Gong

bread with about 25 grams of sausage. After they finished their evening meal, they would have free time and this is the time when the prisoners were able to check their mail, visit acquaintances in other living quarters, etc. At 9:00 PM, the last gong of the day rang which signaled silence around the…

Gamelan Music (Gam-a-lawn) is the traditional ensemble music of the islands of Java and Bali in Indonesia. These ensembles consist largely of percussive instruments. With different variations of gongs, mallet instruments, and drums, each instrument is struck with a mallet to produce a metallic/percussive sound. Each Gamelan Ensemble has a different style and can incorporate different percussive instruments, string instruments, and voice. This gives each Gamelan a unique texture. Gamelans…

who delivered kings’ orders was the deputy chief. It had strongly king-centered characteristic and was under Gong-jo . However, according to the record after the regime of King Tae-jong (Regime: 1400 – 1418) and King Se-jong (Regime: 1418 – 1450), Do-hwa-won had changed its characteristic and was reduced to an office in technical post. Ye-jo took over the duties related to Do-hwa-won from Gong-jo. The name of it also was changed to Do-hwa-seo, which meant to be downgraded from ‘won ’ to ‘seo ’…

Discovered in 1898, the element neon has helped produce a staple of American cities and everyday night life: neon lights. Neon was first proved to exist by William Ramsay and Morris Travers of London, who decided to name the newly discovered element after the Greek word neos, or new. This finding was “vital in proving the existence of isotopes” (McCormick 1). The Periodic Table of Elements shows neon on the farthest right column, meaning it belongs to the noble gas family. As a part of the…

Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective Aetiology of depression is multifactorial, with risk factors including low levels of parental warmth, high levels of family hostility, abuse and poverty (Gledhill & Hodes, 2010). Environment, cognitive and behavior are significant factors that cause the onset and duration of depression (Carvalho, Trent, & Hopko, 2011). Depression can affect all aspects of life, and may even lead to more serious problems including suicide. Although there is still a…

China is experiencing a remarkable religious renaissance that includes dark ages during Mao Zedong period, and revival and also reform in many traditional forms (Madsen 2011, p. 18). Religions not only in terms of organizations and conflicts, but also individual belief and convictions shaped the many of transformation of the history with continuous influence on society for the past few centuries (Dubois 2011, p. 1). Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Legalism have major impact in Asian society,…

The work field is an institution where citizens commit their time to make an outside living. In the work field, there are leaders that can make decisions for the company, and there are leaders that can’t. Leadership, by definition, would be people who are in charge of organizations and their subordinates (Hogan & Kaiser, 2005). Yet, there is more to leadership than just being in charge. Leadership is an essential trait that not everyone has and can execute effectively. In the workplace, this…

THE APPEARANCE AND SPREAD OF CUNEIFORM Cuneiform is the name of the many writing systems found throughout Mesopotamia that were in use from the fourth millennium B.C.E until the late first century C.E. The word cuneiform means “wedge-shaped,” due to the wedge shape being one of the two elements that describes the writing style. It was carved on clay tablets and could also be found on stone and metal works (Zorman 2014:103-104). The use of clay was advantageous as it could be molded into many…

Ignored and Abused, forgotten and unwanted, women and children lack freedom both in the household and in society. The One-Child Policy heightened the injustice they face and continued to restrict women’s reproductive rights. “In the nineteen-eighties, female factory workers were forced to show their stained menstrual napkins to prove they weren’t pregnant” (Demick). Although China has gone along way to make revisions to the One-Child Policy, there needs to be an end to sex-selective abortions in…

The hukou registration system creates inequality between agricultural and non-agricultural citizens. Gong states, “Migrant populations could be vulnerable to discrimination and stigmatization, and also might become stressed by finding work, housing, schools for their children, and health care without the protections and benefits afforded by hukou registration” (Gong, 846). In China, a permanent residency system designates citizens as either non-agricultural or agricultural depending…