The war that raged in Korea between 1950 and 1953 did not begin as a huge international conflict during the Cold War, but would eventually become that once the United States and other countries decided to get involved in the Korean Civil War (Office of the Historian). Korea, throughout its history, was owned by other countries. From 1910 until the end of World War II, Japan had control and influence of Korea as a whole. Because Japan was on the losing side of World War II, the future of Korea was in the hands of the Allies (Great Britain, Russia, and the United States were the major three). It was decided that with the surrender of the Japanese in Korea, the Soviet Union would accept the surrender above the 38th Parallel (a latitudinal line that crosses through Korea), while the United States would accept below the 38th Parallel.…
People never seem to acknowledge that Asian Empires through the 16th-19th century were very different. Although they did have their commonalities, we can see how Japan, China, and Korea were very different both politically and socially. Asian Empires were more different than similar because of things such as their social mobility and structure of administration. These Asian Empires had many things in different politically but they also had their things in common.…
On September 7, 1907, discrimination towards the Japanese escalated. A mob of 9000 went into "Japantown" and began to destroy the Japanese community but fortunately, they did not get…
Madisyn Crane :) :) The Causes of Violence Depression, bad parenting, and media are causes of violence. These causes of violence are very common. Some people say “violence is not the answer” this saying is very true.…
Lost Names by Richard Kim Richard Kim’s short story “Lost Names”, is a historical fiction piece taking place in 1940, in the midst of Japan’s imperial occupation of Korea during World War II. The story follows a young boy’s daily routine, until he is interrupted to undergo an infamous ritual imposed upon colonized Koreans by the Japanese—the replacement of their native names with Japanese names. The boy is trying to understand the bleakness of his surroundings and avoid the pain of being privileged compared to his peers (his father is denoted as a “rich man”). Themes of honor, shame, identity, race, and family are present throughout. The story focuses around the practice of renaming Koreans.…
The Bee’s Knees: Brutality and Mercy Ross Gay’s “Some Thoughts On Mercy” is an essay written and published in 2013 about himself and the black minority he is apart of in the United States. Gay writes about his story of being pulled over by the police, and then continues to talk about his experience growing up and living in predominantly white cities in the United States, and henceforth being treated as criminal because of his race. Gay also touches on police brutality of the black minority in the United States, of how most are scared and apprehensive of the police force because of how they have treated the minority historically. In his essay, Gay uses the metaphor “bees” in two ways, one representing the police, to demonstrate how the minority feels about the police, but…
While Malcolm wants to take a little break to weep for his father’s death, Macduff wants to avenge his father’s death showing the vicious cycle of violence in this story and how it never gets resolved it just gets transferred. This quote is basically a foreshadowing of Macbeth’s death and sense he killed Duncan he has now changed his faith and instead of becoming king he is now going to die just like his father and Duncan allowing the cycle to strive. This can be interpreted in our modern society and how we react to violence such attacks like pearl harbor or 9/11, people who attack our loves ones and we barley give time to for grief we just attack and create a bigger attack with the Hiroshima attack and thousands of people dieing in afagnistan…
many derogatory words were used against them and everything that came out of the white people were negative opinions and slurs that went strongly to the Japanese and Japanese-American mostly towards to the Japanese immigrants because they thought the Japanese came here to take away jobs and spy on them and the label of being a spy for the Japanese government was a strong opinion and that one statement ruined the image of all Japanese and of Japanese decent. “there were many stores that would put up racist posters saying jap traps and we do not serve japs” this is a perfect example in which discrimination was in use they were treated as if they were disloyal to there country. Robert fuchigami mentions how when they would say the pledge of allegiance they would shout out the phrase “justice for all” because they clearly wanted to state that they are people too and also that they deserve equal protection of the law. it was a pain for them because when they were given food they would give them for example “liver and onions” but Robert fuchigami mentioned that you either you eat or go hungry because there is no other way of surviving. many…
Transitioning from school to work is challenging and overwhelming for most new nursing graduates, as they learn unfamiliar tasks and responsibilities while still trying to incorporate themselves into the healthcare setting (Shipman,2014) and also brings significant responsibility (Mellor & Greenhill, ,2014,p.62). Saghafi, Hardy, and Hillege (2012,p.21) state that as new graduate nurses go in the workplace, they are confronted with many challenges and demands, such as criticism, reality shock, unsupportive work environment , and they are expected to reach prescribed milestones within a very short period of time , for instance, developing confidence and competence in clinical skill and establishing oneself as a part of a healthcare team. There…
Freedom is a word that lots of people desire. Freedom is not only meant physically free, it also points to the freedom of the soul. It seems like we are always restricted by something: unlimited homework, family, even children in the future. As the result, we should be more independent. I cannot say that freedom has the necessary relationship with independent, but somehow, we can link them together.…
War stories often graphically describe violent events to immerse the reader in the action of the actual fight. Despite this, there is always an underlying reason as to why the author uses that scene in particular. Those brutal incidents that make it to the pages of the book are significant to the message that the writer wishes to present to the reader. This violence is not always limited to battles. One particularly vicious scene in The Things They Carried is when Curt Lemon is killed and in retaliation, Rat Kiley, his best friend, viciously kills a baby water buffalo (75-76).…
With the way society is changing nowadays, it breeds fear to everyone knowing that anything can happen at any time. Since the media reports incidents of acts of terror more often nowadays due to the frequency of these incidents happening, some people have gotten immune to the happenings by not getting concerned like they used to because they always hear about it on television or read about it on the Internet. Three other reasons why people become immune to these acts is because they’re not affected by them, they might not have witnessed or experienced them, and they might not have lost people who are close to them from the attacks. Tragic events such as mass killings and hate crimes against race and gender have greatly increased over the years although society thinks that even if tragic events affect the immunity of the people, positive reactions still come from the people.…
The theme to me was too much violence takes away innocence. That the little white bear was a symbol of innocence. When the boy push the other boy on the ground and was bulling him. The two boys messing with the homeless guy was another sign violence. Seeing all that violence can take away your innocence.…
Kim Ji-hae was forced to change her name into Min-young,…
Kim Yu-jong’s “The white rabbit” and Park Won-so’s “Mother’s hitching post” were written in different historical backgrounds; “The white rabbit” has a setting of Japanese colonial period and “Mother’s hitching post” has a setting of the Korean war. However, the two stories express one common theme, which is the pain of Koreans. In his story, “The white rabbit”, Kim Yu-jong describes the pain of Koreans who felt powerless due to their loss of nationality under Japan’s colonization. In Park Won-so’s story “Mother’s hitching post”, she portrays the pain of Koreans who had confusion of national identity and trauma of losing family regarding the division of the country.…