“The motherchild relationship...requires the most intense love on the mother’s side‚” according to Erich Fromm‚ a German psychologist. The love that Hester expresses toward her daughter Pearl in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ and the lessons that she teaches her are what makes Hester a great mother. In return‚ Pearl improves Hester’s public image with her beauty and keeps Hester’s emotions and actions in check. The way these two characters subconsciously complement each other forms a
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West during what historian’s term‚ Medieval/Renaissance Europe‚ shifted the roles of two vastly different empires – the Ming and Ottoman. Even though we barely even touched on the Ming Empire‚ I feel like the significance of it‚ is far too grand to leave out in describing the rise of Europe. Both empires had different types of leadership and core goals – military and social. The Ming Empire was led by brilliant philosophical scholars‚ concerned not only with the external world but the development of
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whereas silver was not liked as it destabilized societies. Ralph Fitch‚ a British merchant‚ and He Qiaoyuan‚ a Ming dynasty court official both believed silver was a great asset to trade. Similarly‚ Ming court official‚ Wang Xijue and Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa‚ a Spanish priest‚ admired silver seeing it was a way to involve the government in their societies. On the other hand‚ Xu Dunqiu Ming‚ a writer and Tomas de Mercado‚ a Spanish scholar‚ disliked silver as it tainted their societies. Silver
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Zhu Di‚ who was once the prince‚ came to be the Yongle Emperor and appointed Zheng He as an Admiral. Three years later‚ in 1405‚ after Zheng He had proven his worth‚ he was appointed as a commander of a fleet of “treasure ships”. At this time‚ the Ming dynasty was not known to the world. It was Zheng He’s job to make China known to the rest of the world. As Zheng He commanded his fleet‚ he explored around Asia and Africa. Furthermore‚ He traveled to many nations and territories‚ such as India‚ the
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collective identity is broken into pieces‚ resulting in the concurrence of several cores and peripheries with cores in each periphery as well. It is seen that Shao and his friend‚ Yao‚ go onto a diverged path though both remain desolate in the sense that neither has found a positioned self against the broader context. Yao chooses to be the core of the periphery and appears to find his position in the postmodern‚ fragmented world‚ yet this condition is fragile at best‚ as seen in how he remains a “fly
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Nina Bouteldja The Overpopulation in China Research Methods John Abbot College This literature review discusses the impacts of overpopulation on the environment in China through four main studies. Each study directed its research on one consequence: the water issue and the aquatic ecosystem‚ the overexploitation of land and resources as well as the extinction of green land‚ climate change‚ GHG emission and desertification of land1. Several methods and sources
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The wall was mostly deteriorated by the time the Ming started to rebuild and repair it. It had been almost a thousands years before the Great Wall had been worked on; the last time was around 87 B.C. and now again around 1368 until 1644. The first emperor of the Ming dynasty was Hongwu; he decided rebuild the Great Wall. They started rebuilding the part of the Great Wall that protected Beijing; only twelve
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link 2 (gr10) The world around 1600 History Essay The World around 1600 Essay The 1600 was a time of great changes in the world. Trade and expansion dominated almost all societies. Ming China‚ the Songhai and Mughal Empires can be in contrast to European societies as they were ‘advanced societies’ technologically and scientifically. However these three empires collapsed due to invasions and revolts‚ whereas Europe‚ in the Middle Ages was secular‚ dominated by the church and the land
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buyingthem at a bargain and selling them for anexorbitant price. Many village headsworked hand in hand with thespeculators to make profits. In so doing‚ theybankrupted many a family.Cheng Ming was one such villager. The head of hisvillage delegatedpart of his duties to him because he found Cheng Ming easy topush around.Cheng Ming did not want to bully his fellow villagers as the villagehead didhim‚ so he often had to pay cash out of his own pocket when he failedtocollect any competent crickets. Soon the little
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Organizational Dynamics‚ Vol. 37‚ No. 2‚ pp. 190–202‚ 2008 ß 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. www.organizational-dynamics.com ISSN 0090-2616/$ – see frontmatter doi:10.1016/j.orgdyn.2008.02.008 Knowledge Sharing Among High-Tech MNCs in China and India: Invisible Barriers‚ Best Practices and Next Steps MARY B. TEAGARDEN INTRODUCTION The convergence of size‚ talent and ambition is creating a dynamic playing field for knowledge creation and sharing in the Asia-Pacific Region. The importance
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