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Siwei Xie A91088106 Poli 113A Prof. Magagna Confucian Political Economy Introduction A political economy looks at the conditions that are conducive to the production or consumption as organized by the nation. It emphasizes the importance of economics to the state by expressing the laws of production of wealth at the state level just like the politics of economics in the households. This philosophy head back to the days of the Chinese philosopher, Confucius, an ancient Chinese philosopher and…

Introduction Necrotizing Fasciitis is known as a “flesh-eating” bacterium that can destroy skin, fat, and the tissue covering a person’s muscles. Studies have shown that there are many different factors that come into play for contracting this disease and multiple risks that can put someone at a higher chance for getting it. In addition, there are various treatment options depending on the severity of the condition and different outcomes. This infection, although rare, can be extremely helpful…

A leadership development plan forces individuals to take an assessment of personal strength, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Even more, aligning leadership development with overall corporate strategies, values, and mission is the best of all worlds. As reported by Mirocha et al. (2013) “aligning leadership development strategies with company values and culture differentiate the top performing companies from the others” (p. 23). Therefore, presented is a leadership development plan…

CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND 1.1 ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY Oil production is differentiated into three stages: primary, secondary and tertiary, which is also known as Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). Primary oil recovery is restricted to hydrocarbons that naturally produced to the surface, or those that utilization artificial lifts, for example, pump jacks. The secondary recovery utilizes water and gas injection, dislodging the oil and driving it to the surface. US Department of Energy stated that by using…

Sustainable Investing (SI), and its corporate counterpart, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have been widely discussed over the past decades. As an ethically oriented investment strategy when it was founded in1960s, SI (or originally Socially Responsible Investing) gradually shifted to a broader approach including environmental, social, corporate and financial factors in late 1990s. Like its counterpart, early-CSR referred to corporate philanthropy and social relations in 1950s. The concept…

Many other nations around the world are closing the gap between themselves and the United States in science, engineering, technology, and mathematic (STEM) fields. The proponents of STEM argue that this predicament is caused by Americas lack of STEM graduates. In 2005 three major reports were published in a five months time span: Innovative America, Tapping Americas Potential, and Rising Above the Gathering Storm. These reports argue that the academic achievement gap between races…

Short-term memory is a broad topic that has been studied by many psychologists for many years to discover the factors of cognitive. Many past studies have concluded that short term memory is very limited and can only hold up to just a few seconds of information. In order to retain information for a longer period of time, many techniques such as repeating information, can possibly be converted into long term memory. The purpose of this study is to determine which gender can score higher on a…

With the reform and opening up in China, more and more foreign companies swarm into Chinese market for its cheap labour prices, rich resources and high market potentials. Some of these multinational companies chose to solely invest in Chinese market, while some took the way of joint venture, while others stepped into the market by franchising. But no mater which path did they take, they all have one goal, that is to win profits and grab the market share in China. Especially in recent 10 years,…

1. Introduction Reality shows is a new form of television format latest rise in China’s entertainment industry. By integrating many new elements into the shows, it captured high audience ratings at high pace in China. Reality show originated from western countries, and then gradually spread to the world, until now has formed a new wave in the world. With the growing number of viewing audiences, the Chinese reality shows are facing the problem of how to find a balance between entertainment and…

Much discussions on the writing-translation motivation of Legge is evangelical. I suggest to reconsider the writing motivation of Legge from author-reader a prior. Choosing The Story of Abraham is not only to consider the publication year of 1857 which can have parallel reading with his The Notions of the Chinese Concerning God and Spirits, but also we can identify the identity of Legge as co-author-translator-interpreter. A brief introduction of The Story of Abraham is needed. After that,…