Immediately following the Meiji Restoration, elementary education was mandatory for both boys and girls. This gave way to a new ideal of “good wife, wise mother” which signified a modern, wage earning woman. Wage earning women and girls working in factories and cut off from their traditional domestic roles as subservient housewives challenged the preconceived notion of gender and the role the patriarchal system had set for them. Adding to the notion of the “good wife, wise mother” ideal was the birth of the “housewife” that emerged during the growth of the middle class during the mid-20th century. The Japanese housewife embodied a both a modern and domestic woman that was also commonly a graduate from a higher school. (Faison 8-9) Thus, a new hierarchy was born between women of “housewife” status who were part of the educated middle-class and the “good wife, wise mothers” who were majority of working-class, factory…
that the political system of China before The Qing Dynasty was not efficient and helpful to Chinese people. Moreover, under the rule of the Qing government, the Manchu’s were better treated than the Han Chinese, which was really unfair to them. Moreover, during the late Qing reform, anti-Qing uprisings broke out frequently. By October 1911, there were 10 anti-Qing rebellion staged by different revolutionary groups. Furthermore, the students and military officers who were sent abroad and exposed…
The history of slavery spans many cultures and religions, from ancient times to modern day. Almost every country practiced it including America, Africa, Europe and Asia. The earliest forms of slavery can be tracked back to the ancient Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi and other ancient civilizations such as the Sumerians and Egyptians. However, there were many differences including total population, the punishments they faced, and overall purpose and origin of slaves in specific locations. Some…
What were the key results of the Neolithic Revolution? They had a lot of agricultural products they was very big in that and art. What is diffusion in the context of societal developments? The Ten Commandments’ injunction to “honor thy mother and father” gives Judaism the greatest degree of commonality with what belief systems? confucianism Why did the development of agriculture lead to an increase in population? It lead to agriculture because the more food they made more people moved in to…
period from 1922 to 1930, was that of a “Janus-like” Kemalism. It is provided that “During this period the Kemalist government was strong enough to imagine itself as a truly revolutionary regime without any previous experience encountered in any age of Ottoman history”. Last but not least, the third phase, from 1930 to 1938, is mainly about anti-liberal and anti-democratic regimes. In the book, it is shortly demonstrated that “During the third period, Kemalism planned itself into the future as…
THE CONTROL YUAN – WHITHER GOEST THOU? Submitted to: Professor Pasha Hsieh Submitted by: Kirti Hariharan, LLM 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents 1. Abstract 3 2. Introduction 3 3. A Better Understanding of the Control Yuan 3 (a) Structure 3 (b) Functioning 4 (c) Powers 4 i. Power to audit 5 ii. Power to correct 5 iii. Power to impeach 5 iv. Power to inspect 6 v. Power to invigilate examinations 6 vi. Power to censure 6 vii. Power to accept petitions from people 7 viii. Implement the…