you’re not Chinese.” As the only Korean in local Chinese school‚ I always had restricted chances to participate in different events. On the one day‚ the teacher told me that I’m not eligible to go to the Marching Band competition because the school has never sent any foreigner to the competition. On the other day‚ the teacher told me that I cannot take part in the class election since it represented being a part of Chinese communist party. Used to be the only Korean in the place‚ I quickly realized
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CLAUSEWITZ‚ ON WAR NOTES BOOK 1‚ CHAPTER 1 – WHAT IS WAR? 1-INTRODUCTION: When considering the each individual part of war‚ its relation to war as an entirety must also be kept in view 2-DEFINITION: ‘War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.’ Metaphor of two wrestlers: ‘Each strives by physical force to compel the other to submit to his will: each endeavours to throw his adversary‚ and thus render him incapable of further resistance.’ ‘War therefore is an act of violence intended to
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defeated. Why U.S. and USSR didn’t come to help Korea until Japan went away? Why did Korea became so important to China‚ US and USSR that they came all the way to Korea when there was Korean War? Was it just to help Korea or was there any other reason? Was Korean War just a civil war between North and South‚ or was it a war between communist and democracy? U.S. and Soviet decided to help Korea to grow like a trusteeship. They had promise in August 15‚ 1945 in these circumstances: 1. They will divide
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Topic: How the Cold War began‚ ended‚ and Canada’s involvement in the Cold War. In October 1962‚ U.S. planes spotted that the USSR was installing nuclear missile bases in Cuba. These images showed that the threat of a nuclear war could be coming true‚ and the United States would be vulnerable to get attacked within minutes. The world sank into panic until the Soviet Premier agreed to dismantle the missiles. How close it was the whole world could have been set on fire and destroyed! The ideological
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The Vietnam War was not short of its share of controversies and opposition; However‚ March 16‚ 1968 marked a particularly dark moment for both Vietnam and the U.S. military. The barbaric torture‚ rape‚ and murder of around 400 unarmed civilians by Charlie Company in ‘Pinkville’‚ though initially covered up‚ left an extensive paper trail gathered at length and compiled by James S. Olson and Randy Roberts in My Lai: A Brief History with Documents. Olson and Roberts include testimonies from the tardy
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War is a fact of life. As long as there are humans‚ there will be war. In past times‚ for a man to go to war‚ it was viewed as romantic and heroic. But‚ these ideas have faded and vanished throughout the course of the 20th century. War can be horrific‚ like a bad nightmare‚ and can easily break the human spirit‚ which is not a t all fragile. In his novel‚ "The Wars"‚ Timothy Findley develops the idea that war‚ in and of itself‚ is meaningless‚ unjustified‚ and irrational. PART I "The Wars" is
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No one goes to war thinking they will be the one captured and tortured by the enemy. As Canadian troops sailed to Europe to join in the fighting of World War Two‚ they more likely had nightmares about dying tragically‚ or suffering for days. No one really worried about being captured because war was associated with fighting‚ guns‚ winning and losing. A rude awakening came to those captured and taken to the many different concentration camps. Canadian POW’s endured very unfortunate experiences in
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Korea’s weather includes cold winters‚ warm summers and drawn out falls. Though the area is split the food selection is pretty much the same in both areas. For Americans there are rules that should be followed at a dining table called etiquette. Koreans have their own set of rules that are a little stricter than those of America. Some of the mannerisms are pretty much like common sense but some of the customs are not considered here in America. If you are having a meal with an elderly person you
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Movie 1: Arirang The documentary has two parts‚ "The Korean American Journey‚" which covers the community’s history from 1903 to about 1960‚ and "The Korean American Dream‚" which continues the story through the present. The film begins the story of how and why‚ in less than three years in the early 1900s‚ more than 7‚000 Koreans left their strife-torn homeland for new lives on the sugar plantations of Hawaii. The film is more than just another tale of a people immigrating to America and finding
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“Home is a Place to Rest”: Constructing the Meaning of Work‚ Family and Gender in the Korean Middle Class* Yi Eunhee Kim I. Introduction Feminist scholarship since the eighties (e.g. Yanagisako 1979; Yanagisako and Collier 1987; Rapp 1987; Scott 1988; Yi E. K. 1986; Ginsburg and Tsing 1990; Peletz 1994; 1995; Thorne 1992; Weston 1990) has widely criticized the conceptual oppositions of family and work‚ production and reproduction‚ domestic and public‚ as long used in Western social science.
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