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Southeast Asia Vietnam War
1,318 wordsImagine living in a society that does not accept you and at the same time living in a culture that is familiar to you but "foreign" to everyone else. This is true for many Asian Americans who have immigrated to the United States. Some people have the option of leaving their homeland while others such as the Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laos, and Mien people were forced to leave in order to live. People who choose to immigrate to the United States usually think about why they are leaving and at least m...
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Days A Week Place To Live
1,752 wordsBeing the biggest continent in the world, Asia contains about 60 % of the worlds population and growing each year. Though China, and India are two of the most populated countries in the world, having about 30 % of the worlds population, there are about two-fifths of the countries that have less than five million habitant's. Though forty-two different countries make up this great continent, much of the similarities are family values. Customs and traditions might be different, however, western ide...
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Million Years Ago 000 Years Ago
1,209 wordsSoutheast Asia is the location of a small country called the Philippines. Formally, Republic of the Philippines, the archipelago consists of roughly 7, 100 islands that are located in the southwest Pacific Ocean just Southeast of China. Natives of the country are called Filipinos. The term formerly originated when lowland Christian Spaniards, called indio's, began referring to themselves as Filipinos (Dolan 76). The ethnic background of a modern day Filipino is as complex as a typical Americans;...
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Buddhist Teaching Southeast Asian
1,133 wordsIn keeping with their emphasis on the oldest and most fundamental teachings, Theravada Buddhists produce only a narrow range of Buddhist imagery. Nearly every Southeast Asian Buddha image is made in one of these postures (mudras) that can easily be identified by the position of the hands: Dispelling Fear: Hand raised with palm facing outwards and fingers extended in a universal gesture of protection, benevolence, and peace. Teaching: Hand raised with palm facing outwards and index finger forming...
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000 Years Ago Papua New Guinea
1,657 wordsOceania is a collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. The term, in its widest sense, embraces the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas. A more common definition excludes the Ryukyu, Kuril, and Aleutian islands and the Japan archipelago. The most popular usage delimits Oceania further by eliminating Indonesia, Taiwan, and the Philippines, because the peoples and cultures of those islands are more closely related historically to the Asian mainl...
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20 Th Century Allied Forces
2,247 wordsIndonesia is the country that I have selected to conduct my research. I will research the following 5 topics all in the 20 th century. 1. The important aspects of the Indonesian culture Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, that achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1949. The Indonesian archipelago despite rich historical and cultural heritage is extremely influenced by the XX century world issues. Indonesia is emerged in widespread poverty, ever-growing external debt to the USA,...
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Women In Southeast Asia
2,400 wordsWomen in Southeast Asia An Indonesian activist writing in 1996 claimed the male-dominated regimes and masculine political cultures encouraged by these men created a politics that is competitive, heavily dependent on military force and infused with aggressive macho political habits. Feminine political culture, in contrast, reflects the legitimacy of the people. It is a political culture of calm, radiating, listening tolerance. He goes on to ponder why Cory, Suu Kyi and Megawati, managed to become...
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Time Life Books Head Of State
1,267 wordsSingapore, since it attained its independence on June 3, 1959, has been a thriving, trading nation. It had been controlled by the British, but after negotiations, was relinquished to self-autonomy with the understanding that it would remain a republic. Since then, it has reaffirmed its non-Communist stance and continued with progressive economic policies to the delight of the free world. Singapore? s modern history begins with its independence. It quickly drafted a Constitution, which called for...
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