America's Concentration Camps

Germany is known for the Nazi Concentration camps but America has had her own share of the horrors. In 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order Number 9066, as a result over 120,000 Japanese Americans were ordered to move to internment camps. Within these camps many families were shoved together within horse stalls that had no ceiling, or into racing tracks with very little supplies to live. When the Executive order was administrated many Japanese Americana's had to leave their homes and drop everything they were doing. To even try and comprehend having to leave everything you have worked for and everything that was familiar to go to a camp where you never knew when or even if you were going to leave.

Something that I thought was really amazing was the fact that even though these people where forced to stay in these internment camps they still continued life as much as possible. Japanese Americana's tried as much as possible to continue their education, sports and even formed culture clubs. These people were humiliated daily; pretty much at every meal. Guards would call the internments by playing "Doggie, Doggie, Doggie, Come and get your food." I think that this is ridiculous because it at the basses is just degrading. One issue that has always impacted me about the Japanese Internment camps is there location. Many were located in the middle of deserts were hypocrisy rained king. Many of the guards of these areas would give the interments seeds to grow a garden, or even blankets, but the hypocrisy lies in where they are located. You can not grow edible food with just seeds in the middle of the desert, a blanket for a family of 11 doesn't even cover it. If America forced people into these condition's what else has happened to make the U.S. comparable to Nazi Germany?

Life In Jail Without Parole

Does LWOP for juveniles violate the 8th amendment." Use lecture, our conversation, and the articles for support.

I do not think that you can classify it one way or the other; it is in simplest of terms circumstantial. In a generalization you can not dictate whether or not someone, actual it is not just someone it is a juvenile, should be put in jail for life with out the opportunity to have parole. A jury and judge dictate what the verdict will be, but a child still has a possibility of changing. It as Max and I discussed, certain circumstances dictate different outcomes. In my opinion we should not generalize the cases that involve juveniles who are sentenced without parole, but look at each case individually. You can not make sure an important decision on a generalization, you have to look at what lead up to the crime, the factors, the background, who was involved, every single variable must be covered. Another topic to take into consideration is that juveniles are being charged as if adults. How is that OK if the courts deem we are mature enough to be charged as such yet not mature enough to enjoy being able to vote, drink, and drive? It does not seem write that a juvenile should be charged as with a verdict that is the same as an adults when they are not yet even able to by that same law be able to enjoy the fruits of being an adult.

Some students voiced within our discussion that if you regardless if you are a juvenile murder someone the you should automatically deserve life in prison with out the option of parole, but what if it was to get away from being killed yourself or to save a family member. There are always to many things to take into consideration when it come to a verdict. So in response to the question I do think that in certain cases LWOP violates the 8th amendment.

My Mum

I know I know it's cliche but hey if there was any other woman who could do so much and still not take our heads off then show me her and she'll be at the top of my list. To start off my mum is retired but instead of living a life of leisure she takes care of our entire family. From my grams to my little brother. She takes care of our Gram covering everything from getting her to appointments, daily calls about the happening of Grossemont Gardens (the assisted care where my Gram is), to making sure she gets to her weekly hair appointment on time. She takes care of my Great Aunt making sure she gets to her weekly eye injections for her Macular Degeneration. Then there comes my immediate family, where she shuffles my brother and I to all of our various events ranging from volleyball to karate to meeting with friends. She helps my dad in his business almost on a daily basis, she is constantly on the phone with suppliers trying to order parts or talking to other men about what piece of equipment is better suited for what we need.

She somehow manages to juggle all of this in and still have time to pay attention and to support us in the things we chose to pursue. I hope that when I have kids of my own that I will be able to juggle half as well as she does. I love her dearly and appreciate her to no end.

White Supremacy?

Although I wish that this country was not a white supremistic country statistics beg to differ. Unfortunately, America is still a "white supremacy" country, at least where it counts. There are many ways to measure this issue; one way would be via the population, this would allow us to gauge an accurate reading as to whether or not we are still a white supremest country. But the only way to officially gage whether or not this country is, is to see the what the nationalities are of the people who hold a place of power in our country. Yes the saying goes that even one person can make a difference but on a realistic level it is the people we have voted to represent ourselves that have the true power. The fist body of power that we can look at is Congress, not only is there a difference in race but of sex. In the Senate there are 18 women and 82 men; within the House there are 78 women and 357 men. As for the race aspect, just with in Congress,

Racial Composition of the 110th Congress
	U.S. House	U.S. Senate
White	332	81
Black	42	1
Jewish	30	14
Hispanic	25	2
Asian	5	2
Native American	1

In one of the most important and powerful bodies of people in the United States the statistics unfortunately do not lie. Now if we move into state governors, for sex the difference is 4 women to 46 men (just the US 50 states not including territories or DC). As for race again the list of governors is predominantly white. Does this mean that the entire population who has voted is either consciously or unconsciously voting for a "white supremacy" country? Why not, if these statistics are showing so then it must be, right? As much as I strived to find statistics that would bust the doors open on this issue and prove that this nation is not a white supremacist country it seems that we are still. What I believe though is that as time has progressed and we have moved farther and farther away from slavery that even though in our government there is a high percentage of "whites" that it is mattering less and less. I believe and hope that race or nationality are becoming less and less important and what is becoming important are the issues being discussed.

Sources:

http://www.thisnation.com/congress-facts.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_governors