Response to session 4

I was unable to attend this session, so I imagine I lost out on an enormous wealth of knowledge and information that was presented to the class. However I gained a lot of information just from reading the readings. Wow just reading about the history of Asia is so interesting, there is so much of it. Many things I did not know, but am learning. I never was a history fanatic but now I want to learn more, it’s a tragedy that I was never into history, because history explains so much .Why things happened the way they did, what lead up to those things/happening, and the outcomes. I like how in the article “World War ll, it has a timeline of the events that happened. This timeline can be used for the students to look up a specific time period in history and write about it. This would enable the students to learn how to do research on the computer or in the library.
An interesting and disgusting fact that I read has to do with prostitution, or so called”. “Comfort Women” for the soldiers/troops. Although the Korean woman constituted 80% of comfort women, what I read that disgusted me was the fact that some of these women would service up to 50 men per day. That is an exorbitant amount of males per day, and all for the sake of money. I understand and realize that money talks and we all, or rather many people want more it. But just to think of a women doing this for money and all those men, revolts me. I’m no prude but 50 a day! I assume their vjj’s would be so sore and tired and the men are as equally disgusting as they do not care where they stick their penises in. Just so, for pure pleasure and release. Then I think about sexually transmitted diseases, and I imagine that there must have been a lot of that in those times.
Another interesting fact I learned was that Chiang, (president of the Republic of China) moved his government to the mountains of Sichuan as the fog protected the city from Japanese bomber planes. This was a very smart move in Chiang’s part.