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Overview of Chinese Beliefs

2002). In addition, dietary practices in Asia are often associated with religious practices and customs (Gifford, 2002). R...

"Smoking Among Chinese Americans: Behavior, Knowledge, And Beliefs" - Summary And Response

The authors recognize how utilizing this single Chicago community is not sufficient to represent the entire Chinese American popul...

Chinese Culture and Health Beliefs

is the concept of Qi, which refers to the idea that there is an energy that flows from the surface of the body to the internal org...

Culture and Social Change in China

introduced many economic reforms which took into account global markets and the output of China increased nearly four times. Overa...

Chinese Americans, A Cultural Assessment

in the 1960s a new wave of immigrants resulted. Since the early 1970s, roughly 250,000 "Chinese intellectuals, scientists and engi...

Cultural Needs of Chinese Women in Childbirth

background and knowledge to evaluate when there is a need to consult a transcultural nurse specialist, as these specially trained ...

Chinese Domination on the Open Seas During the Fifteenth Century

and offered the natives beads and strings of coral as items for trade, the Europeans were ridiculed. The natives had products tha...

Overview of Christian Eschatology

In five pages Christian belief and 'last days' are considred in an overview of beliefs and attitudes. Four sources are cited in t...

The Nature Lover Subculture

and Ryan, 2003). As a result, a number of German hiking societies developed with the Friends of Nature with its motto Free Mounta...

A Study of Anabaptist Reform

controversial issue in the sixteenth century, as ecclesiastical and state authorities viewed the ritual of infant baptism as repre...

World Religions : Buddhism

painful as are disease and old age. It is painful not to have what we would like to have (Lorentz, 2007). In other words, life is ...

Art of China Featured at LACMA

their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...

Deng Xiaoping and Economic Liberalization

if it didnt compromise Communist rule, which for all practical purposes means there was no reform considered (Pei). Dengs views ...

'Wh in Situ' Chines and English Movements

Chinese and English wh movements are contrasted and compared in a paper consisting of ten pages....

'Essay on Literature' or 'Wen Fu' by Lu Chi

In six pages this report examines this ancient Chinese literary essay....

Chinese Literary Works

the mountain (Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain). As the characters wait for Fox Volant, they start to recall incidents from the p...

Clothing of China

Long thought to be legendary, it has recently proven to actually have existed, but theres no information on the type of clothing w...

China and the Possibility of Revolution

societal dictates under which Chinese women had lived for centuries. This period was characterized by a complex interaction betwe...

Superpower Status of China

the low-end retailers like Wal-Mart are able to supply inexpensive goods, low income Americans will remain satisfied and uncritica...

The Chinese and Japanese Bureaucracies

determining both assignments and promotions" (Pempel, 1992, p. 19). The model for the bureaucracy that exists in Japan today was...

Analysis of Mona in the Promise Land by Gish Jen

In five pages this paper examines and analyzes this Chinese American novel first published in 1996....

Love in a Small Town by Wang Anyi

sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...

Comparing the Christian and the Buddhist Belief Structure

to being divine. However, they may pay reverence to images of Buddha (Gyatso, 2001). Buddha is seen as a teacher or a guide with B...

Medication and Cultures

This research paper describes how health beliefs and cultural views of medication influence health behaviors. Three pages in lengt...

Beliefs and Teachings of Islam

of Jesus Christ (Injil) and the Quran" (Wenner, 2001). They believe in prophets who are individuals that God speaks throu...

Business Leadership Self Evaluation

I hope to have some day. Values I think that everyone has values, even the dweebs. They have their own values, they just may not...

The Politics and Metaphysics of Thomas Hobbes

same time that other men pursue the same desires (Hobbes 185). The development of enemies comes from this course of natural compe...

How My Life Was Changed by Buddhism

because of the construct of human nature, and the constant conflict caused by physical needs, sexual urges, and the desires for lo...

Jamaican Culture & Health Beliefs

A 5 page research paper that discusses Jamaican culture and health beliefs....

Differences Between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism

18). The words of Buddha were not written down until several centuries after his death and the first divisions within Buddhist b...