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It’s really hard for people to accept themselves and sometimes it had to do with weight, looks, grades, and even cultural identity. Getting bullied about it makes it a lot worse. Gene Luen Yang talks about this topic in his Graphic Novel, American Born Chinese. American Born Chinese is about three characters, Jin Wang, Danny and The Monkey King. They all have a problem with accepting themselves and the way there lives are. They go through they’re journey on trying to reach self acceptance. As…

INTRODUCTION Historically a caravan is a group of people traveling together, often on a trade expedition. Caravans were used mainly in desert areas and throughout the Silk Road, where traveling in groups aided in defence against bandits as well as helping to improve economies of scale in trade. Presently a caravan is a vehicle equipped for living in, typically towed by a car and used for holidays. Why Caravanning ? You don't have to be active or outgoing to go caravanning. Simply enjoying the…

William Hogarth’s Gin Lane served to back the Gin Act of 1751, in England. Urban cities, such as London, had become devastated with “extreme poverty and high rates of infant mortality,” primarily caused by the availability of gin, and the rising issue of alcoholism. Gin Lane emphasized the dangers of gin and liquor to the public, but also served to critique the wealthy population, for ignoring the poor. Hogarth’s illustration not only supported the Gin Act, it revealed the underlying…

place, with art colleges offering both departments in Japanese and Western painting styles. Over the years, many different schools and painting styles were developed. The term for painting in black ink is called suibokuga. This style was adopted from China and was significantly influenced by Zen Buddhism. Ink painting gained a more Japanese style of its own during the 15th century. The Kano School of Painting was established by Kano Masanobu (1453-1490) and his son Kano Motonobu (1476-1559).…

VI. Impact of the Russo-Japanese War The War ended with the Treaty of Portsmouth, and was a significant loss of a Western Power due to an Eastern military. Winning a battle against China during the first Sino-Japanese only showed the Western powers that Japan had a strong enough military to engage in overseas battler, while the Russo-Japanese war gave Japan more prestige because of the defeat of a western military with a long standing history of military strength and dominance in the region. On…

The oppression of women in Chinese culture is strongly depicted in Pearl Buck’s novel The Good Earth. Buck explores the idea that “Women are not as equally valued as men” through the use of characters such as O-lan, who was constantly victimized for not adhering to the cultural ideas of how a woman should be. The women of the novel were seen as objects and were forced to sacrifice many things all for the benefit of men. Women were not as equally valued as men as they were seen as objects…

Our case study analyzes a native Mandarin Chinese speaker who is currently studying at a U.S. institution of higher learning. For purposes of this study, we will refer to the subject as Jay. Jay was born and raised in Shandong Province, China and studied there until he graduated high school. He began learning English at 10 years old and is currently 21. The purpose of this case study is to analyze the effect of his motivation and linguistics and social environment on his language learning. We…

the whole China and he did. Qin Shi Huang created China by a lot of reason but the most important one is conquer the whole China and unite them as one country. He create strict rules and he burn books. I will show you why down below. First, Qin Shi Huang conquer China because his military is very strong, they have better armor, better sword and many more. The Qin dynasty's word is 30% longer then others. With his army, he can do whatever he can and he unite China. He also expand China. Second,…

Several centuries after Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha, died, Buddhism made its emergence into China in the first century CE. Initially, the spread of Buddhism was responded to positively by the people of China and they adopted its ideals. However, as Buddhism continued to expand, the government, specifically of the Tang Dynasty, started to turn against Buddhists and even went as far as to blame them for problems within the state. As a result, the people felt compelled to diverge from…

Nanking Massacre When presented with the opportunity, people may find themselves committing horrible crimes if they believe they won't experience any repercussions. The Nanking Massacre proves this theory through the in-the-moment decisions of the Japanese army during their invasion of the Chinese city of Nanjing. The incident has redefined what constitutes as a war crime as an act of war that infringes on the individual rights of non-participants, as well as guided the universal methods of war…