Toge sankichi biography of abraham lincoln

  • One of his great achievements is that he quotes many lines from literary figures—Yoko Ota, Sankichi Toge, and Sadako Kurihara from Hiroshima.
  • A collection of scholars who discussed the history, politics, poetries, prose, and anthropologies of suffering in Asian societies.
  • Toge Sankichi was born in Japan in 1917.

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    Suffering, through an Asian lens

    Suffering is “one of those things that defines the human condition,” Arthur Kleinman told a gathering at the Harvard Faculty Club.

    More than a year ago, Kleinman, the Victor and William Fung Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, and David McCann, director of the Korea Institute and the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, discussed organizing an Asia-focused symposium in response to Harvard President Drew Faust’s 2008 Civil War book “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.”

    Kleinman and McCann’s conversation culminated in a Harvard panel on Friday (Nov. 5) with a collection of scholars who discussed the history, politics, poetries, prose, and anthropologies of suffering in Asian societies.

    In exploring examples of the literature of suffering, Karen Thornber said Chinese works on the Nanking Massacre, Korean writings about the Korean War, and Japanese prose and poetry dealing with the atomic bomb “gr

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    Hiroshima - Nagasaki - Fact FileThe Lies Of Hiroshima Are The Lies Of Today - John Pilger 6 August 2008
    The Atomic Bombings
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    Nagasaki Bomb

    Armed Conflict & the Law
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    Questions and Activities



    Cover: Images

    1. How do the images on the cover relate to each other?

    2. To what historical incidents do they relate?


    Wendell Berry: To a Siberian Woodsman

    1. Can you draw the picture from the magazine that so inspired Wendell Berry?

    2. Can you draw a picture of Wendell Berry's home as he describes it?

    3. To what period of history does the likely poem refer?

    4. Can you find a photo that inspires you to express your global connection?

    5. Why do you like or dislike this poem?

    Jorge Luis Borges: Juan Lopez and John Ward

    1. Do you see any parallels between Borges's poem and poem?

    Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est

    1: Does Wilfred Owen believe it is sweet and honorable to die for one's country? Do you? Explain.

    2. What period of warfare is Owen describing?

    3. Can you draw a picture of one of the characters in the poem? Write what they are thinking.

    4. Find out what the gas is to which Owen refers.


    David Krieger: