India, China and South Korea stand out particularly in matters of neglect and mistreatment of girls. ... Many young men in China are having trouble finding a wife due to the distorted sex ratio. ... "It's a boy" is still what most prospective parents like to hear, a father wanting a son to play sports, fix cars or go fishing with, or a mother's belief that boys are easier to raise than girls. ... On a different note, but still tied to this topic, an emerging technology called "MicroSort" has opened doors for US parents wanting to select the sex of their next child for "family bala...

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The sorrowful songs reminded the boy his own unhappiness and pain. ... Suddenly, all of unhappy experience of boy's had gone and the new he was reborn. ... The boy was no longer innocent. ... "The rest might not, but I have treasur"d every notes," Is the translation real or right? ... It is like Chinese said "Play is life, life is play." ...

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He is the only boy among 5 children, during his childhood year his family didnt live a rich life. ... He started working as a bus boy in a restaurant in Chinatown, which didnt pay very well, but offered free meals and a place to sleep. ... When he walked into a company people would spit at him, called him names like rat, chink, telling him to go back to Chinatown, the manager judged him with his racial uniform and told him, "we dont want no china boy here, we would hire a white man with no qualification over you at anytime." ... (Yung's note) Having learn that, Moon Lee decided he has had...

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Kingston also notes that the baby was probably a girl, and as such would already have been considered practically useless to society "a theme that reappears throughout The Woman Warrior. ... In times of plenty, notes Kingston, adultery might have been "only a mistake"; when the villagers needed everyone to work together to provide food, however, it became a crime. ... (Note that for Kingston's mother, the word "ghost" is used in the opposite sense, to refer to the Americans themselves.) ... How is Kingston, in trying to make sense of her own life, able to tell from these talk-stori...

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OUTLINE Introduction Two most influential translation theories and their cultural correlations 1.1 Two general translation strategies: domesticating and foreignizing 1.2 Cultural factors in the two translation strategies The image of an idiom and its cultural roots 2.1 The definition and scope of idioms 2.2 Analysis of the meanings of an idiom 2.3 Cultural differences reflected in English and Chinese idioms 2.3.1 Difference in living environment 2.3.2 Difference in custom 2.3.3 Difference in religion 2.3.4 Difference in literal quotation Findings on idiom translation with cu...

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Every musical note jumped with my fingers rhythmically. ... Once I finished the last musical note, the audience's applause flooded my ears like waterfall. ... For a 9-year-old boy, the more he yelled, the afraid I became. ... I felt like the musical notes jumped onto my fingers. ... The little boy practicing playing saxophone has gone. ...

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In this story a young Indian boy feels that he doesn't fit in with white society. In the story he notes how the people who aren't a part of society are considered outcasts. ... The boy couldn't live with this society so he left to go back to his own home and village. ... This story is about a Chinese woman who wanted her little girl, Amy, to become a prodigy and leave a mark on society. ...

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In much of Asia including china, pointing with the index finger is considered rude. ... China motion people to come by shaking the hand with the palm turning downward. ... The Chinese way of counting on the fingers is contrary to the American way. ... There are situations when some Chinese will laugh that will cause negative reactions by Westerners. ... But each culture has a clear concept of what parts of the boy one may not touch. ...

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The young boy would go and live with this older man. The older man would have sex with the young boy on a regular basis until the boy developed facial hair. It was not until then that the boy was considered a man. ... Once the boy developed the facial hair, the sex between the two would stop. ... For an example I refer to my lecture notes. ...

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In this class there are a mixture of cultures, there are two English children, one Chinese child, one Romanian child and twenty four Northern Irish children. ... In order to record the observations a note pad and pen were needed. ... There were two girls and one boy playing here, one of the girls was taking the furniture out of the house and setting it on the garden while the boy was trying to pull out the trees which were attached to the house. ... There was one boy and one girl at this table, when the teacher questioned them about what they were creating the boy answered "a space sh...

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Female martial artist Cynthia Rothrock also had some success as China O'Brien as well as in other roles. ... Ironically, although he supported "democracy- in China, the system works against him in America. ... In this light, although reluctant, Jian-Wa remains a character that symbolizes resistance to both the white American and the Communist Chinese status-quo, and, thus, he can travel the world fulfilling fantasies that resist both Chinese and American hegemony. ... A master of East and West and demonized by both cultures, Jian-Wa represents a position many Chinese felt themselves in af...

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He lets himself think that he, Molly and the boy are a family when in reality they are a dysfunctional group thrown together by circumstance. ... In the Historical Notes section of Handmaid's, Atwood satirizes the academic community and modernist concepts. ... Even her initial reason for silence after breaking her arm was because her mother rewarded her with compliments for her courage- silence and courage being valued attributes among Chinese women. ...

