any price‚ bear any burden‚ meet any hardship‚ support any friend‚ oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty." From the 1880s until World War II‚ France governed Vietnam as part of French Indochina‚ which also included Cambodia and Laos. The country was under the formal control of an emperor‚ Bao Dai. From 1946 until 1954‚ the Vietnamese struggled for their independence from France during the first Indochina War. At the end of this war‚ the country was temporarily divided into North
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to the Mekong Delta. The Mekong River flows approximately 4‚909 km through three provinces of China‚ continuing into Myanmar‚ Lao PDR‚ Thailand‚ Cambodia and Viet Nam before emptying into the South China Sea. The Mekong River has many different kinds of names in many places. For example: Dza-chu (Tibet)‚ Lancang Jiang (Jiang as river in China)‚ Thailand and Laos as Mae Nam Khong (Mae Nam as river). The Mekong River Basin is divided into 2 parts: Upper Mekong Basin
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The perspective of life and death of Daoism based on Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu Since the ancient time‚ there were a lot of different religions and teachings in China‚ and people’s perspectives and attitudes were influenced by these different religions and philosophical teachings in every aspect in their life. There are three major religions‚ or teachings‚ that are very important in Chinese history‚ which are Confucianism (philosophical teachings)‚ Buddhism and Daoism (considered both a religion and
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The two main texts in Daoism are the Tao-te Ching and the Chuang-tzu. The Tao-te Ching (or Dao De Jing) is the most significant text and is the heart of religious and philosophical Taoism. This text is credited to Lao Tzu‚ more commonly known as Master Lao. It was written in 5th century BCE and is 5‚000 Chinese characters long. The Tao-te Chings’s 81 brief sections are brilliantly constructed. They are poetic‚ practical‚ and mystical. The Tao-te Ching serves as a set of guidelines to live by.
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In culture a good person in rewarded with praise and the people who are not so good are witch hunted through the media and many use examples of people to feel better about themselves. Lao Tzu would not agree with this behavior‚ but would instead instruct citizens to show their humility by having self reflection. There seems to be a general opinion that the world is an evil‚ cold‚ isolating place. With murder stories in the news every
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TECHNICAL TERMS Traditional Medicine- Systems of medicine developed before the era of modern medicine‚ based on cultural beliefs and ancestral practices. Modern Medicine-Medicine as practiced by holders of M.D (medical doctor).Other terms includes: allopathic medicine; western medicine; mainstream medicine; orthodox medicine; regular medicine and biomedicine. Acupuncture- a medical treatment from China that involves putting sharp thin needles into the body at very specific points. Naturopathy-
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each proclaimed themselves king as the Zhou fell apart. In this unstable environment‚ warfare flourished‚ as did books like Sun Tzu ’s The Art of War. Lu Buwei had another problem‚ as well; he feared that the king would discover his true identity. Lao Ai ’s
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. GENERAL INFORMATION OF CAMBODIA Cambodia is a country with area of 181‚035 km2‚ located in Southeast Asia; bordered to the northwest by Thailand‚ the northeast by Laos‚ the east by Vietnam and the southwest by the Gulf of Thailand. Population: young; 14‚139‚000 people (in 2010) 2007 2008 2009 2010 GDP growth (%) 10.2 6.7 0.1 6.0 GDP per capita (current US$) 632 749 744 795 Inflation‚ consumer prices (%) 7.7 25.0 -0.7 4.0 Interest rate: Commercial bank
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Chapter I Background of the Study A school library is a library within a school where students‚ staff‚ and often‚ parents of a public (state) or private (fee paying) school have access to a variety of resources. The goal of the school library is to ensure that all members of the school community have equitable access "to books and reading‚ to information‚ and to information
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Set a few years after China’s opening to the various forces of globalisation‚ the film Shanghai Dreams (2005) tells the story of the conflict between Qinghong‚ a 17 year-old schoolgirl who wishes to remain in her hometown of Guiyang‚ and her father‚ Lao Wu‚ whose dream of returning to his hometown of Shanghai is stirred by reports of the better life others have obtained as a result of Deng Xiaoping’s policy of economic modernisation. Analysing their familial conflict in terms of a ‘‘political melodrama’’
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