For Wednesdays class I started by reading “The Oddity of the East: Imagining North Korea,” which was really interesting because it brought up how the media makes jokes about Kim Jong Un. The movie The Interview is really interesting because in one scene there was a fake grocery store filled with plastic fruit food and… Continue reading Week 14: 5-15 Report
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Week 13: 5-15 Report
On Wednesday’s class we went to the library to look at the editing features of pressbooks. I was able to put my draft in my section. I learned how to add images with captions. I was able to link my pictures source in the caption. I also added I looked at how to do hyperlinks,… Continue reading Week 13: 5-15 Report
Week 12, 5-15 Report
For Wednesdays Class I prepared by reading, “The Ascension of the Ordinary Man: How the Personality Cult of Kim Il-Sung Was Constructed” and “On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche [Chuch’e] in Ideological Work.” The first reading was about Kim’s cult and and second was about Juche. Kim’s cult was a major way to make… Continue reading Week 12, 5-15 Report
Second Reflection
When looking at the beginning of the semester, I used to have trouble with the readings. This could be the case because we used to meet in discord and when we would discuss the readings I wasn’t as attentive or couldn’t interpret everything fully. On the other hand, I could be better at reading these… Continue reading Second Reflection
Week 11: 5-15 Report
For Wednesdays class I first read “Kim Dae-jung’s Role in the Democratization of Korea.” By utilizing this source it helped me create a time line of events. This showed us South Koreas way toward democracy, after the Korean War. The government had a great role in what came out about politics. There was a span… Continue reading Week 11: 5-15 Report
Week 10: 5-15 Report
To begin, I read two chapters from the student authored textbook about the Korean War for Wednesdays class. One was “11. Pre- and post-war Korea,” and the other one was “10. The Civilian Perspective of the Korean War.” Those gave me a quick overview of the war and the what the result and economy after… Continue reading Week 10: 5-15 Report
Week 9: 5-15 Report
On Monday I finished up what I did not complete over Spring Break. I did my refine topic and by abstract. I also completed my 5-15 report. For Wednesday’s class I read, “The Colonial Period in Korea: A Handy Overview” and “‘Contracting for Sex in the Pacific War’: The Case for Retraction on Grounds of… Continue reading Week 9: 5-15 Report
Refine Topic
I had to change my topic to a more specific topic. I was very generalized and wanted to do include the government, economics, military, rights, and basically everything about North Korea. I wanted to cover a bunch if topics with very little information in each topic. When finding information in my source I constantly kept… Continue reading Refine Topic
Week 8: 5-15 Report
For Wednesday’s class we read a really interesting and account called Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong. This was one of my favorite readings so far. It was so interesting to read and like someone said in class it reminded me of a Shakespeare novel. It is really crazy to think something like this happened. I think… Continue reading Week 8: 5-15 Report
Chapter Abstract
Two titles I have in mind for my chapter are “The Kim Family Dynasty” and “The Kim Family’s Reign On North Korea”. I like these two titles because they summarize all the information I will be including into a few words. I want to include information about the structure of the government, and then dive… Continue reading Chapter Abstract
