... market, in the February 7, 1997 edition of A & M Magazine: "Famous faces don't tend to help sell cosmetic lines to ordinary women, who might associate better with warm 'girl-next-door' images." The Beauty Fax Competition has strong "girl-next-door" elements. Hometown girls and hometown Sponsor judges talk straight talk about beautifying and the use of Sponsor products. The Sponsor hereby gains an articulate, sympathetic voice in ... ...

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... hope to millions of Chinese peasants that have been fighting poverty and feudalism. Ling-Ling, the narrator of the novel is a seventeen- year old girl who has lived in moderate wealth her whole life. The novel describes her experiences throughout the land reform. With the influence of her old friend ... landlords were the ones that owed them for the suffering that their kind had endured for thirty centuries. During her search, Ling-Ling met a girl named Xiu-Ying, who was already a part of the peasant's community. Both girls were able to get some of the women to speak of ... being smuggle...

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• Grade Level: High School

... is my lush vegetable garden. Red potatoes, crispy green cucumbers, and juicy red tomatoes are planted in my garden every year. When you enter in the front door you are in the hallway that looks into the living room. The downstairs is where the living room, den, dining room, and kitchen are located. To ... the left of the front door is the dining room and kitchen. To the right of the front door is the den and directly in front is the living room. To get upstairs, there is a staircase located on the ... is a spacious airy room where we spend our family time either watching TV or playing ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... and that her aunt has no descendants honoring her. She tries to rectify this in her own way by telling her aunt's story. Kingston fears that she will become the next no name woman in her family for some new indiscretion and bring shame and dishonor on her family, but most of all that she will never be accepted for who ... or the leak in the rook. She would clean her own bowl and a small, limited area; she would have one drawer to sort, one bed to make. To shut the door at the end of a workday, which does not spill over into the evening. To throw away books after reading them so they don...

• Word Count: 1496
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• Grade Level: High School

... not find anything unusual. After a few minutes of searching around, I decide it was nothing, and went down stairs, got my shoes on, walked outside, and locked the door. I began to walk up the sledding hill were everyone seemed to be having a good time. All of a sudden, I heard a loud scream, come from inside the ... still there however. I looked to the ground and saw the floorboards buckling under pressure. I almost pissed my pants again, and ran back to my room, locked the door, and hid under my covers. I wondered for a while what the hell it could be. I didn't believe in ghosts, so I ru...

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... ignorant, benighted, out-of-touch creature on the planet, and you can't get far enough away from her. Your primary form of interaction for the next five years or so will be a single word, "Mooooooooooooommmmmmm and then, somewhere down the line a mutual respect is formed and she becomes your best ... common among American children, yet this is not what her mother expected. Here we see Suyuan's struggle with herself because her child is becoming an American girl, with dreams and ideas of her own, yet not obeying like a Chinese child should. The characters Suyuan and Jing-Mei Woo have a mo...

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• Grade Level: High School

... example there was a sale of 22.4 billion dollars and 3 billions in France and the UK. Avon has also invaded the Asian market, and in 1990 they had 10,000 door-to-door sellers, or the so-called "Avon girls". They sold for more than 200 million dollars. Japan has become one of Avon's main targets, and the sales numbers and stats tell ... companies involved in direct selling efforts engage in suspect organizational activities and covert business dealings. In particular, the ban reflects government concerns about the system of independent distributor networks, their door-to-door sales, and ...

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... only people who live in high risk areas, but corporations worldwide. Nike is making plans for just such an occasion. If the disease is not brought under control in the next 12 months, Nike plans to move much of it's manufacturing outside of Asia, probably to Latin America. Nike is not the only company who is considering such options. Many industries ... a sharp fall in sales in the last two weeks of March in Hong Kong. Some insurers are also affected: Britain's Prudential earns 30% of its sales in Asia, mostly via door-to-door calls that are now harder to make. There is no risk, of cour...

• Word Count: 1359
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... were going to be a prosperous, peaceful nation. Was this the truth, or was it just a fantasy Women Before 1949, women had been possessions. For the rich, it was tradition for a girl to have her feet bound at an early age. It was thought a woman had more appeal to a man if she had small, dainty feet. As she hobbled along, she was ... meant to represent a willow tree, blowing in the wind. Once the girl got to her early teens, her father arranged for her to be married to the richest and highest man he could, either as a wife or a concubine. This would improve his ... were. First, they arr...

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• Grade Level: High School

... told emperor Kimmei how Buddhism came to China and Korea from India, and that it was always looked at with the highest respect and regard wherever it went. Within the next century, the Buddhist faith was quickly established as the state orthodoxy. The successor of Kimmei, Bidatsu, was not a supporter of Buddhism. Yomei, the successor of Bidatsu, became the first emperor ... kind. He did, however, establish and spread Japanese Buddhism through his devotion of the ideology. Because of this, he is considered the real founder of Japanese Buddhism, and opened the door for Zen Buddhism to app...

• Word Count: 1910
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... visitors insight into the time-honored traditions involved in conducting the perfect wedding ceremony. Immediately after leaving the ancestral hall, visitors will find themselves standing next to a life-size house. This structure is a replica of a traditional dwelling of the Hakka ("guest people"), another local ethnic group. The ... the custom has evolved into a traditional dance now performed by women during the wedding ceremony. Lights, music, and cheering again accompany the exhibit. Next to this exhibit is a display presenting some of the traditional garments worn by the performers ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Dong-yu, a famous author born in the 1940s, who wrote the book My Childhood, described the position of a chef in the Cultural Revolution. "He was pushed out of the door. 'you have the Four-Olds in your heart! You care about yourself only! You don't have the spirit to sacrifice for this society! You are wasting our food to mess ... the reason why the Chinese cuisines are so famous all around the world. The version of Chinese cuisines is a mystery, who can predict what the Chinese will discover in the next development period?...

