Shenzhen

as corn, sweet potatoes, rice, beans, and peanut, are harvested in autumn. Today, more and more people do not plant crops and the meal is gradually becoming a get-together meal for family members. Sometimes, the ritual meal is held in my family in Shenzhen and sometimes we go back to my grandparents’ home in Xinjiang Province to celebrate it. Generally, it is a special meal combining Chinese customs and the characteristics of Hui…

Amy will visit China and understands her mother and family culture. Amy did not think she had Chinese blood in her, but her mother thought her a lesson, plus she lead her sister background. When Amy Tan arrived to Hong Kong border and enters Shenzhen, China, she felt out of the ordinary. Tan, did not think she had Chinese blood because she was born in California. Amy’s mother said to her “Someday you will see” “it’s in your blood, waiting to be let go”. After her mother said those words to…

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In a poorly lit factory, unable to tell whether it is night or day, a worker toils to finish the near impossible order due in a few days. The fashion industry takes advantage of the consumer, by selling garments at an extremely high price compared to the cost to make said garment, and the worker by using sweatshops for cheap, effective mass production labor neglecting the fact that the workers are underpaid, abused, and malnourished. The U.S Department of Labor defines a sweatshop as factory…

Assignment 4: Greatest Challenges, Skills, and Achievements As an international sophomore student majoring in Business Administration, I struggle with the balance between studying and working for a long time. The biggest challenge I have is time management. Since we are from different country, social networking is pretty crucial to us because we don’t know anybody when we came to the states. I spent most of the time in making friends, attending different clubs, organizations and events on…

In the story “A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan, a young woman named Jing-Mei travels upon a journey into finding her culture. Along the way she takes many different stops in which enriches her knowledge of her background. Setting plays a major role in this particular story as she travels to a foreign land in hope of finding where she came from. The external setting in the story has an immense impact on what is going on internally with Jing-Mei, the narrator. The setting in Tan’s work explores the…

Introduction: Since the reform and opening-up policy was released in 1978, the Chinese rural-to-urban migration has become a very important social phenomenon. Large quantities of surplus labor forces in countryside, which come into being migrant workers, flocked into China 's busiest and most international metropolises. According to (Chan, 2011), “In the 30 years since 1979, China’s urban population has grown by about 440 million to 622 million in 2009” (p.1). In the rapid-growing urban…

Who was started in a garage and is now worth billions and billions of dollars, and who’s factories needed to adapt safety nets to catch suicidal “sweatshop” workers. At this one sweatshop in particular in Shenzhen, China employees are paid 1.32 an hour, and build I-phones, I-pads, MacBooks, Microsoft, Dell, and Hewlett Packard products. They work ten hour shifts, and complete tedious jobs such and wiping down screens or shaving aluminum from the edge of the…

widely used to handle food waste, fruit and vegetable garbage, yard waste, and organic waste by mechanical sorting. 10774BMunicipal waste collection started late in China, and the Ministry of Construction identified Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Nanjing, and Guilin as the MSW collection pilot cities in June 2000. In recent years, based on foreign experience and China 's independent research in actual situation, mechanical-anaerobic digestion technology has been…

Human Trafficking in China Human trafficking is not only an issue in China, but also in other parts of the world. Trafficking affect everyone on a large scale. “Human trafficking is one of the leading criminal enterprises, and annually, markets will generate about $42.5 billion” (Hendrix). In addition, the International Labor Organization estimates that 2.4 million out of 12.3 million people who are victims of forced labor have been trafficked, and much of those trafficking victims are women…