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accustomed to American traditions. It is important to know where you came from because not only would you understand your family better, but you would understand yourself better. Both my mother and my father were born in Cambodia, a country located in Southeast Asia, to Chinese-Cambodian parents. Both of their families immigrated to America in order to have a better life not only for them, but for their children 's future. Heritage is something to be proud of in our diverse nation.…

level. However, the impact of anarchy and the measures necessary to take for international cooperation are vastly different between the scholars. In the south china sea region, china claims authority over the territory, however, other states in southeast Asia claim ownership of either partial or the entire territory causing conflict between the states as to whom the territory belongs to. The…

Poverty rates in developing countries continue to inflate enormously. Countries such as Niger and Burundi are faced with an epidemic of continued poverty and no improvement in sight. Several factors affect the rate of poverty in developing countries. The primary factors that significantly improve or deteriorate poverty rates in countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Niger, and Burundi are the mean years a women spends in school and the average age of a woman 's first marriage. In perspective, the…

basic health needs and in each case the primary systems involved the most of these therapies involved the usage of plant derived extract or their active principles (Bruneton 1995). Adhatoda vasica (L.) Nees is a shrub widely seen throughout the Southeast Asia tropical regions…

Events in the pacific war led to Australia being involved in the battles of Kokoda, along with other pacific countries. Which steered many post war impacts on Australia. The battle of Kokoda had a significant impact in the war on the Pacific and Australia, ruining but yet building civilisations and making history within countries. Events in the pacific war in late 1941 and early 1942 of Japans conquer and determination to take of the Pacific; led to the July 1942, Kokoda jungle war in Papa New…

1. In response to the analogy that the US’s “Monroe Doctrine” over the Caribbean Sea and China’s claim to the South China Sea, the US should point out that the circumstances of China’s claim is different to the US when the Monroe Doctrine was declared. Obviously, the United States and the claimants of these areas have special interest in the area in the same way that China has. Also, when the US stated the Doctrine, the states affected by it accepted it and was not opposed to American…

My hometown is Qingdao, let me give a brief introduction of Qingdao to you. The “Qing” is a color, as same as cyan or green. The “dao” is island. There is a small island on the sea near Qingdao. Because there are many plants on the island, the island looks green and this is the origin of the “Qingdao”. Qingdao is located in the southern part of Shandong province. Qingdao's climate is typical temperate monsoon climate, so it is relative warm in winter and relative cool in summer. Summer…

With an increasing population the countries of Southeast Asia cannot escape rapid urbanization. Generally people from rural areas will move to urban areas for different reasons, but mostly for the opportunities that come with urban areas. These can be employment opportunities that are not otherwise available in rural areas or better paying employment. Although one problem may be that even urban areas may not be equipped to sustain all the people that move in from the rural areas and this will…

Currently, maritime security issues are an ongoing topic of discussion in East and South East Asia. Westerners who are unfamiliar with the problem, oftentimes wonder why these is so much animosity between countries such as China, Japan and the Korean Peninsula over “islands”. The Senkaku/Diaoyu island dispute between China and Japan is perhaps the most well known, while the Tsushima/Daemado island dispute between Japan and the Korean peninsula is a close second. The island disputes in the South…

In September 2016, NASA reported that the earth’s carbon dioxide level had passed the maximum level of 400 PPM when it was supposed to be at the lowest point of that year (Kahn 2016). This data from NASA (2016) shows that ever since the Industrial Revolution, human activities have been responsible for creating more greenhouse gases and the earth’s climate has rapidly changed. Climate change is one of five factors that Diamond mentioned in his collapse model and which became the basis of this…