Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan’s Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth Assignment: Summarize the main points. How convincing do you find the paper? This paper discusses how and by whom a so-called “Big Push” should be operated. A big push is a flood of state-controlled investment across all sectors‚ sparking off industry (micro level) and economic (macro level) growth. It argues that a state-run big push is likely to fail and instead‚ pyramidal business groups can coordinate such
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Of the many samurai who devoted themselves to helping our country before Japan was westernized‚ there was one famous national samurai hero‚ named Sakamoto Ryoma. Most Japanese people know his name well‚ and how he made a great contribution to Japan’s rapid modernization. Sakamoto Ryoma was a low ranking samurai who played a major role in Japan’s transmutation from a feudal society into a unified state intent on modernizing itself and overtaking the West. He appeared at a critical stage in history
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By referring to two or three of the poems you have read so far‚ explain what attitude(s) to the natural world you find in these poems and what leads you to this conclusion The poems “Wind” and “October Dawn” by Ted Hughes conveys Hughes’ attitudes towards the raw power of nature. Through these two poems he presents his belief that although humans have tamed and adapted nature to our purposes‚ it is still powerful and has the capability of destroying us‚ and therefore using violent powerful imagery
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Wendell Fleming The Tale of Genji Paper 10/5/11 The great theme of The Tale of Genji is the success or failure to regain one’s birthright. Chapters 1-33 are a success story in which a main male hero‚ Prince Genji‚ becomes an Emperor emeritus and thus regains his birthright as the son of an Emperor. Chapters 34-41 chronicle the breakdown of the success story of the previous chapters by addressing the potentiality of failure in Prince Genji’s marriages‚ and in his relationships with his children
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Pimiku or Himiko( 卑弥呼) in Japanese Historical references The shaman Queen Himiko is recorded in various ancient histories‚ dating back to 3rd century in China‚ 8th century in Japan‚ and 12th century in Korea. Chinese resources The country formerly had a man as a ruler‚ for some seventy or eighty years after that there were some disturbances and warfare. Thereupon the people agreed upon a woman for their ruler‚ her name was Himiko‚ She occupied herself with magic and sorcery‚ bewitching the people
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The short story by Ailing “Sealed Off” has various levels and interpretations of the title. The first being the war background and what happened throughout the city. Shanghai grew quiet every time an air raid attack happened when the Japanese frequently bombed them during the Second Sino-Japanese War. When these air raid attacks happened the city would seal off temporarily. The tramcars would halt and seal off as well‚ and whoever was in the tramcars would be stuck inside until the raids were over
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D5 The Federalist era‚ spanned from 1789 to 1801‚ which was an extremely pivotal period in American history. This period was marked by many significant political‚ economic and social developments. Which helped improve and shape the United States of America‚ government structure and power structure. One of the pivotal periods in the Federalist era was the establishment of the cabinet system which occurred in 1789. The United States established the cabinet system in the Constitution‚ cabinet members
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like the Paleozoic‚ Mesozoic‚ and Cenozoic eras. Although the various time periods were all very interesting‚ I found the Paleozoic era to be the most fascinating.’Paleo’ means ancient or way early times in Greek and therefore Paleozoic means ancient life. This era was divided into six major parts. These parts are named the Cambrian‚ Ordovician‚ Silurian‚ Devonian‚ Carboniferous‚ and Permian periods. The Ordovician period lasted till 45 million years. It began 488.3 million years ago and it ended
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Jennifer Whitcroft WMS 487-01 Essay 3‚ Option 2 Pearl Cleage’s novel‚ What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day gives a glimpse into the life of Ava Johnson‚ a recently diagnosed‚ HIV positive‚ middle-aged woman. Ava begins the novel as a single woman in transition from a fast paced‚ close-minded life in Atlanta‚ to a more open-minded‚ life of opportunity in San Francisco. The transition brings her to her hometown of Idlewild‚ Michigan to stay with her sister for the summer. Ava’s transition
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14 Feb 2012 A Contemporary Critique on Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji The Heian court and the social structure it provided is a compelling aspect of Japanese history. The 21st century reader is intrigued by such an era and its artistic representations because the general norms‚ collective conscious‚ and interpersonal relationships seem to be in clear contrast with the social practices of today. At face value‚ it appears that Murasaki Shikibu’s discontentment with the aforementioned
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