...Death penalty is a punishment for person to put to death by government. There are 103 countries who have abolished death penalty. In Tang Dynasty in China, the death penalty has already been abolished which the first-time human abolished death penalty. Most of the countries don’t use death penalty on teenagers. This essay will argue that death penalty should be abolished because it gives the court the possibility to release the innocent person; there is the race discriminant in using the death penalty; the death penalty is incompatible with human rights and there are other ways. Death penalty kills the possibility for citizens who are innocent to release. No matter how the times progress, misjudgment will always exist. Even though the proportion will be lower, the innocent case won’t be avoided. It is unfair for an innocent person alternative the criminal to sentence the death penalty without any remedy opportunities. In 1992, Cameron Todd Willinghai...
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...Sharita Rogers Natural Science Cluster Dr. J. Kullman April 25, 2013 Air Pollution kills over 1 million in China I found this article titled “Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Premature Deaths in China” in The New York Times on April 1, 2013. I found it interesting because prior to reading this article, I did not know air pollution was such a big problem, particularly in China. Edward Wong, journalist for The New York Times, wrote this article about premature deaths due to outdoor air pollution. According to Wong, air pollution is linked to 1.2 million premature deaths in 2010. This is nearly 40 percent of the global total. Ambient particulate matter pollution was the 4th leading risk factor for deaths in China. A study showed that the growth rate of disclosure of pollution information has slowed; meaning China is not disclosing this information to the public. China needs to figure out how to get a handle on their air pollution problem. China is no stranger to air pollution. According to the article, 350,000 to 400,000 people die prematurely each year because of outdoor air pollution. This is nearly 40 percent of the global total. In 1990, air pollution killed 800,000 people prematurely world wide. India also has densely populated cities that struggle with air population as well. India also had 620,000 premature deaths in 2010. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development stated that “urban air pollution is set to become the top environmental cause of morality...
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...China and Localization: Top 3 Considerations for Global Brands Gavin Grimes is Senior Director, China, at Welocalize. He is based at Welocalize’s offices in Beijing. Having lived and worked in China for five years, he shares some insights on what global brands must consider when conducting business with China. The population of China is over 1.35 billion. Since September 2013, it is officially and comfortably the largest country in the world (worldpopulationreview.com) and it has the largest share of the total online population. Around one-fifth of the world’s population, over 1 billion speakers, report some form of Chinese as their first language. In a report by independent research firm, Common Sense Advisory, “Business Globalization in 2020”, December 2007, it states that, in terms of biggest countries by GDP, “economists predict that by 2020, China will have moved up to second place behind the US.” Global brands and companies looking to tap into this giant economy have to take their translation and localization strategy seriously. We have all seen and heard funny stories about how brands have got the messaging wrong when advertising and marketing to China. YouTube is full of bad translation examples. Brand preservation is key for global companies, so localizing your brand is no laughing matter if you’re serious about expanding your reach into China. Global brands must consider the following when developing their localization strategy to tap into the Chinese market: China’s...
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...Discuss the surrounding controversy, effectiveness and impact of the deployment of mobile execution vans to perform capital punishment. 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background on capital punishment in China Capital punishment is deeply rooted in Chinese social culture; it has been widely utilized throughout the history of China for social control, order, maintenance and regulations of individuals and groups (Lu Hong & Miethe, c2007). One of the most chilling types of capital punishment that China had used before was Ling Chi (凌迟- death by a thousand cuts), which was only abolished in 1905. Subsequently, shooting was adopted, and is currently the most common method of execution worldwide. In 1997, China legalized lethal injection as a form of execution. With the new imposition, execution can now be carried out inside a vehicle, where prisoners are strapped onto an electric-powered stretcher and injected with lethal drugs. The vehicle, known as a mobile execution van, is managed by the mobile execution unit. These vans are deployed by the...
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...The first emperor of China, hero or tyrant? Qin Shihuangdi became the leader for the state Qin at the age of 13. His generals helped him defeat 6 rival states. He united all of China by 221 B.C. Sounds like he’s done a lot in a lifetime, but were they good things or bad things. In my opinion, he’s seems more like a tyrant. Through 2 sources that i’m able to tell that he was a tyrant when he ruled. First of all, Qin Shihuangdi spent an enormous amount of money on his desire. He used tax money to built palaces and temples for himself. The late emperors used human sacrifices for their immortality, but Qin built 6,000 clay statues of horses and warriors using the tax money instead. He had many great constructions built using the money, including the Great Wall of China. He even had a “spirit city” of his own for his death within a 5 acre wall. Summing it all up would equal a whole lot of money....
