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“Sen. Thomas R. Carper, D-Del., is promoting to try to rally support from both parties for the tax increase is to pair it with a more generous earned income tax credit, or EITC, which would benefit those same lower-income Americans.” The idea of raising the tax on gasoline is to fund projects to repair or replace the infrastructure within the United States. Since 1993 to today the current tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon, and in the span of almost 25 years our roads, bridges and other…

When Hollywood stepped into the new millennium, it looked like Hollywood had a difficulty of making a new original movie. They has been keeping making sequels and remake old movies. To be more specific of this topic, Hollywood loves to remake Asian Horror films. They bought countless of Asian horror films, and turned them in to Hollywood style, such as the first Thai turned Hollywood, Shutter. Thai Shutter is one of the most successful Thai movie of all time. American Shutter, on another hand,…

International Relations theory of “realism” is the most adequate theory to understand the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Island dispute between China and Japan. Realism talks about a State to take decisions for national interests of the State, and I believe that this conflict clearly revolves around national interest of nations and the hunger for power. The Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea have been the heart of the dispute between China and Japan for decades. The uninhabited islands cover a…

novel tells of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and protégé Mary Russell in Japan. Sherlock and Mary come home in 1925 to find what seems like a very familiar decorative on their front lawn. They know the stone as they had last seen it on a garden in Tokyo, the garden of the man that would later become the Emperor of Japan. The stone is just the first indicator that the investigations of the previous year had not been complete as they had believed. Their lives are now in danger from unknown…

cooperation with Madhouse that immediately after the end of producing Tokyo Godfathers, he proposed to shoot a TV anime series. The script would be based upon a few of his concepts, which he had not used before, as much as upon newspapers' headlines, particularly their crime and social ones. The leadership of the company accepted, thus initiating the creation of the 13 episodes of Paranoia Agent. A series of attacks occur in Tokyo, seemingly to individuals irrelevant to each other. The victims…

“I was considering always in my room of the lodging house and besides, felt that it is vain to try. Because reading a lot of books doesn’t indulge my appetite actually, then, I gave it up. At the same time, gradually I couldn’t catch the meaning even myself that what I read the books so much for.” Souseki Natsume wrote this in his essay ‘My individualism’, which retrospect the prehistory of shaping ‘A theory of literature’ and it was the description when he was studying abroad in England in…

Imagine a child in the meadow wondering what life can be for him. Frank Lloyd Wright started his life as an imaginative thinker. His dream was to be able to create something new with his everlasting imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright's dream had inspired many to follow in his footsteps because his dream was to acomplish something that he could call his own. Frank Lloyd Wright was born June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconson into a large welsh family (biography). Eventually, they settled in…

What does a businessman riding the subway in Tokyo have in common with a man performing a Balinese Monkey Chant? At first glance they may seem totally unrelated, but in fact it is the way they learned such behaviors that links them together. People’s behavior and knowledge is constantly influenced by their environment. In turn, these changes in knowledge or behavior result in learning. Baraka explores over 24 countries and cultures that overall demonstrate this concept. While Baraka’s raw…

triggered tsunamis that affected shorelines within minutes. Dozens of villages alongside 200 miles of coastline were substantially destroyed. Waves measuring more than 40 feet struck the Fukushima nuclear power plant, located only 150 miles from Tokyo. The plant’s emergency systems shut down. Crews attempted to use seawater to cool the reactors. The water backwashed into the Pacific and that created the largest ocean pollution event in history. Explosions at the plant, and fires caused by…

Preventive Measures in the 2011 Japanese Earthquake Disaster Summary The 2011 Japanese earthquake followed by the triggered tsunami and nuclear disaster caused severe damage to the country. The three major events cost billions of dollars of damage and the earthquake, rated 9 on the moment magnitude scale, is the largest to ever hit Japan and the fourth largest in the world; more than 10,000 of its people lost their lives. For such an earthquake and tsunami prone country, it was a devastating…