Chinese Observations

Tea, as a popular commodity good in late-Ming China, experienced the farming in tea plantations, picking through tea farmer’s hands, stir-frying in tea manufacturers’ houses, and then was bought and delivered by licensed merchants through the trade routes to tea markets. After it was sold, tea finally arrived at its destination, the places where tea would be consumed. Two types of space were mostly used by tea drinkers to enjoy their pleasure of tasting tea: tea houses (茶馆) and tea huts (茶寮). The tea house, which was originated in the Southern Song Dynasty and served for tea-drinkers from various backgrounds, continued developing in the 16th and 17th centuries, especially in urban areas; however, tea connoisseurs became more and more interested

When Europeans arrived in North America, they encountered the Native Americans. This encounter was fraught with difficulties for both sides, for the Native Americans more so than the Europeans. Europeans conquered the Native Americans, forced them into labor, and spread diseases which the Native Americans had no resistance to. In addition to this the Europeans considered themselves superior to the Native Americans. Despite this, the Europeans and Native Americans both had things the other wanted and so they frequently engaged in trade with each other. However, the Native Americans thought that, despite not having the luxuries the Europeans had, they were better off than the Europeans. This sentiment is exemplified in “Your People Live Only Upon Cod” by French priest Chrestian LeClerq who was traveling with the Micmac Indians. It is a documented response by an unknown Micmac leader to European, particularly French, claims of superiority. In analyzing this document, we will find that the cultures of the French and the Micmacs were vastly different. We will also discover what the Micmacs and the French thought of each other.

The United States will suffer an economic catastrophe when China stops purchasing U.S. government bonds because the U.S. government will not be able to pay its bills. According to Morgan Housel of the investment community, “China has indeed been a prolific buyer of U.S. debt over the past decade; in 2000, Mainland China owned less than $60 billion of Treasury debt [and] by 2010, it owned more than $1 trillion, surpassing Japan as America 's largest foreign creditor.” It is hard to imagine that such a world power like the United States needs any assistance from others. For years it has been speculated that without the help of China buying U.S debt, they will be in a huge deal of problems. That is extremely exaggerated being that the U.S. have many other investors but it is important to note that China is a very huge part of our economic success. Without the help of China we can truly look forward to higher interest rates, higher inflation and crowding out private investment. I do agree that the United States needs China in order to maintain a stable economy. With out the help of China’s investments the America’s economy will become weaken by the impending high interest rates, inflation, high unemployment rates, decrease in productivity, a decline in the stock market and a country where its citizens highly rely on their help of the government.

In America there was no secret that owning slaves was a big deal, it was forced labor. The rate at which they worked brought in money which allowed the owners to buy more land and slaves, therefore gaining wealth and power. I believe this picture is a famous one because it shows the price at which the power was paid for, by treating humans like property.

Xiang Yi takes the bat and the ball from Ethen. She holds in one hand and starts to walk to the other end. When the ball rolls on the bat she quickly holds the bat with both hands and walks slowly to the other end. She passes the ball and bat to her friend standing at the other end.

The Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, collected and put into text by Chinese scholar Pu Songling, is a collection of tales of mostly alchemic, supernatural, and paranormal nature. One of the common threads that runs through the collection is that of the sexual encounters and sexual relations between people, people and creatures, and people and supernatural beings. These stories deal with the subject of sexual indulgence, and clearly connote sex as a negative and dangerous aspect of human desires. Stir-Fry, the last story in Strange Tales, however, forcefully deviates from that trend of the perception of sexual desire. In Stir-Fry, Pu glides over the topic of the dildo and treats it as if it were just any normal other object that would be ridiculous to cook and serve guests at dinner. A scholar’s sexual desires are no less strange than the tales of sex in stories such as “The Fornicating Dog,” “The Painted Skin,” “Snake Island,” and especially “Lotus Fragrance.” The sexual nature of the toy Pu ignores completely, and he enforces the idea that sexual desires or encounters are not as strange or taboo as Pu himself makes them out to be in his earlier stories in the Strange Tales collection.

