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If they don't know by now, US horse players need to come to the realization that horse racing in Australia and Europe is among some of the best horse racing in the world. While a great majority of the racing takes place on turf, these countries have time and again produced some of the best race horses in the world. As a racing fan, you may ask why the US doesn't see more Australian imports coming into the US for major races. There are two viable reasons for this phenomenon. First, the Southern…

Barbara Demick interviewed defectors from Chongjin, North Korea in her book “Noth ing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.” She wanted to get an idea of what real life is like in North Korea. She chose an array of defectors from different factions. She told their stories in a novel format instead of having to read their individual interviews. She chose six main people and really dug into their every day life, their thoughts and feelings on what was going on around them. I think she chose a…

In the article entitled “We grow as we learn: Youth indoctrination in North Korea”, Niki O’Brien talks about how indoctrination of future generations is embedded at a young age in education, music, and everyday life in North Korea. O’Brien mentioned how education is a huge and very vital factor in contributing in an effective systematic indoctrination. In school, children are taught that South Korea was the aggressor of the Korean War and that the Americans were their enemies. 1 Students…

Magenta Group Physical Geography and Climate South Korea has a total area of 99,000 square kilometers. In addition to the Peninsula connected to the mainland, it also has 3,200 islands in different sizes. One of the most famous is Chejudo, which is known as “Hawaii in the East”. Major landforms For the majority of the South Korea, the terrain is mostly mountainous, hilly, basined area and is less than 500 meters above sea level. Because Taipei Mountain Range runs along the…

The news that North Korea was successfully completed their fifth higher level nuclear test has struck concerns in South Korea and the United States. To make matters worse on August 22, 2016 the U.S. was able to confirm that North Korea has the ability to launch Nukes at U.S. Additionally, during the annual military joint drill between South Korea and U.S. North Korea threatened to “Turn the stronghold of provocation into a heap of ashes through Korean-style preemptive strike if the US and south…

The accountant of the conquest, and the making of what is today Latin America is a debatable subject in the field of humanities, especially in the field history. The most widespread approaches of this history are that of violence, war, oppression, possession of territories, and foundation of new colonies. In Frontier of Possessions, Tamar Herzog, a historian, professor of Latin American presents an account of the conquest from a different perspective, one that proposes that the acquisition of…

I was born in South Korea and grew up in America. As a person who has dual-citizenship, it is nice to know that I have another home. When I become legal, I will have to choose which country I would like to have citizenship in and that would be a bit challenging. The United States is a place where I would want to continue my education while Korea is where I would like to reside in without having to have a work visa or get married to a native. Korea, my first home, is a country that I always look…

the world just how significant the Moorish culture was to the formation of the modern world. Lane-Poole retells how the Moorish Empire took hold of Spain when the Muslim leader, General Tariq Ibn-Ziad and his 7000 men and voyaged to the Iberian Peninsula. The army was “led by a hero”(hhhh) and took Spain by storm, leaving few cities untouched. The Spaniards fell to the greatness of the Moors. As the Moors took the land over, they brought with them a rich culture encompassing unique architecture…

In one of the most often inhospitable environments, with 98% of the land covered in ice, winds ranging from 8 kilometers an hour to 64 kilometers an hour, fluctuating climates that potentially reach incredibly cold temperatures down to -89 degrees Celsius, continuous daylight during summer, and storms that arrive rapidly in which potentially cause incredibly contrasting weather patterns within relatively short distances, lives the Emperor Penguin. Consequently, the Emperor Penguin has many…

Introduction Emperor penguins huddle together to survive in the freezing Antarctic with mild temperatures under -70oC. (figure 1). When the huddling procedure is used, the heat is transferred between penguins and half the amount of energy is required survive. • The huddling process of penguins are classified as a population as they are one type of species working together in the same area. (Gordon,2013). These huddling processes are affected by both abiotic and biotic factors. Abiotic factors…