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- 8581: Chinese Kinship Systems
- ... the honor that Lim Han-ci created, as if he was still present and walking among them. It is through this type of patrilineal respect that Lim Chieng-cua was able to maintain such a high degree of control (Wolf, 1968). This of course, was not the only reason that power became vested in the hands of Lim Chieng-cua. Another focal point that transferred power to the third eldest was ...
- 8582: Chinese-american Culture In Un
- ... children the importance of education. Education in Asia was and is completely different from western civilization. Asian teachers bear all the responsibility without any help from the home. Ngs portrayal of Leila as a school teacher and how difficult it was to connect with the Asian childrens parents is a situation relating back to the separation of education and the home in Asia. Another difficult barrier in education was ...
- 8583: Civiliation And Culture
- ... month and twelve months in a year created a calender which used today helps keep track of certain events in a set period of time, like knowing when you must turn your paper in for school, all in all the Egyptians, Babylonians and Sumerians are not the only ancient civilizations which played a major role in our contemporary culture today, they are just three out of many which are found very ...
- 8584: Civil War: Northern Attitudes
- ... Union fort, beginning the American Civil War (1861-1865). Lincoln requested the other states to send troops to quell the rebellion. Indiana responded, and entered the Civil War on the Union side. Morton enjoyed a high degree of popular support in the early part of the war, and it was in large part due to his encouragement that Indiana contributed 200,000 troops to the Union forces. Later, however, opposition to ...
- 8585: Cold War 4
- ... concur south Vietnam and make it a communistic nation. The US sent massive man power into it and lost lots of solders, but we were unsuccessful in stopping the north Vietnamese. Soon tension grew so high that the US knew that they had to do something about all the nuclear missiles that Russia possessed. During almost the entire time that Russia and the USA had been fighting for power they had ...
- 8586: Cold War 3
- ... peaceful resolution of the Cold War conflict. The Cold War helped the Soviet Union ingrain its military-bureaucratic ruling class into power and it gave the US a way to coerce its population to fund high-tech industry. Both were not easy accomplishments but were satisfied by the constant insistence of the threat of the great enemy. This phase has ended, but conflicts continue. The Soviet Union may have called off ...
- 8587: Compare And Contrast The Way T
- ... freedom. However this was not without its dangers as at least one group of unilateralists was captured by the Iraqi's when they ventured too close to the front line. Another off shot from this high level of technology was that it allowed the American media to transmit live right from inside Baghdad during the period of the war. Peter Arnett of CNN who continued broadcasting right through the war spearheaded ...
- 8588: Constantine And Christianity
- ... America and other democracies, Constantine believed that the Church and the State should be as close as possible. From 312-320 Constantine was tolerant of paganism, keeping pagan gods on coins and retaining his pagan high priest title "Pontifex Maximus" in order to maintain popularity with his subjects, and possibly indicating that he never understood the theology of Christianity. From 320-330 however he began to attack paganism through the government ...
- 8589: Crusades 3
- ... also bought the West some time. The crusades thus strengthen the security of the West by slowing the Turkish advance across the Mediterranean Sea and into Europe.13 The Crusading movement ultimately failed because the high ideals of the early crusades had largely given way to greed and political ambition. Church prestige was tarnished after the Fourth Crusade. When Crusaders took Constantinople and created their own empire. The common goal of ...
- 8590: Copper Triangle
- ... s biggest festival of Cornish culture. Some of the traditional foods which we enjoy are the Cornish pasties, and their traditional beer, "swanky". They also have the traditional furry dances and the Scottish game of high jinks. (see appendix Six) In 1923 when the copper was exhausted, the towns of Moonta, Kadina and Wallaroo needed to find new ways to make money. They now earn a lot of money from farming ...
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