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I have a pretty good winter vocation in this year, because I have do many interesting things .At the beginning of my winter vocation, I went to LongXiang Bridge, which is providing newest clothing for young people . That day was a very nice day. We enjoy shopping and eating out with our friends. After that day, I have been at home for several days. I have helped my mother with housework, teaching my sister with her homework. . Another interesting thing is that we went to Nine Creeks. It is a…

For thousands of years China relied on traditional, “spiritual” medical techniques to heal any ailment. When Europeans began trading with and bringing Western influence to China, medicine was one of the last areas to change. Many Chinese people were reluctant to take part in Western medicine due to the vast differences between Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine and strength of tradition, as traditional medicine had been passed down for generations. However, Chinese medicine underwent a…

Suffering: “a universal aspect of human experience in which individuals and groups have to undergo or bear certain burdens, troubles, and serious wounds to the body and the spirit that can be grouped into various forms,” (Arthur and Joan Kleinman 1991). People from all over the world go through similar traumas. As we discussed in class, these can be in the form of physical and emotional pain, injury, and hurt, as well as social, economic, political, and institutional violence. These forces…

In 1979, two thirds of the population were under 30 years old, and the baby boomers of the 1950s and 1960s were starting to have children of their own. In the same year, to combat the rapidly growing population, the Chinese government imposed a policy in which couples were allowed to have only one child. This policy was enforced by forced abortions, sterilizations, and fines to families with two or more children. Confucian patriarchal tradition has been very influential to Chinese custom and…

are as follows: 1 Shandong, north of Jiangsu, north of Anhui, east and east-south of Henan(87), 2 circling the Nanyang City, west of the Henan Province till the north of Shaanxi (15), 3 north of Shaanxi to west of Shanxi.(46) 4 Sichuan, north of Yunnan (Jialing River, Minjiang River, 10), 5 Henan Luoyang surroundings. According to the Northern Territory map, the location of the Si State, Yu State and several other places matches the location of Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, Shanxi, and the Jin…

The concept of cosleeping has quickly become a controversial topic, debated by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and professionals from all different fields of academia. As many papers on this subject state, cosleeping is a controversial topic that is rooted many different aspects of life, making it nearly impossible to designate a “yes” or “no” answer to if one should cosleep. While studies have shown an association between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and cosleeping, there is no…

Do you know why Tang Dynasty is called "The Golden Time"of China?Some one may think China became prosperous in the gold rush.The Tang Dynasty is the golden time of China because Chinese made a big revolution into different area,such as literature and politic . In A.D.618,one of the Yang Di’s generals took over China.he made himself emperor and founded a new dynasty called Tang Dynasty.(connect2)There was quite simply,nothing like it in the world.At its height-around the eight century C.E-the…

Toni Onley uses his 1988 “China diary” in various ways to construct himself as a kind of adventurer, artist and worldly figure. Jennifer Douglas in her text, “The Archiving “I”: A Closer Look in the Archives of Writers” argues that the real or historical versions of authors like Onley, are “unknown and unknowable” to the researcher (54). Rather Onley acts “the narrating I”, and decides what is included in his text, and construct the “narrated I” (54-55). The “narrated I” is the representation of…

China I crossed the border into Shenzhen China February 3rd, 2018. After a rather delightfully easy border crossing it was time to figure out how to get to Guilin. I walked ten minutes to the bus terminal. My map on my phone said I arrived but I wasn’t too sure. Nothing was written in English outside and I didn’t see any buses. I found a counter and walked up, the lady didn’t speak any English. I pulled out my phone to use the translator, asking for one ticket to Guilin tomorrow morning. After…

Zachary Campanelli Gsci-131 Final Paper Mount Tambora is a volcano located on the northern coast of Sumbawa Island, Indonesia. The volcanic eruption in April 1815 is the largest recorded eruption in history. Mount Tambora forms the 60 kilometer long Sanggar Peninsula, previously standing at a height of approximately 5000 meters high. After the eruption, the volcano lost most of it’s top, now standing at 2,851 meters. Today the volcano still remains active. Smaller eruptions have taken place in…