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Separate Ways Short Stories
907 wordsFriendships, to Trust or not to Trust? In the short stories, Separate Ways, by Higuchi Kichizo, and Uncanny Stories from the Scholars Studio, by Song Ling, the two pieces both demonstrate the limits, high and low, of friendship. Mrs. Chu and Mrs. Heng have a loving friendship, but not being able to trust is their downfall. Okyo and Kichizo also have a very loving and caring friendship, but money and riches overpowers their friendship in the end. Mrs. Chu, and Mrs. Heng, in Uncanny Stories show a...
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Dalai Lama American Indians
1,118 wordsThe Independence of Tibet is one of the hottest topics in the world today, undoubtedly due in part to the massive media exposure and attention given to the Dalai Lama and his movement in America. Recent Movies such as Kundun, The Wind Horse, and the extremely popular Seven Years in Tibet have had an astounding impact on the arousal of international awareness of Tibet's situation with China. This impact and the establishment of the Tibetan Independence Movement as a major issue on the internation...
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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
3,359 wordsOn October 16, 1934, 100 000 Chinese Communist troops set out on a 6, 000 mile trek from their base in Kiangsi. 1 This trek, later to be known as the Long March, began after Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist armies (the Kuomintang) frustrated the Communist organization in Southeast China. The Long March was a difficult journey; approximately 90, 000 men and women died before it was over. 2 However, communism was not eliminated in China. This paper argues that the Long March galvanized commitme...
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Hydrothermal Vents Ocean Floor
1,069 wordsSome 7, 500 feet below the oceans surface lies a intriguing and bizarre world unlike any other. Large black volcanoes tower above the ocean floor spouting out poisonous black gas into freezing cold waters and blind crabs roam endlessly in pitch darkness. These intolerable conditions could only mean one thing, hydrothermal vents. These mystical giants of the deep have stumped some of the worlds greatest scientists who have only recently discovered that they may hold the potential key to some of t...
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Kim Jong Il Kim Il Sung
1,550 words... comm established in the society. " (p 179) There was nothing outside the sphere of China, and one accepted their place. People accepted their place, perhaps because they could see nothing outside that. In North Korea, as far as the common citizens know, there is nothing outside the DPR. They accept their place because they believe they suffer for the good of their nation. The privileged live a life of ease, such as Jong Il's reported three official residences and four private villas. The com...
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Chow Yun Fat Chow Yun Action
690 wordsJohn Woo, the directorial guru of action, the master of violence. His stylized action sequences were hip, fresh, and interesting. He slowed down the action to zero in on the gritty details of pain and violence, turning action into art. I like to think of his movies as a gory ballet, expertly choreographed with tight, bone crunching detail. John Woo changed the face of the action movie. The Killer follows the story of Chow Yun-Fat's grizzled hitman 'Jeff' - an old-fashioned sort of a contract kil...
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Ming Dynasty And Part 1
1,543 wordsMing dynasty and Manchu Ming dynasty is a great period in the history China. It left its own trace and will be remembered by the next generations. As every dynasty it had its own advantages and drawbacks. But all these events did happen and nobody can change the past. People have to remember the history of the world. At first it is necessary to mention the beginning of the Ming dynasty and the events which lead to its foundation. After the power of the Mongol Emperors was ended China was attacke...
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Dragon Boat Races Dragon Boat Festival Yuan
483 wordsThe Dragon Boat Festival Dragon boat racing is more than an exciting water sport. It is also a very dynamic part of the Chinese folklore and culture. Chinese people traditionally regard the dragon as a great creature that has been presiding over the water. It also represents the symbol of power. The emperor of the Chinese kingdom would wear a rope that has a dragon on it, to make himself powerful. Dragon Boat Festival in Taiwan is celebrated by Dragon boat racing, eating rice dumplings, and wear...
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Thousand Years Ago Similar In Many Ways
1,316 wordsBetween five and six thousand years ago, the Hmong people lived in todays Hebei province, said Professors Wu and Yang. Their leader at the time was the legendary Chiyou, and his people were known as the Jiuli tribes. The ancestors of the Han Chinese, ruled by leaders Huang Di and Yan Di, lived to the northwest of the Jiuli Kingdom. As Chinese population grew, they expanded southward into Hmong territory. A major war broke out between the two sides on the northwestern part of modern-day Beijing. ...
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Schools Of Thought Yin And Yang
1,546 wordsWho is Confucius? To some he may appear as a joke. However, Confucius, in reality, was not a laughingstock. He was a man who strived to bring peace and happiness to a world ravaged by crime and war. Confucius did not look for paradise in the next world like other religions but rather he was more concerned with achieving happiness in ones own lifetime. A respected Chinese philosopher, Confucius, or Kung Fu Tzu, began as a teacher, stressing the importance of self-discipline and generosity. He tho...
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Bushido Code Feudal Japan
920 wordsIn my essay on the Code of Bushido, I will attempt to explain the different sections of the code as well as who used the code that defined Japans warrior class, the general history of the code and the honor that accompanies it. Bushi is a term that was given to the warrior class of a pre-feudal and feudal Japan (web). Bushido, which literally translated to the way of the warrior (Hall, Eleanor 37), was the certain philosophy that directed the Samurai. The Chivalry code of the European Knights of...
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Republic Of China Mao
2,489 wordsMao turned China into a complete Totalitarianism state. It was the Communist ideology that ran the country. All social, political, economic, Cultural and intellectual activities were in some way controlled by Mao. Mao set many rules by which the people were to live by making China at the time, a totalitarianism state. At the time of Mao? s birth, Emperor Yuan ruled China in the Qing dynasty. The Qing dynasty had been controlling China since 1644 and had never been popular. Members of the Qing dy...
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