Within the graphic novel American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, the reader is demonstrated with three essential protagonists throughout the book, known as Jin Wang, Danny, and the Monkey King. Though, these individuals are not associated with each other throughout the graphic novel and their surroundings impact them in different ways; they all possesses one imperative objective, which is to identify their true identity as an individual. For example, the Monkey King searches for his identity amongst the other deities. As seen here, “You may announce that I am the Monkey King of Flower Fruit Mountain! Yes, Yes. I apologize profusely sir, but I cannot let you in, you have no shoes” and “I demand to be let into this dinner party!... Look. You may be a king-

called parallel plots where the story is actually more than one story to tell different plots to try and give

Le Xin fills half of her cup with water and sits on the chair. She looks at the food colouring and says, “I want green”. Gladys and Rieyann said, “Okay you take green”. She smiles at then and takes the eye dropper. She squeezes the eye dropper and releases to suck the green food colouring and squeezes the liquid out into the water. She squeezes slowly the colouring and watches the colour change in the water. She says, “Wow, so nice. My water change to green”. Rieyann said, “Wow, Look how the colour changes” Le Xin smiles. The teacher asks her to place the flower in the water. She said, “Later my flower will change to green!” The teacher

In “The Chinese in All of Us,” Richard Rodriguez describes multiculturalism in America in the 1950’s and how people of different cultures reacted to it. Rodriguez was born of Mexican descent from immigrants who moved to California in an attempt to find a better life. Being raised in America, Rodriguez was exposed and influenced by the various amounts of cultures surrounding him; he explored and developed as a person with a culture that went beyond his Mexican roots. Due to his embrace of multiculturalism, critics and people in general mocked and defamed him by saying to him “you have lost your culture” (Rodriguez 729). In “The Chinese in All of Us,” Rodriguez makes claims about the definition of culture and about how people reject multiculturalism in order to preserve their own culture.

From the American Born Chinese, the text and image shared the equal and precise time in moments on every page of the book on what happened in the story, and how the author and the book relate the reader to his or her experience. The text and image affect my reading experience in more entertaining ways of understanding the story and how do I feel about reading the book. For people like the graphic novel, it helps them to read and imagine easily toward them. Also, the text and image of this book American Born Chinese show three different stories. But in the end, it actually the one-story headline. The three different stories show the ideas of how discrimination affects Chinese people are like. It also shows how we had been discriminated by their

Overall, both “American Visa” and “American born Chinese” have span the cultural chasm between China and America; at the same time, show how women and men have different views of being Chinese in America. From the “American Visa,” it declares a woman’s life in New York is better in China because she is no longer only belong to men, but mostly belong to herself, she can do whatever she wants. Meanwhile, she clearly understands her gender and identity and proud of them. However, through “American born Chinese.” It illustrates how natives born did not like being treated as a” Chinese.” Their lack of self-acceptance was changeling themselves. Each one of the character is not willing to accept themselves. Jin wants to be American, Monkey King wants

Over the past summer, I traveled alongside my peers to experience the culture and language we have dedicated ourselves to learning--Chinese. Over the twelve days that we spent traveling through four different cities, we documented our time through photographs, videos, and memories that will remain with us for the rest of our lives. I didn’t realize my leadership potential until after our return to the United States. After each trip to China, my teacher encourages her students to make a video which reflects our experience with total immersion in China. The reflection video project seemed to lack focus and direction, therefore I volunteered to take the lead on this project. With that came the responsibility of accurately portraying our experiences

False informational evidence is the top reason for wrongful convictions in capital cases. Some victims were convicted on forced confessions and many were the victims of prosecutorial misconduct. “The total number of exonerations is 159, with the most recent being Ralph Daniel Wright, Jr. on May 11, 2017” (Innocence and the Death Penalty). From the past 44 years, only 159 people have been freed from death row for being falsely convicted. Prior to that information, the death penalty system needs refinement. The death row is filled with innocent people who does not deserve to be executed. It would not be good to get rid of the Death Row entirely at all. Instead, we should improve the death penalty so it can be a lot trustworthy and accurate.

China has about five thousand years history which is a very long period of time. Also, the Chinese civilization was growing with these periods of time and it will continues greater than ever. Many wars and unhappinesses were happening during this period. Although, the time has passed, the histories and the civilizations have not passed. These family virtues, serious, working attitudes, sense of justice and the great Confucian tradition have been deeply assimilated into the Chinese people. Some Chinese traditions are different from North American’s. The Chinese culture has many special characteristics which are very interesting for people to learn.