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• Grade Level: High School

... "guanxi" usually get what they want because the connections network is 99% workable in China. Obtaining goods or services through connections is informally referred to as "going through the back door" (zou hou men). In the commercial world, a business will run much easier with good relationships with vendors, distributors and, most important, the municipal, regional and central government ministers whose disfavor ... it is somewhat important but in China, it is critically important. If you criticize your Chinese employee publicly, you might get his or her resign letter on your desk the ...

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... is now a world superpower. "America has been trained" for the harshness and rigors of a brutal society. President Roosevelt and President Truman were the men to lead this nation into the next frontier. What is now to be the deadliest weapon was used over that period of time, this I feel has single handily changed the prospective and doings of other countries. America ... standard to what I like to call the "rumble in the jungle." America has tried to achieve an open world economy for over a century. From the attempts to keep the open door policy in China to Article VII of the Lend-Lease...

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• Grade Level: High School

... teaches Maxine the woman warrior story. Prior to the narrative of the warrior woman, Brave Orchid was teaching Maxine the chant of Fa Mu Lan, the girl who took her father's place in battle. Maxine's mother is somewhat of a warrior in her own way. She achieves a high status in her ... deformed into my dreams, which are in Chinese; the language of impossible stories "(Kingston 87). The battle of two cultures collides in this little girl, making her life full of difficult choices. She sees those choices in neither white nor gray, but black, because of her silence she acquired from ... belie...

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... communications and mail delivery capacity in El Salvador are obstacles to direct marketing. However, with privatization, telecommunications are improving and the government is making efforts to upgrade its mail system. Door to door sales and direct-from-television sales are increasing. A joint venture is a contractual agreement in which "a merchant is bound to share, with one or more persons contributing goods or services ... ...

• Word Count: 1894
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of money into making a Eugenics Records Office, now more commonly known as the ERO. This Office would hold records of, hopefully Davenport thought, everyone that it could. They had door - to - door people who were trained to pass out questionnaires for people to answer. The goal was to have information on a large amount of people for future researchers to study. It worked ... ...

• Word Count: 1911
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• Grade Level: High School

... called "lotus lovers". It became the signature of the Brothel culture. Prostitutes would expose their feet "in a private chamber" where it was customary for the man to linger over the girl's feet, stroking, sniffing and licking them and even dipping them in tea before drinking it. A favorite delight was to eat almonds from between her crushed toes. Tiny feet were found ... ultimately took the shape of a flattened saucer (Jackson, 34). The bindings were often sewn together with heavy thread to keep them from unraveling and , more importantly to keep the little girl from loosening them. W...

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... because they are from a certain cultures and religion and they want to have a boy, and or they have two or three boys and want to make sure that the next newborn is a girl. Woman ages 35 and over, as well as for single woman who don't want do get married but want to conceive a child are especially attracted to this method in ... ...

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... men and women were not treated equal. I was oppressed throughout my upbringing. I had very limited access to education as women were regarded as inferior human beings, a famous saying goes ˜a girl is virtuous if She has no talent'. I was educated and forced to be totally submissive to my parents and husband through my entire life. In connection to this, it was ... ' instructions sent to us since they are the head of the family, which is commonly referred to as 'Jia' in Chinese. When my grandfather died, his brother who was the next oldest male in the family took over the family leadersh...

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... student at the beauty school had messed her hair up so much that she had to cut her hair short and people teased her because she looked like Peter Pan. Next she wanted her daughter to be remembered as an amazing child from the book "Ripley's Believe It or Not". Than it was the piano lessons, her mother exchanged cleaning services ... so that her daughter could receive lessons. Her mother got the idea from the "Ed Sullivan" show when she saw this little Chinese girl playing the piano. Amy's mother pushed her so hard to become a genius because she felt that her daughter could do anything ...

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... a musical genius. It makes Jing-Mei so angry because she knows that the only reason her mother wants her to do this is because earlier she has seen a nice Chinese girl on the TV show, and she is trying to turn Jing-Mei in that perfect Chinese child that she is not. The fact that Jing-Mei's mother is from China ... exists between mother and daughter. For Jing-Mei actually standing up to her mother and refusing to follow her orders is a symbol of self-identification as a self-minded Chinese-American girl. This passive aggressive dynamic stays between mother and daughter until the end of t...

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... Lessons for a Woman by Ban Zhao (45-120 C.E.), it was clear that women did not acquire a status equal to that of men. "On the third day after the birth of a girl the ancients observed three customs: first to place the baby below the bed; second to give her a potsherd with which to play; and third to announce her birth to her ... ancestors by an offering" (Zhao 99). Each custom symbolized a way in which the new born girl should behave later in life. First, her primary duty was to humble herself before others. Second, she should practice labor and consider it her primary duty to be indust...

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• Grade Level: High School

... look". Exercise tapes promoting fitness were everywhere, and today it is much the same. In 1992 Working Woman magazine reported that 65 million Americans were on a diet. Today being a teen girl is perhaps harder than it has ever been. The media pushes a false female image upon us everywhere we go, and it is progressively getting worse. A generation ago, the average model ... a gateway to Federal and private sector information resources on women's health issues such as eating disorders, body image, and nutrition (Eating Disorders). The Office on Women's Health also sponsors the "Girl Pow...

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... accept it. During her youth, Winnie lived in a China when western Yoo 4 influences permeated and in a household with a mother who Winnie characterized as "a modern girl" (Tan 119). Western thought and influence surrounded Winnie's environment as a young girl especially from her mother who "liked English biscuits, of course, and also their soft furniture, Italian automobiles and French gloves and shoes, White Russian soup ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate