4,000 navy personnel and 15 warships, of which most were too damaged to go to sea. It lacked the combat capacity to take on the Qing Dynasty if the two countries had gone to war. But the Qing government stuck to
Some crave power to be influential, but this 12 year old by her simple activities, has become very influential globally, and thus – powerful as a result of her influence. If African children ever needed a role model, here is just ONE....
First, using cosplay as a heuristic requires us to attend to the variegated ways our body figures into our accomplishment of gender. As Messerschmidt (2009, p. 86) notes, “most writing on ‘doing gender’ ignores the body.” Under the demarcation of sex (biology) versus gender (society),...
While future empirical research should thoroughly test this hypothesis, there are already several indications in favor of this idea. For instance, recent studies on the evolution of personality traits have shown an increase in Openness-to-experience in high-income countries both in Western200and Easte...
These bodily features influence the way we interpret actions. While staring on its own may be a dominating act, having large round eyes can make the cosplayer appear too soft to claim the power expected to execute the implied physical aggression afterward. Other facial features are also crucial ...
How do other context-related factors influence the potential consumers’ decisions for or against the usage of the CCU-based products? (RQ2) Do consumers from different European countries significantly differ in the acceptance-related assessments of CCU-based products? (RQ3) ...
A team of astronomers from more than 10 countries and regions are making observation plans for FAST, in order to best apply the unprecedented power of the telescope, going beyond what has been done by other telescopes in the past. They have proposed ambitious observation objectives through the ...
Smaller-scale processes of exchange along the 22,000 km of land borders that 14 countries share with China usually remain out of sight. At best, they make headlines as individual cases of economic success or political unrest; hardly ever are they put in relation to each other. Everyday ...
Daily use:How are music and audio devices used in the real world, and do devices like these influence children’s routines? Most parents we surveyed either already limited their young children’s screen time or wanted to reduce it. While many audio devices provided an alternative to screens, ...
dating back thousands of years (like China); countries with oral traditions (like Brazil before the Europeans arrived); countries with a history of being exploited (like Brazil again). All those things certainly influence the way we tell stories, create structure, and which themes are most ...