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Also known as Empress Wu Zhao, was the first and only female empress in Ancient China. She was the only woman to rule her own right in Ancient China. Born in the year 624 AD at Guangyuan, Sichuan Province, in China, her rule lasted from 16th of october 690 – 22nd of February 705. She…

Rise And Fall Of An Inner Prodigy Rise and Fall of an Inner Prodigy An angry and powerful girl glares back at Jing-Mei in the bathroom mirror (Tan 1066). The girl is her newly discovered prodigy: a force that comes from within that could potentially empower her to unlimited heights of personal growth and success….

Columbus – Friend Or Foe Explore, discover and develop or seek, destroy and conquer. Almost everyone recognizes the name Christopher Columbus and understands what his role was in changing the views, lifestyles, politics, and geography of the fifteenth century modern world. Christopher Columbus discovered a world known to no European, African or Asian. He discovered…

Shen Kua was born in China in the year 1026. Shen Kua was born to Shen Chou and his wife Hsa. His family had an unbroken tradition of being civil servants. Thus his father was a local administrator of many posts from Szechwan in the west to the international port of Amoy. At Sixteen years…

The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, is a powerful portrayal of four Chinese women and the lives of their children in America. The book discusses the conflicting cultures between the United States and China, and how men treat women throughout their lives. People living in the United States usually take for granted their roles…

Nilo Ilarde moved on from University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts with Bachelor in Fine Arts studying Painting. Since 1978 to date, Ilarde has taken part in different gathering presentations and mounted his performance displays in various scenes in the Philippines. From 1984 to 1985 Ilarde was the show chief of Pinaglabanan Galleries…

They were awarded a Valorous Unit Citation for their actions at Dong Ngai and a Presidential Unit Citation for the Battle of Dong Ap Bia Mountain. This was a weighty incident; the Rakkasans were the first American and remote army to begin Japan in 2,000 years. This agency led to the acceptably discomfiture of Iraqi…

Harry Shippe Truman When Harry Truman was about five years old, his family noticed he was having eye troubles. With these eye problems, Harry wasn’t able to see stars or the falling dust from fireworks. Harry never noticed this. When his mother got his first pair of glasses, they were thick glass in which the…

In this paper, I argue that the main factor that led North Korea to participate in the inter-Korean summit and the talk with the United States is its strive for economic development and interdependence. Kim Jong Un has continuously claimed to achieve economic growth in numerous public speeches and made fundamental changes in policies. However,…

While watching the news every other day I happen to notice the two main countries that everyone is talking about, which North Korea and Syria. These two countries captivated my attention with all the chaos they have going on. These countries are very diverse in their daily lives, the way that they govern their countries,…