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Song name: Kenji by Fort Minor


“My father came from Japan in 1905. He was fifteen when he immigrated from Japan. He worked until he was able to buy – to actually build a store.”

Let me tell you the story in the form of a dream
I don't know why I have to tell it but I know what it means
Close your eyes and just picture the scene / as I paint it for you
It was World War II when this man named Kenji woke up
Ken was not a soldier / he was just a man with a family
Who owned a store in LA / that day
He crawled out of bed like he always did
Bacon and eggs with wife and kids / he lived on the 
Second floor of a little store he ran
He moved to L.A from Japan
They called him “Immigrant” / in Japanese
He'd say he was called "iisei" / that meant 
First Generation In The United States
When everyone was afraid of the Germans / afraid of the “Japs”
But most of all afraid of a homeland attack
And that morning when Ken went out on the doormat
His world went black 'cause
Right there / front page news
Three weeks before 1942
"Pearl Harbor's been bombed and “The Japs Are Coming"
Pictures of soldiers dying and running
Ken knew what it would lead to
Just like he guessed / the President said,
The “evil Japanese” in our home country will be locked away
They gave Ken a couple of days
To get his whole life packed in two bags
Just two bags
Couldn't even pack his clothes
Some folks didn't even have a suitcase
To pack anything in
So two trash bags was all they gave them
When the kids asked mom / where are we going
Nobody even knew what to say to them
Ken didn't want to lie
He said the US is looking for spies
So we have to live in a place called Manzanar
Where a lot of Japanese people are
Stop it / don't look at the gunmen
You don't wanna get the soldiers wondering
If you gonna run or not 'cause if you run then you might get shot
Other than that / try not to think about it
Try not to worry 'bout it being so crowded
'Cause someday we'll get out / someday / someday.

”Yeah, soon as war broke out, the F.B.I came and… they just come to the house and, you have to come. All the Japanese have to go. They took Mr. Ni, the people couldn't understand, why did they have to take him because he's just an innocent laborer…”

So now they're in a town with soldiers surrounding them
Every day every night / looked down at them
From watchtowers up on the wall
Ken couldn't really hate them at all
They were just doing their job and
He wasn't gonna make any problems
He had a little garden / vegetables and fruits that he gave to the troops
In a basket his wife made
But in the back of his mind he wanted his families life saved
Prisoners of war in their own damn country
What for?
And time passed in the prison town / he wondered
If he'd live it down when they were free
The only way out was joining the army / and supposedly
Some men went out for the army / signed on
And ended up flying to Japan with a bomb
That 15 kiloton blast put an end to the war pretty fast
Two cities were blown to bits 
The end of the war came quick
And Ken got out
Big hopes of a normal life with his kids and his wife / but
When they got back to their home / and
What they saw made him feel so alone
These people had trashed every room
Smashed in the windows and bashed in the doors
Written on the walls and the floor:
"Japs not welcome anymore"
And Kenji dropped both of his bags at his sides and just stood outside
He looked at his wife without words to say
She looked back at him wiped the tears away
And said Someday we'll be okay / someday
Now the names have been changed but the story's true
My family was locked up back in '42
My family was there 
Where it was dark and damp
And they called it an internment camp

”When we first got back from camp, it was pretty bad”
“I remember my husband said, ‘Oh, we're going to stay ‘till last.' Then my husband died before they closed the camp”


A) I choose this song because when I saw the lyrics, I reflex about the imigrants and I think it is a delicated theme now on days.

B) This song change my position about inmigrants, and make me think about the people out there that are sufering about inmigration that in some cases is ilegal.

C) Every time I listen this song, I think about all the inmigrators that daily are trying to pass from Cuba to the USA.

D) I do not have any relation with this song, but its trying to say a story about someone that inmigrate from Japan and they were discriminated.

Allowin women take part in combat

1) The text main idea is about women to take place in combat so they have the oportunity to get jobs in the military.

2) The text is in favor to my motion

3) Some elements are the quotes presented by soldiers or important military persons, some extracts from other text, news reports, etc

4) Formal lenguage and gave points of view that are based on opinions and facts.

5) I think I would use this text to my debate, because as my posture in the debate is in favor and this text its in favor.

1.- Do you think it was worth to learn English?

2.- It was difficult to learn it?

3.- How do you see English now on this days?

4.- How did English help you in your life?

5.- On a scale between 1 to 10, how much do you think the quality of your English is?

6.- Do you think now on this days it is necesary to learn English? Why?

7.- What can you say about the variety of English in the world? Example: UK English, Australian, American, etc

8.- If someone start a conversation in English, do you think you could handle it?

9.- Tell me some benefits about learn another lenguage?

10.- Do you think that schools in Chile may focus in learning English than other language?

Social groups

In the school, there are a lot of different social groups, a lot of variation. Eventually, this social groups are like a common thing in our school and I think in many schools in Chile and in the entire world. This socials groups are like a tradition that it has been maintained during the time.

This socials groups have advantages and disadvantage. An advantage is that as there are a lot of variation, you could easily join or feel comfortable with one group in specific. A big disadvantage of this socials groups are that people does not socialize to much with oder people.

Personal Appreciations

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD) is a several disease that affect all people that leaved a traumatic act. A good example of the PSTD are all the veterans of the seals, navy, etc. They were exposed to a lot of traumatic situations. A nice example that goes to my mind is the dog that acts in the movie "MAX". The dog work to the military when the owner of the dog was killed. The dog suffers a PSTD situation that makes the dog get out if the field.

Review

          Do you think that post traumatic stress disorder can affect animals? if you had ever seen the movie called "Max", you could easily answer the question.

          The movie Max is about a dog that work in the military searching bombs, scouting, finding fugitives, narcos, etc. Every dog that work in the military, have to be ryzed only by one person so this dog only answer the orders of his owner. Kyle was the owner of Max. At the beginning of the movie, Kyle was scouting in a city of Afghanistan when Max stop scouting. This movement is signal that is something that bother Max and can affect the human group. Immediately a terrorist trigger a bomb and then the terrorist kill Kyle. Next day, Max was going to be scarified, because he was diagnostic whit post traumatic stress disorder, and he does not answer to any order they gave to him. Is in this moment when Kyle`s family adopt Max. At the beginning, the dog does not care about what the owners order to do, Max was sat down doing nothing. Kyle`s brother was the only one that could interact with the dog. during the movie, the brother, discovered that the best friend of Kyle was selling guns brought of Afghanistan to the mafia. The father notice about this and as a consecuence he was kidnap. Max and Kyle`s brother go in search of his father. When they found the father, there was a fight and Kyle`s best friend was killed.

          In my opinion, does not have the best edition and actors, but the script was incredible. The movie was rated 6.8 out of 10, this rate does not say anything, because the movie is more reflexive than enjoyable. Max actuation was awesome, I don't know how the directors do to control the dog during the actuation. I recommend this movie to watch it in family, because have a lot of thing to reflex.

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