Were the Peranakan chinese just really good at their jobs such as being businessmen or merchants; or was Peranakan success owed to the opium farms that made customers addicted and enslaved to buy? The peranakans originally came from china to Southeast Asia because they were looking at good business opportunities or jobs in general. China at this time was very poor and large so they saw a good chance at wealth that would be brought back to china if they had a good trading system involving chinese
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lot of significant historical developments in the 19th century. The most important one had to be the advances in medicine. This also includes more knowledge and understanding of the human anatomy and also disease prevention. This were important developments because they were in part responsible for the accelerated growth in population around the western part of the world. In specific‚ Europe’s population doubled during this time. Another very important historical development in Europe during the 19th
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The Treaty of Versailles was signed in Paris‚ at the Palace of Versailles. The three main representatives were Clemenceau‚ Lloyd-George and Wilson‚ and these became known as ‘the Big Three’. Clemenceau represented France‚ and‚ voted for by the public‚ had to please those who supported him. So in a country that had lost so much‚ he wanted to get all he could from Germany to satisfy the angry nation and make them as weak as possible to protect France in the future. Lloyd-George was Great Britain’s
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Strange Fruit The Jazz Influence on Their Eyes Were Watching God In the late 1930’s‚ during the Harlem Renaissance‚ when Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God was written‚ the sounds of jazz and blues music filled the air (Hurston). Revolutionary artists such as Duke Elington‚ Teddy Wilson and Bessie Smith became household names as African-Americans began to develop a reputation for themselves as musicians (Blackburn). Among these artists was Billie Holiday‚ "the first popular
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How Relationships were Presented Through Sonnets in a Patriarchal Society By Marcelle Rowbotham This essay concentrates on the portrayal of male heterosexual love within two sonnet sequences. I will be analysing Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Mary Wroth‚ and Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Astrophil and Stella are cohesive in their themes of male hedonism‚ unpredictability and guile. At the time that these sonnets were written‚ females had very little power
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research has lead us to believe that the Aboriginals were civilized people‚ specifically‚ considering the fact that they had several notable technological advancements‚ proper agriculture‚ aquaculture and management of the surrounding land. They invented various efficient ways to create sustainability and livability‚ and in doing so produced a civilised and sophisticated society. AGRICULTURE The agricultural aspects of the Indigenous Australians were a major contributing factor that pointed towards
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If I Were President If I were president of Vietnam‚ I would change a series of recent laws. In my opinion‚ the most important thing that leads to the lives of happy residents is the laws. Of course‚ it must be a very strict law instead of a lax law which is not enforced First of all‚ I would ban alcohol. As far as I know‚ most of the accidents and crimes are related to alcohol. The drunk are usually out of control and don’t know what they are doing. The other option would be people could drink
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Basic Physics Content with Answers 1. In the absence of air resistance‚ a ball of mass m is tossed upward to reach a height of 20 m. At the 10m position‚ half way up‚ the net force on the ball is A. 2mg. B. mg. C. mg/2. D. mg/4. B is correct‚ as a vector diagram would show. Other choices show carelessness or confusion between force and speed‚ and what constant acceleration means. 2. When you drop a ball it accelerates downward at 9.8 m/s2. If you instead throw it downward‚ then its acceleration
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Who Were the Progressives? (ca. 1890s-1910s) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Even more energetic a sphere of historical controversy than that over the Populists is the historians’ argument over the Progressive movement. The Progressives were a heterogeneous collection of reformers. Active chiefly in the nation’s cities and the urban mass media (and in the legislatures of such states as Wisconsin and New York)‚ the Progressives carried out efforts
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Guilt: And Then There Were None And Then There Were None is a book about many mysteries. It is all about planning and plotting deaths and trying to solve the mystery behind them. Many different themes reoccur throughout this novel. One main theme that truly seems to either severely affect or have no affect at all on the characters is guilt. Guilt plays a huge role when it comes to the deaths in this book. Many characters struggle a great deal with it. Vera Claythorne is one of the main characters
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