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Japanese internment during WWII: Reaction of various subsets within this ethnic group

  After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, 110,000 people of Japanese descent were rounded up and placed in 1 of 10 internment camps.   The reaction to being stripped of freedom and placed behind barbed wire with armed guards varied among the internees. Author Lauren Kesler (Kesler, 1988) looked at the camps through the eyes of the newspapers that were published within the camps. She identifies three types of internees known as Issei, Nisei , and Kilbei .   Issei were Japanese born immigrants who lived and worked in the United States. They had often built successful businesses, owned homes, and had great respect in the community but had been denied citizenship. Because they were born in Japan, after the bombing they were considered enemies of the state.   Remarkably, they were quick to capitulate and try to prove their loyalty to America by accepting the internment with the least amount of resistance. They had the idea that if they could prove their loyalty, the War Locat
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You have heard of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice-What about Pro-Abortion?

 While reading Valerie Tarico's article "Why I am Pro-Abortion, not just Pro-Choice" (Tarico, 2016) I was terribly shaken by the indifference with which Ms. Tarico talks about the human embryo as if it is something that is just merely an inconvenience to be destroyed at a whim.  Her article title is not an accident, it is exactly what she means as she fleshes out her thoughts in a torrent of words based in secular humanism. Ms. Tarico goes through ten reasons that she takes this position and in the next few paragraphs I will endeavor to refute a few of her arguments.   The first point she makes is that being able to control fertility is key to "female empowerment and equality" and she states "Think of any girl you know who imagines becoming a professional woman. She won't get there unless she has effective, reliable means of managing fertility."  Women do get pregnant outside of the "ideal" timing, but to emphatically state that deciding
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