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King And Queen Gulliver Travels
1,137 wordsSwift was dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin when his novel came out. Since in this book he wrote about and often harpooned-prominent political figures, he published the book anonymously. While most readers were trying like mad to find out who the author was. Swift's close friends had fun keeping the secret. London was stunned with thoughts about the author's identity, as well as those of some of his characters. Swift's dying years were a torment. He suffered awful bouts of dizziness, nau...
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Attempted To Reform China Attempted To Reform Yan
542 words1. ) There have been numerous attempts to reform China in the late 19 th century to build up China's strength and make it a world power once again. There have been many prestigious intellectuals and organizations that have attempted to do this. One of these intellectuals who had a great influence on other reformers was Yan Fu. Yan presented his ideas many people throughout China through his series of reform essays. Yan spoke of the foreign powers that invaded China and were controlling and chang...
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Boxer Rebellion Secret Societies
648 wordsWhen Japan defeated China in 1895, European powers answered with an order they called, carving up the Chinese melon. Following the division of Africa among European powers, they turned their sights to what they saw as an extremely weak Chinese government. European powers and America began to scramble for what was called spheres of interest. These spheres of interest involved holding leases for all railway and public advantages in different regions of China. Russia got Port Arthur, Britain got th...
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Qin Dynasty Han Dynasty
1,222 wordsThe Han dynasty (202 BC - AD 220) reunited the China after the Qin dynasty fell apart. The Han ruled China for forty years, which was divided into two periods: the earlier period Western Han and the later period Easter Han. Gaozu, who was the first king of the Han dynasty, was a minor official in Qin dynasty. He became a leader of a small group of soldiers and acquired territories. Overtime, his army expanded to large number. In 206 BC, Gaozu took the title as King of Han and he ended the Qin dy...
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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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Great Wall One Day
422 wordsHello, my name is Chou Ung, and I am a soldier. I usually have to wear a tunic, leather boots, shin guards, helmet, and bronze armor. I have to wear lots of armor. The weapons I use are the lance, shield, crossbow, sword, spear, bow and arrow, and an ax. I have a flat face and a low-bridge nose. I also have protruding eyes, large ears, high eyebrows, and slender lips. Wherever I go, I always carry a knife, fan, jade disc, porcelain horse, and a flute. I love my flute. Everybody loves it when I p...
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Opium War Chinese Leaders
760 wordsHistory of China can reveal many interesting facts to learn. It is full of wars and political challenges, revolutions and tortures. Chinas civilization is one of the most ancient that has great cultural values. To begin with three feudatories, which grew out of the three chief economic areas of the Han Dynasty. The leaders of the kingdoms strove to reunite the empire and were therefore at constant warfare. These three kingdoms were the Wei, in northern China, the Shu to the west, and the Wu in t...
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Ch Ing Northern China
696 wordsHistory of China can reveal many interesting facts to learn. It is full of wars and political challenges, revolutions and tortures. Chinas civilization is one of the most ancient that has great cultural values. Empress Cixi was born on November 29, 1835. Her clan name was Yehonala. Like the emperor and most other prominent people in China at that time, Yehonala and her family were Manchu, and had little contact with Chinese people. Cixi was a strong ruler who suppressed many rebellions, but she ...
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Equality As Portrayed In Harrison Bergeron
741 wordsEquality as Portrayed in "Harrison Bergeron" The story was written in 1961 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , an American fiction writer, but was set in the year 2081. This futuristic (and maybe prophetic) narrative talks about egalitarianism in the context of using artificial not to mention harmful methods to monitor, control and maintain the perceived social equality, the classlessness in the society. The society seventy-three years from now was able to design, develop and implement a system that which cr...
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In Search Of The Perfect Man Heian Period
1,576 wordsIn search of the Perfect Man in Heian Period Sneaking through the court one day I happen to overhear three aristocratic women engaged in a heated debate concerning the issue of attributes of the perfect man. The three women are: Sei Shonagon, Murasaki Shikibu and Mother Michitsuna and they all are representatives of ancient Japanese historical period called Heian. It is no accident that the great figures of Heian Dynasty Japanese literature were women. Founded in 794, the Heian imperial state fi...
