Essays on Opium

It was in 1839 when England and China went to war. The British were upset because the Chinese authorities closed its drug trafficking racket and shut down the country’s dope. The Qing Dynasty which was established by the Manchurians back in 1644, made the borders of China bigger and even reached Taiwan, Tibet, and Uighur Empire. However the Qing Dynasty refused the Western ambassadors because they could not accept the Qing Dynasty as its superior. Foreigners and trade ships were not allowed to enter China except in Canton. Foreigners could trade their goods in Guangzhou in exchange for ...

Introduction

The United States has over the years continued to establish different laws to help in the fight against drugs. According to Sacco (2014), in 2012 alone, state and local law enforcement agencies apprehended over 1.3 million suspects for drugs related offenses. Although the government has adopted different measures to help in curbing the manufacture, distribution, and access of illegal substances, the number of illicit drugs under the possession of the public has continued to increase over time. This essay examines three harmful drugs considered legal in the late 19th century, including how they were used and later illegalized. What ...

Summary 1

During the Industrial Revolution, Britain became one of the most powerful frontiers both politically and economically. According to Ward (p.46), the British expansion into the Asian market saw some countries such as China and India getting affected negatively. During this time, three agricultural produce; opium, tea, and cotton were performing greatly in the market. According to Ward, Britain traded in unfair means, making the best use of the Commutation Act and the challenges India was facing in terms of weak military and famine to reap heavily from the trading. The East Indian Trading Company, which was based in London, ...

At the point when regularly utilized, opium poppy to mitigate extreme torment viable yet in the event that anomalous utilized it might bring about nerve tip diseases and additionally misery of opiate reliance. Poppy seeds can without much of a stretch be fermented into a foul tasting tea which delivers a sedative impact because of its morphine, codeine, and so forth content. Poppy seeds don't contain morphine, yet when the seeds are removed from the poppy little measures of opium are left on the outside of the seeds. Opium is exceptionally addictive and can bring about death if consideration ...

There are some who are quick to point out how women are photographed in other places that are not just the home or some sexual setting. Take the famous picture of the woman in the blue overalls saying “We Can Do It!” that appeared during wartime for example. This particular piece of propaganda demonstrates how women can feel powerful in their own right as they held down the home front while the men were away. Not only that but they helped to provide the materials that the soldiers needed over on the battlefield. The other interesting thing about this ...

Arguably, the worst artificial famine in human history which was engineered for profit, the Great Bengal Famine of the 1770 occurred between 1769 and 1773. In the Bengali calendar however, the famine is documented as having taken place between 1176 and 1180. The Bengal famine’s scope was the lower Gangetic plains of India and so devastating was the famine that a documented 10 million people were reported to have died due to the famine. Consequentially, India’s population was significantly reduced to 30 million at the time. This manuscript will thus appraise this historical moment in the history ...

Poppy seeds are acquired from the opium poppy. The opium has a smooth sap or latex contains alkaloids, alluded as opium alkaloids, including the opiate specialists, codeine and morphine, that have been utilized by man for the treatment of extreme pain for many years now. Opium alkaloids are likewise subject to abuse. The alkaloids are combined, kept and metabolized in the poppy plant's latex. The latex penetrates all parts of the plant, with the exception of the seeds and is to be found specifically in the pericarp of the case. The latex of the immature cases, which is discharged ...

The modern world is changing up so quickly, and getting connected with a really crucial speed. One of such sufficient processes is globalization. Globalization in simple terms is usually known as the process during which the world is transformed into a single unified system. At the end of the last century, globalization has become a hot topic for debates all around the world and it has not yet stopped. However, globalization is not a new process, since it implies the integration of the economic, cultural, political and religious spheres. Today globalization caused both positive and negative consequences and this ...

The opium war which took place in the 19th century was one of the first major defeats of the Chinese government. China had a tremendous amount of wealth which was mostly attributed to the tea trade in the country. Britain had a great demand for this tea, while the country had nothing to offer the Chinese government in return. China was also ignorant to the western revolution and considered the western culture barbaric. China was a traditional country which held strongly to its traditions and culture. While China hoped to keep its culture free of the western culture effect, ...

