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    East Asian Buddhism

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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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    BALAOING‚ Patrize Aerielle A. BSTM 2-1D Lee Kuan Yew‚ GCMG‚ CH (born Harry Lee Kuan Yew‚ 16 September 1923)‚ is a Singaporean politician. He was the first Prime Minister of Singapore‚ governing for three decades. He is also widely recognised as the founding father of modern Singapore. Hồ Chí Minh (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969)‚ born Nguyễn Sinh Côn‚ or Nguyễn Sinh Cung‚ also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành and Nguyễn Ái Quốc‚ was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–1955)

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    Zorica Nikolic Growing Up Asian In Australia - Summary Edited by Alice Pung STRINE Amy Choi - The Relative Advantages of Learning My Language Page 7. Amy Choi lived with her grandfather (mum’s dad) but was never kind to him. He wrote poetry but she only listened to once as she had let her Chinese go so could not understand much of what he was saying. After a while her grandfather started losing his memory and could not find his way home from the city. One holiday‚ Amy followed her grandfather

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    The invading Asian shore crab (Hemigrapsus sanguineus)‚ has been a growing cause for concern for over a decade in Southeastern Massachusetts. It is suspected that the species was first introduced in the U.S. as adults or larvae present in ballast water discharged from incoming global trade ships. The first specimen in the U.S. was recorded in Townsend Inlet‚ Cape May County‚ NJ in 1988. The first appearance in Massachusetts was near Woods Hole on Cape Cod in 1992. By 1994‚ the Asian shore crab was

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    Asian Influences on the Filipino Culture Hindu Pre-contact period Before the Spanish period‚ the archipelagoes of Southeast Asia were under the influence of traders from the Hindu-Malayan culture‚ such as theMajapahit Empire‚ which was then supplanted by Islamic :D teaching by Muslims traders from Gujarat‚ India. Influences from the Indian subcontinent may be traced earlier to before the arrival of the Arabs and the Europeans during the 15th and 16th centuries respectively. The rulers of many

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    Growing Up Asian

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    The editorial “Bikies threat to public” that was published on the 7th of March in the Herald Sun shows a serious concern about bikies and their so called “wars”. It states that they (The bikies) should be taken seriously because they are a lot more powerful than the police think they are. The piece mostly uses connotation‚ attack and an appeal to safety and they make the public feel like they have to join in the “fight against bikies”. The audience thinks that they are crimaanls because of photo

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    recent surge of Asian Americans in American cinema‚ we are noticing that the stereotypes that we have used in the past are actually being used by their culture to break into American culture. Days of portraying Asian Americans as unintelligible and subservient are gone and are being replaced with a whole new outlook. The introduction of Martial Arts into American film has evolved the way Asians are viewed in American cinema. Quentin Tarantino introduced a whole new outlook to Asian culture with his

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    of the era took a similar unsparing approach to social ills. Upton Sinclair Immigration as a Global Process Between 1901 and 1914‚ 13 million immigrants came to the United States‚ many through Ellis Island. Asian and Mexican immigrants entered the United States in fewer numbers. Asians entered through Angel Island. The Immigrant Quest for Freedom Like their nineteenth-century predecessors‚ the new immigrants arrived imagining the United States as a land of freedom. Some immigrants were "birds

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    HISTORY Asian and American cultures are as different as black (yin) and white (yang)‚ or east and west. While American culture is relatively new‚ in terms of history‚ the Asian culture is one of the world’s oldest‚ with its earliest origins believed to be Sumer‚ located near the Persian Gulf‚ in approximately 3500 B.C. China is believed to be the world’s oldest existing civilization‚ beginning with the Shang Dynasty in around 1500 B.C. (Chan‚ 1991). RELIGION While there are two religions prevalent

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    C H A PTE R 1 RESEARCH M E TH O D O LO G Y 1 Research Methodology is a way to systematically solve the research problem. The Research Methodology includes the various methods and techniques for conducting a Research. "Marketing Research is the systematic design‚ collection‚ analysis and reporting of data and finding relevant solution to a specific marketing situation or problem". D. Slesinger and M. Stephenson in the encyclopedia of Social Sciences define Research as "the manipulation

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