For help with the special problems of ESL writers, see pages397-416 of A Writer's Guidebook.

NOTE: Cutting, pasting, and adding or deleting text may cause awkward line breaks which you can correct by backspacing. Exercise 40 Editing for ESL problems Edit the following essay to correct any errors in the use of articles, verbs, prepositions, or other problem areas. In December 7, 1941, the American naval base of Pearl Harbor at Hawaii was bomb by Japanese war planes. Following this action, the United States decided entering the World War II. American troops were send to Europe and Pacific. United States and its allies were fight all of Axis powers, including Germany, Italy, and Japan. German Americans, Italian Americans, and Japanese Americans readily agreed fighting for the United States. But in home in the United States, Japanese American citizens were treat differently from other Americans. Were two reasons for this difference. Japan, unlike Germany or Italy, had dare to attack the United States. But hysterical reaction to Japanese and Japanese American presence in the West Coast was cause by more than anger over Pearl Harbor. Japanese could be identify as a separate race, and was easy to pick out them in a crowd. If they would have looked European, they might not have been singled out. But racism added to American hostility and fed the anti-Japanese hysteria. Therefore, seventy-four days after bombing of Pearl Harbor, the President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a order to relocate large population of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans from the West Coast of United States. Families were force to sell their property quickly, so they did not got the good prices for their possessions. Japanese and Japanese Americans must to leave their jobs and homes. Those who close up their houses they later found them vandalized. If a Japanese or Japanese American on the West Coast could not relocated or joined military, he or she is imprisoned in an internment camp. These internment camps were suppose to be for the protection of the Japanese, but it is interested to notice that in Hawaii, where were many Japanese and Japanese Americans, and east of Mississippi River, where were very few, they were not require to go to camps. In all, the U.S. government made over 110,000 people, including the 70,000 U.S. citizens, to go to the camps in deserting locations. Many internees were keep on the camps for over two years and treated like prisoners of war. After the World War II had end, these people were often ashame of their imprisonment. If they return in their old neighborhoods, they did not discussed their absence. Finally, a few internees who were willing to speak about the camps up made the injustice to be widely known. At last, in 1988, U.S. government apologize for a treatment of loyal Japanese and Japanese Americans in the 1940s.   Please fill out the fields below to ensure correct delivery of your exercise. You will receive a confirmation notice. Your e-mail address Your instructor's e-mail address Your name CAUTION: If you check your answers and go back to this page using the links on the answer key, your changes will be gone. Use the back button on your browser to keep the changes intact. E-mail exercise to instructor Student answer key for this exercise (even-numbered answers only) Instructor answer key for this exercise (password protected)

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