Jenny Cho February 7‚ 2013 Stewart Assignment #4: Japan (Prompt/thesis) Prompt: Discuss possible reasons why Japan was the only non-western state to nationalize and win recognition as an equal and how it managed to accomplish this in a mere half century. Thesis: Being aware of recent Western invasions in China‚ Japan had recognized the need to transform their institutions and its society‚ therefore‚ Japan embraced nationalism. By 1649‚ Japan had shut down contact with the European world with the
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a student and I lead active life and unfortunately sometimes I just even have to eat it‚ because it helps me not to waste a lot of time and it is not so expensive. Of course‚ I think about the bad sides of fast-food‚ but what can I do if the forbidden things are delicious. There is no such thing as a "bad" food. All foods can fit into a healthy meal plan. It’s true that fast food is usually high in fat‚ calories‚ cholesterol‚ and sodium‚ but eating fast food every once in a while is not going to
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Bad Effects of Electronic Gadgets Gadgets like portable games can have a negative impact on an individual’s health. Technology is an integral part of our day-to-day lives. People all over the world rely on it for things like communication‚ organization and employment. Not a day goes by when you don’t encounter someone talking on his cell phone‚ tapping away on a laptop or listening to an MP3 player. While this technology is impressive‚ there are certain drawbacks in areas like health‚ public safety
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Why Smoking is Good for You Smoking is good for in many ways including making you live longer. Although most text books and "experts" say that smoking is bad for you‚ there are also many other people who disagree and say it has many curing properties. For example‚ a person with bronchitis from childhood accompanied by marked wheezing was told by doctors not to smoke. He was then told by an old country doctor that he used to be like him until he took up the pipe. Then he tried smoking and it reduced
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Technology Assurance Student Research Paper Contest Computer technology is embedded in our Western society in a way that the majority of people seem to forget that it is a relatively new development. The mainstream of this society has quickly adopted computer technology as part of their daily life‚ and in doing so openened up to all the possibilities this technology has to offer. The ever growing group of elderly people (age 60 and older) in our society‚ which will grow from being 20 per
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is if it is eaten. It breaks down in the environment and under the ultraviolet light of the sun. Because of this‚ it poses no threat to humans. “BT has not been shown to have any chronic toxicity or any carcinogenic effects. There is also no indication that BT causes reproductive effects or birth defects in humans” (O’Callaghan 2000). “Upon investigation‚ it was found that BT contained carbohydrates and preservatives which have been implicated in food allergy (O’Callaghan 2000). Only two incidents
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What do you think of “Westernization” in Malaysia? Provide argument and examples. Nowadays‚ we can see there is a lot of westernization in Malaysia. People in Malaysia like to copy the style from western country because they think that country more develop than our country. From my point of view‚ westernization in Malaysia give disadvantages rather than good thing. The westernization gives bad impact to the Malaysian people especially teenagers because we can see that teenagers today have lack
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Music Has A Harmful Effect On Today’s Youth Music has a harmful effect on today’s youth. Do you agree or disagree? Today’s music does have a harmful effect on young children and teens. One of the harmful effects is causing young people to absorb and act out the lyrics. These lyrics can be about violence‚ sex‚ drug and alcohol addiction. Plus modern music can persuade young adults to commit violent crimes‚ through lyrics for example. Modern music can also alter their perspective on the world.
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The Effects of Globalization on the Philippines and India Lloyd Wood In this paper the author will briefly look at the globalization of two nations‚ the Philippines and India. We will look at each country before globalization‚ the turning point where globalization began for each nation‚ and finally the effects of globalization on each country. This writer believes it can be successfully argued that the globalization of each country has improved the overall standard of living in each
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Effect of euro crisis on India EURO CRISIS: The European debt crisis is the shorthand term for Europe’s struggle to pay the debts it has built up in recent decades. Five of the region’s countries – Greece‚ Portugal‚ Ireland‚ Italy‚ and Spain – have‚ to varying degrees‚ failed to generate enough economic growth to make their ability to pay back bondholders the guarantee it was intended to be. Although these five were seen as being the countries in immediate danger of a possible default‚ the crisis
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