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Boxer Rebellion Secret Societies
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1,219 words... eir well, equipped ammunition smuggling boats, they would take the delivery of opium chests from the foreigners' receiving ships around the coasts of China. Gradually, the number of illicit smuggling increased in Chinese waters, particular in the north of Canton (Fairbank, Reischauer, Craig 452). As a consequence, opium addiction and illegal smuggling soared corrupting the government and China spiraled into what some call the worst drug case in human history. So what was proposed to resolve ...
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World War Ii Britain And France
1,963 wordsTHE RISE OF THE SUPERPOWERS: HOW WWII BUILT THEM THE RISE OF THE SUPERPOWERS: HOW WWII BUILT THEM It is often wondered how the superpowers achieved their position of dominance. It seems that the maturing of the two superpowers, Russia and the United States, can be traced to World War II. To be a superpower, a nation needs to have a strong economy, an overpowering military, immense international political power and, related to this, a strong national ideology. It was this war, and its results tha...
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Healing Powers Imperial Family
1,675 wordsRasputin: The Man and the Myth Few people in the 20 th Century have been more notorious, yet more mysterious, than the Siberian peasant who burst upon the world's stage in 1905, Gregory Yefimovich Novykh. Gregory is better known today as Rasputin. Rasputin literally translates to the debauched one, a moral corrupter. To the Imperial Family of Russia, he was simply Father Gregory. Rasputin was known for seeming to dominate the last Tsar of Russia, causing the downfall of both men. Gregory Rasputi...
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Marriage Of Figaro Archbishop Of Salzburg
4,183 words"For the respect his works have commanded of musicians, and the popularity they have enjoyed among wider audiences, he is probably the most admired composer in the history of Western music. " With this appraisal the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, published in 1980, begins its magisterial article on Beethoven. More than a decade later one might not apply this statement to the Teutonic Goliath but to the David of Mozart. Not only is this year (1991) the bicentennial of Mozart's death...
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Second World War Britain And France
1,511 wordsThe Second World War gave rise to a multitude of new ideas which changed the course of modern society, the idea which has had the greatest impact on the world as a whole is the concept of the superpower nation. To be a superpower, a nation needs to have a strong economy, an overpowering military, immense international political power, and related to this, a strong national ideology. It was this war ( WWII), and its results that spawned the formation of superpowers and lead them to experience suc...
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Differences Between Bureaucrats And Aristocrats In Government
1,184 wordsBureaucrats and aristocrats, the former evident in the government in the Tang dynasty (617 - 907) and the ladder pronoun in the government of Heian Japan. Both are different in many different aspects, such as within government, government structure, law, economy, and society. A bureaucrat can be defined by the following: an appointed government official with certain duties and responsibilities defined by disposition in the bureaucracy. A bureaucrat is more dependent on the government than an ari...
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Great Leap Forward People Republic Of China
1,331 words... Mao would initiate again during the Cultural Revolution; it was a symbol of Mao's belief in harmony and order. This campaign aimed at purging the party of Stalinist supporters. 35 Purging of dissident elements within the party created unity according to Mao. The Rectification Campaign was a turning point for the Communists. With a strong leader, unity within, and a specifically tailored Chinese political ideology, the Communists made steady gains against the Guomingdang in the Chinese Civil ...
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Pearl Harbor Attack Attack On Pearl Harbor
2,008 wordsThe Bombing of Pearl Harbor: Its Impact and Repercussions Abstract: A devastating incident occurred on Pearl Harbor raises historical question to citizens of US as well as the entire world. The tangled web of events leading up to the damage of the United States Pacific navy at its anchorage on December 7, 1941, is among the most fascinating sequences of historical drama ever enacted. All the great powers of the world at war but one that last one on the brink of war, in possession of the secret c...
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Life Of Zheng Cheng Part 1
2,478 wordsLife of Zheng Cheng-gong Abstract The paper will trace the life of Chinas most controversial historical figure -- - Zheng Cheng-Gong as he battled his way from the newly dominated Qing Dynasty mainland China to the Dutch colony of Taiwan. This is an account of his constancy to the Ming Dynasty to whom he has sworn his undying allegiance and devotion. This is not only a chronicle of his military prowess and leadership aptitude and competence but also an account of his illustrious family as they r...
