Boxer Rebellion

The wrench is a useful tool used for a variety of different tasks, like tightening nuts and bolts. Without it, nuts and bolts everywhere would be falling out of place, and people everywhere would go “nuts” trying to reassemble desks and reattach the tires onto their cars. In Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, people do in fact “go nuts,” and wrenches are indeed used, but not in the exact same ways. Randle McMurphy, the main character of this novel, frequently causes mishap in the…

As technology has gotten better and more console varieties have come out, video games have become a huge part of people’s lives. Over sixty-five percent of households in the U.S., play video games. The average time spent people use playing video games is around eighteen hours per week. Though this is the average, there are larger percentages, especially close to the teenage years and younger. What is so off turning about this though, is that there are beneficial educational learnings within…

Contemporary world History Christina Cagol EXAM 1 September 8, 2014 1. Pablo Picasso and George Braque founded cubism in the early 20th century in Paris. It was an artwork to be considered as the first radical approach in expressing visual reality. According to Cubist, any perception of an object was a composite of simultaneous and different perspectives. Cubism tries to help one understand the world around them in a different way by changing their perspective on a certain subject.…

establishment. In the early 1800s the White Lotus Rebellions occurred, led by the frustrated Buddhists who got mad that the government was corrupted and taxed heavily. The Self Strengthening Movement was not effective in 1860. China lost Vietnam to France in the Sino-French War of 1883. China also had to hand over Taiwan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki and allow the Japanese rights in trade just like the British. China was forced to sign yet another document, the Boxer Protocol. The Protocol…

domination over the world. b. conquer India. c. control the Aleutian Islands. d. control a sphere of influence that would include Manchuria, Korea, and part of China.* e. follow the lead of the United States and pursue Manifest Destiny. 35. The Boxer Uprising was a series of riots a. encouraged by Chinese officials against foreign presence.* b. that rid China of the Japanese presence. c. that placed Japan under direct military control. d. that clearly demonstrated Japanese nationalism.…