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Guam Typhoon, 2002.
A study of the typhoon "Pongnosa" which struck Guam in December 2002.
1,403 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This research paper sheds light on the destruction caused by super typhoon Pongnosa in Guam on December 11, 2002 and its aftermath. Furthermore, the paper highlights the efforts of the contemporary as well as the previous governments and the necessary remedial measures taken by other authorities. The paper also includes a discussion on the impact of this shattering mishap on the tourism industry, which is the mainstay of Guam?s economy.
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"According to the special reports regarding the hazardous typhoon, ?with winds upward of 180 miles per hour, Pongsona descended furiously on Guam December 8 with the intensity of a Category 5 hurricane,? razing homes of the majority of Guam?s residents, setting oil and other combustible tanks on fire (American Red Cross helping thousands: 2002). The ravage evaluation reports by Red Cross assessed that seven thousand and nine hundred homes were obliterated with more than three thousand homesteads experiencing complete destruction at the hands of Pongsona."
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?Typhoon?, 2006.
A look at the theme of conflicts in Theodore Dreiser's short story "Typhoon."
1,021 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 36.95
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This paper provides a brief analysis of Dreiser's story. It explains that there are three major conflicts in the story: The conflict between Ida and her father, the conflict between Ida and Ed and the conflict between Ida's actions and what she believes to be right. These conflicts are analyzed for their impact on the story.
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"Ida's father is strict and stern in the worst way. By insisting that she obey his every command, he prevents her from growing as a person, leaving her vulnerable to the lines and tricks that Ed uses on her, tricks that most girls her age could have seen through in a second. But in order to protect Ida from the perils of the modern-world, Mr. Zobel instills in her "repression, even fear at times, which in the course of years took on an aspect of careful courtesy supplemented by accurate obedience". But this repression has unfortunate consequences: when his own daughter is in despair, pregnant and abandoned by her lover, she doesn't feel that she can confess the truth to her father. She decided to kill herself, rather than face her father's reaction to what has happened. Parents are supposed to instill trust in their children, but Mr. Zobel has seen fit to instill nothing more than blind obedience in his daughter Ida. And when she disobeys what he was told her to do, when she realizes that she has committed a kind of crime, in her father's eyes, with Ed, then she sees no other option than to kill both Ed and herself."
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Angkor, 2006.
A look at one of the world's largest religious monuments, Angkor.
1,290 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper takes a look at Angkor, said to be the largest religious monument in the world. According to the paper, Angkor is located in Cambodia, a land beset by typhoons and rain, heat, huge rivers and deltas, mountains and jungles. The paper reviews the history of the area and the monument.
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"Unfortunately, there were significant problems that the architects were not able to overcome when designing the great pyramids of Angkor Wat and Bayon. Sandstone may fit together very well, but vertical joints, running on top of one another, makes a wall very unstable. A whole wall would fall down if one stone near the base became dislodged. Since no mortar was used, weight and gravity were the only things holding the walls together. They never were able to create an arch, as the Europeans learned to do, nor use cement or mortar. Instead, they used the corbelled arch, where large stones were piled on top of one another, leaning toward the center, until they touched at the top. These walls and arches were not as stable as a true arch and often collapsed after Angkor was abandoned."
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The American-Japanese Relationship, 2000.
This paper discusses the history, which led to the formation of the American-Japanese alliance, the partnership itself in terms of its socio-cultural, economic and geopolitical dimensions and the prospects for the future.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 19 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper explains that the kind of partnership, which was forged between these two nations following Japan's defeat in the Second World War, is unprecedented, an unlikely alliance between conqueror and conquered, an unequal alliance that places both parties in a position of advantage. The author points out that a major social factor influencing American-Japanese relations is the sense of insecurity and vulnerability, which the Japanese have, being subject to earthquakes, typhoons, tidal waves and the possibility of domination by nations with greater military strength; whereas, to the Japanese, the high degree of self-confidence displayed by Americans comes across as being "mindless arrogance". The paper relates that the Japan's phenomenal economic growth in the span of a single generation, owing largely to its 1960 "income-doubling program", has raised serious problems for the American-Japanese relationship, especially since it was paralleled by a slow decline in the American economy up until the 1980s.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Historical Overview
Social and Cultural Dimensions
Economic Dimensions
Geopolitical Dimensions
Conclusion: The Future of U.S.-Japanese Relations
From the Paper
"U.S.-Japanese relations date back to the middle of the nineteenth century, when, in 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay and opened up Japan to trade with the West. The U.S.-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce, signed in 1857, not only gave the United States an immediate advantage over its Western competitors, but also had the profound effect of re-instating the Japanese Emperor and launching Japan on the road to modernization. A more serious consequence, however, was Japan's emerging imperialist ambitions, which were early demonstrated in its launching of the Sino-Japanese War (1895-1895) with its resultant acquisition of Taiwan as well as in its success in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and subsequent annexation of Korea (1910) and Manchuria (1931). "
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