... had happened, she felt relieved, but angry. She stripped Ying-Ying to her underwear and left her in the back of the boat by herself. In her excitement over looking out for the Moon Lady and watching the fireworks, Ying- Ying lost her balance and fell overboard into the river. She was rescued by some people on a boat and put ashore, but she could not locate her ... man who hides in their basement. Believing the tales of her mother to be real, Lena grows up fearful of strangers and basements. The new apartment up on the hill is also filled with the conflict of Appearance vs. Reality. Lena...

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• Approx Pages: 26
• Grade Level: High School

... intrigue most readers. The role of men and women of 17th century society are defined vividly in this book. Many examples to the way that married and unmarried ladies should act are given (p. 99). Actions such as strolling by the river, or riding up a hill in a carriage were out of place for women; instead women were expected stay home, serve their husband, and raise children. Mr. Spence gives ... yet another vivid example of how women were treated in the story of the man who let his wife ... take over the family business for six months. When the tax collector came to collect, he ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Phone Virachak is 37 years old and is a naturalized citizen who emigrated from Laos to the United States in1985. She came with her husband to America and their two children were born here. They came to the United States to escape the wars that have plagued Laos for centuries. Phone works as a housekeeper in a nursing home and her husband is a car salesman. She has made ... many friends in her new country and is affectionately called "Joy? by her friends. She earned this nickname because of her happy disposition and ... Laos is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia. The vital Mekong River fo...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , and ornaments; pictographic and ideographic script; 3. Hsia (? -) The credit for founding the dynasty traditionally goes to Yu the Great. Many stories have been told to praise his devotion to duty. Thirteen years Yu spent mastering the waters without returning home to see his wife and children. The dynasty ended with the defeat of the last king, Chieh, a cruel tyrant, by a people and ... nobility driven to rebellion. 4. Shang Dynasty (traditional dates 1766 - 1122 B.C.) The dynasty moved its capitals three times: 1. near modern Loyang, 2. near modern Chengchou (both close to the Yellow...

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• Grade Level: High School

... River mouth in 1997, with a rate treatment of less than 10%. This large amount of discharge of harmful land-sourced substances into the seas has posed a major threat to the marine environment. The current law, which merely restricts the concentration of pollutants, is not effective enough to guarantee a high quality of seawater. This is an effect of the legislation lacking articles concerning the quantity of the discharged wastes. The disastrous "red tide" which hit the coastal waters of ... nation could suffer.(Beeman Perry) Our oceans are going to be the one of the things left to futu...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Korean lands, they found more evidence of North Korean brutality. On September 29, they came across a mass grave of South Korean men, women and children killed execution-style. These crimes shocked UN soldiers, realizing that the N. Koreans had no respect for the rules and ethics of war. All the while, Mao Zedong, emperor of Communist china, began to get nervous about the rapidly advancing and confident UN soldiers. He ... nuclear action without consulting London first. Allies of the US feared that use of the A-bomb will result in needless slaughter, and expand the war into WWIII if the...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . Business was not good. In 1260 the brothers went to Surai on the Volga River, where they traded for a year. Then they tried to leave but got themselves stranded at Bukhara for 3 years. After they left Bukhara they came to a murderous obstacle of the Gobi Desert. They finally reached the new capitol of the great Kahn, Beijing in 1266. Kublai Khan, the great Kahn, was very hospitable and asked ... finally coming to a close the great Kahn had sent escorts to the travelers to bring them to his court. In April of 1275 the Polo's finally reached the capitol of Kublai Kahn. The Polo's have tr...

• Word Count: 841
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... ago. However, China has a 4,000 year recorded history. The Chinese lived along the Yellow River 7,000 years ago. They were hunter-gatherers and evidence shows that the society was matriarchal. "Decent was traced through the women and men lived in the homes of their wives." (Tan p. 12) Women were respected and all of the children took their mothers" maiden name. When the Xin dynasty began (2100-1600 BC), attitudes towards women ... started to change. As society became more stable, the ill treatment of ... ...

• Word Count: 2634
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School