Chinatown. [pause] To Chicagoans and tourists alike‚ it is widely known as the epicenter of chinese culture in Chicago. With its vibrant colors‚ traditional architecture‚ and time-honored cuisine‚ countless Chinese residents are able to sustain their culture as well as offer others the ability to explore a new one. For decades‚ Chinatown has been a unique tourist attraction in Chicago. A colorful gate decorated with a Chinese inscription declaring “The world is for all” stands at the intersection
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Hardy was aware of the gender bias inherent in Victorian society and culture‚ the expectations that limited women’s opportunities. He explores the restricted and disempowered status of women through the experiences of Bathsheba Everdene. Although a perfectly capable‚ educated and head strong young women‚ she experiences the gender bias that all women experienced at that time. “Don’t anyone suppose that because I am women…I shall be up afield before you are up..I shall astonish you all” it is evident
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on the bottom of the North American continent. This country borders the Caribbean Sea‚ the North Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. It is between border countries of Belize (276km)‚ Guatemala (958 k) and United States (3‚155 km). Mexico has four large physical features including mountains‚ coastal plains‚ plateaus‚ and volcanos. The Sierra Madre Occidental is a mountain range that runs through all of Mexico from North to South. The precise coordinates are 23 00 N‚ 102 00 W. The total area of Mexico
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It’s commonly known that there have been large and successful businesses that were founded by immigrants or people of immigrant descent. What people usually don’t know is how important these businesses are to society. It astounds others when they find out that 40% of the Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants‚ that such a group of people could create 1.7 trillion dollars worth of revenue. Much of society today labels immigrants as job stealing‚ unwanted trash of other countries. However
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In "The Naked Crowd‚" Jeffery Rosen describes how the 1000 plus people depicted in profiles published in the New York Times’ Portraits of Greif‚ were viewed by many as failed attempts at capturing the personalities of these people. At around 200 words‚ each these profiles were filled with a couple hobbies or quirks in an effort to sum up each person’s life into memorable snippets of information‚ but at the same time removed any complexity of personality from that individual. Rosen then goes on to
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The banana is a fruit surrounded by an enormous amount of history about its origin. The banana derives from Southeast Asia‚ specifically from the jungles of Malaysia‚ the Philippines and Indonesia‚ places where bananas are still produced today. The general belief is that in the middle ages Arabs brought the fruit to Africa’s oriental region via Madagascar. The fruit was later transported to the west coast by Portuguese missioners‚ where the fruit had great success due to the tropical humid environmental
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descriptions of people and places will have you falling out of your chair. The beer he is offered in Belgium‚ for example‚ defies his palate. He just can’t associate the taste with any previous experience‚ but finally decides it puts him in mind of a very large urine sample‚ possibly from a circus animal. (He should have stuck with Coca-Cola‚ nicht wahr‚ Wendell?) Bryson has truly captured some of the giddy enjoyment that I experience when traveling in a foreign country where one does not speak the language
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WHAT IS THE YAKUZA? The yakuza are basically the Japanese mafia. However‚ traditional yakuza are very different to the mafia in other countries due to how the organisations themselves are not actually illegal. They are regulated and monitored. The biggest yakuza syndicates have huge office headquarters‚ the addresses of which are listed on the National Police Agency website. The top bosses even have business cards with corporate logos. Yakuza are very different to ordinary mafia in the way they
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Amsterdam To gain a strong understanding of the Dutch culture and lifestyles‚ you should definitely visit Amsterdam. You will be amazed by the large number of bicycles‚ stunned to see the culture and the architecture and be surprised of the smell of tulips. It is also the city for shopaholics and fashion lovers. But the most famous area would definitely be the red- light district‚ also known as the Wallen. When you are there you will be surprised to see the vast offers of legalized prostitution
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popular tourist attraction. Polé has transformed from a small Mayan city into Xcaret‚ which has tours‚ interactive activities‚ as well as mouth-watering restaurants along the sea. Finally‚ Chichén Itzá in the bordering Mexican state of Yucatán is a large‚ Mayan city that has had a long-lasting mark in the Mayan civilization. Several centuries after the Mayans inhabited Cancún‚ the Mexican government took its chances on an unknown area: it financed the first nine hotels‚ the first being the Hyatt Cancún
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