Taiwan

Before 1911, China was still under absolute monarchy, which was Qing Dynasty. The economy during that period was agricultural based, not by trading or colonies. Unlike Western countries, there was no industrial revolution happened in China. Due to the closed economy (or self seclusion), China did not receive any new technology to improve the developments in many areas. There are three characteristics of the traditional Chinese economy before 1911. The first characteristic is highly productive…

Introduction Japan, in the nineteenth century, has gone through much reform. Prior to the Meiji Period, much of what the citizens knew was based around farming and agriculture . Japan had not yet explored trade with other countries, aside from China, which happened during the Taika Reform. The Taika Reform, happening in mid-sixth century, “opened Japan to the incorporation of new ideas and institutions from China .” Many scholars associate the Meiji Reform to the Taika Reform, although the…

Arsenic contamination and possible remediation Victoria Reyes Texas A&M International University Abstract Arsenic can be found in many places on Earth. This includes from natural sources and as a by-product from different anthropogenic activities. The fact that arsenic can be found so commonly on Earth has lead to the contamination of several countries’ drinking water. This has put many people at risk for arsenic poisoning. There are many complications that come from the continuous ingestion…

Today’s newspaper says the last chicken in the world has died. It had lived its final days in Taiwan, just as its rooster, who’d died several months back. The tabloid even showed a photo of the poor thing. It looked nothing like the Rhode Island Red, or the Leghorn I was used to seeing in my life. It looked scrawny, shrunken, and nothing like it was supposed to look. Chickens were gone now, them, along with the world’s other fowl and eatable mammals. Just like most of the other animal life…

The goal of this French study was to assess the correlation between the amount of board games played and number of incidences of cognitive decline among the people Paquid cohort, a group of French adults over the age of sixty-five who participated in many studies. Dartigues found that the incidences of cognitive decline among board game players was significantly lower than non-players at each follow-up. Non-player instances outweighed player instances three percent to six percent after three…

Lawrence Kohlberg Research Paper Lawrence Kohlberg is a psychologist that explored how an individual develops moral reasoning. Through his career he started as a developmental psychologist and then moved to moral education, where he focused more on ethics, linguistics, anthropology, and cognitive psychology. His well-known contribution to psychology is his stages of moral development, where he formulated his own theory through Piaget’s previous work. The theory was to explain the basic…

Geography Poster Information Introduction The South China Sea is currently in the middle of a claims dispute between the surrounding countries of the area, these countries are Brunei, China, Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam. This marine area is highly sought after due to the resources it offers, for example, America and China are estimating the area is filled with oil reserves, however the estimated amounts are contradicting each other where America estimates 28 Billion barrels…

and the countries of East Asia, such as China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The authors speculate that women between ages 18 and 45 from European and East Asian countries may worry more about what economists call the “opportunity costs of children,” since having children often reduces chances to increase income. The authors…

greatly influenced by America in different forms and on a different level. We saw the United States support the anticommunist movement sin Cuba (1961) and Guatemala (1954), due to the fear of the spread of the communist society too close to the border. Taiwan, South Korea, South Vietnam and Cambodia, heavily depended on the US for military and financial aid. There were many initiatives made in the Middle East and Africa. Japan was an economic giant but it still maintained ties with the US.…

1. How did Chiang Kai-shek lose control of China? Chiang Kai-shek lost control of China not because of the intervention of foreign powers, but due to the various domestic problems in China. Although the CCP received assistance from the Soviet Union and Stalin’s advice to overthrow the Nationalists, it only contributed to the Communists’ victory by a small amount. This was because Chiang’s Nationalist government angered both the peasants and middle class due to the government’s inability to solve…