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Tang Dynasty Historical Figures
581 wordsGendered double standard China is one of the most ancient countries of world civilization with 4000 year-history. Every history reflects the life, customs and traditions of people that create it. Comparing of different historical figures belonging to the same nation gives an opportunity to trace the historical events and the development of civilization. In this essay we will examine Chinese traditional historians employed a gendered double standard to evaluate historical figures using the cases ...
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Chiang Kai Shek Mao Zedong
1,761 wordsHistory of China History of China can reveal many interesting facts to learn. It is full of wars and political challenges, revolutions and tortures. Chinas civilization is one of the most ancient that has great cultural values. Empress Cixi was born on November 29, 1835. Her clan name was Yehonala. Like the emperor and most other prominent people in China at that time, Yehonala and her family were Manchu, and had little contact with Chinese people. Cixi was a strong ruler who suppressed many reb...
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Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party
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Black Sea Catherine Russia
587 wordsCatherine II, or Catherine the Great, empress of Russia (1762 - 96), did much to transform Russia into a modern country. Originally named Sophie Frederick Augusta, she was born in Szczecin, Poland, on May 2, 1729. She was the daughter of the German prince of Anhalt-Zerbst. At the age of 15 she went to Russia to become the wife of Peter, who is a nephew and a heir of Empress Elizabeth. Elizabeth died on Dec. 25, 1761, and Catherines husband succeeded as Peter III. The new ruler soon made himself ...
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Catherine The Great Denis Diderot
2,346 wordsCatherine the Great By: Meredith Klein CATHERINE II I. Early life a. Childhood b. Interests II. Relationship with Peter III a. Marriage and Motherhood b. Overtaking of Peter III c. Death of Elizabeth II III. Catherine Empress of Russia a. Russian Orthodox Clergy b. Philosophers c. Pastimes d. Worries IV. Love and Power a. Love affairs b. Accomplishments V. Conclusion a. Catherine II was worth of the title, Catherine the Great. 1 / 4 / 58 Women fell under her spell as well as men, for underlying ...
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View Of Women Male Dominated
1,336 wordsChinese Women in a Male Dominated World The view of women in china may have changed over the years but they all have lived in a male dominated world. The past has been like many cultures, in the legal and cultural suppression of women. The culture of chinas past has placed women as a far inferior position to men. In this environment gaining power and rights was extremely difficult. Despite this there are stories of important and powerful women in chinas history. This is different than many cultu...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Archbishop Of Salzburg
1,885 wordsWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Y ekaterina Todika Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was baptized in Salzburg Cathedral on the day after his birth as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgang Theophilus. The first and last given names come from his godfather Joannes Theophilus Pergmayr, although Mozart preferred the Latin form of this last name, Amadeus, more often Amadeus, or the Italiano Amadeo. Whatever the case may be, he rarely-if ever-used Theophilus in his signature. The name Chrysostomus origi...
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Sir Robert Peel Fortune Teller
1,445 wordsOn November 6, 1817 Princess Charlotte, the only heir to the crown of England died. She was the only child of the Prince Regent and was not a happy women. She was married off to prince of Orange at the age or 17, but broke off the marriage after falling in love with Prince Augustus of Prussia. He was already married but she was unaware and she continued seeing him. After a long time of Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobury admiring her, Princess Charlotte gave him a chance and finally they were married ...
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Quot Boxers Quot Society Of Harmonious Fists West
588 wordsAround 1900, after many years of succumbing to the superior military of the West, the Chinese stood up for their country. China was a weak, backwards, country, exploited by the West. They felt that they could counter the foreign domination, but reforms were useless because they needed the West to help with the reforms. But something sparked their confidence, and they believed themselves to be able to conquer any foreign power. This spark was the Society of Harmonious Fists, commonly known as &qu...
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Sun And Moon Taj Mahal
1,450 wordsThe Taj Mahal Love at first sight. Such a sensation does exist as one approaches the purely, white, marble Taj Mahal and is overtaken by its immense size and beauty [Fig. 1 ]. The Taj Mahal can be referred to as a symbol of eternal love since Shah Jahan built it for his princess upon her death in 1631 A. D. Located in Agra, India, and considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World; the Taj Mahal was built by Prince Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his wife Empress Mumtaz Mahal. The funerary compl...
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