’s needs. In result‚ if the woman has no one else to turn to‚ she must stay and suffer the abusive environment. Wen Lin and Imm Tan ’s essay "Holding Up More Than Half the Heavens‚" addresses the lack of multicultural and multilingual services for battered Asian Pacific American women. "In the entire United States‚ only two shelters exist for Asian Pacific American women" (Wen Lin and Imm Tan‚ 464). Their essay brings to light the issue of who is taken into women ’s shelters and who is turned away
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Lie “Do you lie in your life?” The answer must be “ Yes.” However‚ in some cases‚ don’t be shame of yourself because of your lying. In the article‚ “The Way We Lie‚” Stephanie Erisson states that there are many reasons for people lying. What is more‚ Erisson also provides a lot of examples and quotes to support her ideas. Furthermore‚ Erisson mentions that it is hardly impossibly to spend a week without lying. It is very strange that we do not like people lie to us‚ but we still tell a lie. Without
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to RMB 67.7 trillion in 2015 (over US $10 trillion). “The 6.5% figure is the bottom line of China’s GDP growth for the next five years (2016-2020)‚ and an achievable goal‚” President Xi Jinping has said. According to Justin Yifu Lin‚ Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and Professor at the National School of Development of Peking University‚ China’s economy can grow at 6.5% or higher per annum during the 13th Plan period. Per capita GDP may reach
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were there three Opium Wars in China during the 19th century? The Opium Wars were a series of three wars between the Chinese and the British; primarily fought in regard to the illegal trade of opium in China during the 19th century. They manifested the conflicting natures of both nations and demonstrated China’s misconceptions of its own superiority. The Opium Wars resulted in the humiliating defeat of the Chinese to a country they considered to be "barbarians". There were many problems with
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“Mao’s leadership was the crucial factor in leading the communists to victory in the Chinese Civil War (1946-1949)”. Discuss the validity of this claim. The Japanese had begun to occupy China in 1931. Their primary insurgence began in Manchuria‚ in the northern part of China. This sudden invasion meant the two stronghold political parties at that time in China had to form the Second United Front in order to stop the incoming invaders. However in 1945‚ the Japanese had surrendered due to the atomic
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was saying. She began to tell us how the effect of her trying to hear was using up a lot of her brain power and was somewhat eased by a hearing aid and cochlear implant. After consulting with Dr. Lin at John Hopkins School of Medicine about her hearing lose it was considered a “Cognitive Load”. Dr. Lin has delivered the same unexpected news to numerous patients with hearing lost. His work focused on hearing lost‚ Gerontology‚ and public health. The most important issue was about the relationship
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after house on the twilight streets‚ under the immense oaks and elms‚ on shady porches‚ people would begin to appear‚ like those figures who tell good or bad weather in rain-or-shine clocks” (K. Flachmann and M. Flachmann 63). Suddenly‚ Lin beams up beside me. Lin asks‚ “Are you happy? Is your life the way you always wanted?” “Yes!” I answered. “I will have to get used to some of the changes‚ but I love my life in the future.” All of a sudden‚ I lift into the air like a ghost. I start flying out of
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The Opium War The Opium War‚ directed by Jin Xie‚ paints a rather impartial account of the Opium War‚ starting with the appointment of Lin Zexu to end the opium trade in China to the signing of the Treaty of Nanking. This film seemed to fairly depict the faults of both the Chinese and the British during the 1830’s and up to 1842. That said‚ The Opium War illustrated two important factors that both helped to promote the conflict and eventual military confrontation between China and Britain.
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The Donkey Cart by S.T. Hwang "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." Trust‚ just a five letter word which has a very deep and vast meaning. It teaches people how to care for it‚ for it is very hard to gain and to deal with. Also‚ being trustworthy is one of the most important trait a person must possess for it is the process of being able to place confidence in another person. The narrative tells us about the journey of a man whom his trust was tested
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fibre by using different wavelengths (colors) of laser light to carry different signals. This allows for a multiplication in capacity‚ in addition to making it possible to perform bidirectional communications over one strand of fiber. (Tomlinson & Lin‚ 2000‚ p.345-347) 1.2 Systems involve in Wavelength-division Multiplexing technology A WDM system uses a multiplexer at the transmitter to join the signals together and a demultiplexer at the receiver to split them apart. With the right type of
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