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China created an empire extremely similar to the Roman empire discussed in Chapter 5. The only difference being, the Chinese empire was put together using several large armies, which forced their way into new territories. The Qin and Han rulers in China founded this empire. During 221 BCE the state of Qin helped unify China by defeating a main rival of the empire. After this, the king of Qin eventually began to rule all of China, being know as the "first emperor." To help all the states to become more unified he asked for all of the citizens to move into the capital, which created a bigger empire for him to rule. To make sure there wasn't any resistance from the citizens, he ordered officials to go out and retrieve them. Although Qin wanted

“It was not easy to live in Shanghai” (Anyi 137). This line, echoed throughout Wang Anyi 's short piece “The Destination” is the glowing heartbeat of the story. A refrain filled with both longing and sadness, it hints at the many struggles faced by thousands upon thousands trying to get by in the city of Shanghai. One of these lost souls, the protagonist, Chen Xin, was one of the many youths taken from his family and sent to live the in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. Ten years after the fact, Chen Xin views the repercussions of the Cultural Revolution internally and externally as he processes the changes that both he, and his hometown have over-gone in the past ten years. Devastatingly, he comes to the conclusion that there is no going back to the time of his childhood, and his fond memories of Shanghai exist solely in memory. This is in large part is due to the changes brought on by the Cultural Revolution. These effects of the Cultural Revolution are a central theme to the story; with repercussions seen on a cultural level, as well as a personal one.

When thinking about socioeconomic status many directly look to the “American Dream” as a guiding ideology. The “American Dream” inspires and motivates people to be their best selves and instills the idea that if one works hard and aspirations for a better life they will be able to rise within the socioeconomic rank system. Through out the novel Ain’t No Makin’ It by Jay MacLeod, two groups go through their own journey towards “makin’ it,” but even with vastly different work ethics and approaches they end up in very similar positions. Ultimately social reproduction is inevitable and social mobility is challenging to overcome no matter the aspirations and conviction, but to what extent? In the novel, MacLeod follows the two groups as they grow up in Clarendon Heights, a low-income housing development. MacLeod reviews how their initial socioeconomic status and their mentality towards social mobility is represented as a factor in the study. The two groups are the Hallway Hangers who are a majority White group, and the Brothers who are majority African American.

The strange environment of United States and high learning pressures make DuanYing Chen suffer a lot, he may want to go back China when he just get there. He is a outsider of the US. Chen do not speak English, he do not know anyone. Freud explain that one direction of suffering is from the external world. The US culture and environment are so unfamiliar to him. Duanying chen is not enough 18 old when he come to US. Since he is the only child, and from a wealth family. He do not have the base skill to take care of himself. He do not speak English, and he do not have any friends there either. He need his parents, but they are in China. Freud stated that the purpose and intention of people's life is looking for strong feeling of pleasure and

Social class helps to deter the reasons for individual’s health and ill health. Social classes also help with understanding health and ill health, this is done through the basis of individuals lifestyle class, for example the lower class who work in the worst

of upward mobility in a society to which he is not native. The combination of residing in

A persons health varies depending on the social and eithnic groups to which they belong. An example of this was given in our textbook and that is a story of a Hmong immigrant family who moved to southern California. In Hmong culture having seizures is a great honor and it is seen as the person visiting the spirit world, while doctors in America feel that seizures are a great health risk and should be medicated. In this example the girl is seen as “sick” in a sense that these seizures are bad and need to be fixes, and in the Hmong culture the same seizure is seen as an honor to be able to associate with passed spirits. In 1967 british researchers conducted a study known as the Whitehall study. In this study it compared the health of men in different levels of occupation. The study concurred that men who held lower ranked jobs, and lower levels of society, had much higher rates of common illness and ailments and even higher mortality rates. It was concluded that the men of lower status has more risk factors, for example, higher levels of stress and lower levels of physical activity. The result of the Whitehall study is the knowledge that “who you are, where you live, how much you earn, and what you do for a living all play a major role in determining your health,”

