Hiroshima is different from any other book that I have read. This good is unlike other books in a sense where it's all non-fiction so it's only true facts. My experience so far in this book as been difficult because it's hard to comprehend that innocent people were killed. When you realize that the people were just doing regular everyday things when little boy and fat man hit their city it puts you in a a situation thinking what you would have personally done if it happened to you. I think the author decided to write a book about this event because he wanted to showcase how the Japanese people felt pre-bomb and post-bomb since no one else has experienced that much a dose of radiation at once and overall just wanted to be able to express their feelings.
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It's safe to say that hate certainly has lasting effects on its victims. Whenever hate is put on one person and it's significant no one is going to forget it because it makes someone wonder what they did to have someone hate them so much. To add onto that, I believe killing is not always bad. I believe that if someone kills somebody then they should deserved to be killed. You shouldn't do things to other people that you wouldn't want to happen to you.
I think that the book "When The Emperor Was Divine" was picked as the big read because it describes Americas history and what the book says a lot of people can relate to. This book really explains thoroughly what was going on during that point in America. Overall, the book makes us think about the certain problems going on today.
Racial Profiling is such a controversial topic around the world. I think that it's not a reasonable defense against terrorism or crime. Cops have the right to stop people that look suspicious but only with probable cause. However, many cops stop and frisk people just because they look suspicious to them or because the type of neighborhood they live in. Honestly there really is no way to justify the affects of it on innocent people because they have already been affected majorly. To justify the name of safety in the name of civil rights, authorities would have to be more careful about who they decide to search because of their own suspicions. Attacks around the world have showed that not just one race is the cause of them. Sure "Muslims" did one of the worst things ever (9-11) but other races committed "crimes" just as bad. Also. not all the people of one race should be judged for the decisions that another person of their race did, that's the big problem in the world today.
We are following the mother's point of view during the first chapter. The family is at their house and are about to get sent away to a Japanese internment camp and all their hopes and dreams are floating away...just like the white dog. The white dog was killed by the women. She had a hammer to kill it but then she asked for a bigger one to get the job done. She thought the dog was too much to handle. To add onto that, the woman's husband had already been forcefully removed from the home to head to the camp. There is also an overdue book that the women is not going to return which makes me think why she doesn't want to return it. There is a weird positive reaction between the man Joe Lundy and the Women because he gave the women a handful of caramels for her children which puts some flirtation in the air.
If I had to leave home for an undisclosed amount of time, it would take me a while to figure out what to bring with me. But, I would bring t-shirts, pants/shorts, undergarments, shoes, blanket(s), toothbrush/toothpaste, a water bottle that can filter water, magazines, and as much food I could stuff in the remaining space in my bag. I would bring those specific things because it's what I need to survive. I do have things that I love to have, ex. my phone. Even though now that I claim I can't live without my phone I would have to do it if I had to leave home for a undisclosed amount of time because I wouldn't know if there would be a way to charge it.
In my opinion, I think that censorship is based on control and not as much of protection. The censorship of a book is specifically based on what parts of the book(s) want to be suppressed and if there is a need to. Both censorship and protection are really similar. Overall, censorship is protecting readers from certain parts of a book. So since protection is in the definition of censorship then that is why they are very similar.
I think that the video was weird/odd. They kind of made it seem like they were a good thing. But I don't think that anything like internment camps could happen again but something could happen sort of like it, just in a different form. I think that in the type of society we live in no the possibility of something like this happening could be a reality. The way things are going with people around the world this year and the way people treat each other because of their decisions something tragic will occur if the way we are living now continues/escalates.
I think that we should be able to read any books we think are interesting. Students don't enjoy reading much anymore because certain topics are banned from us to read. The act of banning books just draws more attention to the book being challenged. It makes kids just want to look into why the book was banned. Also, no books should be banned just they should be restricted where someone reads a certain topic and why. Overall kids should just be able to read what they want with little restrictions. Wether or not the intel that is being hidden is good or bad we should all be able to be exposed to the topics we want and not be stopped from doing so.The discussions I had in the EdCafe were really good and helped me comprehend what was happening in the book. The end of the book could've had more closure than it did, not just suddenly the city being bombed/wiped out. I think the book ends so abruptly because the author wanted the readers to interpret the way they feel or maybe because it's not such a clear cut answer (the rebels don't just have a run in with the government).
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