The Influences Of Sokchea Kim's Life

Soraya the Storyteller by Rosanne Hawke is a fiction novel about a young girl and her struggles moving from Afghanistan to Australia. She faces Racism because of her differences and culture plus she must overcome language barriers to settle into her temporary home. Soraya is marginalised throughout the novel in ways that are both intended to cause harm and unintentional ways. This means she is treated differently than the dominant culture. In Soraya, the Storyteller marginalisation mainly occurs through dislike of her culture, racism, language and learning.

Cultures around the world are divide by their distinctive characteristic of people, and how people interact within their society. Most cultures are driven by the way their environment has been set for them. Many of cultures have to adapt to the way their environment are due to the conditions that are set for them and the amount of resources that they are provided. The biggest drive for culture are the historical custom. Most countries continue to carry their ancestor custom so that the tradition may stay with them throughout their years, in which making other countries distinctive from one another. One of the particular country that will be discuss in this report is North Korea. In this report, I will be discussing the North Korean culture, with describing their living condition in the country, common issues that they face with on a daily bases, and common threat that they pose on other countries.

fatigue, aware of his family’s struggle for success if he did not work hard. Forming the

Sojourner truth was born around 1797 as Isabella baumfree, a slave in Ulster County, New York.As a kid sojourner was a slave she was separated from her family in 1806 when she was only nine years old, she was sold with a flick of sheep for one hundred dollars. Her new owner was harsh and violent and she had no family to protect her. Two years later she learned how to read and write in english

P Kim expressed the difficulties of raising children that he and his wife Hyunhee have been blessed to experience. The passage was explained one by one along with several verses that expressed the great responsibility God has given us in co working with him.

Sojourner Truth, estimated to have been born in New York around 1797, was born into slavery in as Isabella Baumfree. After escaping from her slave master with her daughter Sophia in 1826, Truth went through many hardships, and then eventually converted to Christianity, changed her name, and devoted her life to the abolition of slavery. Truth began speaking about abolition and rights in 1850. In 1851, she gave her most famous speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?”, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention. Truth also helped recruit troops for the Union Army during the Civil War. After the emancipation of slaves, she continued to fight for the rights of African Americans and women. Sojourner Truth died on November 26, 1883, in her home in Battle Creek, Michigan.

In the 19th century, Sojourner Truth was the most influential and important spokeswoman for human rights. Truth heavily advocated for women’s rights throughout the 1840’s and 1850’s (Sojourner Truth National Parks). She also was an avid supporter of black rights during her life. Truth went on lecture tours, speaking to the public about these subjects, hence her pseudonym (Sojourner Truth A Life). As for the abolitionist movement, Truth gave support in the fight against slavery. She is now memorialized as one the foremost social reformers of her generation (Sojourner Truth Nation Parks).

Kim empowers people who others may not necessarily see as valuable. She gives her subordinates opportunities to succeed, and to overcome personal obstacles. This inspires a high-level of loyalty. She will stand up for her people and get them what they need to do their jobs effectively; to support what we are all here to do, provide quality learning opportunities for our students and the community. In my comparatively

Sojourner Truth was an strong independent woman. First, Truth was brave by her actions. Sojourner no longer wants Black women to be obedient into believing that they do not have a voice. She is also motivating black women to make a stand and fight against the abuse for so long. Truth states that she is a woman who deserves respect and kindness. Sojourner is a powerful woman who believe in their words and have a mindset that her words are powerful.

Not much is given about his early life and family structure, except that he had three brothers. Since he could not afford to attend a university in Korea, Kwon applied to work on Hawaii’s sugar plantations. In 1905, the year that the Korean labor supply to Hawaii was cut off, he successfully immigrated as a seventeen-year-old sugar plantation laborer with the hopes of fleeing poverty (Pai 4, Takai 238). Approaching his mid 20’s as a young bachelor, he was working as a yardboy for a Mr. Hackfeld when his picture bride sailed across the ocean. Afterwards with the help of a friend, Kwon took up a more respectable job as an apprentice upholsterer at the Coyne Furniture Company. As years passed and he became noted as one of the most prestigious upholsterers in Hawaii, the company he was working for shut down, causing him to lose his job in 1928. Young Soon Han states, “The most viable businesses would be the same ones they [Koreans] did before, because…they have only this experience” (249). Just like the solution to the Korean liquor storeowners who lost their businesses in the L.A. riots, Kwon’s solution was to get back into the same business. The only difference was that this time he was an entrepreneur.

In the play Kim’s Convenience by Ins Choi, the characters Appa and his daughter Janet, have several misunderstandings. Appa and Janet have several disagreements throughout the play. This is due to their cultural filter and their different views on life. Janet is a Korean-Canadian young woman who is happy but would like to move on in life. Appa is a strong minded man who takes everything seriously.

Comfort women, or ianfu as they are called in Korean, are females who were forced sex slaves for the Japanese Imperial Army (Chunghee). Some of the women were dragged off with physical force as their families wept, while others were actually sold to the army by their destitute families (Watanabe). Still other were officially drafted by the Japanese Imperial Army and believed they would be factory workers or nurses (Hwang in Schellstede 4). Some Korean village leaders were ordered to send young women to participate in "important business for the Imperial Army" (Watanabe). Many Japanese soldiers referred to comfort women as teishintai, which means “volunteer corps,” so those women who thought they would be working in a factory would not

Ideology can be looked at different perspectives of the way people think about it. Some people think that ideology is bad, while some people think it is good. Ideology takes a very harmful way in Christianity; Pope Francis explains to Christians that ideology drives away the church and the people. In his perspective of mind, ideology is a “serious illness.”(Dolan) In some other places such as North Korea, ideology is a “dangerous belief system.” North Koreans Ideology is most commonly referred as “Juche,” this ideology is harmful to people because most people would like to praise people who do good things, but in North Korea people have to pray to a dictator who is capable of killing, torturing, and murdering his own people.

South Korea is one of the most homogeneous countries in the world, in which it has its own culture, language, and customs that are different from other Asian countries. In South Korea, the citizens greatly value hard work, filial piety, and humility in their daily lives. South Koreans are very proud people in which they pride themselves in their traditional culture and their financial success.

I was the “funny guy” in my clique of high school friends. Ever since I learned to read English, I enjoyed reading and collecting joke books. I exhausted every single joke book from the small community library in town. Riddles, jokes about animals and wildlife, reasons why I didn’t do my homework, lawyer jokes, and later on, ethnic jokes. I knew they were funny, but I wanted more. Perhaps it was my lack of physical achievements that made me obsess with a need to entertain my peers.