“Peace By Piece”
Participant Questionnaire
(Please attach jpeg picture of your face when you send the answer)
Q1. Name:
Q2. Age:
Q3. Where are you from?
Q4. When did you come to New York?
Q5. Were you in New York when 9-11 happened?
Q6. Where in New York were you?
Q7.In the time of your elementary school to high school, what do you remember in learning about Hiroshima and the atomic bombing?
Q8. How did your teachers/educators teach about Hiroshima and the atomic bombing then? In what way? Good, bad, sad, or fact of the history?
Q9. In your class then, what was the reason for dropping the atomic Bomb?
Q10. How did you feel about the atomic bombing, then?
Q11. Did you see any movies?
Q12. If yes, what was your reaction?
Q13. Did you ever seek more information to learn about the atomic bombing on your own outside of the school?
If yes, did that change your opinion about the use of the atomic bombing?
Q14. Did “The art of Insider and Outsider Art” class inform you more about the atomic bombing?
Q15. Are you interested in learning more about the atomic bombing or Peace Issues?
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Some of you haven’t done Barefoot Gen response, please take your time now to answer these questions.
1. How do you feel about Gen and his family in relation to what's happening in the world and the current war now?
2. Do you see yourself reflected in this story, "Barefoot Gen"?
3. Which part gave you the strongest impression?
4. How do you see father, Nakaoka's (Gen's father) stance to the society, war, and peace?
5. Do you still feel you will let your child go to war if he/she wanted to go?
6. Do you think about the possibility of America dropping another bomb and what is your stance to that?
7. Do you think praying or wishing for peace is unrealistic?
8. Do you care, given the situation with the way media obscure the truth?
9. Can you strongly disagree with the use of atomic bomb?
10 Can you believe in peace (here I mean the stance that was modeled by Nakaoka's family)?
11. Do you think every one of us can affect the nuclear usage if you believe in not using it?