. Yes, I believe my schedule for everything is quite ridiculous. I do not have any relaxing time like teachers advise us to do before TAKS. Even outside of school, I have a busy life. I do not ever have time to finish writing my letters to Jered, why do I write him? Don't worry about it, I'm not exposing any information about him. Everything is just frustrating right now. Everything is hectic and absolutely keeping me busy. I hate it yes, but it seems to keep me out of trouble. The worst part of the day when I finally get home from school is when I'm exhausted and do not have the energy to do any work. The stuff we're doing right now for English is way too much. I'm not in college yet! I have been putting effort into all of my work. I know I've turned in some incomplete work, but at least I turned it in. I would rather get some credit other than a zero. Hopefully by the end of the year all this bullcrap will pay off...

Oh and yes, my presentation has been coming along alright. I am creating a movie maker on Manzanar Relocation Center. Mrs. Fooks said for us just to include facts, pictures and ect... that is what I plan on doing.

Outline: Manzanar

Introduction: High school student name Chiro, a Japanese American living in Southern California. She lives with her mother and father and two older siblings Kiyo and Calliou. The year is 1869 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor has just begun.

I. Topic: December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor has officially been attacked and bombed by the Japanese.
a. Subtopic: Having to find a new home.
1. Detail: FBI deputies make their raids through out homes, questioning families if having any association with Pearl Harbor.
2. Detail: Packing up within 48 hours to reach Owens Valley with the help of American Friends Service.
b. Subtopic: Arriving at camp Manzanar in 1942.
1. Detail: Finding a cubicle to stay in, in block 16 of camp Manzanar. Manzanar includes a recreation center, involving social activities, churches, programs, and sports. People from small towns also associate with the people of Manzanar.
2. Detail: Unaccustomed food, unsanitary shelter and stability. Families at the camp receive numbers to be categorized into groups. Families for most stay together and do not have a lot of room nor privacy.

II. Topic: What else goes on outside of camp Manzanar.
a. Subtopic: December 18, 1944 Supreme Court rules that loyal citizens cannot be held in detention camps against their will, the first major step toward the closing of the camps.
1. Detail: Brothers, Kiyo and Calliou get drafted in to war.
2. Detail: All of the social activity groups, recreation center and churches are closing in Manzanar.

III. Topic: Finally reaching freedom.
a. Subtopic: Getting equipped to move and find a new home. Beginning a fresh new start.
1. Detail: Government gives financial aid to those that were held captive in Manzanar.
2. Detail: It still was not safe for American Japanese citizens to move back to their former homes due to racial profiling and hatred.
Conclusion: In the end everyone receives alienable rights, which citizens are born with and cannot be taken away. Every citizen is on his or her free will to do anything.

Farewell to Manzanar Chapters 16-17

Chapter 16

Free To Go

December, Surpreme Court ruling in the case called "Ex Parte Endo". Western Defense Command announced exclusion orders were being rescinded in 1942. All camps were being closed and internees now had the right to return to their former homes. Still with the Japanese Americans free, they still were not safe due to hatred and prejudism. They were motivated to move to the east coast where there was not any Oriental history.




Chapter 17

It's All Starting Over

1945, everything in camp Manzanar such as schools and programs were closing. Jeannie and her family were free to go, but they knew they did not have anything to bein with. Jeannie, Papa, Mama, and Granny stayed at Manzanar camp hoping the government would help them find a home. With the Wakatsuki's on their own they needed a safe place to stay and find jobs. The government would loan the people living in camp Manzanar money so that they could start off with at least some money.

Workin Hard Or Hardly Workin

I have not read any of the chapters in "Farewell To Manzanar". The book is boring and quite dull. I hate it, but it provides great detail and description to the surroundings in and out of Manzanar. My personal opinion after reading 15 chapters of this book is a good source of information on Camp Manzanar. I just got done completing my Brain Pops, they are stupid and pointless to me. I hate school, I hate doing work. Everybody knows that one of your first priorities are to gain knowledge, and finish school. I have to do what I need to do. Today after I finished my Brain Pop's and sent them on Black Board, I reviewed on how to create an outline and how to site URL's and ect. Thats all for today, I will do the rest of my work at home for sure.

Farewell to Manzanar Chapters 14-15

Chapter 14

In The Firebreak

In 1944 the government decided American citizens should be eligible for selective service. Jeanne's older sister has her baby in 1943, Reno, Nevada. One of her sister-in-laws had a miscarriage and bled to death in her hospital bed. Eleanor, one of the older sister was about to go through labor. Everyoe was worried if Eleanor and the baby would come out of the hospital alive. During that time period, supplies of medical treatment was hard to find and going through labor was a rough time for everyone.


