Essays on Jong

Korea was bisected at the end of the Second World War, as a response to the differing political climates which each half of the peninsula espoused – North Korea preferred the communism of the Soviet Union, while South Korea was more in line with the policies and politics espoused by the west, the U.S. in particular. During the early fifties, hostilities between the two halves of the country reached breaking point, and the Korean War broke out, with the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea attempting to reunify the country by conquering South Korea, and the American army attempting to ...

The novel “The Orphan Master’s Son” by Adam Johnson has touched hearts of millions of readers. It is a story that provokes everyone to think deeper about the regimes that we are exposed to and the lives that we have. It is a story that reveals the effect of regime on the lives of real people. This book provides a new approach for revealing the flaws of our society and how system may have effect on the lives of people. The author chooses North Korea as a setting for his novel in order to show the reader how ...

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Financial globalisation has occasioned a number of unprecedented effects on the world economy. Through the extensive flow of finances between economies, there has been a trend for businesses and individuals to invest their money where it fetches the best returns. Most notable of this is the tendency by the wealthy from the developed nations to invest in developing economies mostly in Africa to take advantage of certain conditions such as lenient taxation and favourable interest rates as well as affordable labour (Prasad, Eswar, et al. 201). The same can be said of the tendency by most companies to set ...

Admittedly, one of the world’s greatest public health leaders was Dr. Lee Jong-Wook. He was the first South Korean to be elected as the head of a United Nations agency, the World Health Organization where he served for eight years as a leader. Dr. Lee had taken over as the director of the World Health Organization at a time when the agency was undergoing revival that had been initiated by his predecessor Gro Harlem. Despite this being a major challenge, his fifteen years’ experience working with the organization prior to his appointment proved significant, as he was able ...

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Abstract Sexual aversion disorder is characterized by the presence of aversion and avoidance of making a genital contact with sexual partners. In the DSM-IV-TR, the characterization of the problem was extended by the inclusion of some of the features of phobias such as anxiety, fear, and disgust; thereby describing it as a phobia. However, the disorder was deleted during transition from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5, probably due to the presence of scarce studies on the topic. Sexual aversion disorder is commonly found in women as compared to men, and it is commonly found in women in the ...

Alienation involves isolating a certain group of people by being indifferent and discriminative. This paper focuses on an article that provides a detailed account of suffering that North Koreans underwent through the rule of Kim- Jong- il and his current predecessor Kim- Jong- un through the eyes of the Myth of Sisyphus, a compilation of essays by Albert Camus. I chose the article by Tom Phillips about a refugee who escaped the inhumanity in North Korea because refugees are some of the people who face great alienation. Also, through Yeonmi Park’s experiences, a refugee, described in this article, ...

Policy Positions Paper: Use of Medical Marijuana in Georgia

The use of marijuana (Cannabis sativa) can be traced back more than 5000 years ago related to medical, recreational, and spiritual reasons (Bostwick, 2012). The United States Pharmacopeia has included it since 1850’s, and until the 1930’s physicians provided prescriptions for it for a number of physical complaints (Narcanon International, 2016). In 1970, the United States Congress determined it had no valid therapeutic value and categorized it as a Schedule I illegal substance. However, a number of sources have stated that marijuana has no addictive properties (Samsha, 2016). The National Institute on Drug Abuse state this is ...

Abstract

Despite the fact that many organizations have embraced the new management strategies in reflexivity, there are still countless issues in the same regard. It is also vital to remember that for an entity to remain competitive in the market, it must formulate workable management strategies. In this survey, it is demonstrated that it is the sole responsibility of the reflexive managers to make sure that there is a flow of communication pattern in the company. The models include the research the organization undertakes to understand the ethnography behind the rationale of self-reflexivity. The structures of the society still control ...

Introduction

The objective of computer programming is to develop electronic solutions for a particular company. In today’s world, most companies use software systems in order to run their processes efficiently. Companies store their source data details in the system and perform transactions on them through computers. The software users expect certain outputs and reports from a computer system.

Steps in the Programming Process

A company will contract a programmer from within or outside the company to design and implement a software system. The first step in programming is to identify the problem (Jeffries, Anderson & Hendrickson, 2001). The company could be currently performing their operations using a manual system ...