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- 401: Confucianism
- ... with society and the fall it had taken from what it had been. It had changed to an empire where values were ignored, and the past was just that, the past. He foresaw a proud China with values restored, and humility made once again important. Confucian s main ideas were to adapt the good things from the past to the technology of today. The good things he speaks of are a ... As Confucianism deals often with how governments should be run, and what steps should be taken to ensure a good ruling class, that is an excellent place to start. When discussing the class structure of China Hsun Tzu commented on a system which was loosely based on something we would now call an aristocracy, ruling by the best. While he didn t challenge too many King s outright he did, however ...
- 402: Harrison Bergeron
- ... in satirizing the American political system. Stanley Schatt notices this in his biography of Vonnegut, where he states that Vonnegut writes political fables that satirize the American political and this country s relationship with both China and the Soviet Union (133). The people of this society take the notion equality to a level that could not even be feasible in any person s imagination. In an attempt to make people equal ... would not be any free thinkers and no dreams to accomplish anything special. Vonnegut uses satire to mock the American political system. The idea of the American political system being compared to that of the China s and Soviet Union s is meaning how the system is much like that of a dictatorship. This is true since there is a head person, this person being the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers ...
- 403: Political Policies Between The United States And The Soviet
- ... as a superpower. America was applying double standards not only for themselves, for example when they introduced their own military forces and changed the leadership of the Dominican Republic, but also had double standards with China as well, as nothing was done when China invaded a smaller neighboring communist country Vietnam (Garthoff 1994). It is important to look back on previous administration, to explore the fundamentals of détente. In 1974, when Gerald Ford assumed Presidency and pledged to continue ...
- 404: The Joy Luck Club: Differences in Generations
- ... and experiences of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters, I found out the answer to this question. The difference in upbringing of those women born during the first quarter of this century in China, and their daughters born in the American atmosphere of California, is a difference that doesn’t exactly take a scientist to see. From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story ... told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. The mothers grew up during perilous times in China. They all were taught "to desire nothing, to swallow other people’s misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect ...
- 405: Vietnam
- ... split to the north and a democratic state to the south. However, Southeast Asia was considored one of the most sensitive places at this time durning the cold war. Therfore North Vietnam’s communist neighbors’ China and Russia, both supplied Ho Chi Men forces. While the south was backed by the United States(which had been funding the war effort since the French conflict). McNamara’s memoirs In Retrospect: The Tragedy ... in Cuba. McNamara saw South Vietnam not as an independent communist state but "equated HO Chi Minh with Fidel Castro," thinking that Vietnam would be used as a tool for a communist movement in Indo-China. Despite these sensitive lines of thinking McNamara praises Kennedy by stating "I honestly believe if Kennedy had remained in office he would have pulled out of Vietnam." He sites President Kennedy’s last public comments ...
- 406: Japanese Americans During WWII
- ... be dangerous were interned. This was only a few in number as compared to the many Japanese Americans. Early U.S. History In Dealing With The Japanese In 1785 the first American ship, Empress of China, made the long voyage to China. This vessel carried all sorts of beautiful Asian treasures. These treasures brought enormous profits when sold in America. The American consumer could not get enough of these treasures. However, there was only one problem the ...
- 407: Ancient Japanese Art
- ... rather sloppy scroll of a landscape and found it much more real than anything else there. I selected Along the Wu River. It was done by a man named Shen Zhou who was born in China in 1947 and died in 1509. I liked some of the pieces that were showcased on the floor, but this is the one that I found to be a little mysterious. When I first saw ... the great things that come from there. Beef and broccoli, Bruce Lee, and who could live without furniture rearranging. To my surprise there is much more to them and their culture. Especially the arts. Since China has been around for two thousand years, they have some pretty good concepts of what art should be. I do not feel like boring myself or anyone else with frivolous information so here is a ...
- 408: Joy Luck Club - Literary Analy
- ... mother to Jing-Mei, who is a forced piano player by her mother. The story starts off in a house where the everyone has gotten together to have a party because June is going to China to meet her two long lost sisters. June’s mother passed away and now June has to join the Joy Luck Club. As the story goes on the members tell stories of their lives. The ... I wouldn’t go on TV if you paid me a million dollars!’” (146). Jing-Mei thinks that she only gets love from her mother with an accomplishment. Jing-Mei thinks different that her mother. China raised Suyuan who thinks that you should show off a talented daughter. While America raised Jing-Mei who is satisfied with herself without such an announcement of her achivements. Amy Tan clearly suggests Chinese mothers ...
- 409: The Fall of South Vietnam Controversy
- ... mobilization of patriotic sentiments, he apparently concluded, could force him into unduly risky actions such as unrestricted bombing and even an invasion of North Vietnam--which, in turn, could lead to a confrontation with Communist China or Russia. At the very least, a widening of the war would prevent the achievement of his domestic "Great Society" programs (Hoobler 108). For the same reasons, Johnson refrained from asking Congress for a declaration ... policy, did not want to press for a formal declaration of war by Congress on the grounds that it would have undesirable consequences. This might have triggered secret treaties between North Vietnam and Russia and China, thus risking a dangerous expansion of the conflict, and it could lead to the enactment of wartime curbs on free speech and press. Only years later did charges of an abuse of the Gulf of ...
- 410: Managing Globalization
- ... granted…" (p. 38) "It was not until 1993 - and then only at the urging of the Japanese government - that World Bank economists reluctantly acknowledged that the East Asian countries - Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand and China - were following a development strategy quite different from the one advocated by the bank, one characterized by extensive government intervention…" (p. 44) "Today the United States lacks an enemy, and there are four instead of two centers of World Power: Japan, China, Europe and the United States. Asian centers are growing fast; western ones are floundering." (p. 51) "If the United States is to continue to organize collective leadership, as many seem to want, it must strengthen ...
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