Chapter 15

Departures

Jeanne's family waved goodbye to Woody. Woody is being drafted. Woody's father did not want him leaving for war. He was afraid to lose his son. Woody knew best and did what he had to do, either he went to war or spent time in jail.

Farewell to Manzanar Chapters 12-13

Chapter 12

Manzanar, U.S.A

During this time, spring has finally came around. Gardeners are allowed to build small gardens and it also helps people living the camp forget about the disadvantages of living in Manzanar. Jeanne observes Caucasians comming from different towns, come into Manzanar socializing and working together.


Chapter 13

Outings, Explorations

Jeanne moves into block 28. In the camp they provide a school for children. Peope of the Manzanar camp had a recreation program with leaders hired by the War Relocation authority. Manzanar includes various activities for those living in the camp. At first Jeanne tried out in Baton Twirling, then she wanted to be a volunteer Odori traditional dancer, next she tried ballet lessons. Many of the American Caucasians would try and persuade th Japanese to become Catholic. Jeanne and her friends practiced Catechism. In the Manzanar camps there was also a block for orphans only. People were getting baptized in camp. She then too wanted to become Catholic, but her father refused her request.

Farewell to Manzanar Chapters 10-11

Chapter 10

The Reservoir Shack: An Aside


Jeanne's brother in-law, Kaz, was staying at a resevoir shack. A sergent and three privates raided the area in case of any suspicious activity involving the war. They were lined up and backed up against a wall with three privates pointing MP's at them.


Chapter 11

Yes Yes No No


Early February government's Loyal Oath appeared. Everyone seventeen and over was required to fill it out. Jeanne's father askes Woody, the other older son, his opinion of war. Woody Replied by saying he would fight respectfully as an American citizen. This whole time they are rebelling about the war. People who support the war and those non-suporters are also at rage.

Farewell to Manzanar Chapters 6-9

Chapter 6

Whatever He Did Had Flourished


A flashback of Jeanne's father before he was arrested. She remembers the time when the family and friends got all together for some sort of buffet. She remembers her father's two drinking buddies "Goosey and Blackie". Jeanne also refers back to when her mother was younger and how "expensive" she was. "One for every seven or eight Japanese men." Jeanne tells the story of how her father and mother met. Jeanne's mother was promised to marry "the upright son of a well-to-do farmer", but then came along Jeanne's father working in a near by family sold produce market. Mama was seventeen when she met her future husband. Jeanne's grandmother did not approve of it, so they ran away together.


Chapter 7

Fort Lincoln: An Interview


Mr. Wakatsuki is under interrogation. He is being questioned about the "fifty-gallon drums" on the deck of his boat. He answers "chum", "bait, fish guts." He is asked about the attack of Pearl Harbor and the American military. They ask what his opinion is upon war. He replies indifferently, saying he would just rather not have war.


Chapter 8

Inu


Papa is now living in the cubicle with the rest of the family. Jeanne is now eight years old, and she witnesses her parents argue. They argue about Papa's alcoholic addiction and how people around block sixteen spread rumors about him being an alcoholic. Mama tries to comfort him and confront him, he takes it the wrong way and is offended. Mama gets up and orders Papa to kill her, she says its not worth living how they are. Papa is drunk and picks up his cane and proceeds to swing at her, one of the older sons jumps in and hits Papa in the face causing his nose to bleed. Kiyo, the son, runs out until the uproar has settled down. He returns and apologizes to his father and asks for forgiveness. Papa accepts his apology.


Chapter 9

The Mess Hall Bells


Jeanne describes how some of the people in Manzanar camp refuse to live their lives in containment. They begin to rebel, putting up a strike. Police are armed with M-1's and did not hesitate to fight back. Ten people were sent to the hospital to be treated, injured by fired shots. A teenage boy dies five hours later. The rest of the people who were involved in the strike were forced back into Manzanar confinement.

Farewell to Manzanar Chapters 1-5

Part I
Chapter 1

"What Is Pearl Harbor?"

