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Opening a Coin-Operated Car Wash in Kobe, Japan, 2006.
The author analyzes a marketing opportunity overseas, citing statistical data, weighing pros and cons, cultural issues and financial options.
4,002 words (approx. 16.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 108.95
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This paper discusses an idea of opening a business in Japan. The paper shows that one first needs to understand the Japanese culture and society. Many Westerners try to "go it alone" and without proper research, their ideas often fail, but with good planning, it is possible to open a successful car wash in Kobe, Japan.
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"There are a great deal of factors that need to be considered when evaluating business expansion into Japan. The business culture of Japan is very different to that of the Western world. Tradition and culture are as deeply set in business as they are in everyday life. To put yourself in a competitive position in the Japanese economy, you must first understand the unusual rules of the economy. Culture and tradition must be understood fully, before conducting the expansion."
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The Economy of South Korea, 2006.
A paper describing the growth and expansion of Korea's economy since the end of the Korean War.
1,448 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper describes Korea's economy from the period beginning with the end of the Korean War to present times. The paper explains that Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world immediately following the Korean War, but, through a combination of government economic reforms, low oil prices, a lower dollar and low interest rates, the country has since become a leader in world trade as well as a country with an exponentially expanding economy.
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"There are several aspects of the Korean government-business relationship that enabled the rapid growth of the economy. Close cooperation between government and business has generally been growth promoting and efficiency enhancing. This close relationship between government and business made it possible to maintain a consistent set of goals and to implement them in a systematic way. The private enterprise system, promoted effectively by the government, became a highly effective mechanism for generating economic growth, thereby elevating the living standard of the general population."
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China's Contributions to Civilization, 2006.
An overview of inventions and contributions of Chinese civilization throughout the ages.
4,501 words (approx. 18.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 117.95
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This paper discusses the vast and significant number of contributions and inventions made throughout history by ancient Chinese civilization. The paper points out that China was the first to introduce a complete school system, made several contributions toward the study of mathematics, invented the seismograph and the compass and developed iron and steel. The paper continues to discuss other significant Chinese inventions that have contributed to the development of all of civilization including paper, fireworks, and the small pox inoculation.
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"The Chinese contributed to education by introducing the first complete school system during the Western Zhou Dynasty during 1100-771 BC. The school system consisted of a seven-year junior level, followed by nine years of a senior level education. The educational system "was integrated with an official selection system." These schools served as training places for officials and were run by the local government."
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?Different Games, Different Rules?, 2005.
An overview of this book by Haru Yamada which explores the relationship between the Japanese and the Americans.
868 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 30.95
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In his book "Different Games, Different Rules: Why Americans and Japanese Misunderstand Each Other", Haru Yamada attempts to explain the cultural disconnection that commonly occurs between people from the two very different cultures of the United States and Japan. The paper shows that, for Yamada, the explanation lies in linguistic differences. The paper examines the key thesis of the book that the main difference between the two cultures is found in the implicit and explicit delivery of messages.
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"The language of both cultures functions to display and reinforce the values that the individual is brought up with. When people from each of these cultures attempts to communicate, the differences in values is what leads to misunderstandings. Words, phrases, and expressions in one language may have the same literal meaning in the other language, but because the connotations are completely different, they do not actually mean the same thing."
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Two Educational Systems, 2005.
This paper compares the educational systems of the United States and China.
1,635 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper explains that the contrasting educational systems of China and the United States have much to do with their history: The Chinese education system is driven by the central government; whereas, in the United States, the system is based on locality. The author points out that, although China values higher education and the overall process of education within its youth, the culture itself demands both obedience within its students as well as respect for elders; therefore, the educational system's focus is not on innovation but rather on memorization and appreciation for the past. The paper relates that the American educational system takes an almost opposite approach to its cultural education philosophy; since this nation was founded on the principle and spirit of innovation, its educational systems promote, for the most part, the spirit of ingenuity and constant innovation.
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"The United States system is differing in that its K-12 system is consist on a national level. Therefore, no emphasis is given to any crafts and education is on general information through the entire k-12 process. The importance of this is that it gives everyone an equal opportunity to go to college, but it also prevents those who do not go to college from receiving special and specific training early on in their careers. The pros and cons of this system involves its education standards. While the national creed is that of equality and excellence, the focus of schools in the United States is to achieve uniform excellence, and areas of poverty and strife are often glossed over for areas of extreme wealth and intelligence. Therefore this system does not grant as much equal opportunity as one might assume on face value. However, there is more opportunity in general for students to have the opportunity to go to college and pursue higher education, whereas in China the possibility might very well stop once a student enters high school."
