Kim Jong-il

affinity with North Korea. They argue that current textbooks glamorize Kim Il-Sung, North Korea’s first dictator, as an anti-Japanese resistance fighter. Lee Kyung-Ja of the Parents’ Alliance for the Revival of Public Education says, “Our enemy teaches one idea, so why not teach our children one unified story to counter it?” (“Manual Drive” 2015) In 2015, North Korean state-sponsored teacher’s manual included chapters devoted to Kim Jong Un’s childhood, including his miraculous driving ability…

Christians living in America today are often told about how depraved society can be, and how the world is falling apart. Some remain lukewarm and apathetic while others do their part to try and improve the world. Still others have become bitter towards secularism, believing that the problems in this country stem from a lack of institutional religiosity. Many of these people proclaim that America would be a better place if only schools led prayer and taught the creation story. Yet these people…

Few people would argue the value of creating a story of a life lived. In fact, it’s why I consider it a wholly noble idea that I create my own life’s story. From it, I hope my descendants will likely learn something valuable and endearing, tragic or disgusting and distasteful from the life I’ve experienced, but nonetheless might know me. Not in as much as my inability to convey the message, but more so just the total lack of interest by many in hearing what I have to say is what I consider a…

Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Kim Jong-il are all famous dictators known for their callousness, cruelty, and lack of sympathy for their people. However, there is one dictator who is less well known and just as bad or worse. Mao Tse-tung, who ruled China from 1949 to 1959 and was leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 to 1976, was ruthless not only towards his enemies, but towards his friends, family, and the citizens of China. Two of his more infamous policies are the Great Leap…

On January 29th, 2002, American President George W. Bush delivered his annual State of the Union address. At the time, the United States was still reeling from the aftereffects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks just four months before, and the world’s eyes eagerly descended upon the White House in anticipation of President Bush addressing the next phase of the government’s response to the acts of terrorism. The public searched for tangible goals and promises from the government, anything to quell…

Madeline Mann, John Cammon, Amanda Smith Forms of Government in Ancient Greece There were many different forms of government in Ancient Greece. This is because Ancient Greece was not just one country. Greece has city-states which are big cities that act as a country with their own political system. This is why even though greece was a country on its own the cities had individual ways of government. Three of the ways of government are Oligarchy, Tyranny, and Democracy. Oligarchy is defined as…

inspire North Korea to adopt the Party methods. Freedom in totalitarian governments are nonexistent considering your everyday life is controlled by the government. Fear is a tactic that totalitarian governments use in order to control their people. Kim Jong Un is a young leader who isn’t very experienced on how to govern his people. He identifies himself as the “supreme leader” because he thinks that he is invincible when in fact he has a lot of learning to…

They believed in a limited government, because they had already lived under a tyrannical ruler, and the United States was their vision of living in a free world. If too much power is given over to one person, you will end up with a Hitler, or a Kim Jong-Il. I believe Benjamin Franklin hit the nail on the head, and at the rate the United States is going, we will not be the democracy our founding fathers intended. Men have always wanted to be powerful and control what is around them, it is human…

The book “Animal Farm” written by George Orwell is an allegorical novella reflecting upon the events leading up to the Russian Revolution and the revolution itself. I would even go so far as to state “Animal Farm” is a moral satire that is directly linked to the events that took place during the Russian Revolution and the prominent figures involved in it. The main characters such as Old Major, Snowball and Napoleon bear a resemblance to Russian figures such as Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky and Joseph…

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Foreword 5. Quotation “He seemed relieved to be correcting a story he felt had become a kind of prison” (xiii). The author reveals that some parts of the books are false. Due to his horrific life and trauma, Shin Dong-hyuk, the protagonist, has been telling an untruth version of his story ever since he arrived in South Korea in 2006. Because of this, Shin begins to tell the truth and correct his lies and…