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Long Term Effects J J
451 wordsThe drug codeine is manufactured by the drug morphine, and could be made from the drug opium. The effects of codeine are similar to the effects of morphine, but codeine is not as potent and retains effectiveness when taken orally. Codeine is primarily used to relieve pain and to suppress coughing. A person that is on the drug codeine could build a tolerance and become addicted to it. Codeine is considered a narcotic drug when not prescribed by a doctor. Codeine is not usually taken by itself. It...
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Ad Campaign Target Group
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Start A Business Cultural Heritage
1,791 wordsHave you ever heard of an Asian American? What about a Filipino American to be more precise? To get a better understanding of the term, you need to hear from an actual Filipino American to get a sense of what a Filipino American feels, says, and acts in everyday life. A great example is a Filipino American author by the name of Jessica Hagedorn. She wrote a book (very similar to Hagedorn's life) that describes almost to the last detail of how one goes from being a full-blooded Filipino to a Fili...
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15 Th Century 17 Th Century
1,003 wordsThe British changed the entire face of the earth while trying to carry out the simple task of getting good Asian goods at a better price then through the Middle East. Who would have known that European Explorers searching for Asia would have started the slave trade from Africa to the Americas, helped the population of the earth more then triple, set the precedent for cultural cuisine all over the world, and not to mention reveal the Americas to the rest of the world? Christopher Columbus may hav...
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Affirmative Action Native Americans
1,103 wordsEquality is one of the basic principles the United States is found on. In the Declaration of Independence it states All Men are Created Equal. Through out history you would not figure that that statement was held to be true. The United States has a very ugly past when it comes to the topic of equality. The most notable act of inequality was definitely slavery and the segregation laws passed by government. Black people faced discrimination from the start and are still facing it today. Other incid...
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Race And Ethnicity Socially Constructed
589 wordsWhat is race and who can we define it? When I see or hear such question I realize that the term "race" means something very different to certain groups of people. Usually we believe that race is the biological item that identifies what color of skin we are or what geographic ancestry we have. By the term biological race we mean all natural, physical divisions among humans that are hereditary, reflected in morphology. Usually people of different races have the terms like Black, White, and Asian (...
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Peace And Conflict Resolution In Southeast Asia
690 wordsPeace and Conflict Resolution in Southeast Asia The Southeast Asia is known for its ethical diversity. There are about a thousand different ethical groups with five distinct language groups dominating this area: Mon-Khmer, Malay, Vietnamese, Bama and Thai. Country Laos with population of 4. 5 millions is considered to be one of the most multi-linguistic countries in the world. There are 92 different languages are being commonly used. The region of Southeast Asia is also known for its strong Budd...
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Nuclear Weapons International Affairs
326 wordsThe U. S. plays a major role in most of the international affairs because the U. S. is considered to be a powerful nation. The Economy of America is strong, and the military power is one of the biggest in the world. There was a Persian Gulf War back in 1991 when the U. S. attacked Iraq. Sadam Hussein, the President of Iraq, was trying to capture Kuwait. Kuwait is considered as a very small country, but it is one of the richest countries in the world because it has a major oil supply. If America ...
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Strict Vietnamese Family Chores Around The House Parents
642 wordsTo continue our family? s ethnic / cultural identity, our parents must teach us the core values of our Eastern Asian culture. The most fundamental of these values regard gender roles and dating? which lead to a gender bias. Children of both sexes are more influenced by the mothers? attitudes than fathers? because mothers play the primary socializing agents in the Eastern Asian community. I am from a fairly strict Vietnamese family. I was born in a refugee camp in Thailand, but ten days after I w...
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Anglo Saxon Cultural Values
1,276 wordsImmigration has recently become a controversial topic in America. Some feel that immigration is necessary to keep up the diversity in America. In addition, it creates a stronger economic base because immigrants will produce more goods than they use as well as filling in the lower paid jobs we arent willing to take. Others, like the right wing republicans, feel immigration is treading on thin ice. Indeed, they state that immigration is responsible for lower standards in our culture as a result of...
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Chronicles Of Japan Seventeen Clauses Japanese
827 wordsChronicles of Japan Japan is one of the worlds leading industrial and trading nation and the first Asian nation to develop economy. Japan is the East Asian mainland to receive the stimulation of foreign ideas. There were chronicles of Japan in ancient time. One of the ruler, Shotoku, introduced to Japan various cultural element borrowed from the Chinese. He ruled briefly. Knowledge of Shotoku's constitution came from the Nibongi and it was one of Japans two oldest collections of legend and histo...
