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Son preference has existed among most Chinese parents for centuries. Across thousands of years of Chinese history, Confucianism has served as an officially supported patriarchal belief that has deemed women inferior to men and has limited the role of women to their households. Women were understood to belong to their families before marriage and thus…

For a multi-ethnic society such as Southeast Asia, ethnic conflicts and political instability are inevitable. In the course of nation building when homogeneity is aimed out of heterogeneity, each ethnic group struggles to assert not only their rights to equality and autonomy, but also their sense of uniqueness and identity. This provokes many of them…

When Mr. Wright became civil government, he dwelt upon the need of industrial development and of transportation especially railroads and urged that encouragement and friendliness to be shown to those who desired to enter the islands for their legitimate development. He wrote in policy that should be one of “equal opportunities to all”. Mr Wright’s…

Man is a result of nature and depends on it for survival, including the acquisition of air, water, food, and various everyday objects. However, despite this reliance, humans often possess a pessimistic view towards nature. The phrase “conquest of nature” is frequently employed to describe activities like space exploration and river control, reflecting humanity’s approach…

Sound is transmitted through gases, plasma, and liquids as longitudinal waves, also called compression waves. Through solids, however, it can be transmitted as both longitudinal waves and transverse waves. Longitudinal sound waves are waves of alternating pressure deviations from the equilibrium pressure, causing local regions of compression and rarefaction, while transverse waves are waves of…

The Australian landscape according to the painting works of émigré artist Eugene Von Guerard “is vast with mountainers ranges stretching towards the distance horizon from the middle ground, it is also deep, yawning valley that lies before it”.  James Smith describes it as, having rocks “The lords of creation are represented by a couple of…

Clara Barton Clara Harlow Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest of five children. Clara was taught at home and started teaching school when she was only fifteen years old. Her only nursing background was having the experience of nursing her injured brother back to health. Clara Barton…

The scientific debate continues over the environmental consequences of what happened just after midnight on Good Friday, March 24, 1989, when the grounded vessel leaked nearly 11 million gallons of North Slope crude. But the disaster’s effects on people are clear — and dramatically mixed. Some communities and individuals have flourished. Others still suffer. Some…

Wireless Monitoring of Water Level using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Introduction to Research in ICT Marc Dominic Cabioc Elera Marie Joaquin Denmark Padua Jeymark Palma John Nino Requina BSIT 3A October 23, 2009 Wireless Flood Monitoring Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology ABSTRACT Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)…

GLOBALWARMING Global Warming is an International Issue. INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING? The phrase global warming refers to the documented historical warming of the Earth’s surface based upon worldwide temperature records that have been maintained by humans since the 1880s. Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and…