A list of online which may help to do translations, especially in Chinese (traditional and simplified) and English.
Is Communism Dead Yet?
In order to control, these regimes tend to use fear. Generally, they create a culture of fear where people become afraid of speaking up. This leads to less people speaking out or complaining about anything. The environment of fear is amplified or bolstered when people who do speak out are punished in one way or another.
How The Chinese Communist Party Exerts and Maintains Control
In order to exert its totalitarian control, the CCP must have complete access to personal information. To do business in China, foreign corporations will help the CCP by turning over information from private email accounts, chat room conversations and other information. The CCP will use this information to make an ‘arrest’. The victim disappears either temporarily or permanently. Whether anyone hears what happens next is a dice roll.
The Passing of Liu Zhirong
Why is it that much of the world, despite the excellent documentation, continually fails to recognize this as a major problem? Is it the lure of big business? Is it that China seems too far away to make a difference to us? Hasn’t history adequately demonstrated that what we ignore ends up on our back porch sooner or later?
King Quotes Garner Inspiration
Here are two more Dr. King quotes. “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” and “The time is always right to do what is right”.
I’m Working On The Chinese Characters
I couple of years ago I went through somewhat of a depression. I guess that is fairly normal, but I ended up going to see a counselor to talk through my issues. Being a counselor myself, it felt kind of strange at the beginning, but I did it anyway. Why? I guess because I am a firm believer that sometimes healing comes only as we get outside of ourselves and share with others. Anyway, one of the first things my counselor suggested that I do was make a list of things that intr…
Auschwitz Death Camp, Lesson Learned?
The famous poet Elie Wiesel, himself an Auschwitz survivor, had this to say, “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
It Cannot Hurt To Learn Chinese
It today’s day and age, many people are learning a second, third or even forth language. There are probably many reasons to learn languages other than your own. Some people just love learning about foreign cultures, and therefore they choose to study a foreign language to help them understand a culture even further. Others learn a language such as Spanish or Chinese to help prepare them for a career that they hope to have or for preparation to travel to a foreign land.
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The Push to Learn Chinese in Our Schools
Here is an example. The traditional Chinese character for the word ‘love’ contains a picture of a heart in it. This makes sense because love is closely associated to the heart. Not so in simplified Chinese. There is no heart in the word ‘love’ in simplified Chinese. One may ponder how you can love without a heart.
5 Reasons Why You Should Learn a Foreign Language
During the modern age, with globalization at its height, knowing one or two secondary languages has become more than a simple feat of high class and intelligence but also a strict requirement in many occasions. Whether its for professional, social or personal reasons, learning at least one foreign language is a must for anyone that wants to keep his or her head up high in todays society.
MBA and Tertiary Education Programs in China
With China becoming the 6th largest economy in 2004 and likely to rank 4th in 2005, it has become imperative to understand China so as to explore the increasing business opportunities in China. One of the usual route for this is to study and build social networks at the leading Chinese universities. Latest available figures show that there were about 85,000 foreign students studying in China in 2002.
The Bo and other Long Wooden Staff Martial Arts Weapons
A discussion of the long staff as a martial arts weapon.