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China's Population Problems, 2005.
This paper discusses several of China's problems brought about by its drastic increase in population in the last 300 years and its attempt to control this growth.
3,020 words (approx. 12.1 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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This paper explains that one of the biggest problems resulting from China's huge population is a shortage of food and water, which is blamed partly on the country's geography--only one-tenth of the land--most of it a 1,000 mile-wide strip along the eastern and southern coasts--is cultivable--and water scarcity from an extensive diversion of irrigation water to non-farm uses. The author points out that indoor air pollution, mainly from coal and other organic fuels used for cooking, acid rain, water pollution, extensive air pollutant, an acute housing shortage, destruction of forest resources and inadequate sanitation are problems, which are created and acerbated by China's overpopulation. The paper questions the ethicacy of China's attempt to control its problems by state advocated birth control, which includes an infamous one-child policy in which women with two or more children, but not men, still almost always are sterilized.
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"In contrast, city families live in small apartments above the stores or behind workshops. These people have the same kinds of stoves as rural families, and many older buildings have electricity and plumbing. However, most families who live in these buildings must share sinks, washbasins, and toilets with many others. Finally, many boatmen, fishermen, and dockworkers live on boats. Every harbor and riverfront in China is jammed with barges and other small craft that serve as homes for entire families. Also, China's forest resources are rapidly dwindling due to over-exploitation of land resources, which is a direct result of overpopulation. The situation will surely worsen if this trend is not reversed, and the ultimate result will be a decline of basic living conditions in these areas."
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Mao Tse-tung's Rise to Political Power, 2006.
This paper explores in detail the life and political career of China's communist leader Mao Tse-Tung.
4,660 words (approx. 18.6 pages), 65 sources, APA, $ 120.95
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This paper contains in-depth research into the history of China's communist leader Mao Tse-tung, speculated to be the most powerful person who has ever lived. This paper delves into Mao's political and military career and examines his writings and thoughts that dominated the functioning of the People's Republic from 1949-76. Mao authored some 2,300 publications and 740 million copies of his "Quotations" have been printed. Adapting communism to Chinese conditions Mao stressed the need for rural rather than urban-based revolutions in Asia, for reducing rural-urban differences, and for perpetual revolution to prevent the emergence of new elites.
Topics covered in this report include:
Introduction
The Young Mao
The Rise of the CCP - Mao Tse Tung - The Cataclysmic Years
The Civil War: The Revolutionary Mao
The KMT and the Long March
Achievements of the Kuomintang (KMT)
Conclusion
Endnotes
Bibliography
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"One major area of dispute between Mao and the Returned Student leadership was military strategy. By early 1930s Mao had developed very strong opinions in this area. Despite the fact that he was without professional military training, he had always taken the strongest interest in war and strategy. The issues that divided him and the Central committee were not narrowly technical, but had important political implications."
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Doing Business in Japan, 2005.
This paper discusses the recommendation that businesses wishing to do business in Japan should find a Japanese partner for a joint venture.
1,910 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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This paper explains that Japanese companies keep their subsidiaries very tightly controlled by the parent company than most other multi-national firms; even when decision-making is delegated to other managers, the Japanese practice of consensus results in consultation with the head office in Tokyo. The author points out that, having learned some tough lessons from the financial problems of the last several years, there is now a "liberalization" of the traditional Japanese ultra-conservative and xenophobic economic policies, which makes it easier for foreign companies to invest in joint ventures. The paper relates that Japanese companies are making an effort to go global, which means they are not merely sending expatriate Japanese managers, as in recent years, but are opening up more to the cultures and practices of other countries.
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"There are now several valuable books on the subject of doing business in Japan. It would be wise for our top executives to become familiar with many of the "do's and don'ts" for Japanese communication. However, at the same time, Japanese firms are now under constraints from the international business community, including the U.S. "We feel it is perfectly legitimate to insist that Japanese companies doing business globally adhere to fair practices, both at home and abroad." In other words, for our company to penetrate Japanese markets, we need to be aware of several factors tilting in favor of local companies visa vie outsiders. This is one more reason for initiating a joint venture with a well-situated Japanese firm. It would save our company valuable time and money. Instead of starting from scratch as a "foreigner" and "outsider" we would have an entree with a "local" (i.e. Japanese) firm."
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Song Dynasty Painting, 2006.
This paper details emperor Hui-Tsung's life, not only as an ineffectual leader but as an accomplished artist, specializing in delicately colored bird-and-flower paintings.
