Defectors

Ruizhe Li Mr. Jones English 12 CP 20 March 2015 The Reality of North Korea Economy On November 24th 2014, Sony Picture Entertainment experienced a severe cyber attack conducted by a group of hackers called “The Guardians of Peace”. The hackers demanded the cancellation of the planned release of the movie “The interview”, which depicted the assassination of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un. Aside from the political and comical meanings of “The interview”, the movie also depicted North…

Asik Shoab Prof. Dr. Doctor HUP 102.1206 Paper #3. In the introduction to her collection of essays on ethical philosophy, The Virtue of Selfishness, Rand writes that the "exact meaning" of selfishness is "concern with one's own interests." Rand's argument for the definition of selfishness is that it does not include a moral evaluation; it does not tell us whether concern with one's own interest is good or evil. She states that selfishness' has become a synonym to the word evil'. On the other…

For 30 years, the Berlin Wall was the central symbol of the Cold War that separated families and keep opportunities in the West bloc from those in the East bloc. The wall was built by the Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev to prevent the East Germany defectors from crossing the border over to the more booming West Germany. Specifically, the wall was built all the way around West Berlin. The American-British-French zones were enclosed with the wall. The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized the end of…

A high-level defector from North Korea warned in an interview that Kim Jong Un would use nuclear weapons against the U.S. or its allies to stay in power if necessary (Zorthian, 2017). NBC News was told that the dictator of North Korea was “desperate in maintaining his rule” (Zorthian, 2017). Kim is readily watching for any military action or threat from America and he has made it known that he has nuclear weapons. These weapons are specifically intercontinental ballistic missiles (Zorthian,…

The Khmer Rouge was one of the main and important genocides that took place in history. According to the dictionary, a genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group of nation. The Khmer Rouge was a Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia. It was formed in 1968 when they started to struggle against the French colonization and was influenced by the Vietnamese. The Khmer Rouge genocide happened in the capital city of Phnom Penh. It was…

Hatred and atrocities between nations has always been a common occurrence, and violence is a side effect of this hatred. There are many well-known genocides that have taken place around the world, including the Holocaust, Armenia, and Bosnia. There are also devastations that not so many people know about, or have even heard of. The Cambodian Genocide is a mystery to many, being it isn’t widely researched. The killing fields of Cambodia “(1975-1979)” (Krkljes, 2015) are where Pol Pot and his…

What comes to mind when someone thinks of ballet? It 's probably little girls in pink tutus, and not how it 's a political-shaping art form. Since its creation in the French courts, ballet has been influential upon not only a country 's culture, but also to its government. Ballet is used as a way to bring society 's refinement to the state. A prime example of this interaction can be seen during the Cold War. The Cold War was a broad set of rivalries between the two leading countries of the mid…

Lee Harvey Oswald was born in an era dominated by war and strife. From the heart of World War II to the expansion and inspiration from communism, chaos was evident in this man’s life. The irony behind Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of John. F Kennedy is evident. As a man who has only admired the man, the motive behind Lee’s murder is questionable. Lee Harvey Oswald’s had failed as a man, a husband, a worker, a Marine and a son his entire life. Added with Oswald’s embrace of communism, his…

Human rights sometimes seem invisible. Even though they are common for people who live in advanced countries, there are a large number of undeveloped nations which have human rights issues. Four Freedoms, which are important in the concept of human rights, were stated by Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in his 1941 message to Congress (Pearson, 2014). The intention of FDR’s speech was, consequently, attempted a U.S. Congress to take part in the Second World War and provide the British needed weapons.…

There are few cases in our world in which a civil war has transformed into a full on genocide. Mainly because it is difficult to garner support for the mass killing of an entire group of people. However, when it does happen it is a major ordeal. The civil war in Rwanda from 1990 to 1994 is one example. The Cambodian civil war from 1970-1975 also demonstrates a civil war turned genocide. These two examples share both similarities and differences in the way in which the whole incident panned out.…