Yoon,+Kyung+Wook+(Eric)BDSEM22011

=Eric Yoon =

Chinese soldiers are portrayed as very ugly, as if they can immediately be killed by Japanese soldiers. Furthermore, japanese officers appear as an epic soldiers, and they are portrayed as someone who can eliminate enemies easily.

 Chinese soldiers have spears, but not gunpowder weapons from the Westerners. However, Japanese armies obtain superior technology than Chinese soldiers, and this is trying to convey Japan’s superiority. Moreover, this tells us about the Japanese got well trained military officers, and organized army more frequently than China did.

 Baseball was indeed famous around the world at that time period. Each country has its reputation from great baseball teams, and sometimes the baseball games against other country were a substitue of an actual war, which signifies that the aggressive emotions towards certain country was expressed through the baseball match. //Why does this matter to a people? What do they find so gratifying in the experience of witnessing their team beat another in the arena of sport?//

 Depending on the situation that Japanese merely wanted to control Korea to attend the era of imperialism, however some colonies received cultural aspects, which British did to Australia and New Zealand unlike their actions toward India. The reference to colony people can be interpreted as a cultural superiority over the colonies.

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Russo-Japanese War

1. Both artistic renditions and photographs were used to depict the heroics of war better; they both promoted the political causes of those wars as well as their artistic styles, and furthermore, they enabled a strong propaganda that persuaded a lot of people to attend latter wars.

2. Certain artistic renditions depict horror of war while some do not. They mostly depend on what the artists are trying to convey to the people. When they are depicting the enemy, they take several scenes that show the cruelty or inferiority of the enemy well, such as the pictures of disgusting dead bodies after a massacre. However, when the artists decided to emphasize how victorious their home-nation was, they used portraits that signified a victory over the enemy.

3. The medium affects the message by the government's manipulation; the mediums are mostly concerned with gov't that they only want to convey good news about their national affairs although they also show their misbehavior and corruption. In overall, the medium can be regarded as the message because it is the unique information what the people can interact.

4. 1905 is the year when the Japanese manged to achieve victory against Russia, and this enabled Japan to expand their colonies more easily that their victory was almost a declaration of Japanese imperialism throughout East Asia. Furthermore, the Japanese could stand as a powerful enemy to the allies of U.S.A. and the Great Britain during the World War 2, and these were all possible from japan's victory in 1905. The history would had turned differently if Japan lost the Russo-Japanese War; firstly, the pearl-harbor battle //attack on Pearl Harbor// would not be possible (explain why this would not have happened, i.e. what would have happened in Japan to prevent the rise of the militarists), and thus the U.S. could not bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs. Secondly, the appearance of Soviet Union may had delayed as the Russo-Japanese war was one of the cause of ruin of Russian empire (Good thinking here. A very likely idea as this was a contributing factor to the Russian Revolution and the rise of communism in Russia). Lastly, the U.S. could not match up against the Soviet Union in Asia; probably the Soviet Union would had taken entire East and South-East Asia including the South Korea, Vietnam and Philippines.( A very good answer. A depth of analysis that I would expect from someone your age or older). 

 1. How are these documents alike? Be specific in showing exactly how they are similar.

 According to oaths number 2, 4, and 5; they all deny social-class system and wicked traditional customs, which signify that all the oaths share similar idea that they want a change in their traditions, but rather embrace foreign policies and cultures.

 2 How are these documents different? Be specific in showing how exactly they are different.

<span style="background-color: #b3f1e0; color: #ab5e3d; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> The oath number 3 claims that the people in the public should not be people who are lower than military officials, which implies a discrimination within the society; the differences among the documents.

<span style="background-color: #b3f1e0; color: #ab5e3d; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> 3. What, ultimately, is their purpose?

<span style="background-color: #b3f1e0; color: #ab5e3d; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> The ultimate purpose was to abandon wrong traditions, but adopting new foreign ideas in order to modernize the nation.

<span style="background-color: #b3f1e0; color: #ab5e3d; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> 4. These were very lofty goals for both people to try to achieve. To what degree do you feel the Koreans and the Japanese were able to achieve their objectives?

<span style="background-color: #b3f1e0; color: #ab5e3d; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: center;"> Both Koreans and Japanese were able to modernize their countries, but there were limits in modernizing, “all matters are mean to decided by the public is not achieved” (Doc 1). However, both of these countries managed to unify class systems, and sought for superior knowledge.

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