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- 1611: Identity Crisis (joy Luck Club
- ... from China because of their own struggles. They all want their daughters to grow up successful and without any of the hardships they went through. One mother, Suyuan, imparts her knowledge on her daughter through stories. The American culture influences her daughter, Jing Mei, to such a degree that it is hard for Jing Mei to understand her mother's culture and life lessons. Yet it is not until Jing Mei ... her mother's place at the mah jong table, creating a similarity between them from the beginning. Suyuan dies two months before the start of the book, and therefore is not able to tell the stories. Jing Mei has learned and must tell her stories in her place, forming another parallelism between mother and daughter. Because Suyuan is dead, Jing Mei must act in place of her mother when she goes to meet her Chinese sisters in China. Throughout ...
- 1612: The Chinese Culture
- The Chinese Culture This report is about the myths and beliefs of the Chinese culture. It's about the stories the Chinese created to explain the world around them, and generally how they perceived their surrounding environment. This report deals with ancient myths and the people who believed them, and what the current believes of ... was destroyed. They were the only ones left. They lived happily for a while and after some time they had a child. Because they were brother and sister the child was deformed and died a short time later. The two kids chopped up the baby into tiny pieces and put him in a bag, and they started climbing up the heavenly ladder. The bag ripped before they could reach to the ...
- 1613: Canada
- ... humid version of a continental type of climate. The winters are long and cold with an average temperature of -10 degrees C in the eastern sections and -4 degrees C in the Ontario Peninsula, and short warm summers with average temperatures of near 20 degrees C. Eastern forests are native to this area, both deciduous trees such as sugar maple and beech and coniferous trees such as yellow pine, white and ... the drier southern sections and a more humid and extreme continental type of climate elsewhere. Temperatures average about -20 degrees to -15 degrees C in long winters and 18 degrees to 20 degrees C in short summers. Precipitation is not very high here. Many areas receive less than 500 mm a year. Natural grasslands, or prairies, once extended across the southern part of the interior plains. These natural grasslands have been ... Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands. The intermontane section of the Cordilleran Region, located between the eastern and western ranges, is a series of wide, rolling tablelands, such as the Fraser and Kamloops plateaus, and short mountain ranges, such as the Cascade, Cariboo, Selkirk, Monashee, Purcell, Stikine, Skeena, and Hazelton mountains. The soils of the Cordilleran Region, as in all mountain areas, follow attitudinal and climatic zones and, where topography ...
- 1614: Rwanda Report
- ... which fought for stupid reasons. Well at least I think that they are stupid reasons but to them it was probably some serious stuff that they don't take very lightly. The Hutu are very short people that make up about ninety two percent of the population. The Hutu are not pygmies but they are very short people that are about three feet tall a piece which is about two feet shorter than I am and now that is pretty short in my mind. The Hutu make their living by being farmers and doing farm related activities which include raising animals for food. The Tutsi on the other hand are very tall people that make ...
- 1615: Porn on the Internet
- ... titles "UNCENSORED Pornography Pictures Web Site" and "We all need hot Pornography pictures every day." After the titles, in a font that is twice as big, it says, "CLICK HERE TO ENTER." Proceeding is a short story that is written by whoever created the site. This story is not the typical bedtime story mothers read to their children prior going to sleep. This story bluntly describes an indecent sexual encounter between ... click of the mouse. Just by witnessing lewd pictures of nauseous acts of sex and ghastly gestures, children can be traumatized. By never seeing pornography sites on the Internet before, the vivid pictures and descriptive stories can remain in a child's mind forever. In order to prevent this appalling situation to further happen to children, mothers need to purchase a program that filters out pornographic sites on the Internet. The ...
- 1616: Hanging Woman Creek
- ... because it is a slow read and very hard to follow. In some ways a reader might find it more in the genre of mystery. I would recommend the book to a person who enjoys stories about the Old West. In short, this book had some good qualities but it also had some flaws that stand out to an observant reader.
- 1617: Mexico
- ... the Rio Grande in the, which forms the international border. Because both the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental originate close to the coastal margins, streams on the west and east coasts are short and steep. Along the Pacific Lowlands the Rios Yaqui, Fuerte, and Hunaya have been dammed, and they support major irrigated acreages. Baja California and the Yucatan peninsula are essentially devoid of permanent streams. Because of its topographic diversity and large range in latitude, Mexico has a wide array of climatic conditions, often occurring in very short distances. More than half of Mexico lies south of the Tropic of Cancer. Within the tropics, temperature variations from season to season are small, often less than 10 F between the warmest and coldest months ... the country has a long way to progress before it can provide its people with living standards similar to the more developed nations. But even this modest figure represents a major improvement in a relatively short period of time. In constant 1982 dollars Mexico's GDP per capita has increased from about $1,100 in 1960. Given the steady and rapid population growth rate, the nation's economic growth has ...
- 1618: Korea
- ... natural desators and the fact that trade basically occurs only with its communist neighbors. Surrounding countries are tired of supporting it, and South Korea is worried about its economic collapse. "In the north they are short of food, short of fuel, short of everything."(quote #1, *^%$%#&*^%#) South Koreans fear an increase in the flood of North Korean defectors should the economy worsen. Recently, there have been a number of incidents that have brought tensions between the ...
- 1619: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- ... with which the improving middle - class men and women passed their leisure time." All of those events kept her mind busy with ideas to write about. Soon she began converting peoples everyday lives into stories that were published in local periodicals. Since Stowe pulled real events into her stories it was practically fate that situations from her own life would find their way into her writing (Hedrick BBR March 95). Major Novels Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote as many as ten adult novels, her most ... living in Cincinnati, Harriet was able to gain first hand experience and knowledge concerning the evils of slavery. She was able to come in contact with fugitive slaves and fellow abolitionists who told her their stories. She also talked with friends and visited slave communities. Mrs. Stowe was appalled by some of the things she saw. It wasnt until her sister - in - law said, "Now Hattie, if I could ...
- 1620: Theodore Dreiser
- ... down the road, Dreiser wrote a great amount of literary works. He wrote such books as A Hoosier Holiday in 1916 and A Book About Myself in 1922 as well as some plays, essays, and short-story collections. In 1925, Dreiser wrote his first novel in more than a decade. The book was titled An American Tragedy and it was based on a celebrated murder case. The book was an instant ... resulted in a book titled Dreiser Looks at Russia, which was about him being a skeptical critique of the communist society. His only other significant publications in the late 1920s were a collection of stories and sketches that were not to successful. The Great Depression of the 1930s ended Dreisers prosperity and intensified his commitment to social causes. He came to reconsider his opposition to communism and wrote ...
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