...The population law in China is a law invented in the late 1970s by the government in china. To begin with there was only a one child policy where a soon to be mother could only have one baby. If the mother were to be pregnant with twins or triplets they would be aborted immediately. A couple of years later announced that if you were the only sibling in your family you were able to have two children.This law has created less population decreasing traffic on roads having plenty of space and homes for families. But it has also created ghost cities a ghost city is a city where barely anyone lives in and is very hard to make a living there for lack of customers. This law has also created “ hidden children “ where children are born secretly and have no identity .That is why China's violation law should be abolished because The law violates...
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...Comp-Lit 121-07: ISS Children as Enemies by Ha Jin is a short story illustrating the conflict between different generations of an immigrant family. The grandfather, narrator of the story, came to America with his wife to live with their son Gubin, and his wife Mandi. Having sold their apartment and candy store, the elderly couple moved to America and quickly found it not to their liking. The grandfather felt in America “the older you are, the more inferior you grow” and felt he was already too old to adjust to their new life. The grandparents brought with them the traditions and teachings of China, and expected their grandchildren to be raised an act in the traditional Chinese...
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...Many of us think of "traditional" gender roles as being like a 1950s sitcom: Dad puts on his suit and heads to the office, while Mom, in her pearls and crisp housedress, stays home and keeps house. But the report from the Pew Research Center reveals a sweeping change in traditional gender roles and family life over a few short decades. At the decade of the 2000s, More than 80 percent of the jobs lost during the recession had belonged to men, which led to women holding the majority of jobs in the United States for the first time ever. Men who lost their jobs were employed in fields like construction and finance, whereas the women had been in slightly steadier fields like teaching and health care, fields where there will always be a demand for workers. With their husbands unemployed, women would now take on the role of breadwinner, while the men would take care of the home. However, these changes are not easy. Men have had to struggle with what masculinity means to them if they're not the sole breadwinner. And while the recession may have forced more men to stay home, they didn't necessarily pick up the bulk of the housework or childcare. The New York Times also reported that unemployed dads spent about as much time caring for their children as their working counterparts did. How to change their mentalities will be the big challenge for the laid-off dads. And Women have to deal with making less than men in wages and a difficult time advancing to the highest positions...
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...Denia Estrada April 3, 2016 Case Study 8: Just Another Move to China? The impact of international assignments on the expatriate families The MacDougall Family When it comes to jobs across countries, moving from place to place, financial status and other common factors that help to affect a decision, family and the way you raise your children does affect your decisions. Both Lisa and Lachlan hold a valuable resource that majority of multi-national firms wish employees had, family mobility. The ability to get up and move from country to country without really hesitating on the decision. The MacDougall family knew that once they finished a project, they were on to the next. They never really planned to “permanently” stay in one location. Both Lisa and Lachlan are also very educated people, having experiences from all over the world. They have traveled to places like Chicago, Philadelphia, and Sydney. They also have many connections that they have built moving from place to place. Lisa, however, for a good portion of their marriage was just a what in America is called “stay-at-home” mom knew that she could not be that way her whole life. She went and got her education and thus started to provide for her family as well. Reflecting on her dual-career trailing spouse journey, she made the correct choices because she first help raised their children. Once they got to a certain age, she began to pursue her own goals. Her career was also able to move from place to place because...
