Nanjing

My Culture Although I was born in China, my memory of my life there is like a blurry, monochromatic photo and, sometimes, it pains me to feel that mild sense of detachment from my beautiful heritage and culture. However, my genuine interest in Chinese language and culture is the reason why I will always persist in retaining this important aspect of my identity. Sophomore year marked the end of the Middle Years Program at our school. Our final assignment was our personal project, where we were…

A Review of Ostrowski on the Mongol Empire Given that our contemporary concepts of nation states and diplomacy arose from the Mongols, the Mongol Empire serves as a fascinating topic for those interested in world history to explore. Donald Ostrowski is one of the leading historians of the Mongol Empire. Ostrowski has a PhD from Pennsylvania State University, and teaches world history at the Harvard Extension School, and chairs the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies’ Early Slavists…

to stop the illegal trade by burning the British opium and trying to destroy the British ships. His actions led to the First Opium War which lasted from 1839 to 1842. The war resulted in the defeat of Lin's army and the signing of the "Treaty of Nanjing". The Chinese were now forced to open various ports to the British including the ones they had already been smuggling opium through. Chinese monopolies were removed and China was completely opened to the west. By 1853, the successors of the…

Both Tibet and Taiwan are unique in nature in that while they are considered by the Chinese to be its providences, are not directly under Chinese rule. Each anomaly was once considered its own nation, yet over the course of history have encountered Chinese rule, changing the shape of its governance. And while both governance has similarities in its current state, a key difference is that while Tibet has a government they have no land to govern; Taiwan on the other hand is not recognized as its…

Asthma: An Annotated Bibliography America Breathing Easier 2010: CDC’s National Asthma Control Program AT A GLANCE E. (n.d) Retrieved March 16, 2015from http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/aag/2010/ataglance2010.pdf The Center for Disease and Control Prevention is national asthma control program at a glance. This website gave the information about how to improving the quality of life and reducing the death and cost that impact on U.S. population. Overall, the CDC;s National Asthma Control Program…

Nanking Massacre In a matter of 6 weeks, two hundred to three hundred thousand people in Nanjing, China were killed. This would later be known as the Nanking Massacre. Before Japan’s Central China Army entered Nanking on December 13, 1937, leader of China, Kai-Shek removed all official Chinese troops from the capital. He left the untrained auxiliary troops to defend the city at all costs, but sadly a significant amount of soldiers fled before the Japanese entered the city. When the Japanese…

Adolf Hitler rose to power by taking bold actions and convincing people he can bring them out of their misery from the Great Depression. He had aimed to abolish the German federal government and “Hitler and his followers attempted to seize power in Bavaria as a step toward controlling all of Germany” (Maier, "Adolf Hitler"). The Beer Hall Putsch was an event that Hitler created in order to take over the government in Bavaria and eventually gain power. However, it failed as it ended in…

1) Anila K N and Emmanuel J (2013 A) conducted a study on Impact of a clinical pharmacist in improving knowledge on cardiology out patients about anticoagulants, in AIMS health care campus, Kerala. In this study the interventional group received an additional care by the clinical pharmacist and was compared with a controlled group which received only the usual care of the physician. At the end of the study it was found that the patient’s awareness of the INR values is correlated with improved…

groups feared the end of the world and began to challenge the Mongol leaders of the Yuan dynasty. Eventually, a group known as The Red Turbans were able to drive the Mongols out of China in1368. Their leader, Zhu Yuanzhang, made the southern city of Nanjing his new capital and created the Ming Dynasty. Zhu also declared himself the first emperor of the dynasty and began to reconstruct China’s weakened society after he defeated rival rebel leaders. Zhu was known as The Hongwu…

The faith and future of this world rested on the decisions made on September 2nd, 1945. It was a day that shaped our history and future positively and should be remembered in not just our generation, but for many more generations to come. By accepting and signing the terms of peace, the Japanese, along with the allied nations that convened in Tokyo Bay, agreed to set aside their differences and launched the world into a new age of acceptance, peace, and harmony. The world rejoiced as the war…