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...Understanding Morality Topic: Death Penalty 1. General theory overview Utilitarianism will check the outcome that results from punishing the criminals and whether it is the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. The theory of social contract is supported by Hobbes. He argues that the state of nature is “the life of man would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” His solution is to come together and agree to a social contract, whose aim is to protect people from harm by others as well as to guarantee all the parties can keep the agreement. Kant says we need to act out of duty of moral rule. When we treat criminals, the only reason to be regarded as praiseworthy must be nothing else than the crime itself. Then we should consider the 1st form of categorical imperatives, which says “act only on the maxim that you can will as a universal law”. Next, we must take the 2nd categorical imperatives into account. It says “always treat humanity whether in your own person or in that of another, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end”. On the retributivist view, legal punishment is justified as a means of making those who are responsible for a crime or harm pay for it. According to the retributivist view, payment must to be made in some way that is equivalent to the crime or harm done. There are two arguments, proportional equivalency and egalitarian equivalency. For proportional equivalency, one is required to pay back something proportional...
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...RISKS OF LIVING AND WORKING IN CHINA MISHINGO FUTURE IYE MOCHAKULA ABSTRACT There are two countries in the world whose culture has the historical depth, confidence, and population spread to make them hold-outs in a world that is increasingly homogenous, and those are India and China. Both are attractive in different ways for Westerners seeking experience living and working in a different culture. China, the subject of this report, attracts foreigners by its past and present profile: an old eastern culture that is rapidly rising to take its place among the world’s greatest modern civilizations, a stature that is all the more intriguing given the way it is blazing its own path in terms of the social contract. Do not be dissuaded by an element of bad press in the West; news tends to wallow in the alternative reality of political drama, while the realities on the street are something quite else. Chinese people are indeed largely welcoming and open, and opportunities abound for the astute. Yet China is not easy. Strange food, different ways of doing things, different social contracts and expectations, uneven levels of development and modernity, and the widespread inability to communicate in English all combine to make China a hard country to move to. But for those who brave the adversities, and immerse themselves into China, the rewards are undeniable—at the very least you learn something...
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...Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, the death of Mao Zedong, and the country’s current economic boom. As the novel progresses, the significance of being from China isn’t the same anymore. Li’s father was a member of the Communist Party in Kunming where Li spent his childhood. His family had more money than the other families around him. So when Mao rose in power, he competed with his equals to see who was able to be the best comrade around school. Li finished school and initiated himself into the army. To Li, Mao’s death was devastating and painful, as he quotes, “Chairman Mao…how will I go on…without you?”. The goal of the novel is to show how their leader Mao affected the typical Chinese civilian and how his death affected their lives. For the impression us Westerners have for Mao, it is hard for us to understand the feeling of the Chinese people. People raised their kids to worship Mao at such a young age and based their entire life on his teachings....
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...break out in China in 1927? The seed that planted the Chinese Civil war lies in its social, political and economic instability within the Chinese society. During the period 1911-1927, China can be described to be a state of great "unease". The Chinese civil war was an armed conflict between two ideologically opposed forces - the Nationalists Kuomintang and the Communists People Liberation Army – to see who could ultimately restore power and regain central control over China. The civil war was fought in two separate phases, 1927-37 and 1946-49 respectively, as a result of the interruption of the Sino-Japanese war. Although there are many causes to the outbreak of the war, the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty coupled with the death of Sun Yat-Sei, which resulted in the rise in power of Chiang’s Kai-Shek’s, who was determined to rid China of left wing factions within the government at all costs, unleashed the ultimate trigger to the outbreak of the Chinese Civil War is. In the following, I shall analyze each of this maneuvers and how they sparked the ultimate outbreak of the Chinese Civil war. The destabilization of China’s ruling regime, which ultimately set fire to the outbreak of the Chinese civil war, was heightened when European imperialist powers humiliated and exploited China in the early 20th century. Due to the defeat of the Opium Wars, the Europeans, Americans and ultimately, the Japanese carved up the Chinese Empire into spheres of influence. A humiliated China had been...
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...Chinas One-child Policy Leads to Forced Abortion, Mothers’ Death China has a policy that only allows couples to only have one child. The only exception is when you live in a rural area. In a rural area you are allowed to have two children if the first one is a girl. There are stiff punishments when the one-child laws are disobeyed. Punishment can include fines, forced abortions, and violence. In Lijin, China a 38-year-old women who was in excellent health hide when 10 people from the local family planning came to her home to forced her to have an abortion. She is later caught and taken by force to the hospital. Her family did not see her until later that day. By five p.m. she was dead. Near Beijing, a woman who was almost full term is forced to have an abortion and photos of her dead baby lying next to her was posted on the Internet. Forced abortion is common in China. Supposedly the violence is not as severe as in the 1980s and 1990s where it was common to be beaten, kidnapped, or killed. The laws are vague on abortion and each of Chinas jurisdictions has their own interpretation on how to deal with abortion. China is the most populated county in the world. The one-child law is to decrease the population. I do not agree with this law. The laws should be clear with no confusion. Couples should be allowed to have more than one child if they want more. Women should be allowed to decide if they would want an abortion or not without fear of experiencing a beaten, abuse...