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...Path: K:/CLU-DOWLING-12-0101/Application/CLU-DOWLING-12-0101Case8.3d Date: 4th August 2012 Time: 20:52 User ID: nachiappanr 1BlackLining Disabled CASE 8 JUST ANOTHER MOVE TO CHINA? 339 CASE 8 JUST ANOTHER MOVE TO CHINA? THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS ON EXPATRIATE FAMILIES by Yvonne McNulty Lisa MacDougall looked at her desk calendar and realized it was the first year anniversary of her employment at John Campbell College. ‘How ironic’, she thought, ‘that I might resign today, exactly one year after I started here’. As her colleagues dropped by her office throughout the morning to discuss a new research project that she was leading, Lisa felt both elated and sad. She was excited to be embarking on a new chapter in her career, but upset to be leaving behind her first fulltime job in nearly a decade. To ease her mind, she took a morning tea break at the campus cafeteria and ordered a latte. Then her cell phone beeped to alert an incoming message from her husband, Lachlan. As she nervously picked up the phone and read the four-word message – ‘it’s done, go ahead’ – she realized in that instant that there was no going back now: Lachlan had just signed a two-year contract with his employer to move their family to China, and it was happening in six weeks time. Taking a deep breath as she walked back to her office, the first task was to write a resignation letter, after which Lisa emailed her boss to request an immediate meeting to tell him she was leaving. Although...
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...Path: K:/CLU-DOWLING-12-0101/Application/CLU-DOWLING-12-0101Case8.3d Date: 4th August 2012 Time: 20:52 User ID: nachiappanr 1BlackLining Disabled CASE 8 JUST ANOTHER MOVE TO CHINA? 339 CASE 8 JUST ANOTHER MOVE TO CHINA? THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS ON EXPATRIATE FAMILIES by Yvonne McNulty Lisa MacDougall looked at her desk calendar and realized it was the first year anniversary of her employment at John Campbell College. ‘How ironic’, she thought, ‘that I might resign today, exactly one year after I started here’. As her colleagues dropped by her office throughout the morning to discuss a new research project that she was leading, Lisa felt both elated and sad. She was excited to be embarking on a new chapter in her career, but upset to be leaving behind her first fulltime job in nearly a decade. To ease her mind, she took a morning tea break at the campus cafeteria and ordered a latte. Then her cell phone beeped to alert an incoming message from her husband, Lachlan. As she nervously picked up the phone and read the four-word message – ‘it’s done, go ahead’ – she realized in that instant that there was no going back now: Lachlan had just signed a two-year contract with his employer to move their family to China, and it was happening in six weeks time. Taking a deep breath as she walked back to her office, the first task was to write a resignation letter, after which Lisa emailed her boss to request an immediate meeting to tell him she was leaving. Although...
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...Continental Products was a US based company that was known for their quality home good products. They were the leader in sales amongst all the industry competitors for over 15 years and had built a great reputation for themselves. They employed over 1000 people throughout each year while maintaining great management and treatment to workers. Employees of Continental were very happy and loyal to their company due to the excellent work environment. Continental enjoyed great profits and steady growth until around 2004 when an outside force came into actions. China, an unexpected competitor started growing its manufacturing industry extremely rapidly and without any warning started to hurt all US based manufacturing including Continental Products. After 2004, Continental Products was the only plant to survive in the US that was a competitor in the market. In addition to all these manufacturing plants closing down due to foreign competition, large retail stores such as Wal-Mart and Home Depot were starting to dominate the market and crush small retailers. With all this happening Continental Products was not sure what was going to happen to the company and what they should do, there are many factors and dilemmas that they had to consider when deciding on the future of their company. When Continental Products realized that they needed to make some changes due to increases in foreign competition they had a lot of variables to consider. There were both positive and negative things that...
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...Abstract: An Australian geographer examines the effects of the global financial crisis on China’s migrant workers, based on a recent survey of over 2,700 such workers conducted during January–February 2009. The author focuses on the number of migrant workers returning to their home villages for the annual New Year holiday period, the types of workers that were laid off, options available to such workers upon losing employment, and the reasons underlying their subsequent moves. Implications of the findings for labor policy in China are briefly outlined and several directions for future research identified. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: E240, G010, J610, J690. 7 tables, 68 references. Key words: China, global financial crisis, migrant workers, unemployment, globalization, rural development, push factors, manufacturing exports, hukou, migration networks, remittances, Chinese New Year, return migration. INTRODUCTION M igration is closely tied with processes of globalization and the global economy, and China’s rural-to-urban migrant workers have contributed substantially to the country’s economic growth and success. This group of hard-working laborers has made inexpensive “made-in-China” products available in almost every corner of the world. Varying sources estimate that migrant workers2 have contributed 16–24 percent of China’s GDP growth and one-third to 40 percent of the rural net income (Yan and Li, 2007; Harney, 2008; Cai and Chan, 2009).3 However...
