House of Representatives of Japan

starts out by explaining what the Duma is. The article states, “The Duma constituted the lower house of the Russian parliament, and the State Council was the upper house.” The Duma was appointed by Czar Nicholas II as an act for help in ruling Russia while being an autocratic leader. Czar Nicholas II established the Duma in the October manifesto on October 30, 1905. The Duma was organized to be a representative assembly dedicated to enhancement of leadership alongside…

in the attack. Nearly 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes were destroyed or crippled. The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt asked congress to declare war on Japan. The U.S. did not think that Japan would attack, because they are 4,000 miles away from Hawaii, furthermore Japan attacked. The American Officials were certain that any Japanese attack would have taken place in the nearby European colonies in the South Pacific: the Dutch East Indies, Singapore or…

1.What is social media? l Social Network Service l It is service which socializes and exchanges information with others on the internet 2. What kinds of social media are there? l Instagram l Kakaotalk l Wechat these 2, as well as Whatsapp, are not Social Media. They’re not a network like Facebook that is a platform for social interaction. There is a difference between ‘Social Media’ and ‘Social Networking’. Whatsapp, Kakaotalk and Wechat fall under Social Networking. However, you…

decorative art. Over the 1880s and 1890s, European artists like Gustav Klimt, Emile Galle and James Abbott McNeill Whistler were influenced by Japanese art. Flowers and curves were widely used stylistic features on Japanese wood-block prints and became representative of the upcoming Art Nouveau. In France, Vincent van Gogh’s flowing lines and patterns, Paul Gauguin’s pieces rich with flowery and vivid colors or Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s lithographs for example La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge…

themselves in life and don’t feel as if they belong to either of the two worlds. In the book, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford describes the life of Henry and Keiko, who are first generation immigrants, Henry from China and Keiko from Japan. Both Henry and Keiko don’t feel as they belong in…

Keeping the Peace – Responsibility for Insuring Domestic Tranquility in the United States Insure domestic tranquility is one of the most important clauses in the Preamble to the Constitution because it provides an overriding guideline about the importance of keeping peace within the United States. The United States’ founding fathers defined this phrase as the promise to run the country will be run as perfectly as can be. Domestic tranquility means no fighting between the states and peace in…

On December 7th, 1971, Japanese government launched a sneak attack on United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. As a result of this attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan the very next day which caused the life of over 100,000 Japanese to alter in the United States. FDR’s Executive Order of 9066 led to the immediate evacuation of all people of Japanese descents into internment camps and forced them to live in the most isolated parts of United States. The aftermath of the…

Ayesha Akhter Hist 173 Yuki Terazawa “Comfort Women” During World War II, when Japan waged the so called “holy war” to dominate East Asia, the Japanese government arranged a system for the government officials, police and military police, to force women into being a “comfort women” which in other words, a sex slave. These women were abducted, deceived and violently raped. The point of “comfort women” was not only to stabilize the army’s morale but also to prevent rape and sexually transmitted…

Abstract: In late 2009, Toyota Motor Corporation came into the bad light of the U.S. media and became the subject of scrutiny before the U.S. House of Representative committee after the emergence of many cases of deaths, accidents and injuries. These cases of death and injuries were majorly attributed to accidents that resulted from the problems of sudden and uncontrolled acceleration of its cars, including the popular models in the U.S market like Corolla and Camry. Even after the Toyota’s…

The “Arab Spring” was a wave of political action which emerged across the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, beginning with the Tunisian Revolution that took place in January of that year. The Arab Spring saw mass protests and/or the toppling of regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, Jordan and more. At that time, many people felt that these protests and regime changes could have signified a new era of democratization in the region. However, whether or not that is truly the…