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- 711: Contemporary Chicano Literatur
- ... His other novels include: Heart of Aztlan (published in 1976), Tortuga (published in 1979), and The Silence of the Llano (published in 1982). Anaya also has written a number of nonfiction books: A Chicano in China (published in 1976), and Aztlan: Essays on the Chicano Homeland (published in 1989). The selection I read, Solomons Story, from the novel Tortuga is most definitely humorous. Anayas use of description paints a ...
- 712: Bloomingdales International Cu
- ... In Quebec, a canned fish manufacturer promoted a product by showing a woman dressed in shorts, golfing with her husband, and planning to serve canned fish for dinner. These activities violated cultural norms. Colours In China, the colour red indicates happiness. While Black elicits a positive response because it denotes power and trustworthiness. To the Nigerians the colour green, denotes health and happiness. This is why the Nigerian Brewery, uses green ...
- 713: Adversity And Resilience Of Ho
- ... Douzi whenever he can and supports Douzi's decision to live his life as a homosexual. Aside from his personal problems, Douzi is also faced with discrimination from the society. During the Japanese invasion of China, the Japanese army found out about his homosexual tendencies, and they forced Douzi to dress up as a woman and have sexual intercourse with them. During the Cultural Revolution, Douzi was brutally beaten and was ...
- 714: Political Economy Of The Ancient India
- ... more powerful in the towns. Members of the guilds participated in the administration, were associated with politics, and controlled the development of trade through merchant embassies sent to places as far afield as Rome and China. Not least, guilds and merchant associations held envied and respectable positions as donors of religious institutions. The structure of Indian society was characterized by caste. The distinguishing features of a caste society were endogamous kinship ...
- 715: Marine Corps
- ... crude. The Marines had little resources and even less area to train within. It would be, for most of the remaining 1800s, that the Marines be used to conquer additional land in areas such as China, Formosa, Japan, Korea, Samoa, Hawaii, Panama, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Haiti, and Egypt. These Marines would be sent in, followed by the "Bluejackets", to claim land and objectives (property) for the United States ...
- 716: Lynchings In America
- ... were just the manifestation of racial hatred, the author indicates that 20% of Southern lynching victims were killed by mobs of their own race. In addition, other societies such as Ancient Rome and Greece, Germany, China, Nigeria, and East Africa lynched their own. It is for this reason that Mr. Schwarz believes lynchings cannot be explained only in terms of racism and paranoid "white psyche". To find the true reason, we ...
- 717: Immigration
- ... who came because they thought they could get some land, and be free in America, were starving in the streets, and dying in the factories. When the Chinese immigrated, they did it because conditions in China were so poor, (and they were so poor), that immigrating to the U.S. was their only solution. They got extraordinarily wealthy when they came back from the U.S. They were extremely hard workers ...
- 718: William McKinley
- ... under President McKinley. Because of its new possessions in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. became more involved in Asian politics. In 1898, McKinleys administration issued the "Open Door Policy" in trade relations with China. This policy supported equal access to the profitable Chinese trade. In 1900 a secret Chinese society know as the Boxers began an uprising to drive out foreigners. President McKinley sent 5,000 troops to help ...
- 719: Whitewater Vs. Watergate.
- ... you give, you want something for your money - and you get it," he said. In Clinton's case, the question for the FBI is what policy favors were granted to big-buck donors linked to China. National-security issues also were a concern during Watergate, according to Nixon biographer Morris. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger believed former Defense Department employee Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of the Pentagon Papers, was a national ...
- 720: Vietnam War - The War We Should Have Won
- ... communist support for the freedom of his people. Since the United States viewed helping Ho gain his independence from France as a move against their own allies, they declined. It was only after Russia and China offered to help that Ho adopted communist ideals and wanted to make all of Vietnam communist. The Vietnam war started simply because Ho Chi Min and his communist supporters wanted South Vietnam to become communist ...
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