... with particular physical and material characteristics (Bronfenbrenner, 1979). The interactions of an individual in the immediate environment of the Home, Neighborhood, School and Church, are key areas of focus. The immediate environment of the family is one that has crucial influence of the development of a child, because it can either facilitate or impede the process. As Lerner notes "the family is the major Microsystem for infant development in our society ... , her relationship with her Mom at home was influenced by the Mom's interactions in the neighborhood. The incidents in specific...

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... of Japanese Canadians were law abiding." (Granastein and Johnson 105) But regardless of fear, Canada nor the rest of their allies, had not a clue what was to happen five months later at the United States military base, Pearl Harbor. Both articles look at Pearl Harbor as "the straw that broke the camel's back" but, Granastein and Johnson's article looks at it from a different perspective than ... 111) and "most first-generation Japanese in Hawaii remained loyal to Japan." (Granastein and Johnson 111) Further on in the paragraph Granastein and Johnson conclude that: Nakano's book demonstr...

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... demagogues like Father Charles Coughlin and Senator Huey Long, the rise of organized labor, the origins of Social Security, the "Constitutional Revolution" of 1937, the origins of WWII, the Pearl Harbor attack, the emergence of the American-British-Russian "Grand Alliance," the internment of Japanese-Americans in wartime, the American society in wartime, the Second Front debate, the liabilities of the "unconditional surrender" policy, the nature of the air war waged against Germany and Japan ... and employers, for corporations and farms and homeowners and bankers as well." The historian...

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