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    teenager. Thus, my mom enjoys Korean foods and likes to live more by traditional beliefs than me. I was born and raised here so I have a very different story. I was born on October 27,2001 in San Jose, California and was raised all over California before coming to Hawaii when I was 12 years old. I am Americanized because I have gotten used to eating, acting, and playing by the norms of society that I never got to do for my Asian culture. My mom also has the knowledge of many Korean folk tales…

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    authors name is Bevin Alexander and he has been studying military history. He was a marine during the Korean War, so Alexander had a firsthand account of that time period. This book is written mainly about the conflict between General McArthur and President Harry S. Truman. Alexander viewed some of MacArthur’s views differently than Truman’s, mainly the arguments that McArthur made during the Korean War. By breaking down the events while they happened Alexander states his views on who was right…

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    Cold War that the United States attempted to contain communism like the Truman Doctrine , which declared that America would support the free people, three examples are very clear.. They controlled the expansion of communism by the Berlin Airlift, the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. As soon as the Soviets decided to expand, the Americans followed up with the decision to contain. These series of event, arguably, prevented the Soviet Nation’s reign on the…

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    world terrified of communism, many swore to do anything to stop its advance. This was the main priority for the United States after the end of World War II and the US and USSR quickly turned against each other now that they had no common enemy. The Korean War was an international conflict fought through the guise of a civil war between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the purpose of control…

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    1945-1950. General C.C. Ballou was reacquired by the U.S. Navy in March 1, 1950 for nearly 2 years sailed between Europe and the United States with refugees. Beginning in 1952, the ship began transporting troops from the West Coast to Korea serve in the Korean War. She was placed out of service in September 1954 and was later sold to Navieras…

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    An entertaining, satirical novel written by Chae Man-Sik, “Peace Under Heaven” portrays the colonial reality of Korea under the Japanese rule. Although its controversial aspects focus on the Korean culture instead of the Japanese, the author treads a line between propriety and realism. The story highlights the tragicomedy of materialistic greed, ambition, sensual decadence, and egoism of the protagonist, Master Yun; however, the author also portrays him as a pathetic human being through his past…

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    goals of the North Korean regime is difficult at best, but then writes an analysis to explain his opinion to the minds of the Western world. It is Talmadge’s view that North Korea will never willingly abandon its goal of nuclear weapons regardless of any repercussions from its allies or the UN, because the ruling cadre sees it as the only path to survival and world recognition. While acknowledging the impossibility of truly knowing the inside thoughts and workings of the North Korean rulers,…

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    Ms. Joanne Herring was a Texas socialite, the high-flying trophy wife of an oil baron who counted among her friends Princess Grace of Monaco, but she will be forever defined as the woman who charmed a womanizing senator into taking up the cause of the Afghani mujahideen (Charlie Wilson Biography). Charlie Wilson would leverage his position on the Defense Appropriations committee to secretly funnel billions of dollars to the mujahideen to help them fend off the Soviets, dealing a crippling blow…

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    North Korea. As a young boy, he had completed known everything about Confucian education and was enrolled in a Methodist school. In the school, he became a nationalist. In 1896, he and his other friends formed a club that would force Japan to give Korean independence. When someone closed down his club, he was arrested and imprisoned until 1904. After, he left the hail he decided to go the U.S. in 1910 where he graduated from Princeton University with a Ph.D. When he came home in 1910, Korea was…

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    The report Preventing Suicide: A Global Imperative, estimates that in 2012, 9,790 suicides took place in North Korea, with almost equal numbers of males and females killing themselves. Analysts have said that North Koreans may be driven to suicide mainly because of poverty, and then psychological stress of living in a highly restrictive environment. Sandra Fahy, assistant professor at Sophia University in Tokyo and author of the monograph: Marching Through Suffering:…

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