Asia

Take Home Essay Questions (1) Conquest and trade are vehicles for shifting the powers between civilizations, exploration of new lands and the transfer of ideas, cultures, technologies, and disease. The results of continual conquest and expanding trade from 1300 to 1750 CE in Afro-Eurasia facilitated an increase in interconnection within its own borders as well as becoming a global market once sustained contact with the Americas was achieved. Mongol’s massive conquest over much of Afro-Eurasia,…

The age of exploration was a time where Europeans looked outward and traveled across the world for land, riches, and knowledge. This age much like the Renaissance and the Protestant reformation was predicated on the fact that people were curious and wanted to learn, and this drive made them go look towards the sea and want to explore. I believe that Francis Drake, Francisco Pizarro, and Vasco Da Gama were all three key explorers of the time period. All three of these explorers made great…

Japan wasn’t forced to end its separation by Western nations until the 1850s. This was far after the beginning of the first Opium War in China. This was because they were previously involved with other parts of Asia and served as a sort of safeguard because for a while, Japan didn’t really have a lot of demand for Western goods nor a lot of attractive resources. However, through their trade with the Dutch, they were kept informed about China’s relationship with…

INTRO With the rise of the Asian Tigers, the world’s attention has shifted to the East in terms of growth prospects and economic potential. Similar to other Asian countries, India has possessed the right ingredients for this transformation. However, because of its combination of a closed economy and a democratic government, changes were slow to come. India is in a different place now; it has been growing rapidly: inflation has eased, international investors are bullish on India and the Modi…

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) refers to Asian individuals as “having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam” (as cited by Hoeffel, E. M., Rastogi, S., Kim, M. O., & Shahid, H., 2012). From 2000 to 2010 the Asian population grew 43 percent, from 10.2 million to 14.7 million, which is four…

the median age is about 46.7 years” (“Japan Population World, 2016), and they were not prepared for this type of disaster. The layout of Japan is that it is an island and according to Geography of Japan (n.d.) states that Japan is located in eastern Asia in the Pacific Ocean to the east of China, Russia, North Korea and South Korea, and it is an archipelago that is made up of over 6,400 islands, the largest of which are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. As for their population, they are…

him/herself in gender specific role solely responsible for making up narrative for others. Modern subjects were never established in Japan, with Japanese subjects perceived to be constantly loose, flexible, confusing, ambiguous, and reproducible. Asia was considered synonymous with the image of an authoritarian culture lacking in emotional connection, cold, impersonal, and machine-like. Japanese was embodied in liminal quality with not even considered greater than that of robots, but equated…

1.Introduction My rational of choosing Japan for a holiday is because I personally like their culture, savoury food and their beautiful scenery of the country. Japan is an island in the Pacific in which is divided by the east coast of Asia by the Sea of Japan. Japan consists of four main islands that are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. Tokyo is one of a prefecture of Honshu and other largest cities that include Yokahama, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Kyoto, Kawasaki, Saitama, Hiroshima and Sendai.…

game that was on one of the shows involved dwarves, really short people, doing obstacle courses and many other tasks in hopes of earning some money. I kid not that I just learned last month that the word “dwarf” is an offensive term in America. In Asia, everyone says “dwarf” all the time! Growing up, my mother would refer to short people she saw as dwarfs but due to her accent, she pronounces…

During World War II, Japan suffered an onslaught of air raids, fire bombs, and atomic bombs leaving the nation all but destroyed. Despite this widespread devastation, Japan was able to reconstruct itself in order to become one of today’s leading industrialized economic superpowers. In class, we briefly discussed the United States’ occupancy in Japan between the years 1945 and 1952 as well as the economic miracle that took place during and after the Korean War, which helped launch the country…