“Two plus two is four,” my kindergarten teacher told us. At one point, our young, curious kindergarten minds will ask ourselves “is two plus two really four?” We will find out sooner or later, perhaps after a receiving some derision from our classmates or teachers, that two plus two in fact equals four. How great life would be if this certainty applied to all aspects of it. Life contains many “gray areas” where the boundary between right and wrong are blurred to the extent that we cannot objectively determine a certain action to be the best action to take. When we are faced with two difficult choices, we try to select the choice that will best satisfy our interests, but if both choices had the potential to be equally detrimental to us, what …show more content…
While the narrator had claimed that the end of the world in both fire and ice were bad alternatives, I have always wondered how this narrator from “Fire and Ice” would respond if he was placed in a situation where the end of the world was inevitable and approaching, and he has the power to choose between fire or ice for a limited amount of time as the method by which the world ends. It is quite easy for us to objectively discuss the possible advantages and disadvantages that each action would lead to, but when it’s time for us to take an action, it is almost impossible for us to decide. I’ve had the pleasure of being absolved from the responsibility of making important decisions for the past 18 years, but only several months are left until that buddle that shrouds me from the responsibilities of adulthood pops and exposes my poor, innocent soul to the horrors of the real world. I will constantly face the burden of choosing between two unfavorable choices. Should I just accept the fact that I will have to choose …show more content…
Every time the “North” of North Korea is mentioned, my parents get in serious arguments on the issue. As we all have learned at one point in our lives or another, the Korean peninsula was divided into two countries after the Korean War: North and South Korea. The government of North Korea resembled a fascist, pseudo-communist government, while the government of South Korea resembled a modern democratic, capitalist government. For decades, despite its economic failure, North Korea allocated most of the money that it generated into the development of its military, leaving millions of its population emaciated. North Korea has constantly plotted to take over its extremely wealthy neighbor to the south, threatening South Korea whenever it had an opportunity to. As a result, the leaders of South Korea were faced with very difficult decisions to make. On one hand, if they wanted to maintain its wealth and success, they had to prevent war between the two nations, which most likely meant sending food, supplies, and more importantly money to North Korea, which would almost certainly go into funding North Korea’s military. On the other hand, if they did not want to give up those resources to the North Koreans, they would be forced to fight with North Korea, a mutually assured destruction. Clearly, these leaders are
South Korea didn’t want to be a contribution to communism, where North Korea believed that communism was the solution to all problems. This invasion caused and all out war the involved many other countries like Russia and the US. As stated in “Document C”, Russia’s job was to help North Korea and promote their communists government, where the US was there to help South Korea promote their capitalism. Several years after continuously fighting on whether Korea should have a communist or capitalists government, the war finally ended. The country is still divided today and North Korea still remains communists leaving the US failing to stop communism.
These two characters face difficult choices, but will they make the right ones?
The Korean War endures to the origins of the collapse of the Japanese Empire in the World War II in 1945 as Korea annexed to Japan since 1910. Thus Korea split into two while the north was invaded by the Soviet Union and the south by the United States. When, in 1947, with the request of the United Nations, before segregation, it has affirmed that the elections should be held with the observance of the UN officials. As, the Soviet Union didn’t let upon the UN observers, they were remained distinct states. On the 25 June 1950 resolution, with the absence of USSR, it was claimed that North Korea had threatened the world peace by sending troops to South Korea and called upon withdrawing to the 38th Parallel.
Beginning as a proxy war, the conflict in Korea would have the nation divided at the 38th parallel as agreed by the United States and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Until the years of 1945 to 1950, as both of the world’s greatest superpowers funded and supported the sides which shared their view. Espousing the views of communism and fighting in the Soviet Union’s stead was Kim Il-sung organized and created the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea while the United States sunk their support for the more southern Korea’s government known as the Republic of Korea led by nationalist Syngman Rhee (Schaller 980). The two Korean governments vied for total control and
North Korea lacks basic utilities to make modern human life impossible in most areas, “There is no medicine, there is no running water, there is no soap in hospitals,” (Ling 20:10). In North Korea they have no way of ensuring a healthy population, and they rely on countries like America to provide for them. Access to the small amount of modern amenities is completely based on someone’s position within the government. North Korea has not asked for aid even when they were in a massive famine, “I saw children dying under my hands when I was too late,” (Ling 20:31). Children in North Korea are dying from lack of food and the rest are stunted and deformed from malnutrition.