4,900 words (approx. 19.6 pages), 26 sources, MLA, $ 124.95
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This paper contains in-depth research on the life of emperor and artist Hui Tsung. The author of this paper discusses Hui-Tsung as a sophisticated antiquarian, whose talent and vision became an increasingly important factor in Chinese art. What differentiated Emperor Hui-tsung's painting style and that of the Literati was the emperor's main focus on Taoistic idealistic realism. Numerous historians of art believe that the Northern Sung Dynasty period produced the greatest realistic landscapes in China's history. This extensive paper also covers in detail the different views and aspects on the history of art in China.
Topics covered in this paper include:
Introduction
The Northern Dissident Literati
Su Ch'e
Confucianism and Taoism
Emperor Hui-tsung
Li T'ang
Xia gui
Conclusion
Chinese footnotes
Bibliography
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"According to a translation from the German Tripod Mitgdeider Home Page, which includes an anthology of Chinese Poets of the Sung Dynasty, Ou Yang hsiu was an outstanding proselytizer and poet of the ' Northern Sung '. His pen name was Tsui weng, which has been translated as "the old gray drunk". Ou Yang's father died when he was four years old and he grew up in difficult conditions. It is said that his mother taught him reading and he was forced to write in the dirt, having no money to purchase paper. Later he took the civil service exams and became politically active. He belonged to the progressive fan Chung Yen and was eventually deported to a remote area of China. Despite this set back, he devoted himself to transforming the poetry and prose of his period. Although He was a devotee of the T'ang poet and the famous philosopher Han Uye, his work was smoothly elegant and unique having almost a musical quality."
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"The Rise of Modern Japan", 2006.
This paper reviews W. G. Beasley's book "The Rise of Modern Japan: Political, Economic and Social Change since 1850."
990 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 35.95
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This paper provides a clear and comprehensive understanding of Japan's passage from a largely unknown agricultural state to a troubled economic superpower and traces the country's march toward modernity while emphasizing political and economic developments. The author of this paper finds the book, which contains a history survey and primary facts on Japan of the last 150 years, may not be well suited for the academic expert concerned with recondite theory or a reader in search of instant expertise.
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"Beasley's occasional difficulty balancing detail and generalization is a minor flaw in a work that usually provides convincing support for conclusions. His study is also one of the most up-to-date general treatment of modern Japanese history. Of course, newness for the sake of newness is not always an advantage. Beasley's concluding chapter 17, "The Postwar Pattern Unravels, 1989-1994," is really a fifteen-page chronology in narrative form that is largely free of any analysis of where the unraveling might deliver Japan. Drawbacks to the book are that the notes are few and lack the comprehensiveness necessary for the serious student."
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"Practical Feng Shui", 2006.
This paper explains the basic philosophy of feng shui while reviewing Simon Brown's book, "Practical Feng Shui."
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 36.95
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The author of this paper describes why feng shui is the Chinese art of placement and how this art form uses arrangement, decorative objects, compass orientation and material composition to achieve its objectives. The paper covers the feng shui philosophy of creating a balance in your surroundings, which then creates a balance in your life. The writer also examines how Simon Brown's book, "Practical Feng Shui", uses the principles of this ancient tradition to influence health, wealth and happiness.
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"There are four different schools of feng shui: the Compass Method, Eight House Method, Flying Star School, and the Form School. Each of these schools share the basic beliefs of how energy flows, yin and yang, the Five Elements, and the Eight Trigrams. Practical Feng Shui uses the Compass Method for its guidance of placement. The book then details how to incorporate representatives of the Five Elements, manipulate energy flow, create balance, and align with the auspicious directions corresponding to your life's functions.
The foundation for feng shui is energy flow. Energy, or the lack thereof, effects all that we do and all that we are. There is an undercurrent of electromagnetic energy that links all things in the universe. This energy is called "chi".
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Japan's Film Industry, 2006.
A paper discussing the history of the Japanese film industry.
3,515 words (approx. 14.1 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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This paper traces the history of the Japanese film industry beginning with its early success and subsequent failure in the face of competition from American films. The paper looks at famous Japanese film directors and their films and describes the techniques and styles used by the directors as well as their impact on the Japanese film industry. The paper also looks at more recent films produced by Japan's film industry that have received accolades and financial success in the Japanese and Western markets.
