North American Aviation

current situation the U.S. and North Korea are involved in. North Korea has been launching nuclear missile tests, and the U.S. has had enough of it. President Trump has sent a warship to the Korean peninsula, and the North Koreans took that personal, calling it, "an act of war". Other countries such as South Korea, China, and others are at great risk of being caught in the cross fire between these two. So the petrifying but necessary question must be asked, is North Korea going to bomb the…

In the 1730s, a quaint town was settled on the coast of North Carolina bordering both the White Oak River and Atlantic Ocean. Today, this town boasts a rich history and the title "Friendly City by the Sea." Swansboro, North Carolina has grown and prospered in the 200 years since its official establishment in 1783. It has been threatened by the Civil War, pirates, and the Great Depression but persevered by having flexible industries and promoting growth. The history of Swansboro has been greatly…

four decades of brutal occupation after Japanese defeat in 1945, the Korean peninsula found itself torn between two foreign ideologies. To the North of the 18th parallel was the Soviet Union leading the communist wing of the Korean resistance, while the United States fought for democracy from the South. On June 25th, 1950, the Soviet-backed communist North Korea pushed through the makeshift border and within weeks had invaded all but a small portion of the entire country. Consequently, the…

Joanna. According to the article, North Korea was testing the nuclear weapons while Trump was vacationing in Florida with his family on the weekend. Another way to look at it, North Korea was testing the missiles to proof to the western nation that they also have enough power to control the world. However, they also feel threatened by the U.S. that they will overreact and get involved with North Korea. Without a warning from the United Nation and the U.S, North Korea still want to develop…

In 2015, for the first time in state history, the Supreme Court of North Carolina determined that non-public schools could qualify as constitutionally eligible recipients of public taxpayer dollars. The court in Hart v. State determined that the expenditure in question, the Opportunity Scholarship Program (“the Program”), met the standards required for designation as a public purpose. The Program consisted of a $4,200 per year voucher scholarship set for distribution to eligible students who…

On 20 Oct 2015, the 20th divided family reunion meeting was hold in Mount Kumgang area in DROK, 389 South Korean participants fortunately had a brief meeting with their 141 relatives from North Korea after a 20 months absence. The sorrow and tears at the reunion site reminds people that the divided family issue, one of Korea's most urgent and pressing humanitarian problem caused by its historical and political division, is still remained unsolved and grim. This paper will summarize the…

In North Korea, sixty two percent of the whole population relies on either biweekly or monthly rations. Some of these people are in desperate situations, while others are not. On average, forty percent of the population urgently needs food assistance. Two thirds of the country do not have a constant meal plan and are fighting for food. This adds up to about 2.8 million people that are fighting chronic malnutrition and food insecurity. In previous decades, North Korea has been agriculturally…

Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa explores French colonization in the Maghreb region of North Africa, specifically: Tunis, Morocco, and Algeria. The book, unlike many of the others that we have read so far in class, focuses almost exclusively on the viewpoint of the controlling colonial power, rather than on the indigenous persons being ruled. Stripped of cultural context, these chapters provided a striking contrast to the narrative presented in the book Medicine and the Saints…

North Korea Hydrogen Bomb Current Events 1 Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20160106050446/http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/north-korea-quake-nuclear-1.3391121 Daniel Ha North Korea claimed it had created and tested a hydrogen bomb on Wednesday, January 6th. There was a seismic disturbance caused by an explosion, which caused a magnitude of 5.1, similar to the magnitude in the 2013 nuclear test, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A hydrogen bomb is a weapon that gets its energy…

Laos is a Southeast Asian landlocked country that is surrounded by Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, and China. Laotians immigrated to the United States due to being drawn into the Cold War in 1975. Before immigrating to the United States they tried to flee to Thailand. This was due to the people’s Democratic Republic being proclaimed. Thousands of Laotians tried to move to Thailand for a better life in the mid 1980’s. Thailand had refugee camps set in place for the Laotians, but the living…