Abstract

The term "opiate" combines substance extracted from opium, the most important of which is morphine, codeine, papaverine, which is widely used as medicines and paramorphine - used mainly in medical industry to produce medications, as well as synthesized derivatives of morphine, which belong to the semi-synthetic opiates and among which the most famous for their narcotic properties is heroin. Substances, differ in structure from the structure of morphine but operating on a similar mechanism (through opioid receptors), are belonged to the opioids (Kuehn, 2007). A rich lexicon of slang in relation to opiates (especially heroin) reflects not only the " ...

Summary of the Dubai Reading

Kazim (2010) wrote a historical article about Dubai, tracing the economic steps of this important city from the early XIX to the beginning of the XXI century.

Dubai in the Early Colonial Period (1820-1945)

Kazim reports that the British took over the area known as the Trucial Emirates (the current United Arab Emirates, UAE) with the destruction of the Al-Qawasin, an Arab mercantile group, in the 1820s (Kazim, 2010, pg. 75). The British leveled the existing key mercantile cities, took over the ports and established their colonialism, which contained the trade only within the British Empire. This was a harsh blow to a region which traded ...

Question 1

In A Journal of the Plague Year, the narrative depicts a nonlinear description of the Great Plague that took place around 1665 in London. The novel highlights common experiences during the. The influence of Defoe’s experience as a newspaper editor can be seen through the combination of journalistic and literary writing skills and Defoe’s own understanding of fictional writing. It can be argued that Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year depicts an extraordinary literary work since it portrays a mix of data and statistical representation of reality and a fictional narrative. The graphical details presented ...

Who was Lowe Kong Meng?

Lowe Kong Meng was a British subject of China heritage, who lived in Penang. He went to school in Penang and Mauritius and later became a successful businessman by trading goods in Mauritius, Singapore, and Calcutta. When he heard about the gold rush in Australia, he rushed there too and established the Little Bourke Street, late buying some gold minds and accumulating ships and wealth, and even sitting on the boards of New Commercial Bank of Australia. He was revered by the Chinese people, as he pushed for their rights to be allowed to immigrate. He was a diplomatic ...

The economy of China occupies the first place in the economies in the world by the nominal GDP, the first by GDP at the purchasing power parity (from 2014). The paper deals with the aim to consider the Chinese modernizing process and economy and to identify the main stages of evolution of the ideas of modernization. This research topic is very interesting, firstly, because of the rapid and successful development of China on the world stage (Songhua). Economic modernization process, acting as the main force of the growing in the sphere of economy and progress of the state is ...

The Ming dynasty in the 1600s made considerable and deliberate efforts in a bid to ensure that its regions remain under one ruler. A Buddhist monk who was also a peasant found the dynasty, rose to the rank of an army general and led a rebellion against the Mongols. The monk assumed the name of Hong Wu and made the decision to have Nanjing as the capital of China, but a latter emperor of the dynasty moved the capital back to Beijing. One of the major roles that Hong Wu assumed as the emperor include reorganizing every aspect of ...

Hitler: First of all, the philosophy of fascism is based on the ideas of nationalism and a strict system of social division. In the philosophy of fascism every person has its own role in the society as well as its own function. Overall, fascism is a political and nationalistic set of views and ideas. Stalin: everything is quite to the contrary with communism. The first serious divergence consists in the fact that communism is rather an economic philosophy than a political one. The core economic idea of it is that all people should be equal, everything should be possessed ...

Introduction

Consumption of addictive psychoactive substances can be traced back to the earliest records of the human history. In ancient past, these psychoactive substances were consumed in various occasions: some priest consumed the substances during religious ceremonies; some substances such as opium were used for medicinal purposes; were consumed by the general population as they were socially accepted. People later devised various potent compounds which were easier to administer. As a result of high administration, addiction and abuse of these substances began. As early as in the 17th century, the concern of overuse of these substances and the loss of ...

