Shandong

Introduction Huaneng Power International was created in 30 June 1994 (Hpi.com.cn, 2015) as a spin- off of Huaneng Power International Development Corporation (HPIDC), which was also its controlling shareholder (White, 2004, p.7). The newly formed company’s aim to construct and operate power plants of high technology (Hpi.com.cn, 2015) could be achieved only through raising capital. Since “domestic sources were insufficient” (White, 2004, p.2), HPI opted for international financing…

Marriage: Duty vs. Love, Morality vs. Humanism “Mythology of a people is ‘the origin of the people’s philosophy, literature and religion’ and ‘the collective sub-consciousness of the whole people’” (Wang 1). Therefore, studying mythology will help us to understand how the perspectives of a people in a specific culture form and how their attitudes toward what they experience take shape. Furthermore, by comparing and contrasting different mythologies, we can explore how different peoples…

Rhetorical Analysis Project: The Future Generation is Over Controlled Civil liberties, or personal freedoms are personal freedoms of thought, behavior, or expression that any authorities cannot abridge by law or by judicial interpret ion without due process. As one of the universal applications, personal freedom-a human right-should not be interpreted culturally or contextually(Franck, 593). For example, China’s Fundamental Rights and Duties of Citizens claims to protect many civil liberties.…

is, a system that modern scholars would call a “civil religion.” The founder of Confucianism, Master Kung Fu-Tzu, known in western society as Confucius and named Chiu Chung-Ni by his parents, was born in the state of Ku, which is known today as Shandong province. He lived between 551 B.C. and 479 B.C. During his lifetime, Confucius was a teacher of history, a low and high-level public official and, in his later life, wandered for 12 years with a few of his disciples from place to place.…

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 temperature of Qingdao is about 30 centigrade and the winter temperature of Qingdao is about -5 centigrade,…

Even though Mao Zedong’s communist party (the CCP) had far less men than his opponents; rejected aid from the Soviet Union at the same time as his opponents received it in massive quantities from the West, he was able to take control of the country in 1949 and establish what is now a regime on the verge of superpower status. Whether this triumph is a testimony to the genius of communist methods, or whether it was rather the result of wider social, economic, political and military conditions, can…

World War I started in the middle of 1914 because of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The war went on for 5 more years, until the Treaty of Versailles was created and commanded the armies to seize fire. World War I officially ended on June 28, 1919. This peace treaty kept from any wars starting for less than two decades, then came World War II. The Treaty of Versailles’ name came from where it was signed, the Versailles Palace. The Allies wrote the treaty and in order to have it…

tsunamis, volcanos, and avalanches are occurring, what on earth is going on? An earthquake is officially happening and it is beginning to demolish everything above Earth 's surface. The earliest ever recorded evidence of an earthquake occurred in the Shandong province of China in 1831 B.C. ("Earthquake Facts"). It is said that Aristotle stated that soft ground shakes more than hard rock in an earthquake in 350 B.C. ("Earthquake Facts"). The interior of Antarctica has ice quakes, but occur within…

My ancestors were all from China, none of them were from another country or neither did they ever immigrated outside China. Biologically speaking I am 100% Chinese born and raised in Beijing, and I am proud of that. However, my ancestors did migrate within the country of China. Three of my grandparents are from the south and one is from the north. I will start talking about my ancestors on my father’s side. My grandmother’s family was from Guangzhou province, and according to her, almost…

from grade one to grade nine, all I learned can be classified to ten subjects, Chinese, Math, English, Physics, Politics, Chemistry, Biology, Arts, history and physical education. These were the subjects that every student has to take in my province ShanDong. This is very different from America, when I first got in my…