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    Internally Displaced Person

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    „internally displaced persons.‟ In the real world, they are civilians, mostly women and children, who have been forced to abandon their homes because of conflict or persecution to seek safety elsewhere. The idea and the phenomenon of internal displacement are not recent. According to United Nations Office for the Coordination

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    Displaced Persons The Holocaust was a tragic event that occurred during World War II. This was when Hitler took power over Germany. Those who Hitler saw as inferior, or those whom he sought not perfect, were used as Germany’s slaves. He made them work very hard, and gave them very little. These people barely got food. They were all to die after they were found to have no use. Many people were taken away from their family. Many people didn’t have any living family after the Holocaust. They were labeled

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    Andrew Smith said, “People fear what they don’t understand and hate what they can’t conquer.” This quote is the topic of The Displaced Person by Flannery O’Connor. The story is about a Pole who moves to America and works on Mrs. McIntyre’s land, but people hate him because he doesn’t fit in. At the end, he is killed by Mr. Shortley. I believe that Mr. Guizac is a mockingbird because he has lived a hard life in Poland, he is misunderstood and killed, and he works hard through all of these struggles

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    When it comes to a film the director tells or Envision the story how they wanted to go. In the film the displaced person Glenn Jordan directed the film how he saw the characters, the pacing of the story, and the tone. Jordan did add his own vision to Flannery O’Connor’s story but, by changing some of the elements of the story he made the story stand out more. ` In the Story, The Displaced Person, after World War 2 The Guizacs family arrive at the farm of Mrs. McIntyre, who is a widow, fleeing Poland

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    meaning the most commonly accepted approach to teaching children about American culture is problematic (32). 2. Mrs. Shortly and Amalia functions as examples of females who invert the power structure in the short stories Bloodline and The Displaced Person. 3. Mr. Guiziac shows his sense of responsibility through his dedication to his family; working to rescue his cousin from Poland. 4. I was told that my window was broken by my neighbor. 5. According to Mark Williams, The debate over English-only

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    Displaced Person Camps

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    did work really make them free? Displaced person camps were an attempt to heal displaced people, but it lacked the resources and support they needed. World War II left a deep scratch on many displaced people. So, they resorted to camps and tried to escape to Palestine. The attempts to rebuild society were not as easy as the world thought it would be. Post World War II, survivors attempted to start a new life. According to Dictionary.com, a displaced person is “a person driven or expelled

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    The world is experiencing it’s “worst refugee crisis since World War II” (The Worst Crisis You’ve Never Heard Of). Refugees, along with having to leave their possessions and family behind in their usually war-torn or violent country, face many additional issues that are cause for the concern. Despite the United Nations’ best efforts, refugee camps are not equipped with the sufficient amount of food, medical care, and shelter for the thousands of people that pour into them everyday. With that in

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    Since Indochinese refugees started arriving in the United Sates, the main concern have been voiced about consequences of the war and their experiences on their mental health. There haven’t been any studies that examined the complex relationships between psychological traumatic experiences and depression among Vietnamese Americans. Studies on the mental health status of people after traumatic experiences in war, Nazi concentration camps, and natural disasters found that traumatic social and natural

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    The number of environmentally displaced people is growing and it’s important for individuals to be informed of the topic and what all it entails. A study published by Economic & Political Weekly, in 2009, approximates 24 million displaced people due to climate change and environmental situations. (Economic & Political Weekly, 2009) That number was estimated to grow to 50 million by 2010, and exceeding 150 million by 2050. (Economic & Political Weekly, 2009) The world has to be informed of what

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    occurred, spurring on international discussions about displaced people. This migration of displaced people caused the first refugee legislation by the United States in 1948, The Displaced Person Act of 1948. This act helped admit displaced person fleeing from Europe (Klein 2011). The 1951 convention on the Status of Refugees created an international definition and legal status for refugees, holding nation states’ accountability for displaced people (Enekwe 2013). Most scholars when referencing

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