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Japan South Korea
241 wordsJapan, an island in East Asia, is located in the North Pacific Ocean off the coast of the Asian mainland. Japan consists of four main islands? Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku, and Kyushu? and several smaller islands. Japan is otherwise known as Nihon or Nippon, which means? origin of the sun. ? The dominant religions in Japan are Buddhism, and Shinto? a religion founded in Japan. Japan is especially prone to earthquakes, as it rests on the boundaries of the Philippine, Pacific and Eurasian plates. 40 ...
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Economic Success Modern Age
842 wordsIt was a great modern achievement for Japan to create a democratic political system, but their economic success as an industrial and capitalist nation is even more impressive. Once the Japanese were known as fanatic soldiers but now they known as successful businessmen. For hundreds of years, the Japanese have displayed personal characteristics, which helped them modify their feudal system to a capitalistic one. Furthermore, the Japanese had institutions, which were easily converted to a capital...
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Territorial Integrity Ethnic Groups
1,328 wordsSince the end of World War I, Kurdistan has been administered by five sovereign states, with the largest portions of the land being respectively in Turkey (43 %), Iran (31 %), Iraq (18 %), Syria (6 %) and the former Soviet Union (2 %). The Pkk's origins can be traced back to 1974, when can, in Ankara, led a small group of radicals out of Revolutionary Youth (DEV-GEN&# 1047; ). The Kurdistan Workers Party, " Party Karkeren Kurdistan" (PKK) was established in 1978. &# 1062; can, the lead...
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African Americans Asian Americans
995 wordsAt some point in the course of human events, America decided that the television was their Dali Lama, their cultural and spiritual leader. Overlooking its obvious entertainment based purpose, Americans have let the television baby-sit and rear their children. I do not recall a manifesto from the television industry, but society put television in a role it does not have authority in. The only thing television set out to do was provide the passive entertainment American society wants. True, televi...
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Melting Pot Ethnic Diversity
680 wordsWu s View on Diversity Frank Wu is an Asian-American student attending graduate school at the university of Michigan. This country is still weary of people who look or talk in a different way than the norm. Although Wu has lived his whole life in the U. S. A many people cannot believe that he is truly American, they feel that he must simply be a foreigner seeking a better education in the U. S. The United States is often referred to as the great melting pot. This particular expression refers to ...
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Poem Quot Japanese Immigrants
1,112 wordsSamuel Maio Garrett Hongo, for example, has used in his two books Yellow Light (1982) and The River of Heaven (1987) the confessional voice in many poems that are less narrative and more reliant on images... Perhaps, too, they are more given to sound. The principal concerns of Yellow Light, a book of carefully ordered poems, are: the discovery of the history of the Issei (the first generation of Japanese immigrants to America), the forging of myths regarding the Issei and succeeding families, an...
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United States Supreme Court Separate But Equal
1,765 wordsRace and Ethnicity in America The Melting Pot In 1492 Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue. Everyone knows the story of Christopher Columbus; they are taught it in grade school if not before then. When he landed in America by accident, he had no idea that he would be creating the worlds largest Melting Pot. This melting pot provided means for a new country, made from a mixture of many cultures and beliefs, thus creating a new country with a new and ever-changing culture. One complication with a Meltin...
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South Asia World
425 wordsContemporary South Asia EDITORS Apurba Kind, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK Gather Rizvi, 5 / 1 Shanti Niketan, New Delhi, India REVIEW EDITOR Bob Currie, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Potential reviewers and publishers can access a list of current Books Received REGIONAL EDITORS Navnita Beer-Chad, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India Taj ul-Islam Hashmi, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh M. Human Kabir, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Stu...
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Didn T Doesn T
728 wordsStereotypes in Clothing Different styles and brands of clothing can be linked to different groups or cliques of people. It seems that the stereotypes related to the groups or cliques, have become a stereotype of the clothing. Styles ranging from baggy to preppy, to relaxed fit can be found all over the place, and stereotypes have found their way into just about every style of clothing worn. For example, the hippy? s from the 60? s wore their tie-die shirts, bell bottom pants and were thought to ...
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