{"id":25921,"date":"2023-08-05T22:29:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T22:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/i-want-you-to-pretend-to-be-one-of-the-following-individuals-be-as-informative-and-historical-as-possible-use-your-imagination-to-become-the-person-you-choose-think-about-the-time-period-and-all-th\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T22:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T22:29:13","slug":"i-want-you-to-pretend-to-be-one-of-the-following-individuals-be-as-informative-and-historical-as-possible-use-your-imagination-to-become-the-person-you-choose-think-about-the-time-period-and-all-th","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/i-want-you-to-pretend-to-be-one-of-the-following-individuals-be-as-informative-and-historical-as-possible-use-your-imagination-to-become-the-person-you-choose-think-about-the-time-period-and-all-th\/","title":{"rendered":"I want you to pretend to be one of the following individuals. Be as informative and historical as possible. Use your imagination to become the person you choose. Think about the time period and all the historical events that impacted your life."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">You are an African American male, and you have just enlisted in the Army as the US has just declared war on the Japanese Empire after Pearl Harbor. Why have you enlisted to fight for a nation that considers you second class, that treats you as inferior and, in the South, you have been killed and lynched for decades for any violation of an apartheid called Jim Crow? What do you hope to accomplish by fighting this war? Do you believe you will be treated as an equal if you volunteer and prove yourself? How were you treated in the Army? As an equal to white soldiers? War is over, and you now come home to what? A better life?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are an African American male, and you have just enlisted in the Army as the US has just declared war on the Japanese Empire after Pearl Harbor. Why have you enlisted to fight for a nation that considers you second class, that treats you as inferior and, in the South, you have been killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[524],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=25921"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=25921"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=25921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}