Life is all about making decisions. Making the right decision that positively affects yourself and others, and trying your best not to make the wrong choices that may negatively hurt yourself and others. The most important factor in why people choose to do something is of how it affects themselves and the other people around them because the outcome of the decision for them and others, in the end, helps mainly determine the choice for the person or persons. Paragraph #1:
Robert Frost is a well known and experienced poet. He was born March 26, 1874 and died January 29, 1963. Robert started writing poetry in high school His first published poem, My Butterfly:an Elegy” was published on November 8, 1894. Robert wrote poetry up to the end of his life. He last published “The Clearing” a collection of poems, including the poem he recited for JFK’s inauguration, in 1962, less than a year before he died.
As an American, we cannot comprehend the types of laws that are enforced upon North Korean Citizens. A few bizarre controlment rules that I still struggle to comprehend myself are there are only twenty-eight ways North Korean men and women can cut their hair, North Korean Men and Women are not allowed to own a bible or any western literature, and also there are only three channels on tv and you must only watch those. Along with those laws in place, the North Korean government has control over education and news which leads to many growing up to hate other countries besides their own with no reasoning behind their hatred. Our lives along with many others are still being affected by the iron grip of societal norms.
In the story The Outsiders there were many times the characters had choices and we grew to know each character more and more because of the choices they made. The choices the characters made in the story defined who they are and what they’re like. A choice means an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. What you choose to do is your decision and it will affect you and others. First off your choices could leave you to bad consequences.
In many cases, people may be forced by external circumstances to make decisions that they would not have made if such circumstances did not present themselves. The results of such decisions can either have a positive or negative impact on the lives of an individual. Such a case is well presented in the story A &P by John Updike where the major character, Sammy is portrayed to be indecisive. In this story, Sammy, the major character continually rebels against his coworkers, his boss, customers, and sometimes himself. His rebellion appears to have more disadvantages than advantages as it complicates his life in many cases.
After the war, in 1948, Korea was split in two. The Republic of Korea, controlled by the Allies, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, ruled by the Soviets. Both considering themselves the ruling government there was tension which led to North Korea’s invasion of the South on June 25th, 1950. This sparked the Korean war between the American and the Vietnamese. In 1953 the war was over and Korea was still split in two with a De militarized zone in between.
In North Korea , the citizens know , learn, and see only what the dictator, Kim Kong Un, wants them to even if is untrue. The official name of North Korea is Democratic People 's Republic of Korea ( kastel) .North Korea was founded on September 8 1948 (Doe) and has a population of 24.9 million (kastel). Everyone’s knowledge is limited, and entirely controlled by the government. The government of North Korea believes that censoring every part of their society permits them complete control in guaranteeing their country 's future (Yop).
BACKGROUND PAPER ON THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA 1. The Democratic Republic of Korea, better known as North Korea, is a communist country run by dictator Kim Jung Un. North Korea and South Korea were created with a split across the 38th parallel after World War II. While the South sought out democracy and enhancing foreign relations, North Korea remains a communistic dictatorial country. The two domains that will be discussed will be the political and social relationships North Korea has with neighboring countries, and how striving to update its military technology is impacting the economic growth of the country.
The United States was the main force in dealing with North Korea’s nuclear program, and that United States foreign relation affected policies between the United States and North Korea . The United States and political allies claim that foreign military involvement in South Korea is needed due to the nuclear threat present within North Korea . North Korean goal is to normalize United States relations with North Korea. This means that the United States should return the Korean Peninsula to the way it was. This is a problem however with the South Koreans.
Throughout the years, North and South Korea have been having conflicts ever since the start of the Korean War. The war dates all the way back to 1950. As of recently, another disagreement rose between the two sides as well as the United States of America. The North Korean crisis consists of a threat of a possible “pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice” on South Korea, the U.S. bases in the Pacific, and lastly the United States of America. All of this has psychological processes and thinking’s that may have caused these conflicts between the nations to occur.