After reading the memoir, Our Land Was A Forest: An Ainu Memoir, write an essay to explain how the experience of Kayano helps you better understand how historical changes in modern Japan affected lives of the Ainu people and how the Ainu people tried to overcome the challenges. The essay should NOT be a simple summary of the memoir. Instead, you should have a central argument. You are encouraged to use other course materials to support your argument, such as Cohen and other readings available in D2L.
Requirement:
• You need to read the entire memoir before writing the essay.
• The essay should be based on your original ideas. No plagiarism will be tolerated.
• Your essay should have a central argument.
• Font: Times New Roman, size 12.
• Length: double space, 4 pages.
• Citation: Use whatever citation style that works for you. But make sure the page numbers, authors, and sources are clearly listed.
• Footnote only. No endnote.
• No paragraph should be longer than 3/4 of a page.
• No sentence should be longer than 4 lines.
• Each paragraph should have a topic sentence.