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- 271: Barbie Doll
- ... embracing the ideals is often a worse alternative. "No Name Woman" is an excellent example of the possible horrors awaiting those who won't fit the mold. The story is set in the culture of China in the early 1900s. The female role in this culture bears strong similarities to that of a slave. Women were essentially not supposed to have their own opinions, thoughts, or wants. Their main goal in ... that destroyed the young girl's life had forced her to commit the heinous crime. "My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex," Kingston explains, "Women in old China did not choose. Some man commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil." Another illustration in "No Name Woman" of the cultural preference of males over females is a line concerning why ... a mate, who would be looking for a "healthy" partner. Both pieces demonstrate this ideal very effectively. Kingston explains it more directly as the narrator's mother tells her of the rigors of beauty in China. Children's hair and eyebrows were plucked, their feet bound, and their freckles gouged out. Granted, this is a more extreme example of the "perfect mate" ideal, but it is nonetheless evidence of it. ...
- 272: United States and Imperialism
- ... treaty of annexation. Though after the Spanish-American War, Hawaii was able to gain attention as expansionists envisioned ships sailing from the eastern seaboard through a Central American canal to Hawaii and then on to China. It took President McKinley to successfully maneuvered annexation through Congress by means of a majority vote. Cuba was also played a part in American foreign affairs during the turn of the century. After the United ... took the Philippines saying that it was a Spanish colony even though the war was going on in another hemisphere. There were also other incidences in other parts of the world. The U.S. asked China to keep an Open Door policy. This meant that China had to respect the principle of equal trade opportunity for all nations in their spheres of influence. This caused the Boxers to hold hostage foreign legations in Beijing. The United States would then send ...
- 273: The War in Vietnam
- ... and the rest of Indochina. Harry S. Truman and other American leaders, having no sympathy for French colonialism, favored Vietnamese independence. But expanding communist control of Eastern Europe and the triumph of the communists in China's civil was made France's war against Ho seem an anticommunist rather than a colonialist effort. When France agreed to a quansi-independent Vietnam under Emperor Bao Dai as an alternative to Ho's ... Europe and on Asia beyond Vietnam. Aid to France in Indochina was a quid pro quo for French cooperation with America's plans for the defense of Europe through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. After China became a communist state in 1949, the stability of Japan became of paramount importance to Washington, and Japanese development required access to the markets and raw materials of Southeast Asia. The outbreak of war in Korea in 1950 served primarily to confirm Washington's belief that communist aggression posed a great danger to Asia . Subsequent charges that Truman had "lost" China and had settled for a stalemate in Korea caused succeeding presidents to fear the domestic political consequences if they "lost" Vietnam. This apprehension, an overestimation of American power, and an underestimation of Vietnamese communist ...
- 274: Richard Milhous Nixon
- ... He built his political career on the communist scare of the late forties and early fifties, but as president he achieved dιtente with the Soviet Union and opened relations with the People's Republic of China. His administration occurred during the domestic upheavals brought on by the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. He was re-elected in 1972 by an overwhelming margin, but less than two years later he ... a vote for Nixon was therefore the best move. This sort of straightforward communist-baiting was new at the time, and fear of the Soviet Union, who appeared to be spreading its influence throughout Asia (China fell to Mao Tse-tsung's communist forces in 1949), made it a particularly persuasive tactic. "Of course I knew Jerry Voorhis wasn't a communist," Nixon later said, "but I had to win." Nixon ... Soviet Union to limit nuclear weapons, which resulted in the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). At the same time, he was making secret contact with the other great communist nation, the People's Republic of China, which he visited publicly in February, 1972, thus opening official diplomatic relations with China for the first time since the communist takeover in 1949. Despite the finally-peaceful outcome of the Vietnam situation, and ...
- 275: Biological and Chemical Weapons!!
- ... did become a part of the treaty. Nevertheless, even after becoming a member of the committee, some countries are suspected of holding very dangerous, perhaps illegal weapons. The list of culprits includes, countries such as, China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Libya, North Korea, Syria and last but not least according to the intelligence Iraq. For instance, China who is a member of BWC since 1984 have believed to have continued development, production, stockpiling or acquisition and maintenance of biological warfare agents. The reasons for US intelligence suspicion is the fact that in recent years China has initiated civilian-run research centers on biological agents. To aggravate the situation even more, the research centers apparently have been previously involved in production and stockpiling of biological agents. Egypt on the other ...