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...MISCONCEPTION because participating in meetings, seminars conferences, trade fairs, etc are also a tourism activity. 4. 4. Tourists • The tourist market is divided into: 1. The leisure tourist 2. The business tourist 5. 5. Visitors • A visitor is any person visiting a country other than that in which he/she has his/her usual place of residence, for any other reason than following an occupation from within the country visited – Visitors may be further categorised as excursionist and tourists 6. 6. Excursionist • A day visitor who stays for less than 24 hours at a place. There is no overnight stay 7. 7. Tourist • A tourist is a temporary visitor to a place. They stay at least for 24 hours 8. 8. TOURISM • One of the first attempts at defining tourism was that of Professors Hunziker and Krapf of Berne University in 1942. They held that tourism should be defined s – ‘the sum of the phenomena and relationships arising from the travel and stay of non-residents, in so far as they do not lead to permanent residence and are not connected to any earning activity’. 9. 9. UNWTO definition • Tourism comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business or other purposes. 10. 10. Definition – broken down • Tourism is the temporary short-term movement of people • to destinations outside the place where they normally live and work • includes the activities they indulge...
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...taking a stand are just examples of what shapes a country into what it is today. In china there are many issues that shape it into the populous country it is but one in particular really boomed the way of living in china. The one child policy has become, at least in the west, china’s most controversial family planning policy. During the 1970’s under Mao Tse-thung’s ruling, China’s population was increasing toward a grand total of one billion people. When Mao was ruler, Mao believed that of all things in the world, people are most import. With that being said, Mao at this point had advocated and even rewarded those “model mothers” who would give birth to the most number of children (Chai, 188). After Mao had passed, the next leader would establish the on child policy in 1979. Deng Xiaoping back in 1979 put the one child policy into effect. This was done to limit the population growth in China. The policy strictly allows couples in china to only have one child with a few exceptions in some areas. If couples disobey the law and have a second child, they would be susceptible to heavy large fines. In addition to the fines, they can also lose their jobs and create dishonor on their family name. The thought process behind the one child policy was to limit the number of births. The less people born, there are less mouths to feed and a better chance to prosper in china. According to the book “China A to Z” the population had grown from 500 million people in 1949 to 1.3 billion...
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...Part 1 最 常 考 问 题 及 参 考 答 案 注意很多问题后要加理由，不然考官就会问你“WHY” 第一部分很多是问个人信息的问题，答案因人而异，这里提供的答案可以做为范本，不符 合你的情况的可以做些修改。符合你的情况的，你可以练熟！还有一些问题，就是我们提 供的问题的变化，就是不同的问法，但是你可以用同一个方式来回答的，要记得考试时候 能听明白，然后会转化哦！ 1. Your Work or Your Studies • Do you work or are you a student? Well, I am a senior in Zhejiang University and I’m planning to pursue my master’s degree in the U.K after my graduation. That’s why I take this test. 1a) Your Work General Description of Your Job • What job (or, what work) do you do? I’m a teacher at an English training center. I’ve been working there for several years. It’s my pleasure to see my students make progress, so I think this job is very suitable for me. • What is the nature of that work? It’s a teaching job. I help the students improve their English language skills and most of them are planning to take IELTS. • What do you do in that job? I teach English, both productive and receptive skills. My job is to help my students succeed in their studies and pass exams if they need to. • Would you say your job (or, your work) is very important? 、 I think so. I think the world will be much worse if there’re no teachers, especially good...
