Sentences with phrase «in internment»

Even his time incarcerated in an internment camp was not without its rewards and pleasures.

The show's title refers to a fragment written by Isamu Noguchi in a letter addressed to Man Ray in which he shares his frustration of being held captive in an internment camp in Poston, Arizona.

She began to make art in earnest while living in internment camps in California and Arkansas, in 1942 - 43; she received pointers from several fellow - detainees, who were animators at Walt Disney.

Born in rural California, Asawa began to make art while detained in internment camps for Japanese Americans at Santa Anita, California, and Rohwer, Arkansas, where she was sent with her family in 1942 - 1943.

Her family was detained in internment camps during World War II, and throughout her life she was hindered by being Japanese - American and a woman.

Schwitters had an early escape, however on arrival to Britain we hardly shook his hand, instead we offered him refuge in return for 16 months in an internment camp; nevertheless this pushed Schwitters to create small scale sculptures that could be transported.

Ruth Asawa, an artist who learned to draw in an internment camp for Japanese - Americans during World War II and later earned renown weaving wire into intricate, flowing, fanciful abstract sculptures, died on Aug. 6 at her home in San Francisco, where many of her works now dot the cityscape.

After the treatment of Chinese railworkers and the placement of Japanese - Americans in internment camps, don't we owe it to that population to render them on the virtual battlefield?

In less than a week, Cathy Erickson's textile exhibit, What Remains: Japanese Americans in Internment Camps closes.

The Gila News - Courier also addressed some of the darker issues of life in the internment camps.

Life in the internment camps was difficult, and little privacy existed.

After Pearl Harbor, Nina Masako and her family are uprooted from their home in Seattle and placed in an internment camp in Idaho.

Baseball Saved Us takes place in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII.

He's an interesting guy, he seems to be equating being closeted with his growing up in an internment camp during World War II and with racial segregation.

Polish writer - director Pawel Pawlikowski pulls the viewer right into the anxiety - drowned heart of a young, naive Russian immigrant in «Last Resort,» a visceral, intimate drama that takes place in an internment camp for political refugees...

In that alternate future, the giant robotic Sentinels have become the de facto rulers of the United States, where mutants are hunted down and placed in internment camps.

Not exact matches

Affirmative action opened the door to higher education for the pan-Asian community in the aftermath of the Chinese Exclusion Act — which was in force from 1882 to 1943 — and Japanese American internment during World War II, at a time when systemic racism barred our grandparents and parents from accessing a better life for themselves.

But over the last few years (since 2008), I think there's been a pretty dramatic growth in what we'd call Tea Party politics in that set — extreme conservatism that goes beyond hands off fiscal and regulatory policy, the kind of feverish mindset in which you could write with a straight face that progressives might be building toward some sort of mass wealth confiscation or internment or even extermination for the likes of Tom Perkins.

And these books don't serve up blind patriotism nor are they revisionist in scope — the stories put a human face on some of our most tragic moments and failures as a nation like Japanese internment, the plight of home children, residential schools, flu epidemics, wars, child labour, the Halifax explosion, the Acadian expulsion, and so on.

If we had given the industrial Barron's more tax breaks and less regulation and removed OSHA or removed minimum wage laws we would be living in far worse financial internment camps always owing far more to the Company than we can ever repay just to survive which is what the end result of unbridled capitalism leads.

For quite some time, Thomas stood almost alone in left and progressive circles in the United States in expressing outrage at the internment of Japanese Americans at home.

The others were his two - year stint at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and his internment in a Nazi prison camp («If this is Upper Silesia, one wonders what Lower Silesia must be like»).

Justice Antonin Scalia declares in Stenberg v. Carhart that he is «optimistic enough to believe» that the decision constitutionally protecting partial «birth abortion will «one day... be assigned its rightful place in the history of this Court's jurisprudence beside Korematsu [validating internment of Japanese «Americans during World War II] and Dred Scott [holding white supremacy and racial slavery as fundamental tenets of American constitutionalism].»

Justice Scalia is hoping that one day we will be as removed from the abortion controversy as we are today removed from past controversies over slavery and the internment of Japanese «Americans, and that this distance will be the consequence of having clearly and definitively rejected the injustice in question.

The internment and relocation of 110,000 Japanese on the Pacific Coast during the Second World War, not for any acts of disloyalty but simply through a suspicion based on racial identification, was less virulent in its effect than the Nazi destruction of the Jews but equally irrational.

