In words of James” Youth is the joy, the little bird that has broken out of the eggs and is eagerly waiting to spread out its wings in the open sky of freedom and hope.” Power of Youth Youth is the spring of Life. It is the age of discovery and dreams. India is of largest youth population in the world today. The entire world is eyeing India as a source of technical manpower. They are looking at our youth as a source of talents at low costs for their future super profits. If Indian youth make
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Japan, like any country adapts and changes with the passage of time through various means such as shifting social class and industrialization. With these changes folklore and stories change as well, adapting to the new environment to remain relevant in the current time. This is seen by the evolution in Japan’s popular monsters such as the Tengu and the Oni, from evil or malicious to benevolent or guardian-like figures. These types of changes reflect the changing roles of yokai and monsters of being
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voyages took place because they wanted to acquire money, fame, and spread Christianity. Christopher Columbus was driven from competition to make his voyage in 1492. He sailed west across the Atlantic to look for a quicker trade route to Asia. He did not reach Asia, but instead found the Caribean. After his voyage more countries began to send explorers to the Americas in order to claim land for the mother country and make money. Ferdinand Magellan made the courageous exploration in 1519 and was the
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The mention of the Middle East invokes in most Americans a cadre of emotions and a compilation of political and moralistic viewpoints. The events of September 11, 2001 thrust the Middle East in direct trajectory with our daily lives in the United States, shaping the way we conduct ourselves and our affairs and as a result it would be dealt with as one does with a knock on the front door. In the Middle East’s case there was no knock, no turn of the door knob, it had been blown completely off the
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The world has gone through fifteen years of the 21th century with a huge leap in gaming industry. Its concept about video games have been altered throughout not only by generations of video games, but also by the egos of gaming community. If at first gaming was considered “just for fun”, it is now competitively played by hardcore gamers, and being requested to be organized in a greater scale as a sport. From my point of view, due to how professional gamers are, the requirements, which are similar
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Japan is the technological typhoon of our generation, and a modern paradise for any nerd, therefore, it is hard to think of Japan as anything other than this modern paradise. During the 1700’s to early 1800’s Japan was referred to, by many as nothing more than a feudal backwater, a people who would amount to nothing better than well-versed fishermen, a stark contrast from today’s image of Japan(Copeland p. 11). It is hard to come to terms with these stark differences in Japan’s history, but it all
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decades, the country’s leaders decided to embark on a policy of aggressive territorial expansion. Around the last half of the 19th century, imperialist countries such as England, France, and Germany developed a plan in order to acquire colonies in Asia. Imperialism is the direct or indirect domination of an established/industrialized country over a colony/colonial
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trading route between Europe and Asia. At the time, trading with Asia was expensive and difficult because trading routes on land had to go through the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East, so they were under the control of Muslims and Italians. With a growing demand for Oriental goods like silk, spices, and tea had the need for better trading routes also grew with it. Many mariners, including the infamous Christopher Columbus, believed that they can find a sea route to Asia if they head west of the
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In “The Range of Ideals” Okakura Kakuzō’s asserts that "Asia is one"(1). This opinion is problematic since there are no clear and logical supports for the idea. He strongly claims that Asian culture has "broad expanse of love for the Ultimate and Universal, which is the common thought-inheritance of every Asian race, enabling them to produce all the great religions in the world" and it is different from cultures of Western people "who love to dwell on the Particular, and to search out the means,
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Effect of Matthew Perry’s Visit to Japan • American Commodore Matthew Perry is known for having played a vital role in Japan's decision to reopen itself to foreign trade, but how so? What exactly did he do that was so important? To answer that question, we need to look at Japan's past. Japan was closed off to most of the world from the late 1600s to the mid 1800s, meaning that Japan had hardly any trading or interactions with outside countries for nearly 200 years. This made American officials discontent
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