Religion in Asia

My motivation for pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at UC San Diego (UCSD) emanates from my lifelong goal to be a leading scholar in the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics, teaching and conducting research at a major research university. UCSD’s Department of Political Science’s model of cross-disciplinary work, ethos on close mentoring and supervision, emphasis on methodology and multivariate analysis, wealth of world-class faculty across subfields, combined with the…

In the novel The Bonesetter’s Daughter Amy Tan focuses on three main characters, who are all introduced to the readers in a reverse chronological order. The first is Ruth, who is a Chinese born in America. The second is her mother LuLing, who was born in China, but later emigrated to America after the World War II. The third is Precious Auntie who is the daughter of a bonesetter.The main theme throughout The Bonesetter 's Daughter is the importance of communication in relationships, and how…

People from different cultures respond to pain differently because every culture responds to pain different medical beliefs. In this essay I will focus on East Asian cultural aspect of pain management. East Asians are people from china, Japan, Taiwan and Korea. People in east Asian cultures tend to endure pain because showing pain is perceived as sign of weakness, health care professionals should not be challenged with complains about pain and also assertiveness is associated with having poor…

Cultures are a way society interact with one another as a whole. This direct association of human communication will introduce that every culture is different in their own unique way. A native cultural concept in East Asian cultures will include different philosophies and thoughts on the way people interact within that culture. Such philosophical ideas that are implemented in the East Asian culture is the concept of facework. In the East Asian cultural setting, countries like South Korea, Japan…

China has sought out to increase it geopolitics, by asserting its country historical claims using maritime order to have control of South China Sea, by attempting to take full authoritative control of Paracel Islands and Spratly Islands. In addition, China attempt in trying to be the sole power of the South China Sea has created tension with its neighboring countries. As China continues on with historical claims, conflict will be inevitable, hence making the four other surrounding East Asian…

Mersaydies Rudolph, Pattida Sisukkham, Lin Wai Phyo Webster University Thailand Campus Introduction Mekong is known as one of the greatest rivers of the world, which regarding as the fourth most important river in Asia (Olivares, 2014). As it crosses the countries of Southeast Asia, it first starts from 5,000 meters altitude in the Tibetan Plateau and crossing China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, ending in the China Sea, South of Vietnam. This paper introduces historical,…

Why South China Sea is victim of disputes? The South China Sea is intentionally sited. It is sited in a way that it overlaps the main lanes of the sea between Asia, Middle East and the Europe. It becomes the main international way for sea trade and transportation, where most of the world’s largest traffic passes. As a global concern, the geopolitical and economic importance of the South China Sea lessens the secure navigation of tanks in water. The region plays a strategic maritime and military…

Nowadays, forest performs a significant role our daily life. One of them is peat land forest. Peat land can be found in almost every country in the world. In Southeast Asia there are 27 million hectares of peat lands, of which 83% is located in Indonesia (Wetlands International, 2014). According to Wetlands International, (2014, p. 1) “Peat land is wetlands with a thick organic soil layer (peat) made up from dead and decaying plant material”. However, despite the fact that peat land has an…

physical features of those lines on a map and the people who live there. In his book, Asia’s Cauldron, Robert D. Kaplan explains how physical and cultural geography is an important factor when dealing with the issue of the South China Sea in Southeast Asia. Throughout his book, he argues whether or not the South China Sea should be worth protecting, argues that the surrounding cultures can, and also how his argument relates to my personal Christian convictions.…

III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & EMPIRICAL APPROACH III.1 INTRODUCTION The Chapter 3 investigates the research methodology and empirical approach that going to be used in this dissertation. As stated in the Introduction Chapter, the overall research project aims/objectives are to identify any constraints, flaws, and problems of implementation the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangement (MRA) Agreement on Engineering and Architectural Service scheme in the street level in Indonesia. Moreover, it will…