Results of an Effective Apollogy

By acknowledging the Japanese internment, fully explaining the situation, showing appropriate emotion towards the situation and giving reparations the American government was able to successfully provide redress for a horrible and dark point in American history. Now that a successfully redress has been made, all Americans, of Japanese descent or not, can move past the event, even though many will never forget. Several internment camps still stand today as national monuments, and the stories of the internees have been written into the history books. These memories and monuments about the internment stand as testaments to future Americans. They remind the American people to never make the same mistake again. The apology towards Japanese Americans reaffirms, in President Reagan's words, "the ideal of liberty and justice for all is still the American way"

American Apology

I chose the apology towards Japanese American's for my incident. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December seventh, 1941, acted as a catalyst that put a series of events into action, ultimately leading to the internment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans. On February 19th, 1942, out of fear of espionage and sabotage, President Roosevelt signed an order that gave permission to relocate any people that posed a threat to American society and property. Japanese Americans, living in a newly created military zone along the western American coast, were forced to abandon their homes with only as much as they could carry. These Americans were brought at gunpoint to barb-wired compounds around the country. Although some people think the internment was necessary it really happened because of unconstitutional racial profiling that led to the unwarranted, unjust, and cruel treatment of Japanese Americans. In 1988 The U.S. Government apologized for the internment with President Reagan's reparations bill. This apology was effective.

Can the planet be saved?

The lecture Tuesday had several aspects that were strong and many that were not. Some of those videos that she showed us were insightful. The videos also showed interesting people that were doing there part to help the environment. This part of the lecture was inspirational. the rest of her presentation however was random and unorganized. She really discussed a lot of things, not just environmental stuff. She talked so much about how her career how it is so different than her college major that it could have been a career planning seminar. Some parts of her presentation inspired me to help out the environment, but she did not really give any practical ways for me to do that. I was a little disappointed that she did not give us practical ways to help out the environment, because those little things seem like the best way I can help out the environment at this stage in my life as a college student. Her presentation would have been better if she had focused on just a few points instead of being all over the place.