Bella Fu Ning, With My Family Struggling through Difficulties, I Am Now a Senior at Ocean University of China, March, 2011 [Post 365]
My father’s parents lived in a small mountain village in Yun Nan Province . They were in a second marriage and had many children. My father was the third one of their seven children. In those years, China was still very poor and backward. It was too hard to bring up so many children; there wasn’t enough food and clothes, so the kids often had to bear hunger and cold. In my father’s words, his two brothers died of hunger and sickness. What made it h[......]
Christina, My Inner Mongolian Culture, Ocean University of China, March, 2011 [Post 364]
I am a Mongolian girl who comes from the Inner Mongolia. Maybe you think that I live in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, but I live in the city of HuhHot. So some customs of the Mongolians have been abandoned by our family. The most important thing that we lost is the language. However , the call among the relatives and some diet, which are very different from the Han people, are inherited by our family. For instance, we are accustomed to drink salty tea with milk, cream and cheese.
Erik, (杨瀚), Chinese Cultural Festival and Politeness Customs, Ocean University of China, May, 2011 [Post 363]
As we all know, there are a lot of difference in culture between the eastern and western countries; each country has its own culture. They have their own festivasl. For example, in China, we have our Spring Festival, Moon Festival, and Dragon Boat Festival and so on. In western countries such as America, people have Christmas, Thanksgiving Day, Halloween with pumpkins. And I know in Germany, they have their OKTOBERFEST; it’s a festival for beer when people would drink beer all day [......]
David 李岩, My Cultural Story, Ocean University of China, March, 2011[Post 362]
My name is David and and I am a junior at the Ocean University of China learning physical prospection. I will start with introducing my family. As in most of the modern Chinese families, I’m the only son. I have lived with my parents in a small county called Wudi in the northwest of Shandong Province for almost 15 years. In fact it’s not my hometown; my grandpa applied for working in this county which was quite poor at that time after he graduated from the Agricultural University of Shandong; this behavior was e[......]
Jason Chen, The Post 1980s Chinese Generation, Ocean University of China, May 2011 [Post 361]
The post 1980’s generation experienced the special historical background, a very long time before they show the perceived overall a negative impression. Early years of Internet and other media is full of “discrimination” the post 1980’s generation phenomenon, including the attacks on the words to be found everywhere, such as being called “Beat Generation”, “the least responsible generation”, “ignorance of the generation”, “ The most selfish gener[......]
Annie, My Culture Story, Ocean University of China, March 2011 [Post 360[
After four years, the time has come. In less than three months, I will have graduated. I look back now and I can’t believe how fast it all went. I can still remember the first day of classes, looking on the map on the back of the Schedule of Classes and asking where the classroom building was. Now I’m a senior, looking at freshmen with envy. Every day I wish I could freeze time and make the next three months go more slowly. I know a lot of people who can’t wait to graduate, but for me it’s th[......]
Aisha Labi, Britain Defines Circumstances in
Which Foreign Students Can Stay, Chronicle
of Higher Education. February 14, 2012 [Post
359]
By Aisha Labi
Under new rules set to start within weeks, foreign students in Britain will be allowed to remain in the country only if they have graduated from a university and have an offer for a job paying at least £20,000, or $31,500, from a “reputable employer” accredited by the national border-protection agency.
The move is part of a “radical overhaul of the student-visa system,” according to the government. It [......]
Evelin Lindner(2011). A Dignity Economy: Creating an Economy That Serves Human Dignity and Preserves Our Planet; (2010). Gender, Humiliation, and Global Security: Dignifying Relationships from Love, Sex, and Parenthood to World Affairs;(2009). Emotion and Conflict: How Human Rights Can Dignify Emotion and Help US to Wage Good Conflict; (2006). Making Enemies: Humiliation and International Conflict.
Four books by Evelin Lindner, 1-3 Praeger Security International, Greenwood, 4 Dignity Press.
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My grandmother Wu Hsian Mei (also known as Wu Hsiao Mei) was born in Yiwu, a county in Zhejiang Province, China, into a poor farming family. For generations, her family worked for the local landed gentry as laboring tenants. Her mother gave birth to ten sons and daughters; but due to poverty, and not being able to provide for themselves, her siblings were given to other people, and some of the girls were drowned in the toilet upon birth. Yet due to the (farming) villagers prejudice against women in general, [......]
Cindy Koeppel, ckoeppel@dirksencenter.org, Congress in the Classroom, for Secondary School Teachers, July 23-26, 2012, East Peoria, Illinois, February 14, 2012 [Post 345]
NEW * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: CONGRESS IN THE CLASSROOM 2012
* Deadline: April 15, 2012 *
Congress in the Classroom is a national, award-winning education program now in its 21st year. Developed and sponsored by The Dirksen Congressional Center, the workshop is dedicated to the exchange of ideas and information on teaching about Congress.
Congress in the Classroom is designed for high school or middle school teachers[......]
