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"This paper will be concerned with the harmful effects caused by the negative stereotyping of Asians on television. When they are depicted in television programs, Asians and Asian-Americans, like all racial minorities in the United States, are "usually relegated primarily to ethnic settings, or else . . . as tokens in all-white shows" (Bernardo 353). There is some controversy over the issue of whether or not such stereotyping is actually harmful. Some experts claim that racial stereotypes on TV are necessary because they provide an easy source for audience identification. In this regard, it may be argued that negative stereotypes on television are important because they have entertainment value. However, as stated by the British correspondent Caroline Wheal, the use of racial stereotypes in the media "may make interesting--or amusing--articles or ... "

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"California has had a tumultuous history of cultures and races clashing. First inhabited by Indians, California was then settled by the Mexicans and Spanish explorers followed by the Russians. And, with the discovery of gold in 1849, the state became the focus of a major migration from across the country and around the world. However, the "melting pot" effect was not a peaceful one, for with this in-migration began a long history of racial discrimination. The purpose of this paper will be to discuss the early Chinese immigrants in California, including their relation to gold mining, the railroads, agriculture and urban life. Further, the research will provide a detailed look at the prejudice and bigotry these settlers faced and how they gradually became accepted and Americanized.

Before gold was discovered, the Chinese had slowly trickled ... "

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"This research examines some aspects of the practice of international management, as such practices apply to doing business in Thailand. The aspects of international management which are addressed in this research are production and logistics, the process of negotiation, and social behaviors and business customs.

PRODUCTION AND LOGISTICS
The conduct of international business by multinational corporations proceeds according to well.accepted concepts which have been developed over the past several decades. The changing environment of international business, however, is causing the conduct of international business to evolve from a multinational to a global perspective. "

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"As a modern, industrial country, Japan has been able to significantly and steadily improve its productivity and enhance the quality of its manufacturing processes to the point where it is providing world leadership in the art and science of management, especially production management. Although the West has expressed considerable interest in Japanese management techniques over the last few decades, there has been only limited interest in adopting particular aspects of Japanese management into the American corporate environment. This is due, in part, to the overriding belief that Japanese management is inexorably tied to Japanese culture, and hence is not transferable. In fact, although there are numerous examples of culture and management being intertwined, particular variables and techniques from Japanese management "are transferable to the West, although ... "

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"This research examines the pursuit of international relations by the Americans, Chinese, North Koreans, South Koreans, Soviets, and the United Nations with respect to the conduct of the Korean War. For the most part, the time frame of this research is 1945-1953. August 1945 marked the end of the Second World War, and, in late-July 1953, a truce agreement was signed between North Korea (the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea) and the United Nations Command. The truce agreement did not bring about an end to the war, but it did stop the fighting. By July 1991, the truce will have been in effect for 38 years; however, a state of war (undeclared as such on either side) will continue to exist ... "

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"This paper will examine the political, social, and economic issues surrounding the imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. On December 7, 1941, the nation of Japan launched an attack on Pearl Harbor, an American military base located in the Hawaiian islands. As a result of this attack, the United States government declared war on Japan. In the coming months, many Americans began to fear that Japanese-Americans living in the western United States might be involved in espionage to help their home nation win the war. There was no evidence to support this fear. Rather, it was the result of racist feelings which had arisen in response to the war. Nevertheless, politicians throughout the United States began urging the President to pass a bill which would forcibly remove all Japanese-Americans from the west coast for the duration of the war. One of the leaders of ... "

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"The Music of Japan

This paper will discuss the different types of traditional Japanese music, its origin, musical basis, different types of musical instruments, and Japanese music today. Japanese music is known to be almost 2000 years old (and is probably older), while Western music began with Gregorian chants less than a thousand years ago. The traditional Japanese music was imported from China, and the first record of this importation of music mentions the arrival of musicians from Korea in 453 A.D.. Of course, since that time, traditional music has changed much, and now many musicians performing Japanese "koto" music are now interested in performing "shinkyouku," the "New Music," at the expense of the older forms."

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"Alice Walker's The Color Purple depicts a world where masculinity is maintained at the expense of women. Maleness is defined by brutish acts of violence, emotional cruelty, callous disregard for others, and denial of basic education to women. As the book progresses, however, male displays of strength no longer cause fear but loathing. The male characters become impotent emotionally until they virtually disappear altogether. Amy Tan's series of vignettes in The Joy Luck Club depicts a world where men are already invisible, even impotent. The Chinese matriarchal society has all but suffocated outward displays of masculinity. Women, particularly older women, have the control and power though they deny their control. Only in present day America where the Chinese and American cultures clash, do we see a glimmer of the war between the sexes churning beneath the surface."