Begins with the main character at the age of seven. Her and her family live in southern California. The main character's father and two older brothers set out to the sea, to go fishing. She wishes them good luck and says her goodbyes while they disappear in the horizon. All of a sudden she sees them returning back to the terminal islands. She finds out that the Japanese just bombed Pearl Harbor. Her father later that night burned his Hiroshima flag, papers, and documents, anything that might suggested any connection with Japan. Further added father is an illegal alien. From then on Japanese families were already beginning to move, at least 500 families. FBI deputies would question each individual, ransacking houses for anything that could be used for signaling planes or ships or indicated loyalty to the Emperor. Soon the FBI arrested Jeanne's father, she had later found out he had be arrested for delivering oil to the Japanese submarines offshore. A year later, her father was released.


Chapter 2

Shikata Ga Nai

She later on moved to Ocean Park, near Santa Monica. Jeanne's family was the only Japanese family in the neighborhood. Late February the navy decided to clear Terminal Island completely. February 25Th they were given 48 hours to clear out of their homes. American Friends Service helped them to find a small house in Boyle Heights, another minority ghetto, in downtown Los Angeles, inhabited by a few hundred Terminal Island refugees. Executive Oder 9066 had been signed by President Roosevelt, giving the War Department authority to define military areas in the western states and to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort. Racial profiling then began, Japanese feared of Caucasians, Caucasians were of them. They had to get on a move, Jeanne's and her family got onto a bus that took them to their destination. They arrived at Owens Valley. When arriving at towards the bus stops, the other Japanese stood silence, waiting for friendly, relative faces. After they exited the buses they were issued army mess kits, and food. ("scoops of canned Vienna sausage, canned string beans, steamed rice that had been cooked for too long, and on top of the rice a serving of canned apricots") That was dinner for them. After dinner they were taken to Block 16, a cluster of fifteen barracks. "The shacks were built of one thickness of pine planking covered with tar paper", "They sat on concrete footings, with about two feet of open space between the floorboards and the ground." "Each barracks were divided into six units, sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat." They were assigned two of the barracks for twelve people in their family group (number). "We were issued steel army cots, two brown army blankets each, and some mattress covers." If jobs were assigned during war time labor shortages, instead of staying at Manzanar.



Chapter 3

A Different Kind of Sand

Describes the setting around Manzanar, dusty and sand covering the area. They were still continuing on building sixteen more blocks to Manzanar. Skies were clear, but icy gusts of winds would buffer the barracks through the floor boards. Jeanne's mother is getting tired of living in their kind of conditions, but her sons and Jeanne try to make the best of it.



Chapter 4

A Common Master Plan

The War Department was in charge of all the camps at a certain point. They issued "military surplus from the first World War- olive drape knit caps, earmuffs, pea coats, canvas leggings." They were given Typhoid shots, it made younger kids sick with vomiting and fevers. Food would spoil fast even in refrigerators because they would break down. Each block provided its own volunteers. "Three meals a day for 250 people." Camps of the ten, reached to California to Arkansas. Their restrooms were twelve toilet bowls arranged in six pairs, back to back with nothing separating them. "Packed sleeping quarters, the communal mess halls, the open toilets- all this was an open insult to that other, private self, a slap in the face you were powerless to challenge."


Chapter 5

Almost A Family

Food was never always great but there was always enough to fill you up. "10,000 people on an endless promenade inside the square mile of barbed wire that was the wall around our city." There included a camp hospital. Jeanne's father comes back in September 1942. Jeanne's two sister in-laws are pregnant. A first new born has arrived and is named George in honor of Papa's arrival.

Research Project

Internet Resources and Novels



http://www.pbs.org/weekendexplorer/california/mammoth/manzanar.htm

"Concentration Camp" it is a reference to the plaque at the entrance to Manzanar. Addition of how many refugees were contained.

http://www.corvalliscommunitypages.com/handcraftsallnew16.htm
Describes the setting of Manzanar concentration camps. Includes important quote from people who were victims. Mainly about the lives of those who suffered and importance of which people were in charge.

http://www.socialism.com/fsarticles/vol26no2/voicesofcolor.html

Voices of those who survived the concentration camps and how many Asian Americans were being "Racial Profiled".

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Farewell-to-Manzanar.id-108,pageNum-7.html

"Farewell to Manzanar" summary of the novel.

http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/documentary/index.html

"Children of the Camps", outspoken novel about families and children surviving the in Manzanar camps.

Novel: Farewell To Manzanar

-High school student made a document about her and her family spent in Manzanar for three and a half years.

-Includes a timeline in chronological order, including passes of laws, immigration and naturalization, citizenship's, when the attack was on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, military, supreme court rules, ending of Manzanar and World War II.