- 276: Herbal Extracts and Hormones
- ... hormones and the ongoing research still being done, this article will investigate only two hormones that are in common use by the everyday person. Herbs, on the other hand, can be found from California to China and as far as consumers are concerned, they are now mainstream products that can be found in supermarkets and drug stores world wide. Healing plants and herbs are used by over ninety percent of the ... exist and are being used by the drug companies to treat many of the ills of people today. Technology permits the making of newer and more pure herbal medicines. Herbs are used and prepared in China in the following forms: slices, powders, pills, plasters, distillates, pellets, teas and drinks. In the United States, we can find herbs in the following forms, in the addition to those used in China: tablets, capsules, fluid extracts, ointments, granules, syrups, suppositories, sprays, injections and ampules. Weiner, pgs.27-32 In today's world, people are too busy to make their own herbal remedies and generally like clean, ...
- 277: The Praying Mantis
- ... around the turn of the century. The European mantis is said to have first been brought to Rochester New York in 1899 on a shipment of nursery plants. The Chinese mantis arrived in 1895, from China (duh), on nursery stock sent to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. KEY FEATURES Key features of mantid physiology include a triangular head with large compound eyes, two long, thin antennae, and a collection of sharp mouth parts designed ... mantids praying-stance points the way home. Turkey & Arabia-The mantid always prays toward Mecca. Southern U.S.-The brown saliva of the mantis will make a man go blind or kill a horse. 4. China-Roasted mantid egg cases will cure bed wetting. Africa-If a mantis lands on a person it brings them good luck and A mantis can bring the dead back to life. European Middle-Ages-The ... family he came from but certainly his family was not wealthy. Wang Lang was famous for his passion for martial arts and was an outstanding person. He traveled a lot around the Empire Under Heaven (China), while studying different styles of boxing and had many friends skillful in martial arts. Once, during the mid-autumn festival Wang Lang went hiking to Lao Shan mountains. He looked at the magnificent cliffs ...
- 278: Democratic World Government - An Outline Structure
- ... least one per nation, at least in the early decades [There are approaching 200 nation states in the world at the moment, with populations ranging from 50,000 - St Lucia - to 5,000,000,000 - China. This represents a variance of a factor of 100,000, so the disparity in representation could not be tolerated indefinitely. In due course some notion of communal MWPs, shared by small countries of reasonably alike ... up of the mature western democracies, but because of this pressure it would not be long before membership became wider. Conclusion We have all witnessed in recent years the populations of many countries (the Phillipines, China, the USSR, Eastern Europe, etc.) doing their best to bring about local democracy. In some cases this seems to have worked reasonably smoothly (eg. Poland) but in others (the Phillipines) the resulting government has always been balancing on a knife-edge, threatened on all sides by despotic forces; in some cases (China) the population has failed to win through. One of the major benefits of the full world government system would be that populations would only have to force their governments to sign the voluntary world ...
- 279: Hemp Around The World
- ... hemp for seed oil. The seeds are crushed and the oil is exported in refrigerated containers to the USA. The hemp oil is then processed by US entrepeneurs into cosmetics, massage oils and salad oils. CHINA China has been growing hemp (ma) for at least 6,000 years, and is currently the world's largest exporter of hemp paper and textiles. With its vast natural resources and labor pool, it will be a major influence in the future hemp industry. China is also the largest producer of nonwood paper, including hemp paper, in the world. FRANCE In France, more than 10,000 tons of industrial hemp (chanvre) were harvested in 1994. Kimberly-Clark Corporation manufactures ...
- 280: Hacking
- ... that foreign government. In a closed briefing to Congress, the CIA chief said at least 12 countries, some which are hostile to America are creating computer programs to attack other Nations information and computer systems. China, Libya, Russia, Iraq, and Iran are just a few that pose a serious threat to the United States. All one of these countries would have to do is create a bug that would mess up ... Intelligence services routinely break into American public and private sectors computers. Mapping power grids to find weak lines, and leaving trap door behind in just about all of the United States Military bases. India and China are particularly aggressive at this type of cyber spying. Specific details are classified, but reports hint at some serious cyber raids in the United States. One such report on the FBI's files involved intrusion ... United States was just a sideline effort, the team was actually trying to target the Pacific Command, which directs 100,000 troops who would be called on to deal with wars against North Korea or China. Out of several teams the FBI was only able to track down a couple of the teams. Over 63% of test attacks made on the Governments computer systems were not detected. Preventing hackers is ...
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