When I fill the sky at sunrise or sunset, everyone is shocked at my beauty and nobody gives another thought to any of you. Red could ___7___ it no longer, so he shouted: " I am the color of danger and of bravery. I am willing to fight for a cause. I bring fire into the...
Document 1 China’s peaceful rise, unprecedented in both scale and speed, has demonstrated that there has never been a one-size-fits-all modernization model, and the Western model is not the only viable route to modernity. As President Xi rightly points out, “There is no fixed model when...
Shanghai was the only place where a Jew persecuted by Nazism could emigrate without a visa or family sponsorship.Ulrike Ottinger's mother, a German Jew, was not aware of Shanghai's peculiar status as a Jewish haven when she went into hiding in Konstanz...
Many videos offlash mobssuddenly appearing in public places have been shared online, including one fromNational Dance Dayin Boise, Idaho. Scientific research intomicrobiomesskyrocketed in both 2011 and 2013, leading scientists to name it one of itsbreakthroughsof both years. 2012: Astrogeology, geot...
17. Blane McDonough,Pretty in Pink At least the writers were laughing right there with us, as Duckie (Jon Cryer) proclaims, “His name is Blane? That’s a major appliance.” But nonetheless, the upper class high school golden boy played by Andrew McCarthy did eventually find his romantic...
powerful China will seek to shape the world in its own image, believes the author of this book. In a way Martin Jacques book is a groundbreaking investigation of how China’s rise as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political and ethnic balance of global power in the 21st-...
But different things are happening elsewhere in the world, of which the most significant is the rise of China. Around 40 years ago, China was a basket economy with 90 percent of its people living in poverty, but the economic strategy of China has lifted over 500 million Chinese out of ...
Lesson by a Father in the Equator area Closer to home, it also appears from recent research that the truth is certainly not to be found in the missiological discourse. Carine Dujardin, who did extensive research into the missionary work of Scheut in China, asked a ...
Still, initially, Chinadid not intentionallychoose its‘isolation’¹³from theWest.Changreveals thatas earlyas1949,asthe Chinese Communist Party(CCP) approachedits victoryand for some time thereafter,its leadership publiclyannounced its interest in es-tablishingtrade and diplomatic relationships with...
Then again, I early on figured out that, no matter how grand it might sound, “True Libertarianism” is as possible as “True Communism”. Reality tends to get in the way. Difference being we are always better off the closer to ideal libertarian we get as opposed to how bad off we ge...