For the Asian Studies Project I decided to learn about an area of the world in which I have no knowledge about. I also wanted to do someone interesting so on Google I searched "most kills by a dictator", and Pol Pot a political leader of Cambodia came up. His personality seemed really interesting because he wanted to erase all modern society and start from the beginning again, to create the perfect Cambodia. He is more on Pol Pol, presented through and infographic I created.
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"John" for his Asian Studies Project decided to do a project on religious prosecution in India. I knew he is very interested in this topic so I had a feeling his presentation was going to be really good and expressive with emotion. Since my parents are immigrants from India, this had 10x more of an effect than it probably would have if it was another country. It made me realize as a Canadian, we actually have the right to be whoever we want and believe in whatever we want to believe in. Others in third world countries get killed just for what they think is right, and as follower of a religion myself, it is disappointing to see how the world can't accept people for who they want to be. The presentation my class fellow gave, got me wondering about more religious groups being mistreated. Here is what I found;
The Holocaust - Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi regime, began to occupy as much of Europe as he could. As he occupied more places, the most targeted group by the Nazis were Jewish people. Many were placed in concentration camps and others were just killed. "Final solution" involved the massacre of 2 out of every 3 European Jews. Up to 6 million died. China and Tibet - Tibet is overall part of China, but Tibetans view themselves as different, due to their difference in cultures and who they identify themselves as. China however, wants to remain in power, and they want Tibetans to stay under the rule of the Chinese Communist government. To put an end to Dalai Lama's influence of Tibetans to be their own people, China have been killing many who protest Tibet to be it's own country. This conflict has been going on for a while and remains to this day. Every four years, the Winter Olympics takes place, bringing countries all around the world to participate in a friendly competition, to show pride for one's country. This Winter Olympics, South Korea was announced as the hosts, and having the topic of Asian Studies in Socials Studies class, I'm taking the opportunity to write about the event. This time around, tension of countries around the world have been very high, and this Winter Olympics had a potential problem of North Korea, since the border of the 2 neighbouring countries are heavily guarded and the 2 countries have a history of disagreement. No one knew how this Olympics was going to turn out, due to the unpredictable nature of Kim Jong-un but he was surprisingly keen in having North Koreans represent their country. He also accepted the formation of the South-North Korean hockey team which competed in the Olympics together. Another great occurrence was at the opening ceremonies.Kim Jong-un sent his sister to South Korea to attend the opening ceremonies. This was a huge moment for both countries history's because it was the first time a person of the North Korean royal family visited North Korea ever since the end of the 1950-1953 Korean War. Overall the olympics went really well, with many countries getting several medals including our own Canadian Team :).
Each student in our class was assigned to a random video from the Crash Course economic section. Basically he/she had to become an expert on their assigned topic. My video was "The 2008 Financial Crisis: Crash Course Economics #12". This wasn't exactly the topic I was hoping to be assigned to because by the name it sounded boring to research and create an infographic on. However, my assumptions were incorrect and creating this infographic was really interesting. The 2018 Financial Crisis caused the entire stock market to crash. Many lost their homes, due to affordability, and many businesses went into bankruptcy. It is absurd how the actions of banks to try and make more money off mortgages, blew up in their face and cause the entire economy to be affected. Here are the infographics I created to present to my class about the topic.
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