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Photography: Composition and Value |
Photographic Documentaries | Newspapers
and Racial Representations During World War II | Persuasive
Writing: Roy Takeno's 1944 New Year's Day Editorial | Writing:
Detail
Persuasive Writing:
Roy Takeno's 1944 New Years's Day Editorial
Adams devotes two pages of Born Free and Equal to quoting an
entire editorial
from the Manzanar Free Press. Written by Roy Takeno for the 1944
New Year's Day edition, it provides an opportunity to examine an example
of persuasive writing and to analyze the writer's techniques. He begins:
Greetings to you for a Victorious New Year, people
of America; from your kindred 50,000 citizens inside barbed
wire fences. We send you greetings, we who have been lodged
by circumstances of war inside these Relocation Centers in
the deserts of the West.
- Why do you think that Takeno chose to write his editorial for New Year's
Day?
- Why do you think that he titled it "A Victorious New Year to You—America"?
Does this title express the message of his editorial?
- What are the main points that Takeno makes in his editorial?
- How does Takeno identify himself and the people for whom he is speaking?
- How does he identify his audience?
- How would you describe the tone with which Takeno addresses his audience? What kinds of responses do you think he was attempting to get from his audience?
- How does Takeno refer to the evacuation of Japanese Americans and the causes of evacuation throughout his editorial?
- What do you think Takeno hoped to accomplish through his editorial?
- What techniques did he use to accomplish his goals?
- Do you think that Takeno's editorial was effective? Why or why not?
Photography: Composition and Value |
Photographic Documentaries | Newspapers
and Racial Representations During World War II | Persuasive
Writing: Roy Takeno's 1944 New Year's Day Editorial | Writing:
Detail |
