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- 831: The Pearl: Depictions of Life
- ... a better life. The town doctor also demonstrates how the struggle for success can corrupt people. This "healer" is more interested in money than the welfare of others. While drinking expensive tea out of tiny china cups, he sits in his large white house and dreams of returning to Paris. When Juana comes to ask if he will treat Coyotito's scorpion sting, he promptly sends her promptly away. However, when ...
- 832: The House of Seven Gables: Symbolism
- ... beginning of the book, one of the few item in the house that is still bright is a tea set. "Hepzibah brought out some old silver spoons, with the family crest upon them, and a China tea-set … still unfaded, although the tea-pot and small cups were as ancient as the custom itself of tea-drinking" (Hawthorne 77). This tea set is allowed to still shine only because it was ...
- 833: International Economic Policy: Book Review
- ... serious look at the South East Asian countries (the Asian Tigers) as it seems that they might become a real economic power (possibly with Japanese supervision) and this will have enormous consequences on global trade. China, with its huge power and huge potential economy and market, should have got his attention as it might be a major economic power in the near future. Overall, the author seemed to try to give ...
- 834: The Concubine's Children: An Analysis
- ... pointlessness of life, and how important it is to bear male children, to gather points for your next life. The setting of this novel is extremely important. The story is set in both Vancouver and China, with constant moving within each separate country. Without this setting, most of the events wouldn't have occurred. For example, had May-ying and her husband Chan Sam lived together, she probably would have kept ...
- 835: Salzman's "Iron and Silk": Losing Face
- ... t teach a foreigner. During one of the class discussions Mark had with his students, the topic of kissing was brought up. Mark wanted to know why public sighs of affection were so rare in China. Mark said the only time he had seen two Chinese people kissing was when a mother kissed her infant child. Children any older than five should not be kissed. The students explained that showing affection ...
- 836: Hawaii by James Michener
- ... that in 1852, the labor problems in the fields in Hawaii had become serious. "In desperation, the owners turned to oriental labor and, as an experiment, in 1852, brought a total of 280 coolies from China, to work under contract for five years." With the Chinese came the mai Pake - the Chinese sickness - otherwise known as leprosy. Kee Mun Ki began to get sores, and eventually, was shipped off to the ...
- 837: Hard Times: The Gradgrind System of Education
- ... Tom, as Tom asked her to, again for his personal gain. Her father stated that the age difference did not matter that 'the Calmucks of tartary, the British in India and a considerable part of China' don't take age into account. These places were totally useless in helping her to decide and was another example of useless facts. A factor that made her decide most certainly would be the influence ...
- 838: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... She has gems and trinkets from buried Pompeii, and others that graced comely Egyptian forms that have been dust and ashes now for forty centuries. Her watch is from Geneva, her card-case is from China, her hair is from- from- I don't know where her hair is from; I never could find out; that is, her other hair- her public hair, her Sunday hair; I don't mean the ...
- 839: Last of the Mohicans: Differents Between the Book and Movie
- ... more sympathetic to today's movie audience. Instead of being "punishe " she ends up with Daniel Day-Lewis! Cora's sister Alice goes around with eyes blank, mouth agape, looking like some delicate piece of china that someone is throwing rocks at. She cannot believe her eyes, and so simply detaches herself from the world around her. This happens in both the movie and the book, although in the movie, instead ...
- 840: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... prevent conquest the Japanese had copied the governmental, industrial, military and economic ways of the Western world. Now they proved to be a major force to challenge. They had already defeated their brother nation of China and at that moment they were utterly humiliating the Russians. Concerned with the balance of power existing within the world, TR decided that the Japanese must be stopped. No other country, except his, must prove ...
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