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Executive Order 9056 By Dwight Okita

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Executive Order 9066 was an executive order presented and signed during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to authorize certain areas as military zones, allowing and assisting the deportation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. In Executive Order 9066, Franklin Roosevelt speaks with a significant appeal to logic and reason, while "Mericans" is more appealing to the senses and to emotion. Dwight Okita addresses the topics presented in Executive Order 9066 and demonstrates how it effected the Japanese-American's lives, while Sandra Cisneros thoroughly recollects a period of significance in her life. Both of these literary texts address problems with different cultures in society

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