Taiwan

So You Want Whiter Skin? The wonders of whitening agent glutathione revealed. But is it for everyone? I was born with dark skin. Ever since I was a kid, it always puzzled me why I wasn’t given the same fair complexion like my siblings when both our parents had relatively light skin tones. While my mom was also born brown-skinned, she somehow outgrew it in her teen years when her skin started lightening until it glowed a pale-yellow. Naturally, I hope the same thing would happen to me. I waited…

Operatic Symphony ‘Yamada Nangamaza’ by Klaus Pringsheim (1883-1972). A German composer, conducter, and pianist who was the most influential idol who played a very successful role as an outstanding pupil of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Mahler was the great composer of Romantic era who has been recognized as the most superior romantic composers. Pringsheim was a German Composer and Conductor, born in 1883 at Starnberg, the outskirts of Munich, where there was a villa owned by his family, he died in…

Documentary Concept Development I first learned about Simmone from a friend. Simmone is the fifth wife of my friend’s great grandfather. Simmone Kuo, in her 70s, owns a 30-year-old Tai-Chi studio in SF Chinatown. After moving to San Francisco, my partner and I have already paid several visits to Simmone’s Tai-Chi studio and started filming for this documentary. Every Sunday noon, she cooks for us. We sit together in one of the typical cramped living room in Chinatown, eating as she tells us all…

Sexuality has been a way to express our sexual desires, our gender identity and ourselves as human beings that help establish a relationship between individuals, giving love, trust, respect and care towards one another. With the psychology of sexuality, we are able to convey our feelings, sexual interests and preferences, and show our sexual orientation and gender identity. Human sexuality spectrum identifies various labels that would indicate the sexual preference of an individual, though is…

stablished by law. According to Fair Labor Association around eighteen countries operate sweatshops including Bangladesh, Romania, Costa Rica, El Salvador, China, the Dominican Republic, India, Vietnam, Honduras, Indonesia, Armenia, Brazil, Haiti, Taiwan, the Ivory Coast, Nicaragua, Mexico, The United States and its territories. About 90% of sweatshop workers are women, who sometimes are forced to take birth control and routine pregnancy tests to avoid supporting maternity leave or…

I am currently doing a Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care course. I aspire to finish this course in 11/2 years’ time. I am seeking for a position as Child Care Worker in a reputable organisation that is rendering its services to their clients with high quality services. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL SKILLS Relevant Skills- Having extensive experiences in relevant field of working…

studies in with these additional burdens leaving him in emotional distress. On the other hand, if he was at home, he could have leaned on and depend on one of his sibling for some assistance. In addition to that my cousin John went last year to study in Taiwan because he wanted to follow some of his friends. After, his first semester, he wanted to come back home because he could not have coped with his studies and figured that it was not his calling to continue in that field of study. He was…

been fulfilled by Emperor Moth silk. According to Howse and Wolfe in Giant Silkmoths, there is a species whose silk was used to make high-quality fishing line: “It was introduced to Taiwan for silk production during the Japanese occupation in the first half of the twentieth century. Moth farms were built in central Taiwan to produce silk fishing lines for export” (Howse and Wolfe 172). Thus, Emperor Moth silk has influenced how certain products are produced in the world and has helped initiate…

but never talk about the 140,000 prisoners in Japanese prisoner of war camps. One in three men in these camps either died of starvation, work, punishments, or diseases that were untreatable due to lack of medicine. These camps were based in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and other Japanese controlled countries.…

Game, Set, Match! In a blink of an eye, my partner and I won our very first game in soft tennis. For the last point, I was able to score an ace. An ace is a winning serve that the server’s opponents never touches the ball with their racket. Therefore, the server earns a point, while the opponent loses it. This last point was crucial because it led us to victory. The excitement that I felt on that day is palpable. Ending the match with such a great impact is really memorable and a thrilling…