Throughout April 1989, large numbers of students gathered in Tian'anmen Square, in front of the Forbidden Palace in the centre of Beijing in China. They were demonstrating against political corruption and economic instability. As the crowds continued to grow, so did the displeasure of the government of the People's Republic of China. By the beginning of June, armed soldiers were sent in to suppress the protest. This they did, violently, leaving between 400 and 7000 people dead (because of the lack of freedom of the press in China at the time figures are very unreliable).…
In the book Broken China the author Lori Aurelia Williams brings the reader a novel dealing with a young mother's struggles and much more. China Cup Cameron is 14 balancing going to school full time just barely hanging on and trying to raise her 2 year old daughter almost single handedly, until death is brought upon the family. China is forced to find a job that will require her to make lots of money to make ends meet. Unfortunately, her only option is to work at Obsidian Queens, a local gentlemen’s club. This brings up one reason why I believe that this book will not be read one hundred years from now. It presents a negative way have young teenage girls to work for money. In chapter three of the book the customers at…
The book starts out with three seemingly different tales, and then merges them all together.…
From time to time soldiers realize that “the war [is] full of freaks” who killed without out a reason because they were told to do so(O’Brien 9). There is no individuality anymore, just robotic actions of killing and returning to your bunk just to get up the next morning to continue killing, or potentially being killed; every single of them is being morphed into killing machine, each of them understands the pain of the…
Given that China and Athens were located in two separate places, they both had very different forms of government, geography, and daily life.…
In the Taika and Nara, Japanese peaked in their selective borrowing from Chinese culture. In 646, the Japanese tried to introduce the Taika Reforms, to change the imperial administration to resemble the Chinese(thought it had little effect in Heian Period).Previously, Japanese scholars tried mastering Chinese characters and wrote dynastic histories like those used by emperors in China. In the Heian period, Japanese consciousness grew and Chinese influence was reduced to a minimum.…
The point of this essay, “The Chinese in All of us” by Richard Rodriguez, was to show that America is one giant melting pot. That there is no such thing as an “American” culture. An American culture cannot exist as one central thing because there are so many cultures that mixed together to form what we have now. It’s a never ending cycle of growth as a country. The immigrants come to America and with them, they bring their ideas and customs. While they learn the customs we already have we, in turn, adopt some of theirs that we observe along the way.…
Last year I had quite an adventure. I wanted to visit Han China but I couldn’t because the Han Dynasty was overthrown nearly 2000 years ago, in the year 220 CE. My solution was to build a time machine. I would tell you how I built it, but I won’t since you might use it to kill your grandfather and mess up reality. Anyways, I went back to the year 100 BCE during the reign of Han Wudi. I went back to this year because under Han Wudi the Han dynasty reached its peak, and I wanted to see the Han China when it was a glorious empire. When I arrived in China the first thing I noticed was a group of Chinese boys playing a sport that looked somewhat similar to a game of soccer. I asked one of them what they were playing…
1. Compare the main features of the social structure of the Classical Civilizations in the Mediterranean, China, & India: The social structures in all three of these classical civilizations differ in various ways. In classical India, the social hierarchy was founded upon the very strict caste system. The caste system assigned occupations and regulated marriages. The hierarchy of this civilization was also based off of having husbands being the dominant ones in the family. One Indian code even recommended for wives to worship their husbands. The bottom of the caste system however, was extremely harsh. Low caste system individuals had few legal rights. There was also less personal contact between high and low groups due to their separation.…
The graphic novel American Born Chinese, by Gene Yang, tells three stories, which revolve around a main character who has to overcome the pain of being a social outcast, while having a goal to maintain his or her identity. The characters in the novel are too caught up trying to be someone they are not, however in doing so they forget their true identities, which they should not forget. There is first the monkey king who would like to be in heaven. Throughout the novel, the Monkey King is shown just as strong as any other God, by mastering the twelve Kung Fu disciplines. One night, a guard forbids the Monkey King from entering a party, “Yes, yes. I apologize profusely sir, but I cannot let you in…you may be a king- you may even be a deity- but…
Han Yu wrote his Memorial to Buddhism, in protest to the emperor’s belief and devotion to a relic of Buddha’s finger bone. He writes in order to project why there were many Chinese people who did not believe or want to follow the idea of Buddhism. Why would Han Yu write a letter against the belief and idea of Buddhism? What made Han Yu so passionate about the subject that he would write basically blasphemy in his country? Han Yu felt strongly about his convictions in Confucianism, and in doing some more research you can see why.…
From the moment that a child is born the countdown clock begins, eighteen years and counting. With each second that fades by, the parent watches his grip on his child slowly slip. In “A Story”, Li-Young Lee uses poetic diction, structure, and point of view to convey the complex relationship between a father and his son.…
Not all Kings were born into royalty, such as the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. His childhood did not consist of luxury, as he dealt with poverty. When Yuanzhang got older, he had a major breakthrough where he became the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty. The word Ming, means “bright” and from that word the dynasty is enlightened with many influential religions. Yuanzhang was considered as an important figure, but he wasn’t the only one as there were other figures that were introduced by religion. Such figures can be seen through statues and each of them represents the practices of religion during the Ming dynasty.…
In Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese he uses the character of Chin-Kee to argue that you can’t run from who you are. This whole graphic novel is about accepting yourself and everything that you are. No matter who anyone else thinks you are and accepting that will make life so much easier. The Monkey King even says to Jin, “You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years’ imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it was to be a monkey” (Yang 223). This is stating how once you accept who you are, this is the moment that you learn how great it is to be yourself. The Monkey King is also telling Jin that no matter how people view you, who you are is what’s most important.…
Li Ching-Yuen, also known as Li Ching-Yun found the secret fountain of youth, as he was reportedly the oldest human on Earth, having lived 256 years. His 1933 obituaries which were featured in Time Magazine and the New York Times stated that he had outlived 23 wives and his amazing lifespan exceeds by far the oldest living person up to date, who lived 122 years and 164 days.…