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" Now, I didn't realize this at the time because I, along with the rest of the class laughed in disbelief, but boy was he right. ... I would take notes as if there was going to be quiz on the text I had read. ... He notes "The teacher proceeded to belittle everyone from German Eva, who hated laziness, to Japanese Yukari, who loved paintbrushes and soap. Italian, Thai, Dutch, Korean, and Chinese-we all left class foolishly believing that the worst was over. ...

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So Old Joe comes back and immediately attacks Joe, knocking him unconscious, and leaving a note for him to get out of town. ... He apparently moved to China after prior events and after fighting a drug addiction and going further into crime he found a wife. ... It is later revealed that he is part of a greater "loop" that creates the series of events that would traumatize the boy that becomes the rainmaker. ...

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He added Shin to his name because when he went into the restaurant business, it would sound more Chinese. ... Otis Joseph Amber is a 62 year old delivery boy. ... With great inquisitiveness, I couldn't help but note down the clues myself and try to solve the secrecy. ...

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Chapter 1: Introduction While PSY's viral sensation Gangnam Style may have opened the floodgates of K-pop to mainstream consciousness worldwide, it is not indicative of the phenomenon itself by any means. Yes, it possesses the synthesizer and bassline driven electro-pop sound that K-pop is known for. It also possesses a "point dance," an extremely recognisable piece of choreography that becomes attached to a K-pop song by the consuming public, in the form of the "horse riding dance." Despite these ingredients, this dissertation would argue that PSY does not represent ...

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Popular opinion at the time also reflected that both the Soviet Union and China were actively supporting those of South Vietnam. ... Hang down your head, Tom Dooley Hang down your head and cry Hang down your head, Tom Dooley Poor boy you"re bound to die Both "Masters of War," and "Tom Dooley," though popular among students and those who opposed the war, were blacklisted and even banned from certain radio stations and television shows. ... A popular belief of the time was that the Chinese were the ones supplying all of the hippies with marijuana, and thus...

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His mother enrolled him in the Gori Church School in September 1888 when her son was nine and he graduated six years later, despite various interruptions as when Stalin's father took the young boy to Tiflis to work alongs side him in a shoe factory. ... Before a series of strokes prevented Lenin from working, he wrote a secret note warning that Stalin must be removed as general secretary. ... The leading Bolsheviks finally learned of the secret note warning against Stalin, but they ignored it. ...

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In contrast, as Ed Cohen notes in Talk on the Wilde Side, "agricultural labourers and the industrial working classes [ ] were largely determined by the material constraints circumscribing their lives- (19), which is to say that the work in which they engaged was mainly physical, intellectually disengaged, and under-waged, so that there was little possibility of accruing excess capital. ... Hence, as Cohen notes, the spectre of failure haunts the middle class even as it anticipates a better life (19-21). ...

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In the book Measurement and Assessment in Teaching, authors Miller, Linn and Gronlund note that complications can arise when students are not treated fairly. ... He shares the story of a boy who was having difficulty learning and paying attention within class. ... As a result, the boy found his teacher's classroom not only different but also challenging. ... While the students work on crafting an essay or journal, the teacher can select from a variety of relaxing songs such as Baroque, Chinese, Celtic and others. ...

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It is inevitable that the legalising of abortion would open the road to selective abortion, if a woman can abort because there is a possibility her child will be born with an abnormality/ disability i.e. down syndrome, spina bifta etc take note that these are disability's that can be detected during the pregnancy in these times, then why not in the future if they could be detected lesser disability's like dyslexia or a hearing impairment were a grounds for aborting what sort of society would we be surly this is just reinforcing negative attitudes towards people with disability. Why ...

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In the early 19th century and during WWII, Chinese immigrants were harshly and legally discriminated against in California. ... Massey and Denton note, "no group in the history of the United States has ever experienced the sustained high levels of residential segregation imposed on blacks." ...

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Here's my theory: I'm not of the mind that Welsh is passing the scheme off as some sort of code, and that you can crack the theme of this (or any other) novel like a Chinese puzzle box to find the one, true underlying meaning. ... Roy even comments upon his own coma at one point, making note of the usefulness of his former home: "Thank fuck for a childhood in a large Scottish housing scheme; a wonderful apprenticeship for the boredom that this kind of semi-life entails. ... His assault of the boy seems to be South Africa/Uncle Gordon's influence in all of this. ...

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However, in the following chapters, even though he mentions Queequeg as a "savage" he notes the civilized ethics of the individual such as the way he takes time to shave, even though it is with his harpoon. ... He wears a turban made of his own hair and a Chinese coat and pants. ... Pip, the little black cabin boy becomes crazy after he drifts alone in the sea for a few days. ...

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The Chinese have a saying, "May you live in interesting times" ( Ancient Chinese proverb I attribute to Michael Creighton's Disclosure). ... Teddy's summer did not end on an encouraging note though. ...

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