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Asian American Experience in Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen Number 2

This paper discusses how emotion is used by the author in the depiction of the Asian American experience in the novel. There are ...

U.S. Organized Crime Groups

New York (1998). Like Italian mafia cases, the FBI targets Russian bosses for prosecution. Not long ago they were able to imprison...

Asia and American Popular Culture

Buddha would slowly give way to American capitalism, as pop culture stretched "from Singapore to Seoul, Bangkok to Bombay" (Smith ...

Galleries and Wings of a Trip to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art Described V

An exhibit reaction paper of two pages considers the various African, Asian, Greek, and Roman wings and galleries of NYC's Metropo...

Asia's Continuing Quest for Justice for the Comfort Women

Recent news has focused attention on the abduction into sexual slavery of great numbers of women from various Asian countries duri...

Asia Following the Second World War

An essay consisting of eight pages considers the disorder that resulted following the Second World War in the once orderly societi...

The Fight For Asiain Equality

were, and in some countries still are, preferred over female children. Nevertheless, when they were allowed personal and inte...

Spoken English and its Sociocultural Components

In eight pages this paper examines how language development is influenced by culture and society in a consideration of its effects...

Martial Arts' Overview

such practice that date as far back as 1066-256 B.C. during the Zhou dynasty (Short History of Chinese Martial Arts, 2005). Wit...

Comparison of Minfong Ho's Rice Without Rain and The Clay Marble

no more than family consists solely on bloodlines. After Dara hopefully remarks, "I heard a cowbell" (Ho 3) that to her means som...

Aspects of Global Expansion

results and it can also be costly. Once goods are produced they need to be exported to the country concerned. This may...

Asian Society Changes

sense of cultural nationalism and this is viewed as an Asian challenge (Subramaniam, 2000). Another trend that has emerged is that...

Comparative Analysis of Pregnancy and Birth in Asian and Western Cultures

This paper contrasts and compares the pregnancy and birth rituals of Asian and Western cultures in ten pages. Five sources are ci...

The Life and Influence of Ban Zhao

a book of precepts to guide the behavior of women" (Condravy). The book had an enormous "impact on the life of women from late-Min...

The U.S. in Asia, 1945-1980

stocking bomb shelters. School children were participating in disaster drills. The focus of this paper will be the invo...

An Examination of Asian Family and Culture

that makes it quite different from Western societies, is that the family is not considered part of an individual society. Families...

United Kingdom's Asian Community Housing Needs

was and is true in all areas of housing, from social housing and private rented areas to more affluent privately owned up market a...

United Kingdom and How to Meet Asian Housing Needs

is genuine and stills exist and how, despite government polices which focus on nuclear families, there have been some projects whi...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Martial Arts and Screen Legend Bruce Lee

in Hollywood features he decided to pack up his wife Linda and two young children and move to Hong Kong, where his ambitions would...

Comparing Two Regional World Civilizations

differences. In respect to the Islamic and Asian societies that sprang up, these occurred largely by 1000 B.C. (Roberts, 1993). ...

Portrayal of Asian Women as Whores in Miss Saigon

babies, which it did not do after World War II. However, even in this, the message is that America saves the day, while Vietnam r...

Economics and Trade Liberalization

Obviously, much of this process will depend on the extent to which trade barriers,...

Asians As They Are Depicted in The Legend of Miss Sasagawara by Hisaye Yamamoto and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn

the mid-80s, and concentrates on the chaotic Seventies, in which martial law was firmly in place. Perhaps the books most memorabl...

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

to the twenty-first century reader somewhat of an ordeal to read through the entire volume. The author for example talks about nin...

Positive and Negative Aspects of Globalization

true that there are still numerous problems, injustices and inequalities that stem largely from the greed and self-interest of the...

Statistics of Decision Making

control is the means by which manufacturers achieve that end. Probability can add a measure of confidence to decision making that...

Asia, Employee Relations, and Ethics

manufacturers to compete effectively in consumer-driven markets that demand wide selection as well as relatively low prices. The ...

Minority Police Officers - Are More of Them Needed?

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

Eat Drink Man Woman, To Live, and Survival of the Asian Family

This begins to change with the comment, "I have an announcement to make." Whatever follows is guaranteed to prompt anger and trial...