Korean Air

Position on the Syrian Refugee Crisis The United Nations (UN), created in 1945 from the aftermath of World War II, currently has 193 Member States. The UN focuses on peace and human rights, doing its best to clean up the broken pieces of war stricken countries. The most current global human rights issue is the Syrian Refugee Crisis; in March of 2011 anti-government demonstrators began a peaceful protest, which quickly escalated to a civil war, continuing today. According to a recent article,…

a highly classified lab at Harvard University. Napalm saw its first widespread use in the burning of Japanese cities during the end of the war in the Pacific. This chemical was rather a multifunctional weapon, with it being able to be dropped from air, or used on the ground by tanks and flamethrower troops. Napalm is basically a flammable liquid that is most often restricted to warfare use. It is a mixture of a chemical gelling agent and a petroleum based fuel. Napalm was first an incendiary…

It was about Communist North Vietnam trying to take over the south And after all the help that the United states rendered North Vietnam won. Communism versus anti-communism had another match up starring the United States and the Soviet Union in the Korean War. It was communist North Korea versus anti-communist South Korea with the United States backing the anti-communist movement. The Marshall Plan was created to help fight the “’ hunger, poverty, desperation’ that spawned communism” (835).…

was confiscated by the UN, and the UN appointed the U.S and Russia to establish a country in the Korean Peninsula; Russia took the northern portion and U.S.A took the southern…

put their citizens in fear. "The rocket bombs which fell daily on London [as an act of war from their present enemy] were [...] fired by the Government of Oceania itself, 'just to keep people frightened '" (153). Similarly, the North Korean government undergoes air raid drills as a means of keeping the citizens in fear of their contrived war against America (A State of Mind). These states use perpetual war as a method of controlling their people. When people…

The Korean War was the last American conflict involving segregated units of the armed forces. African Americans served in all combat and combat support roles during the Korean War and were involved in all major combat operations. By the end of the Korean War, more than 600,000 African Americans had served in the military (Clay, 1987). All black units played a huge role in the war…

My heritage as a second generation Korean American has made me experience all sorts of comments and questions about my culture numerous times. Many of my Korean friends are also in the same position as me, or they were born in South Korea and moved to the U.S.A when they were children. Whenever someone in my group of Korean friends, talk about Korea we always ask my immigrant friends why they moved here. Especially if in that group, there is a native South Korean that just recently moved here or…

Overall, this cross-cultural partner project provided me a unique and practical opportunity to get to know my friend Aaron and his native South Korean culture better. This project helped me understand the South Korean culture and how it has impacted Aaron’s life thus far. Learning about Aaron’s wonderful journey as a military member in South Korea, to becoming a successful exchange student in the United States as a student here at Dordt College, was one of the most interesting series of…

sister who is in college and one younger brother who is in middle school. Seung Joo and her family are like the traditional Koreans you basically know. They are the ones who bow their head whenever they enter the house or whenever they see an elder. In addition, although they might have lived long enough in the US to blend in easily with the crowd, she still has this Korean delicacy that has never faded away. I knew for a fact that it is…

“I won’t do it!’ he shouts!” The book When my name was Keoko by Linda sue Park revolves around the Korean struggle after the year 1910 when the Japanese conquered Korea and made them express language only in Japanese. Afterward, in 1940 the Koreans were involuntarily forced to adopt Japanese names in place of their Korean names, anyone who would refuse would be arrested. Next, a theme is even if someone took away your freedom or your name, your soul and thoughts remain to yourself. “No matter…