Zheng He

Often called “ocean going Junks”(Kalivas, Lecture 1), these fleets were led by Zheng He, a Muslim Chinese admiral who was in charge of leading around 300 ocean going Junks in an attempt to wave the Ming Dynasty’s banner around the Indian Ocean. These journeys were meant to develop relationships in the Indian Ocean in order to foster…

Tied to this type of economy, businesses became too reliant upon the silver economy, so when the market turned bad the silver imports dropped with devastating effect for the people of China. Samuel Hawley describes the economy of the Ming as huge as evidenced by the list of items produced which were grain, cotton, silk, porcelain, tobacco, paper, peanuts, lacquer, ink, and indigo. The producers of these goods had become too reliant on the silver system and Atwell points out that a drastic…

The Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) is a law under the Lanham Act which is created to protect the domain names from trademark violation. The ACPA has certain elements which must be proven to institute cybersquatting under the Anti-Cybersquatting Protection Act. One of the requirements in this Act is that the plaintiff needs to show that the defendant registers, trafficked in, or used a domain name. So in the Moon Microsystem v Zucchini trial, John Zucchini who is a coffee shop…

In 221 B.C.E. Prince Zheng was the head of state of Qin. He was the first Chinese ruler to claim title of emperor. Chinese emperors choose relatives to become the new emperor when they pass away. From ancient times rulers based their right to govern on the mandate of heaven. if there was a natural disaster, then people have the right to overthrow. They thought that if there was a natural disaster, then the gods did not want him to rule. The Han dynasty held power for more than 400 years. The…

And now Moon Microsystems is taking legal action on John Zucchini for cybersquatting, using the ACPA. And they specifically alleged that he, with intent to confuse consumers and capitalize on the popularity and dishonor the Mocha Programming language, registered a domain name that is confusingly similar to their own Mocha related trademarks. And unlike what everyone thinks, ACPA is not…

characterised by a progressive dementia which appears around mid to late life (McKhann et al., 1984). Alzheimer’s disease was first reported in 1909 by Alois Alzheimer as a “peculiar severe disease process of the cerebral cortex” (Hippius and Neundörfer, 2003). He noted that the disease consisted of “distinctive plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain histology” (ibid, 2003). Now the disease is estimated to effect 44.35 million people worldwide (Alzheimer’s Disease International, 2013)…

China, his real job was to collect tariffs on imported goods, but instead he made a very descriptive catalog of not only the goods they…

Analysis of Mere Christianity and The Abolition of Man Chaojun Zheng Managerial Ethics Jim Bishop, J.D. Jan 12 2015 As a Chinese student, I feel so surprised and delighted to discover the similar messages in the two works of C.S. Lewis and Chinese traditional culture. No matter the Christianity spirits in the book Mere Christianity or the moral ideas and social standards in the book The Abolition of Man, when compared with Chinese traditional culture and philosophies, they all…

A Reconsideration of “Zootopia”: Stereotype Zheng Kejia Wenzhou-Kean University Introduction The movie “Zootopia” is a comedy cartoon movie which was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studio in 2016. This movie mainly talks about how a “small” rabbit and a “sly” fox work together to detect a mysterious case, and finally found a huge conspiracy hidden behind this case (Spencer, & Howard, and Moore, 2016). Although this is an animal-based cartoon movie, it veritably and…

to use silver as their monetary system, as well as the discovery of the New World, and the discovery of large coal reserves in Britain. Up until the early 1400’s, China’s naval forces dominated the Indian Ocean. This was where the Chinese general Zheng He led several expeditions in the early 1400’s to establish overseas trade routes, and show others that China was the most powerful country in the world . However, due to some political uncertainties, China decided to focus more on the Mongols to…