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Chinese Culture Chinese Civilization
563 wordsThe Chinese Culture Chinese Culture The Chinese Lake Murders were written by author, Robert Van Gulik and can be used to learn about pre-modern Chinese civilization. The book was set during the Ming Dynasty in the town of Han-yuan, which is about 60 miles north west of the imperial capital. The novel tells the tale of how Judge Dee, the magistrate (an official responsible for catching criminals as well as sentencing them) of Han-yuan solves crime cases while indulging himself in beautiful women,...
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Sun Yat Sen Ch Ing
1,573 wordsThe collapse of the Chinese Imperial system in 1911 was an event that had been in the making since the mid 1850 s. Between 1850 and 1911 there were many uprisings and wars fought in China. These events compounded and eventually caused a Republican Revolution that forever changed the face of Chinese History. This paper will attempt to explain the causes and events that led to the Republican Revolution of 1911 In the 103 days from June 11 to September 21, 1898, the Qing emperor, Guangxu (1875 - 19...
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World Trade Organization People Republic Of China
2,623 wordsCommunism in an Economically Developing China The future of communism in China is unknown, as the world economy becomes more international. Communism has been in China since 1949 and is still present in the country s activities. Presently China is undergoing incredible economic growth and promises to be a dominant power early in the next century. China s social tradition has come under heavy pressure from forces of modernization generated in a large part by the sustained contact with the West th...
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Chinese Communist Party Five Year Plan
4,720 wordsThe Chinese Economy, Culture &# 038; Society The social values and history have shaped and formed the economical developments and the current environment of business in the Peoples Republic of China. They have determined the patterns for negotiation and the Chinese perceptions of business, and their feelings towards westerners. The implicit and explicit rules that the Chinese society has on the development of businesses, and the economy in general, are very important issues for any person going ...
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Tang Dynasty Imperial Family
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Three Thousand Miles Causes Of The Revolution
2,058 wordsEleven years before America had declared its independence there was 1, 450, 000 white and 400, 000 Negro subjects of the crown. The colonies extended from the Atlantic to the Appalachian barrier. The life in these thirteen colonies was primarily rural, the economy based on agriculture, most were descended from the English, and politics were only the concern of land owners. Throughout these prosperous colonies, only a small portion of the population were content with their lives as subjects of Ge...
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Shih Huang Ti Great Leap Forward
2,676 wordsThe Life of Mao Zedong Dressed in the drab military uniform that symbolized the revolutionary government of Communist China, Mao Zedong's body still looked powerful, like an giant rock in a gushing river. An enormous red flag draped his coffin, like a red sail unfurled on a Chinese junk, illustrating the dualism of traditional China and the present Communist China that typified Mao. 1 A river of people flowed past while he lay in state during the second week of September 1976. Workers, peasants,...
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Amadeus Mozart Leopold Mozart
8,379 wordsFor the respect his works have commanded of musicians, and the popularity they have enjoyed among wider audiences, he is probably the most admired composer in the history of Western music. With this appraisal the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, published in 1980, begins its magisterial article on Beethoven. More than a decade later one might not apply this statement to the Teutonic Goliath but to the David of Mozart. Not only is this year (1991) the bicentennial of Mozart's death, i...
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Quot Quot Emily Dickinson
8,051 wordsYVOR WINTERS The three poems which combine [Emily Dickinson's] greatest power with her finest execution are strangely on much the same theme, both as regards the idea embodied and as regards the allegorical embodiment / 293 /. They deal with the inexplicable fact of change, of the absolute cleavage between successive states of being, and it is not unnatural that in two of the poems this theme should be related to the theme of death. In each poem, seasonal change is employed as the concrete symbo...
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Grand Canyon Coal Burning
3,623 wordsCOLORADO RIVER PROJECT 1. The current problem is that a 1922 compact for dividing the Colorado River assumed it would flow nearly 17 million acre-feet per year to be divided between 7 states, 20 million people, and 2 million acres of farmland. Currently, the Colorado is flowing at only 9 million acre-feet per year. And 1. 5 million acre-feet are for Mexico every year. The upper basin states (Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah) believe that the lower basin states get too much of the water. T...
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