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Confucianism is often characterized as a system that involves social and ethical philosophy as opposed to being purely a religion in the traditional definition. It’s based on ancient religious foundations for the establishment of institutions, social values, and ideas of a traditional society. At the core of Confucian ethics were the virtues of filial piety,…

There are unique values that every American citizen holds. According to each individual, some values have more weight than others. But without a doubt, freedom and peace are two essential values that every American seeks and expects to possess. Both President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and President Lyndon Baines Johnson made these qualities a priority for…

Kyoto, city, seat of Kyōto fu (urban prefecture), west-central Honshu island, Japan.It is found Kansai district on the island of Honshu. It is a tranquil valley encompassed by mountains on three side. Kyoto is additionally considered as the social capital of Japan and a significant visitor site. It has numerous Shinto hallowed places, Buddhist sanctuaries,…

Introduction Since 1994, Amazon has gone from a startup business in a garage to a multi-service conglomerate. In 1998, the company quickly expanded their business internationally acquiring Bookseller, Ltd. in the United Kingdom and Telebook, Inc. in Germany. The two sites later flourished into what is now Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de. In early 2000, Amazon hired…

“…The problem is that we’re taking [teenagers] and we’re giving up on them. We’re saying, ‘You’ve committed a crime, and we’re just going to give up on you. You’re out of here, society has no use for you.’ We’re throwing away these kids. And I have found, in my own experience, that there are salvageable…

South Africa’s economy has been controlled by apartheid and colonialism – racially exclusive economic and political systems predicated on exploitation of natural resources, notably gold and other minerals (Faulkner & Loewald, 2008). A large urban African working class has urbanised in the manufacturing and mining industries, but was subject to high labour supply costs, imposed…

The indigenous people where the most discriminated since the beginning displaced from their lands, taken away their rights as Rigoberta Menchu declared they were forced to move away into the mountains where they felt safe, families were separated and the role of the women took an important change. Women were involved in the revolutionary arms…

2018, going on 2019, a trending topic was conspiracy theories. Questions such as: is the Earth flat? Does the government have weather weapons? And most notably, does climate change actually exist? How our young generation can think of such things. Climate change, a change in climate patterns; an increase of CO2 in the air, has…

Facing culture differences is inevitable when a person as an international student from another culture lives and studies in the United States. Taka, a senior physics major student who came from Japan and has lived in Santa Barbara for almost four years, shared some of his stories with me. After finishing this culture interview, I…

The Invisible Indigenous: How the Colonial Gaze Influenced the Group of Seven’s Vision of Canada’s Visual Identity The colonial gaze is defined as “the way in which the colonial agenda seeks to maintain and legitimate power by determining colonial realities, including the dehumanization of colonial subjects and the perpetual separation of Us (colonizers, civilized) and…