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Choosing my topic for the NHD contest was a difficult choice.
Most topics in this
competition will regard problems with rights and
responsibilities in the United States. However, I
wanted my topic to be on something that had not been done
before. For this, I looked for ideas
from my parents. My mother told me about my great grandfather,
Kim Jae-Moon. He lived in a
time of stress and torture from imperialist Japan from 1907
through 1945. What I did not know
was that he was a Korean Independence student activist in the
June 10th, 1926 movement.
Well-educated and intelligent, he and his fellow students knew
that the colonization of Korea
was wrong and protested against imperialist Japan. However, they
were unsuccessful and put
into jail. When he passed away, he was buried in a place
reserved in Korea only to people who
had served their country to the fullest. This inspired me to do
my NHD project on the March 1st
1919 Movement, which started this protest against Imperialist
Japan.
To conduct this research, I researched several websites and
watched Korean
documentaries regarding this movement. Also, my parents provided
many general facts about
the March 1st 1919 Movement. Furthermore, I read a book by
Robert Arauoj entitled
"Sovereignty, Human Rights, and Self-Determination: The Meaning
of International Law" that
defined the right of self-determination and background about
this right.
I selected undoubtedly one of the most popular presentation
category, the website, for a
couple reasons. First, my creativity is more visible through
what I can produce through the
computer, and less so through my handwriting and commentating
skills present in the display
board and documentary presentation selections. Also, there is no
picture limit, so I can paste
countless pictures over the website, without any hassle. To
create my project, I cut my research
paper into sections, and created separate tabs and micro tabs
for each section. Then, after
fixing errors from feedback from the instructor, I designed my
layout with subtitles for both text
and other multimedia. Finally, text was inserted and the website
was edited for errors.
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The March 1st1919 Movement directly ties into the theme of
Rights and Responsibilities
because the Japanese denied the Koreans the right of
self-determination. The right of self-
determination is nations have the right to choose their
sovereignty and political status without
interference from other countries. Japan obviously denied this
freedom from the Koreans, and
this movement was the protest for this right, which they finally
attained after the Japanese
surrounded in World War II. If this movement did not occur,
Korea would not have gotten any
international attention that lead to cooperation with the OSS
(the CIA of today), that would mean
that Korea would have no cooperation of friendship with the
United States.