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...The Black Death, a disease that stemmed from a combination of bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic strains, was the most significant historical development of the fourteenth century . The black plague started in Europe after the Mongols attacked the Genoese trading post of Caffa on the Black Sea. The merchants of the Genoses trading outpost and soldiers retreated to safety. Well, what they thought was safety. Twelve ships left the Genoese trading post and set sail to Messina, Italy. By the time they reached the dock half the people on board were dead and the rest was dying. The Sicilian authorities hastily ordered the fleet of “death ships” out of the harbor, but it was too late: Over the next five years, the mysterious Black Death would kill...
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...Death Penalty Death penalty or capital punishment is the killing person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offenses. People have different opinion about this issue. Some people support death penalty and some people are against death penalty. It is very hard to decide what is right thing with this issue, but both sides have good reasons why should and why we should not have death penalty. In “The Federal Death Penalty as a Safety Valve” the author asserts that “Fifteen states do not have a death penalty, and yet the federal government can federally prosecute capital cases on historically state-prosecuted violent crimes”(Mysliwiec 255). The author thinks that government has to much power when it comes to the death penalty. In U.S. states have power to decide do they want to have death penalty or not. This depends on who is majority in government. Usually republicans are for death penalty and democrats are against death penalty. In “Death penalty views in China, Japan and U.S” the author shows us the study where we can see the level of death penalty support and views on capital punishment among college students from China, Japan and U.S. (Jiang 1). This study is very interesting because we can see how young people from these countries are thinking and what is they opinion about this issue. It was found that Chinese respondents reported the highest level of death penalty support, followed...
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...Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Translational Research (Ministry of Education), Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Peking University School of Oncology, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing Institute for Cancer Research, Beijing, PR China, 2Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA A central challenge of the palliative care clinician, and of the oncologist who sees patients with advance disease, is that of ‘breaking bad news’. As this conversation requires that the clinician divulge extremely sensitive and personal information, and usually incurs an emotional response from the patient, truth-telling to advanced cancer patients is not only a challenging task but also one likely to be handled differently in cultures according to differing norms for interpersonal behavior and communication. China and the United States, with their deepset communitarian vs. individualistic ethics, respectively, typify divergent cultures. This paper discusses cross-cultural differences in norms of truth-telling to cancer patients, that is, the extent to which physicians inform patients themselves of their disease status when prognosis is poor; China and the US are used to illustrating potential differences in approach and consequent cross-cultural misunderstandings. In an increasingly mobile global community, in which information technology and telecommunications span cultures and patients are increasingly well...
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...someone reported that there was potential safety hazard in the mine, water penetration, the supervisor took little attention on it, still continued the project. When the accident happened, 108 miners had been lifting the shaft, and 153 workers were trapped in a coal mine, after about 150,000 cubic meter of water flooded into the mine. At that time, there has been no sign of life, even though thousand of rescuers have been working against time to search for them. The rescue operation lasted for two weeks. Finally, the coal flooding disaster killed 38 miners, and 115 trapped miners were rescued from death. Relevant Facts China coal mining industry Coal has been the dominant energy source for China for hundreds of years. The industry of coal mining is highly related to China’s energy safety as well as GDP. This industry has been one of the most important mainstay industries to China. However, the coal mine industry is considered lacking of efficiency in production, labor intensive and has poor machinery. What has been the most debatable and criticized is the low salary for workers and unsatisfied safety condition in working environment. Even when the coal price soared and the revenue rise, that situation has not yet been changed. People can still find tragedies happened each year. The coal production is even referred as The Bloody Coal which is in scarification of hundreds of...
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...took 130 years for the population to double, however a hundred years later, it was only 65 years to double the population and this number has been decreasing ever since. It is expected that third world countries will triple the population within 50 years. From the income/birth and death rate per 1000people, we can see that as the income raises, the gap between birth rate and death rate increases. The death rate decreases as income increases but so does the birth rate, however the death rate decreases by a higher margin. Half the world’s population growth happens in six countries: India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Indonesia. More economically develop countries often find out that between 1800 and 1900, the death rate is almost equal to birth rate; however in less developed countries, there were 3 times more births than deaths by 1900. What impact does population growth have on resources and international conflict? The problem with overpopulation is that there are not enough resources spread across the world, some parts of the world has too much and some do not have at all. This is mainly the problem because resources are scarce in places where the birth rates are much higher than death rates which mean the problem is increasing in importance over time. However, we must understand that overpopulation is not the sole reason places with high population growth suffer from hunger. The main reasons for this are poverty and politics, governments that are not able to provide...
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