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- 451: What Role Should the U.S. Play in World Defense?
- ... well as economically. The Korean war took place from 1950-1953. The war began when North Korea, a new communist state invaded South Korea, a democratic state. The North Korean army was aided by both China and the Soviet Union. To counter- act this threat from the communists, the United States convinced the United Nations to send in troops. The majority of the troops in Korea were Americans and French fighting ... against the Vietcong. In 1964, it became clear that the anti-Communist forces were not winning this battle, for the most part because the communist Vietnamese were being aided by both the Soviet Union and China. In 1964, the newly appointed president, Lyndon Johnson issued on order that more military advisors we called in. Then, in late 1964, a communist Vietnamese submarine fired on a U.S. warship in the Tonkin ...
- 452: Woman Warrior
- ... the relation it creates between eating and the strength of people. This is shown through the tale of Fa-Mu-Lan, the story of the eaters, and the references to the fellow relatives left in China. In the tale of Fa-Mu-Lan, the narrator is given a survival test, where she has to survive a mountain trek without provisions. During that trek, the narrator finds herself weary from hunger. Hunger ... vitally important in the memoir The Woman Warrior. It is regarded as a sign of strength in the book. That point is shown through Fa-Mu-Lan, the story of heroes, and through relatives in China. With those, Kingston became educated in two differing cultures, possibly influenced by both. The connection between hunger and strength is well known throughout the ages, as the old military adage states, An Army marches on ...
- 453: The Wisdom Of Confucious
- ... to his home country of Lu, and more and more disciples came to study under him. He never stayed in the same spot for a long time. He would travel from place to place in China for long periods of time. The books calls these times as periods of wanderings. It was during these periods of wanderings that the books were written that recorded his sayings and teachings to his disciples ... the most famous philosophers. The book does not go into any detail about where he went or what he was doing during the periods of wanderings. It only talks about what was going on in China at that period of time. The rest of the book has Confucius opinions and sayings on certain subjects. It is mostly Confucius said this, and Confucius said that. There were a lot of interesting quotes ...
- 454: A Political Biography On Jfk
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy has changed the lives of many Americans and their future generations. He fought communism, seen as an evil presence in our wold, in the Soviet Union, Cuba and China. In doing so, he prevented many people of the world from being harmed. Kennedy ensured equality for all Americans, rich or poor, black or white. He led an advance in civil and human rights, and ... policies, fighting for issues such as slum clearance and low-cost public housing. His views on foreign affairs were also strong, and was critical of the President for not restraining the advance of communism in China. Most of Kennedy's views on politics were first generated and tempered here in the House of Representatives. U.S. Senate In 1952, Kennedy announced his candidacy for the senate. His opposition was Henry Cabot ...
- 455: Aum Shinkyria
- ... ended up creating mass panic and murder everywhere. That man s name is Shoko Asahara, who started the cult named Aum Shinrikyo. Asahara was a partially blind boy born into a very poor family in China. Throughout his entire life he had one solitary goal - to become a leader of some sort. This started from an early age, when he would run for class and school president every year in elementary ... and brainwashing a person into believing that Asahara was their king. He had begun the Aum Shinrikyo. At first this cult was to be a change from what Asahara felt was a grim situation in China to that of a Utopia. However, this got wildly out of hand almost immediately. First, Asahara went to the government to ask for official religious corporation status. This gave him and his cult protection from ...
- 456: Chinese Americans
- ... Chinese who still tried to enter the United States needed to pretend that they were merchants. Others pretended to be relatives of people living in the United States. Chinese Americans who returned from visits home (China or Taiwan) and reported births of sons and daughters thereby created flaws, which were often used to bring in immigrants who posed as sons or daughters. Chinese immigrants, eager to start a new life and ... 50). This is clearly evidenced by the interrogation process, and the main reason that the board wanted to exclude as many as possible. The Angel Island era clearly defined the hardship of earlier immigrants from China, who seek for the promise of American Dreams; yet many of those were being treated as the bugs that sought to get away from hardship in their mother land and enter the United States to ...
- 457: The Joy Luck Club Essay - Amy
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a story base on Chinese women in American tradition. One of the characters in the novel, Lindo Jong was born as a female in China. Lindo was undervalued because as a Chinese woman, she had an arranged marriage, she was treated unfairly by her husband, and also her own parents. Born as a female in China, many decisions are made by elders or men, not much opinion are made, even as an adult. As Lindo, being in an arranged marriage at age of two, she would not be able to give ...
- 458: Tiger Subspecies
- ... than 200 exist in Nepal and under 1000 exist in Myammar (Burma). Indochinese tigers are among 500 and 2000. CPT's guess is about 700 amidst heavy poaching. In the early sixties when the South China tiger had a population of about 4,000, Mao instituted a tiger eradication program. After Mao's death in 1976, the South China tiger population was reduced to 400. The Chinese government then instituted a "Save the Tiger Program!" South Chinese tiger is about 25, but the wild number is so inbred that the effective population number is ...
- 459: Immigration to the United States (Maryland)
- ... had over 1,000 immigrants come to Maryland. The countries at the top of the list all have some sort of problem going on in their country that they are trying to get away from. China has the most immigrants coming to Maryland with 6,387. You would have to think that most of these people are tired of living under communist rule and are seeking a better life in America. The top ten countries go as follows: 1. China; 2. India (5,889); 3. El Salvador (5,367); 4. Philippines (4,396); 5. Korea (3,960); 6. Vietnam (3,820); 7. USSR (2,964); 8. Nigeria (2,906); 9. Jamaica (2,663); 10. United ...
- 460: Eutahania And Suicide In America
- ... to favor suicide, abortion, or euthanasia. Yeuh-Ting Lee et al. (1996) hypothesized based on cross cultural studies of euthanasia and abortion that attitudes toward euthanasia and abortion were the effect of culture ( America and China) and type of death (infanticide and geronticide). Yeuh-Ting Lee et al. (1996) found that students from the American culture were less likely to favor infanticide than those from Chinese culture, and that Chinese students ... in Chinese society. They found that education, judgment of population density, and traditional family values were related to attitudes toward euthanasia, abortion, and female infanticide in Chinese, but not in the American culture. Those in China believe in filial piety, which is a deep respect for the elderly, but do not value female infants. In the U.S. most dont value the elderly because of the myth that to be ...
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