Defectors

“For the people, of the people, by the people.” These words were uttered by American Pfc. James Dresnok, who is the main speaker of this film. Crossing the Line is a documentary that follows 4 western defectors who lived in communists North Korea. All of these men, to my surprise had entered into North Korea willingly and were not captured or necessarily prisoners of war. They had all abandoned there posts and went to North Korea for a variety of reasons, even they can’t explain the exacts…

The cornerstone of a democratic society requires: an individual who is free of thought and 2, an unbiased source of information, that a voter can pull from to make an informed vote. In Shadows of Liberty by Dan Cantagallo, featuring Jean-Philippe Tremblay, which is a documentary that highlights and raises concern over pivotal changes made in the fabric of democracy in United States of America specifically regarding; the laws of media and free speech. The film notes that during certain terms of…

Busbecq on the ottoman state 1. Busbecq mentions how well prepared they seem to be incase they need to retreat. He describes how many camels and mules were brought to heave various seeds, armour and tenting. He continues to mention how the rations are not fair, the Janissaries and higher ups are given enough food to survive, while the other men struggle and must bring supplies of their own. The men must resort to eating horse flesh. Busbecq is amazed by the patience and dedication the turkish…

sending food and money to their families who were not able to escape. The “World Affairs Journal” article says, “If international humanitarian NGOs, religious groups, philanthropists, and other concerned persons and organizations got behind these defectors in an organized manner to increase the money entering North Korea through unofficial channels, the effects could be transformative.” In Bangladesh, people fled to other counties such as India. After the Bangladesh genocide ended, the…

North Korea have never even been taught the term “human rights”. North Korea denies committing human rights violations threatens and intimidates defector activists working to raise awareness of human rights issues, and attacking and criticizing those who have testified during the United Nations Commission of Inquiry's investigation, calling these defectors "human scum."Shing Dong- hyuk wrote the documentary “Prison camp escapee: North Korea won't change its repressive ways” and North Korea is…

A heterosexual woman or man can get married 3 or 4 times but a gay couple cant even do it once, how is that aloud to happen. Just because a woman marries a man can she do it over and over. Divorce is allowed, living in a defector relationship is allowed in some religions but same sex marriage is not. Religion argues that marriage is between a woman and a man and it is so that they can bare children and raise them. Christians believe that marriage is a gift from god a sacred…

The Chapter 6 of Suzy Kim’s Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution focuses on the transformation of women’s political, economic and social roles in the post-liberation North Korea under socialist revolution. Meanwhile, the Chapter 7 of Kim’s book collects conflicting personal narratives of men and women who lived the post-liberation period, challenging the standardized historical narratives of the post-liberation Korea created by the regimes in Pyongyang and Seoul. Here, I would like to…

words. Moreover, what he says was not in his self-interest. It was very risky for Demaratus to make such claims because if the Persian king had been irritated at his word, he could have easily executed him. Therefore, Herodotus believes that the defector speaks the truth about the ferocious fight the Spartans could lead, “the plain truth and nothing else”…

During the bitter winter of 1838-1839 some five thousand Latter Day Saints crossed the Mississippi River from Missouri and settled in western Illinois, where they soon established the city of Nauvoo under the leadership of their prophet, Joseph Smith, Jr. Situated on a bend of the Mississippi River in Hancock County, Nauvoo grew rapidly during the next seven years as a flood of Latter Day Saints settled in the area. Finally, it would seem that the Mormons had found a place, a holy city where…

A primary reason to concur with the assigned source relates to a totalitarian regime’s use of mass execution and genocide, which results in the monitoring and responding by anti-totalitarian councils and international powers, notably the United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and human rights organizations. In terms of the essay, the term “monitoring” is defined as maintaining constant surveillance, in simple terms, spying, over a country or person, while “responding”, is…