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"This study will examine Andre Malraux's novel Man's Fate. The novel carries heavy political and philosophical weight, and the reader who seeks reading material which will distract him from the weightier issues of the twentieth century will not find much distraction in this novel. While Malraux clearly offers the suggestion that Communism is the answer to many of society's problems, and while he also gives much weight to the existential point of view of reality, neither of these philosophies or ways of life serve as panaceas in the novel itself. In short, it is a dark and relatively pessimistic work. The author clearly has his political and philosophical biases, but he is not so foolish as to argue in a work of art that the world will be turned into a paradise overnight if only others will believe as he does.

Writing in the early 1930s, Malraux was, like many other ..."

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This study will examine the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, focusing specifically on the information which the Japanese received from various United States sources which led them to decide to attack; their interpretation of that information, the alternatives they considered before deciding to attack, and the reason they chose to attack instead of enact any of the other alternatives.
As Robert Smith Thompson writes in A Time for War, we are able to "reconstruct much of the world as the Japanese saw it early in 1941" through communications intercepts and other reliable sources (Thompson, 1991, p. 307). These sources indicate that the United States was increasingly preparing for war with Japan, and Japan feared that the United States would be a powerful adversary if it did in fact enter the fray.

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"INTRODUCTION

The Japanese industrial expansion since World War II has been considerable and has been noted by other industrialized nations around the world. Japan began from a position far behind the West, with her infrastructure devastated, and since has achieved a position of economic preeminence, challenging the United States and other industrialized nations for world leadership in innovation and industrial production, especially in high-tech industries of great import on the international scene today and into the future. The U.S. has recently started giving Japan greater attention in order to discern the management styles used in Japan and to emulate them to the greatest degree possible, and the increase in Japanese investment in the U.S., with the opening of a certain number of Japanese manufacturing ..."

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"This study will discuss marriage in China, focusing on the roles of women, false expectations, social and sexual factors, the impact of family policies, and abuses. The.study will conclude with a comparison of marriage in the United States and China.

The social roles of women, with respect to marriage, have changed dramatically in the last several decades in China: "Formerly subjected to one of the world's highest levels of social control---through the urban danwei (unit) or the rural collective --- the Chinese now have far more geographical, employment, and socioeconomic mobility than at any time since the early 1950s . . . . In magazine and television advertising, glamorous female models drape themselves over motorbikes, sip expensive canned drinks, and tout the latest beauty products."

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"Mao Tse Tung in Historical Perspective

This research will examine the life and times of Mao Tse Tung in historical context, in order to more fully understand the nature of Mao's role in Chinese history. In the centuries before Mao's birth, China was possibly the world's least aggressive major nation. It was a center of learning and culture, but it had no military power of any consequence. This resulted in part from the pacifist teachings of the Buddhist religion (which had many converts among the Chinese) and in part from the nature of Chinese society, which was peaceful and serene, at least in comparison with the societies of Northern Europe.

No major empire has ever grown up in a plentiful region and then gone on to conquer the more poverty-stricken areas of the world. In every major case (Rome's conquest of Greece and Egypt ..."

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" Historical Background


The civilization of India is one of the oldest in the world. An urban society existed in the Indus Valley by about 2500 BC, and may have had cultural relations with Sumerian civilization. About 1500 BC the Indus Valley cities fell; no details of their fall are known, as the Indus Valley script cannot be read. But about this time, the Aryas, an indo-European people, invaded from the north (Arya is the root of our word Aryan).1


Classical Hindu Indian civilization grew out of the intermixture of the invaders and the indigenous population. The Vedas, the holy texts of Hinduism, date from some time before..."

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"This study will examine anti-Asianism in the United States. Every source consulted for this analysis emphasizes the fact that Asian-Americans have suffered from anti-Asian prejudice of various sorts, from the subtle to the brutal. Why, then, is there so relatively little consciousness about this anti-Asianism in the United States?


Takaki writes that a major reason for this ignorance on the part of many observers is the glut of media coverage of the successes of Asian-Americans, which would seem to suggest that they could not be the victims of racism. As we read in Takaki's Strangers From A Different Shore:


Today Asian Americans are celebrated as America's "model minority." . . . The celebration of Asian-American achievements in the press has been echoed in the political realm ."