Japanese tea ceremony

The horrors of Internment camps had become a reality to many Japanese-Canadians in World War Two, along with the racism and ill treatment the Issei [first generation Japanese-Canadians] and Nisei [second-generation Japanese-Canadians] had faced. The idea of this discrimination ending with the end of the war was farfetched. In fact, many are still trying to build and expand their identity today. Life indeed became different to Japanese-Canadians as how they had known it before World War Two, and…

counter-narrative is a narrative of the marginalized, and the oppressed. The novel When the Emperor was Divine is a counter, historical fiction book written by Julie Otsuka that critiques the hegemonic narrative of WW2. The author writes about a Japanese-American family living in the US during World War 2, that are forced into an incarceration camp in Utah. The main characters of the book all changed their coping mechanisms throughout the book. The mother had the coping mechanism of a turtle…

Due to mercantilistic views and extreme financial deficits from multiple wars, Britain was scrambling to increase their revenues around the 1750s and 60s. England was in major debt from over 80 years of various conflicts and by the end of the French and Indian War, thought it made sense to have the colonies help pay for a war that was fought to protect their homes. Britain also valued the concept of mercantilism, which stated there was a fixed amount of wealth in the world and the more one…

America and England had intertwined economies that supported each other with things such as land expansion, but separated due to their conflicting ideas on the American value of economic freedom of the taxation of the colonies. During the French and Indian War, England expanded American land by seizing French and Indian territory. A map of territorial change shows the difference in land owned before and after the French and Indian War and the Treaty of Paris. England claimed much more land past…

In the novel Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes, Johnny is a fourteen year old boy who is an apprentice to Mr. Lapham,a silversmith that lives on Hancock's Wharf with Dove, Dusty, Mrs.Lapham, and her four daughters. Johnny thought that he was the greatest of the three boys until Dove gave Johnny a cracked piece of crucible and it cracked in the oven, and Johnny slipped on melted beeswax and he accidentally burnt his hand, which means that Johnny can not be a silversmith anymore. When Mr. Lapham…

desserts in Asian countries. However, in the United States, boba is rarely used in foods that people consume on a daily basis. Boba is not usually eaten by itself; it can be added to tea or smoothies. It can also be used as the main ingredient for a sweet soup. Having grown up in Taiwan, the country where boba milk tea was invented, I love boba and have eaten boba for many years. It is a treat that I often crave in America, but I have discovered that boba is quite simple to make. Drinks…

Japanese Kawaii: A Bibliographic Essay The focus of this bibliographic essay is the Japanese idea of kawaii. The term kawaii is generally translated as “cute” in English, but it’s actual meaning in Japan is far wider and more complex. In addition to exploring the extent of the kawaii phenomenon, my research revealed multiple questions or ideas for me to potentially address in my paper. These include the topic of kawaii on Japanese youth, specifically the effect on the identity and self-image of…

The Declaration of Independence marked the end of the road to the revolution, and marked the beginning of the revolutionary movement in the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence is a document written by a founding father of the “United States of America”, Thomas Jefferson, and declared on July 4, 1776. This documented can be broken down into three pieces, in section one it has simple statements with a specific purpose, the second section included a list of grievances, and the…

from the school faculty for all freshmen. My first point is about the genuine purpose of education in university. What’s the definition of uni? Our schoolmaster Mr. 戚万学 had talked about his own understanding of university in this year’s welcoming ceremony speech. He said, the word university is formed by 2 characters in Chinese, the first Chinese character大 reveals spreading thoughts, powerful rationality and wide concern for others, and the second character学 interprets acquiring healthy…

William Barrell, Letter regarding the Boston Tea Party (1773) Context: Since the beginning of the 17th century tea was being regularly imported to the American Colonies by the East India Company. An estimated 1.2 million pounds of tea were consumed by the Americans each year (Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum 2016, Boston Tea Party Facts: http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/boston-tea-party-facts). Britain realized they could increase their revenue of the tea trade by imposing taxes onto the…