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"Although Japan is the world's second biggest movie market, analysts in film and business claim that the country's film industry is dying or dead. In the early 1960s, nearly two-thirds of the films that were popular in Japan were made in that country, while today the same percentage of films that are showing in Japan are made overseas. [1] Critics claim that the industry is not commercial enough to appeal to a broader range of viewers outside of Japan. Critics also claim that television and video games have ruined the Japanese love for their cinema, whose history is more than a century old."
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Chinese Migration to New Zealand, 2005.
This paper examines governmental and university studies to evaluate the characteristics of the recent Chinese migration to New Zealand as compared to the earlier Chinese migration.
1,995 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper explains that changes in the immigration laws of New Zealand has resulted in changes in the characteristics of recent Chinese immigrants, who are now stereotypically considered to be very wealthy with ready cash, coming mainly from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore rather that the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) itself as past Chinese migrants did. The author points out that the research indicated that this was not true; they do not exhibit the wealth ascribed to these new Chinese immigrants by the media; indeed they are rather young, highly qualified and usually experienced professionals coming predominantly from large urban centers. The paper relates that the new skilled arrivals studied are very different from earlier Chinese migrants not only in their educational and employment backgrounds but also in their points of origin in China; the new migrants are from predominantly urbanized and Mandarin or Wu - Shanghai/Yangtze Delta - dialect speaking areas, which do not fit the traditionally rural, predominantly Yue/Cantonese speaking linguistic profile of earlier Chinese immigrants to New Zealand.
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Thesis Statement
Experiences in Moving from One Culture to Another
The Culture Left and the Culture Entered
Specific Issues and Impact upon Lives
Impacts upon Work/Profession Life and Factors Influences
Resettlement Factors
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"The minimum English proficiency levels required of the General Category arrivals were generally somewhat lower than those that would be required of later post-October 1995 General Skills Applicants. However, in the course of completing their degrees most Principal Applicants would have had to study English as a support subject for two years and most likely read some material in English. While their English language skills did not match their technical skills, English levels reached during two years of compulsory university English language study within a science-oriented undergraduate degree would generally be considered adequate to meet the minimum level of English required."
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"Marriage and Family in India", 2005.
This paper reviews, chapter by chapter, Kanaiyal Motilal Kapadia's book "Marriage and Family in India".
4,005 words (approx. 16.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 108.95
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This paper explains that marriage in India, as described by Kanaiyal Motilal Kapadia in his book "Marriage and Family in India", is reminiscent of Western attitudes in the nineteenth century and earlier when women were generally treated as second class citizens and the property of their husbands to do with as they please. The author relates that Kapadia presents traditional religious values of Islam and Hindu, which are the two main religions in India, as a background for tracing their marriage customs from historic times into the twentieth century. The paper concludes that both Hindu and Moslem marriages, while having their differences, are both patriarchal; wives are second hand citizens, the property of their husbands, and property is unequally distributed in favor of male heirs, continuing the patriarchal pattern. Several long quotes.
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"Among Moslem families, cross cousin marriages are also common. In fact, "marriage with a father's brother's daughter is more or less obligatory. It is considered and insult, and in a certain measure an offence, to refuse to accept one's father's brother's daughter in marriage" (P. 135). In families that practice polygyny, the cousin is the husband's principal wife, in order to ensure purity of blood. Like Hindus, the Moslems also practice endogamous rules. Sunnis and Shiahs do not intermarry. "Also among the Sunnis there are various groups--Vohras, tais, etc., which are endogamous. The lower classes are strictly endogamous, and marriage outside a caste means excommunication from the caste. The amount of dowry in both Hindu and Moslem marriages is determined by the social and economic status of the future wife, and the husband."
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Australia's Arc of Instability, 2006.
A paper looking at developments in Australia's relationship with its neighboring countries.
3,692 words (approx. 14.8 pages), 51 sources, MLA, $ 102.95
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This paper addresses recent developments in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu and other South Pacific islands and how Australia's relationship with these countries has affected its national security.
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"According to Gary Dean in his article "Security and Australia's involvement in the world, May 1993, Australians have always felt uncertain about their place in the world. It is his opinion that Australia as a transplanted, predominantly European, society situated within Asia, Australians have always felt a sense of threat from the north. The Australians have significant differences with the nations of East Asia in nearly every respect: race, history, culture, social structure and population density. In fact, Australia is truly and oddity within this region. Many Australians feel acutely isolated in the South East Asian vicinity since they are so far away from other rich, English-speaking, and predominantly white, nations such as Britain, the US, and Canada, Because of this isolation, it is easy to believe that Australia always has put national security as one of its first priorities."
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