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The Wars: Four Elements It was the ancient Greek philosopher, Empedocles, who first established the four elements: earth, water, air and fire. He also stated that everything in the world is structured by and rooted in these four elements. However during times of conflict and violence, humans begin to disturb this harmony. When this happens, the elements stop representing life and start representing a form of destruction. Throughout Robert Ross’s journey in The Wars, Timothy Findley exemplifies

Korean War Veterans Memorial In 1985, the former members of the U.S. armed forces, who served in the Korean War, made a union to build a memorial for the Korean War. The U.S. congress authorized the American Battle Monuments Commission to build a memorial in Washington D.C. to honor the U.S. soldiers in 1986. After the fund raising, the Memorial construction began in 1993 and it was completed in 1995. To build the memorial, 18 million dollars was funded and five million dollars of a total cost

known as, “The Korean War,” divided North and South Korea by the 38th parallel, although it wasn’t actually a declared war. The Korean War consisted of a number of brutal fights between the United States backed by the military of South Korea, and the North Koreans. Just two months into the war, the South Koreans were on the brink of defeat, until the Battle of Inchon. The United Nations military forces, most of which were American military, entered the fight and pushed the North Korean forces back.

“War can be of two kinds, in the sense that either the objective is to overthrow the enemy—to render him politically helpless or militarily impotent, thus forcing him to sign whatever peace we please; or merely to occupy some of his frontier districts so that we can annex them or use them for bargaining at the peace negotiations.” Introduction Prior to 1950 the small country of Korea had been split laterally across the 38th Parallel, the Soviets supporting the north and the United States supporting

disassembled Japanese colonial system from Korea. After 35 years of Japanese control, Korea has finally liberated from Japan. The peninsula was divided at the 38th parallel as it was temporarily administered by the USSR and the USA. So, how did the Korean War get started? USSR sought communism in North Korea, which the US has found dangerous since the Communist Manifesto. America was determined to hold an election to create a form of government to reunite Korea (Gupta, 1972). However the negotiation

Containment in the Korean War With the help of militaristic and economic aid from Soviet Russia, North Korea had South Korea cornered in the Pusan Perimeter by September of 1950 and a communist victory looked inevitable. However, the United States ditched their policy of isolationism and joined the war effort alongside other United Nations forces and supported South Korea. Since the North Koreans now had to send their supplies all the way down to their soldiers in Pusan, General Douglas MacArthur

by the experiences of Korean soldiers and Korean survivors of the bombings and massacres associated with the war in Korea. Many survivors of the

given to the Korean War. This is because most people have forgotten all about the war. The Korean war was over 65 years ago, it lasted for three years. The war was started when North Korea,who were communist, attacked South Korea(Pridham).  The south Korean troops were called ROK’s for the Republic of Korea(Dolan, 9-10).“The phong rang at about 9:20 P.M. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was on the line. He told President Truman: “Mr. President, I have very serious news. The North Koreans have invaded

resulted in the split of Korean territory into North Korea and South Korea, and the United States withdrew their troops. In fact in many cases, the United States withdraws their military force and ceases the war is because of the objection within the domestic citizens, due to a weary of costing human lives and national expenses, not that the United States don’t have the strength to battle. If this event was described by an unbiased outsider, then it is more likely to be: The Koreans started a civil war

The Korean War started on June 25, 1950 when North Korea attacked South Korea. The War lasted until July 27, 1953 when an armistice was signed by both sides. The Korean War was devastating to both North and South Korea. There were millions of human casualties between soldier and civilian deaths. The War also destroyed a lot of cities and farmland. The Korean War caused a lot of deaths and destruction to Korea, and the war was a hard war fought between North Korea and its allies and South Korea