We chose our area of study to be on the Japanese Internment Camps during World War II. We decided to focus on this topic because it is not one of the prominent events during the war. When we think of World War II, most will generally think the of the Holocaust and the other devastations occurring in Europe during this time. What we rarely think about are the injustice actions that were happening in America. After Pearl Harbor was bombed, the United States was panicked. Immediately after the bombing, there were many reports of espionage and inside threats. There was not one trace or evidence of any sabotage, yet all Japanese/Japanese Americans were put into internment camps. One of our group members is Japanese American, and knew people that had survived the camps. As a group, we feel like this needs to be brought to more attention. As it applies to many of the world conflicts today.
We conducted our research at both the University of Utah as well as primary and secondary source documents found on the internet, journals and Google Scholar. At the University of Utah, there was a lot of important information that gave us a good background that we could build the whole base of our project on. We chose our project to be on a website because we decided that since our project was unique that we should choose a category that we would excel in. A website would be good for our project because we have so much in depth information that it would be overwhelming on a poster. The website has tabs so that we can create different categories and make sure we could focus on the theme. Also, one of our team members is really good at using computers and we thought that it was a great medium for our project.
Our project relates to all three themes, exploration, encounter and exchange. It relates to exploration because the Japanese-Americans were forced to explore and transition into a new setting of life in the internment camps as well as construct new ways to continue celebrating their culture. It relates to encounter because they encountered and faced daily hardships such as prejudice and discrimination while living in the camps and restoring their lives after the camps were closed. It related to the theme exchange because they exchanged their old . We learned a lot about Japanese Internment camps and we are really excited to share our knowledge with other so we can further educate our future generation on important matters, such as this.
We conducted our research at both the University of Utah as well as primary and secondary source documents found on the internet, journals and Google Scholar. At the University of Utah, there was a lot of important information that gave us a good background that we could build the whole base of our project on. We chose our project to be on a website because we decided that since our project was unique that we should choose a category that we would excel in. A website would be good for our project because we have so much in depth information that it would be overwhelming on a poster. The website has tabs so that we can create different categories and make sure we could focus on the theme. Also, one of our team members is really good at using computers and we thought that it was a great medium for our project.
Our project relates to all three themes, exploration, encounter and exchange. It relates to exploration because the Japanese-Americans were forced to explore and transition into a new setting of life in the internment camps as well as construct new ways to continue celebrating their culture. It relates to encounter because they encountered and faced daily hardships such as prejudice and discrimination while living in the camps and restoring their lives after the camps were closed. It related to the theme exchange because they exchanged their old . We learned a lot about Japanese Internment camps and we are really excited to share our knowledge with other so we can further educate our future generation on important matters, such as this.