*AFTER QUIZ 2* October 31st‚ 2012 Issues in this unit: racism‚ war‚ discrimination‚ etc. WWII; Race war Strong ethnocentrism. Nativism doesn’t have any institutional power. Nativism becomes more a national policy‚ national identity. In Meiji period‚ Japanese were aware of what happened in China; change of terminology (people stop referring China as the middle kingdom‚ and refers it as Shina?‚ reflect a different stand towards China). Ethnocentrism has a different grounding. Difference between
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The Case Study: “Effective leadership in unexpected places: A socio-historical analysis of the Red Tops Dance Orchestra‚” looks at how the Red Tops were able to successfully remain intact as a group for two decades. The case study focuses on the management techniques of the band’s drummer‚ Walter Osborne and how he was able to effectively lead the team‚ allowing each team member to be individuals while maintaining the joint identity of the band. As an Army leader I am expected to know my subordinates
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Chinese ghost festival – A ritual that embodies Buddhist and Chinese values The Ghost festival‚ the second most important festival of the year‚ is an event in which features of Buddhism are most relevant in Chinese culture. The ritual‚ by essence‚ belongs to the living and the dead – it creates a harmony between the two‚ as well as that between the individual‚ society and nature in its performance. Its Chinese term‚ Yu lan pen hui‚ is composed of the foreign word “yu lan” that refers
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Discuss the Russian war in Afghanistan and the subsequent rise of the Taliban. Address the primary causes of the war‚ the key players involved‚ and the Taliban’s effect on the country’s cultural landscape. What did the United States do right and/or wrong? In 1979 there was a war between the Soviet’s and the Afghani’s in which the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan in order to back up the people’s democratic party of Afghanistan (PDPA) because they wanted Afghanistan to be run by socialism instead
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greater things and many times in can do the whole opposite. One of the few topics in music where developments continued in a consistent uphill way has been that in the development of the orchestra. Claudio Monteverdi play an important role in the development of the opera orchestra. Firstly‚ Monteverdi puts an orchestra instrumental list at the beginning of his of Orfeo. This easily delineates his insistence on using a certain number of instruments for what probably a certain “sound”. Monteverdi also
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United States protected businesses by rejecting State-regulated economic regulations (Choudhry 2004‚ 6). This precedent was revisited in the 1937 landmark Supreme Court Case‚ West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish‚ which involved‚ Elsie Parrish‚ a chambermaid at the West Coast Hotel‚ who sued the Cascadian Hotel (owned by the West Coast Hotel Company‚) for not having been paid the legal minimum wage (West’s Encyclopedia of American Law). In 1932‚ a law had passed in Washington State‚ known as “Minimum
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The Civil Service Examination System of Imperial China served as a qualification system for scholars who wanted to become officials in the Chinese government. Many young men spent their entire lives studying the Four Books‚ the Five Classics‚ and memorizing Chinese characters in order to attempt to pass these examinations. The book‚ China’s Examination Hell‚ written by Ichisada Miyazaki and translated by Conrad Schirokauer‚ describes the lengthy‚ and often rigorous process of taking Civil Service
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PHYSICS 125 Orange Coast College Spring Semester‚ 2013 Instructor: Dr. Arnold Guerra III‚ aguerra@occ.cccd.edu‚ tel. (714) 432-0202 ext. 21282. http://boltzmann.eng.uci.edu/~aguerra/ Course website: http://www.occ.cccd.edu/online/aguerra/ Lecture: Tuesdays & Thursdays: 9:35 – 11:40 AM‚ Math Wing Building‚ Room 149. Laboratory: You must be enrolled in one of two the laboratory sections: Tuesdays‚ 12:00 – 2:05 PM‚ Lewis Building‚ Room 208. Thursdays‚ 12:00 – 2:05 PM‚ Lewis Building‚ Room 208.
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Film Authorship Ricciotto Canudo (1828) pointed out‚ “Cinema is the seventh art”. Any artists in each type of art have its own artistic style‚ even it is a film. Mise-en-scène is a good example to distinguish these artists. Every time we watch a film‚ we can find some period or some shots that we can identify the unique style. In film‚ we call autheurism. Although every film have its own story‚ different setting and different contents‚ we still find something whatever in comedy or tragedy that they
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