If this is a building of the God of Jonah and the God of Jesus Christ, whose priorities, strange though they may seem to us, are crystal clear, it follows that there must be a special place in this building for those who bring to it the experience of a reservation, the experience of an internment camp, the experience of a ghetto, the experience of a barrio, the experience of being last, and forgotten, and persecuted.

A requiem mass for her will take place this Saturday at the Griffith Sacred Heart Catholic Church in New South Wales, followed by internment in the Griffith Cemetery.

They were experienced in Interned living from their previous internment in World War I (which lasted until the late 1920s), and established a School and a Kindergarten, and established work routines to prevent depression in the camp.

I had a chance to meet Robin Koda, one of the two owners of California's oldest family owned rice farm and was excited to tell her how much I appreciated her for sharing her family's story on NBC of settling in California, enduring internment camps, and carrying on their family business.

Tomooka recalls driving in the winning runs for Guadalupe in a game against a visiting internment camp team from Heart Mountain, Wyo. «My dad used to talk about that game for years after the war,» Tomooka says.

Later that year they were moved to the internment camp in Butte, Ariz., where they lived until the war was over.

On the other hand, a couple of politicians have referred approvingly to internment recently, and conservative writer Michelle Malkin wrote In Defense of Iinternment recently, and conservative writer Michelle Malkin wrote In Defense of InternmentInternment.

I tried searching for opinion polling on internment, as I know opinion polls are still held about the US's atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I only found information about opinion polling performed at the time internment was in place.

Going to the full results, amongst Republicans in general, 28 % support internment, 49 % oppose, and 23 % are unsure.

(Anything since 9/11 probably qualifies as current - day sentiment) Also, is approval of internment more common in conservatives and older people?

How widespread nowadays is sentiment in approval of WWII internment?

I'm aware that the federal US government apologised to and compensated Japanese - Americans who were interned or their descendants, and that there's a play currently in broadway about internment.

When some claimed that the policy of internment, as practiced in Northern Ireland, should perhaps be revisited for jihadists, the backlash was not as strong or as vocal as it should have been.

The Democratic mayor had cited Japanese internment camps in a letter opposing the resettlement of Syrian refugees.

«The internment of people of Japanese descent is a dark cloud on our nation's history and to suggest that it is anything but a horrible moment in our past is outrageous,» said Josh Schwerin, a Clinton campaign spokesman.

Some years ago, Arthur Koestler remembered his arrival in the UK in 1940 after months of imprisonment in Spanish prisons and French internment camps.

In referencing actions taken by FDR to limit the immigration of Germans, Italians, and Japanese, he opened himself up to a connection to the Japanese internment.

Citing his experience of internment in Northern Ireland, as a serving soldier, he highlighted the danger of alienating populations needed for intelligence gathering.

«In Ireland the British Army is responsible for the use of lethal force, shoot - to - kill, the use of rubber and plastic bullets, collusion, internment and torture — all with official impunity.»

WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Martin Meadows, Professor and Philippines internment camp survivor during WWII.

Like the story of Harvey Itano, a Japanese - American chemist who faced hardships in WWII internment camps in California.

In the movie, Shrek — voiced with a dram of Scottish attitude by Mike Myers — hits the road because he can't stand the internment camp that's been set up in his swamp: It's populated by fairy - tale creatures who have been rounded up by despotic Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow, a hootIn the movie, Shrek — voiced with a dram of Scottish attitude by Mike Myers — hits the road because he can't stand the internment camp that's been set up in his swamp: It's populated by fairy - tale creatures who have been rounded up by despotic Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow, a hootin his swamp: It's populated by fairy - tale creatures who have been rounded up by despotic Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow, a hoot).

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

(In English and French with subtitles) MIS — Human Secret Weapon (Unrated) World War II documentary belatedly crediting the contributions made by patriotic Japanese - Americans translating intercepted messages and cracking enemy codes, despite the fact that their families were caged like animals in desert internment campIn English and French with subtitles) MIS — Human Secret Weapon (Unrated) World War II documentary belatedly crediting the contributions made by patriotic Japanese - Americans translating intercepted messages and cracking enemy codes, despite the fact that their families were caged like animals in desert internment campin desert internment camps.

Alas, it appears as though Beresford's personal investment in the film and dedication to relating as much of the hardships and horrors of internment in the blazing tropical heat has resulted in a film that is unfocused and sprawling while simultaneously suffering from a terminal predictability and odd disconnection.