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...Tiange Zou Dr.Backman English 100 January 30, 2012 Memoir of an Autistic Kid I was born and raised in China. According to its law every family is only allowed to have one child. Therefore, I grew up with no brothers or sisters. My parents used to be very busy with their work when I was a toddler. They left home very early in the morning and came back very late, so I did not see my parents often. My grandma was the only person to look after me at that time. Thinking back, the only time I saw my parents was during the weekends. I would sometimes look for my mom and dad. I asked my grandma one time: “where are Mom and Dad?” My grandma was a very humble and good-hearted person. She would say, “Mom and dad are working today and they will bring your favorite toys home tonight. So, you had better be a good boy tonight and finish your dinner.” I did not see any toy the next day and would forget to ask about my toys.My grandma used to spoil me a lot because my parents were not around and I was her only grandson at the time. She would feed me 3 meals a day and give me anything I ask for. She would carry me around even though I was capable of walking by myself. She would not to go to sleep before I fall asleep.Under this kind of circumstance, I gradually became self-centered and did not know how to communicate with others well. When I grew much older, I thought I was very special and could have everything from...
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...This movie, in short, tells the story of the citizens of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai. The citizens of Dharavi love their home, but know it is in bad shape. As a result of this, they do all they can to not only help the city, but also make a living – and for many locals, this may mean making a business out of sorting through trash. However, Dharavi is a strong community. Its citizens set up many organizations to help children get an education – as that is something they highly value – and many parents work in the extreme conditions they do only to support their children and ensure they can afford schooling. Although Dharavi is very small, its people try to make the most out of the hand they have been dealt, and they seem to be doing rather well considering Mumbai is attempting to buy out the area while simultaneously using it as their own personal...
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...sexual, emotional mistreatment or neglect of children is called child abuse. It can occur in a child's home, schools, community, or anywhere the child interacts with. There are four major categories of child abuse: neglect, physical abuse, psychological/emotional abuse, and child sexual abuse. The factors allows child mistreated continue happening can be multiple. Parents with documented substance abuse, most commonly alcohol, cocaine, and heroin, were much more likely to mistreat their children, and were also much more likely to reject court-ordered services and treatments. Additionally, unemployment and financial difficulties are also associated with increased rates of child abuse. In 2009 CBS News reported that child abuse in the United States had increased during the economic recession. It gave the example of a father who had never been the primary care-taker of the children. Now that the father was in that role, the children began to come in with injuries. Recently, the wellbeing of children has been given close attention to by governments of different countries. Sadly, the reality is not so idealistic. According to the researches of the world health organization, there are about 80% to 93% children suffering from some form of physical abuse at their homes, more than 275 million children had witnessed family violence every year, and more than 126 million child labor working under hazard environment around the world. China, my home country which has developed itself rapidly...
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...My Le Professor Robb A. Bajema EL 100 April 26th, 2013 Air pollution in China Air pollution is one of the most serious environmental problems in China. According to a new analysis, approximately 1.2 million people die prematurely from exposure to outdoor air pollution in China. A study by Greenpeace and Beijing University focusing on four Chinese cities estimates the number of people dying prematurely from air pollution is close to three times that killed by traffic accidents. The air has been classified as hazardous to human health, at its worst hitting pollution levels 25 times that considered safe in the US. The entire city is blanketed in a thick grey smog that smells of coal and stings the eyes, leading to official warnings to stay inside. The majority of the air pollution in China is generated by the burning of coal to generate electric power. China gets 80 percent of electricity and 70 percent its total energy from coal, much of it polluting high-sulphur coal. Around six million tons of coal is burned everyday to power factories, heat homes and cook meals. Jerry Goodell wrote in Natural History magazine: “In China coal is everywhere. It’s piled up on sidewalks, pressed into bricks, and stacked neat the back doors of homes. It’s stockpiled into small mountains in open fields, and carted around behinds bicycles and wheezing locomotives. Plumes of coal smoke rise from rusty stacks on every urban horizon. Soot covers every windowsill and ruins the collar...
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