Maxine Hong Kingston

Max Weber is a philosophical idealist and he is one of the most well known contributors to the sociological and philosophical fields. Many of his ideas converged with or complemented Marx and Engel’s ideologies. Nevertheless, it did not prevent him from refuting certain aspects of their scholarly works when appropriate. In this essay, I am going to critically analyze and critique six of Weber’s points and ideas raised in Ideology and the Development of Sociological Theory by Professor Zeitlin.…

Our main focal point is Hong Kong as head quarts with a trickle down system into neighboring cities. This process creates a logistics power-hub for transportation to future and neighboring expansion cites. Managers create an ethical precedence that gives rise to a strong ethical…

Hong Kong has just experienced the first legislative council election after the largest protest in the decade in the history of Hong Kong namely the “Umbrella Revolution”. In the fall of 2014, a large scale protest and street occupation happened in Hong Kong. The main highway the centre of the city were occupied by the protestors and their tent-filled base camp. The protest was incited by two student activist groups, Hong Kong Federation of Students and “Scholarism”. People were uprising to send…

that this experience was being shared, because there was a pair of tickets. Travel also means change and I believe Jing-Mei was feeling that change as soon as she arrived in China. The first line of the story says, “The minute our train leaves the Hong Kong borders and enters Shenzhen, China, I feel different.” The…

Is the foreign domestic helper/worker and integral part to the Hong Kong family? Introduction: Hong Kong, the city that never sleeps, shadowing a thriving economy and rigid workforce system. As the years have gone by Hong Kong has created several job opportunities, from sweeping the streets, to being an investment banker. It is undisputed that people pursue job opportunities everywhere, these people, even include, parents. Parents have responsibilities when it comes to family, providing for…

Throughout history, the Taiping Rebellion has become known as the most important radical political and religious event in the 19th century (Britannica). Around 1850, Hong Xiuquan became the leader of the rebellion whose goal was to promote the ideals of anti-manchuism and especially Christianity. Even though the Taiping rebellion is one of the bloodiest movements in Chinese history, there was a positive outcome. One of Hong’s goals, which became a success, was the advancement of women’s rights.…

From the 18th century to part of the 19th century, the nation of China had a great sense of pride as well as dislike for outsiders. The dislike of foreigners stemmed from the belief that China was the most superior culture in existence. Chinese culture was based off of Confucian theory at the time. This directly influenced the events leading up to the First Opium War. Once western traders arrived in China for the first time, foreign ideas infiltrated China and began to change the ways of life.…

play ”Gone With the Locusts” because of Ye Ye’s inspirational words, ”It was announced today that 14-year-old Hong Kong schoolgirl Adeline Jun-Ling Yen of Sacred Heart Canossian School, Caine Road, Hong Kong, has won first place in the International Play-writing Competition held in London, England, for the 1951-1952 school year. Our sincere congratulations, Adeline, for bringing honor to Hong Kong” (191). This is what gets Father’s attention and eventually her acceptance into college in England.…

How do you make your images to your books? I draw the images into my books myself. I usually start with only a pencil and draw the outlines on a paper. After the pencil work is done, I use black markers to make an overlayer on the drawing’s pencil parts. Sometimes I make the colours also with markers, but usually I move the drawing into a computer, and put the colors on the picture with some of the computer’s apps like picsart or pixlr express. Why did you make three different stories in…

June 19th, 1982, Vincent Chin, aged 27, was buried on his wedding day. Just 4 days prior, the young man was celebrating his recent engagement at a bar in Detroit, Michigan. When two white men approached him with racial terms followed by the beating from a baseball bat that caused his life (“Vincent Who”). The beating was brutal enough to be considered as manslaughter. However the sentence was only 3000 dollars and 3-year prohibition (“Vincent Who”). Apparently in the 20th century America,…