Why did the United States become involved in Vietnam? Background to the Vietnam War: At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Ho Chi Minh and a small group of Vietnamese nationalists met with President Wilson and asked for his support for an independent Vietnam, but unwilling to cause conf...
Acemoglu and Robinson on Why Nations FailFrancis FukuyamaDaron Acemoglu and James Robinson have just published Why Nations Fail, a big book on development that will attract a lot of attention. The latest fad in development studies has been to conduct controlled randomized experiments on a host of ...
Jet lag. The feeling of being tired and slightly confused of the along planner eesp after traveling between place that have a time difference of the Harvard. Listen to the dialogue and pay attention to the background Information and the opening part of it then complaint. Their job, their co...
这篇演讲出自肯尼迪于1962年9月12日在赖斯大学的一篇关于航天事业的演讲，而且据说就是因为站在赖斯大学...
Only last week did we develop penicillin andtelevision and nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft succeeds inreaching Venus, we will literally reached the stars before midnight tonight. 仅仅上周我们才发明了盘尼西林(即青霉素,译者注),电视与核能。如果现在美国最新的飞船能够成功抵达金星,那...
Why did the president declare martial law? Mr Yoon has previously spoken about pro-North Korean, anti-state forces hindering his agenda, without going into detail. It is a simple threat to cite, given the fact the two nations have not officially been at peace since the Korean War ended in...
P.With increasingly large classes,it is impossible for most teachers to give students meaningful feedback on writing assignments,he said.Plus,he noted,critics of the technology have tended to come from the nation’s best universities,where the level of teaching is much better than at n lost sc...
Like most social media sites, TikTok is not immune to controversy. TikTok and many other Chinese-made apps were banned in India in mid-2020 as a danger to the nation's sovereignty. The move came amid growing tensions between the two nations.15 ...
But in fact it had almost nothing to do with any Chinese state, whether empire or nation. The emigrants, as Wang Gungwu has pointed out, started as "merchants without empires" (merchants including all the skilled artisans who built the colonialists' cities in Southeast Asia). Though without ...
Urbanist and author Jane Jacobs saw the disagreements between economists on the causes of the stagflation of the ‘70s as a misplacement of scholarly focus on the nation rather than the city as the primary economic engine. She believed that to avoid the phenomenon of stagflation, a country neede...