Victor Chang: A Brief Biography

Emperor K’ang-hsi was one of the greatest Chinese emperors of all time. Ruling from 1662 to 1722 he was also one of the longest ruling emperors in Chinese history and for that matter the world. K’ang-hsi brought China to long-term stability and relative wealth after years of war and chaos. Jonathan Spence writes from the eyes of K’ang-hsi getting his information from K’ang-hsi’s own writings. Though a little biased towards himself this book still provides important insight into his mind. Emperor of China is divided into six parts; In Motion, Ruling, Thinking, Growing Old, Sons, and Valedictory.

“The Smile on Happy Chang’s Face” by Tom Perrotta takes place during a Little League championship game and is narrated by the main character, Jack, who is also the umpire of the game. In his short story, Perrotta illustrates an introspective Jack by making Jack talk share his thoughts and feelings about his family, neighbor, the Little League baseball players and the players’ parents. Because the story is told through Jack perspective, readers are able to have insight into Jack’s character and this makes it easier for them to understand why he had the feelings and thoughts that he shared. For example Jack’s way of defining masculinity and femininity allows readers to understand his thoughts about his son and the girl baseball players.

The United States has always appeared to have had an unfair white American advantage. What instances of desire for superiority took place in America? The Slavery Era is an example of how white people alienated the rights of African Americans and other ethnic groups including the Irish. Americans oppressed, belittled, and alienated the rights of African Americans in many ways. African Americans were property to white Americans in the early slavery years. African Americans were often beaten and even murdered. Whites saw African Americans as inferior, so they treated them as such. This is a prime example of unethical and immoral actions that white Americans took to ensure their own power and superiority. Americans ensured their advantage in free

Have you ever faced a life changing experience that not only affected you, but also the society around you? Life changing experiences are turning points where someone's life changes “direction.” Some people who have been in major life changing experiences are, Melba Beals who wrote Warriors don’t cry, Jackie Robinson who wrote, I Never Had it Made and Feng Ru starring in the article “Father of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maskel. Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson and Feng Ru all faced life changing experiences that not only impacted their lives, but also their countries.

On June 19, 1982, Vincent Chin was murdered after his bachelor party in a hate crime driven by an outrage towards the Japanese auto industry misplaced onto himself (Embracing). Neither of his murderers ever spent a day in prison, despite appeals made in court (Embracing). Vincent Chin and his case still matters to Americans and should be made aware to the Wayne State faculty and students by the Filipino Student Society (FilSoc). Not necessarily every single person needs to be told directly by the FilSoc, but at least a small portion of the faculty and student body should become aware of the Vincent Chin case through FilSoc’s efforts.

“The mind changes, the word changes, time doesn't stay still, history is a verb, it is ongoing, there is no past tense, future tense, history is constant” Hung Liu told interviewer Rachelle Riechart (Riechart). Hung Liu is a Chinese woman who was born in Changchun, China in 1948. She was born during the age which we call the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which heavily impacted her life. She lived in China for 36 years and then left for the United States. She now resides in Oakland, CA, where she teaches art at Mills College (“A World of Art”). A lot of her artwork is based on photographs and memories she has from China and photographs she’s taken in the United

Mel Chin is a local Contemporary artist from Houston, Texas. He was born in 1951 and was the of his family to be born in the U.S. Mel Chin studied at Peabody College in Nashville, TN, graduating in 1975. Even at a young age Mel Chin had an interest in art. His parents owned a grocery store where Chin would make portraits out of ground meat. Even his high school English teacher Shirley Wiley could see the artistic potential within Chin. “Supplied with a special electricity from the Primal Source, M.Chin hums quietly along without the usual electrical short-circuit, for he is calm, pleasant, gentle, and exploited by us all, including me”, said Chin’s English teacher Shirley Wiley. He drew cartoons for the school paper and put a touch of his artistic skill on school projects. Chin has been active the contemporary art world from the late 1970’s to the present. Mel Chin has received numerous awards and grants for his works since early in this career. One of his earlier achievements was the Visual Arts Commission for the Houston Festival in 1982. Chin works with various mediums ranging from earthworks to sculptors and more. The ideas for Chin’s work usually come from social, political, and environmental issues. Mel Chin can be described as an artist that is difficult to categorize.