According Social Inequality: Patterns and Processes by Martin Marger, life chances includes “education, physical and mental health, residence and justice;” which are opportunities that we must procure through social resources (18). Our position within society determines our life chances; for children, their parent’s positions within society determines the child’s social status within society. “Life chances are acquired, then, as a result of factors that are only partially in the control of individuals…people’s initial class position and, therefore, the dimensions of their opportunities and future prospects are essentially an “accident of birth.” Certainly, people may subsequently enhance their life chances through individual effort, but

Four Chinese mothers have migrated to America. Each hope for their daughter’s success and pray that they will not experience the hardships faced in China. One mother, Suyuan, imparts her knowledge on her daughter through stories. The American culture influences her daughter, Jing Mei, to such a degree that it is hard for Jing Mei to understand her mother's culture and life lessons. Yet it is not until Jing Mei realizes that the key to understanding who her

According to About.com (Elizabeth Boskey, 2014), socioeconomic status is defined as a arrangement of elements including income, level of education, and occupation. It is a way of looking at how individuals or families fit into society using economic and social measures that have been shown to influence individuals ' health and well-being. Socioeconomic status is broken into three categories: high, middle, and low social economic status. These three categories are used to describe the three areas a family or an individual may fall into. When placing a family or individual into one of these categories, these three variables, income, education, and occupation, are usually evaluated. Socioeconomic status and health are closely related, and socioeconomic status typically have significant effects on a person 's health due to differences in ability to access health care as well as dietary and other lifestyle choices that are associated with both finances and education.

Yunnan Baiyao Group Co., Ltd. is part of the pharmaceutical industry known for its unique traditional herbal medicines specializing in the treatment of open wounds, fractures, contusions and strains. The business has undergone changes in the recent years to modernize not only the structure of the company but also with the aim to diversify its market and products in order to remain competitive at a global level.

Amy Tan’s short story “Two Kinds” describes a Chinese immigrant family who hope of finding success and an overall betterment of life in America. After losing everything in China, Jing-mei’s mother, Mrs. Woo, tries as a minority house maid in the 1960s to provide all the opportunities she can for her last daughter. This short story revolves around the interactions between the Jing-mei, who desires a ordinary life, and Mrs. Woo, who seeks only the best from her daughter. The values of these two characters are in constant conflict of which creates a lasting segregation between parent and child. Through Mrs. Woo’s death, Jing-mei questions her childhood upbringing and her mother’s true intentions that were masked by pure immigrant ambition.

Individuals within a society are grouped into certain rankings that is based on their wealth, income, race and education known as the social stratification. Sociologist use this to determine the social standings of individuals within a society. Social stratification can also appear in much smaller groups. These groups such as the work place, schools, and businesses can “take the form of a distribution of power and authority down the ranks”. (Cole, 2017) The Caste system is also another form of stratification that one does not get a choice in. They are born into it and regardless of their talents will hold positions that are given to them their whole life. Social mobility is the ability for individuals to move about their social standings.

In the film Welcome to Dongmakgol was an antiwar film that taking place in 1950 right in the middle of the Korean War after the American military got involved. The film takes place during the Korean War, and begins with an American pilot Smith, whose plane get caught in a storm of butterflies and crashes near an isolated village called Dongmakgol. Which the villages have no knowledge about the war or technology. At the start of the film, we see a young woman named Yeo-il who is smiling and slowly wave at the camera before smith plane pass over her. Right before he hits the ground the film slow down, Smith looks out the window to see a tiny butterfly flying with the plane before being killed. To me these butterflies represent Yeo-il for the reason that in Korea society butterflies

This movement is called social mobility “By social mobility is understood any transition of an individual or social object or value- anything that has been created or modified by human activity- from on social position to another.”(Sorokin, 1964, p. 133) This change in class is not always related to money or economic change. In some cultures an individual may ascertain great wealth in their life time but not be accepted into a higher class status. On the other hand a person who loses economic status is still revered as elite. This inability to move from one class to another is mostly observed in the estate system and the class system. There are two fundamental ways in which a person can be mobile within society either horizontal or vertical.