Mckissick, Floyd. “CORE Endorses Black Power.” In Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform and Renewal: An African American Anthology, edited by Marable, Manning, and Leith Mullings. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

“To treat illness without understanding the viscera and bowels is no different from a blind

Victor Chang was a Chinese-Australian Cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation., he did Australia’s first successful heart surgery for a 14-year-old Fiona Coote on 8 April 1984. But sadly Victor Chang was killed on a Mosman street in Sydney's north on the 4th July 1991. The killer of Victor Chang was

Chang’an was very popular for it’s silk, especially during the Tang so they had a lot of traders. Countries like Persian, Rome and Arabian Empire became friends because of trade, and they didn’t just trade goods, they also traded cultures. Because of trading silk, a new route opened for travelers, it was in between Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Southern Xinjiang so it made it so much quicker to get to Chang’an. It especially made it easier for the Romans to get to Chang’an.

Jamaica has, over the years, produced some very influential and successful entrepreneurs. As a matter of fact, Jamaicans are known to excel in just about everything we do. In my opinion, the epitome of Jamaican excellence in entrepreneurism is none other than Mr. Michael Lee- Chin. Michael Lee-Chin, Chairman, Portland Holdings Inc is regarded as a visionary entrepreneur whose philosophy of “doing well and doing good” as resulted in phenomenal and inspiring philanthropic initiatives.

He was the Emperor during East Han, Ming was his name.He had a dream about Buddha.And that the very next day he ordered some his officials to travel west in an attempt to find what had caused his vision. The officials then travel to the west and eventually came upon two Buddhist monks with two white horses. The monks carried with them a picture of Buddha and their horses were carried with holy Buddhist scriptures. The Chinese officials invited the monks to return with them to China 's capital Chang An and introduce Buddhism to the emperor.

The Miraculous Mandarin is a one acted ballet composed by Béla Bartók. Béla Bartók is a Hungarian composer, who was born on March 25, 1881 and is now one of the most important composers of the 20th century. He grew up with his parents and sister, Erzsébet in a small town called Nagyszentmiklós, Austria Hungary. Then moved to Nagyszölös when his father, Béla Bartók died. When Béla was 28 he lived with his first wife Marta Zeigler and his son Béla jr. After 15 years of marriage he divorced and married a Ditta Pásztory, a piano student, who was 19 at the time and he was 42. He then had another son named Péter. Béla once was an amazing composer, pianist and folk song collector, who died on September 26, 1945. He learned the piano with his mother, Paula Voit and afterwards went to study with István Thomán. He also composed under János Koessier at The Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. His parents knew he had a special eye for composing because at age four he learned how to play 40 different songs on the piano with no professional music lessons and at nine years old he would make up small, little dance pieces for his whole family to watch. Before Béla was a famous composer, in 1907 he took his first few steps in his career as a piano teacher in The Royal Academy for more then 25 years. In 1917 he working as a composer. He composed one of his first major orchestral work in 1903. He named this piece Kossuth after Lajos Kossuth, a beloved childhood, Hungarian Hero. But after The Fine Arts Commission Competition, Béla took a little break from composing. He wrote very little for about two to three years. Instead of composing he went on an expedition to collected folk music. But the outbreak of World War 1 stop him from his search for Hungarian music, so he was forced to return to composing. He made a comeback with The Wooden Prince and the String Quartet No. 2 which were inspired by Debussy. After another year he came out with a new ballet called The Miraculous Mandarin. It’s a story about prostitution, robbery and murder. It was premiered in 1926 in Cologne, Germany, the audience were in shook of the performance for it was inappropriate and disrespectful. The future showings of the show were banned for the

With regard to the problem of the lack of a creative director, we suggest a variety of solutions. Firstly, considering that the coordination of six designers have a vital importance in order to give compactness and homogeneity to the collections, the presence of a creative director is essential. Given the increasingly influential economic crisis , we realize that hiring a new creative director can be a huge responsibility, so we think it could be useful to make each new collection in collaboration with a famous designer from the world of luxury, as other fashion companies do. In fact, by hiring a designer who is well known and recognizable - by all types of customers in every country - not just the