Question One

When Alessandro Valignano arrival in Japan in the year 1579, the Society of Jesus had constantly been working for more than thirty years. The mission was, however, struggling despite the huge number that was considered to have been influenced by the feudal lords. The leadership of Francisco Cabral was stressful such that the few Jesuits workers were overworked, and therefore, they became frustrated. Francisco Cabral had refused to cater for the needs of Jesuits, and this was seen as a disrespect to the Japanese. After Valignano had arrived in Japan, he saw the way Jesuits were being mistreated through ...

The Opium Wars and Taiping Rebellion shook Qing China. Two armed conflicts between China and the states of West, known as the "Opium Wars" (1839-1842 and 1858-1860), led to a terrible Chinese national disgrace, completely loss of political independence and the separation of China to zones of influence between foreign powers. At first, the casus belli was closure of the vast China market for countries of West. All the foreign states were forced to market only to certain Chinese companies situated at the port area in the Guangdong Province, without possibility of trade within the city, this caused artificial ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s fiction used symbols and intense imagery to tap into the dark and unknown parts of human existence. Hit gothic tales sought to redefine the ultimate human experience by showing the prevalence of horror in everyday life. Normal individuals are driven to rage and madness and they get to commit the most heinous crimes without reasonable justification for their actions. In “Legia” and “The Black Cat”, Poe relies on symbolism and imagery to show humanity’s relationship with nature and death. Poe explores man’s attempt at rationalizing the irrational. This paper seeks to compare and ...

Stage One: Initial Settlement and Growth

Siu Hoi Wan is located in the southern part of Canton, and has been populated by Cantonese-speaking Han people known as the Hakka since this time. Initially settled in 206 BC during the Qin Dynasty, the area has been occupied since (Van Dyke). The Hakka found Siu Hoi Wan, or “little bay,” to be largely protected from the worst of the typhoons that annually strike the southern regions of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Because of the historical infighting that existed between the different city-states, the people of Siu Hoi Wan found the area to be particularly helpful in ...

The late 1950s marked the start of the Chinese immigration to the British North American regions, which are the present-day Canada. No colonies within the east and west of the British North American regions including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and the United Province of Canada had immigration restrictions. It is also important to note from the outset that the Hudson’s Bay Company controlled vast areas of the British North American regions, where the main residents were the First Nations people. The Chinese immigrants faced various challenges before, during, and after immigrating to Canada. Various ...

Integrative Essay

This particular story is an interesting genre or case of passage where Holmes is pitted as a messenger informing Watson of the on-goings. The readers find an interesting bit of the character traits of Watson. That is, he is a married doctor who lives in his house with his family. The statement can be illustrated by this assertion, “"it was in June, `89 - there came a ring at my bell my wife laid her needlework down "A Patient!" being that his wife informed him of what had transpired, he says that he was coming from his errands having ...

The attempt to control drugs in the United States has its roots in the 1960s. There have been numerous attempts and approaches that have been used to deal with drugs and try to control its usage and movement in the country. This has come with some failures that suggests a new system must be implemented to improve and enhance the status quo. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze and review two chapters of a book which describes the relationship between race, drugs and incarceration. This will evaluate the main narratives of the chapters and evaluate the ...

In summary, the film “Afghanistan’s Child Drug Addicts”, Navai Ramita reveals all the hidden consequences of conflict prevailing in Afghanistan. The film narrates the rapid rise in the number of children that are addicted to heroin and opium forming the youngest population in the world that is addicted to drugs (Ramita). The film clearly relates to the topics discussed in class as well as in the lives of individuals. It has played an important role in raising concern for all international agencies to turn their attention toward the growing proportion of drug addicts. The addicts are aged between ...

1. Even as both China and most of the European region had similar geographical conditions during the nineteenth century, China lagged behind Europe mainly because of poor technological innovations. As for agriculture, the gap in productivity between Europe and China was very less as both countries had to take up similar soil and water management practices (Zanden, 2011). On the other hand, the productivity gap between Europe and China was much higher in industry and other services. For instance, during the medieval period, the prevailing wage rate in the Netherlands was seventy percent higher than the wage rate in ...

At the beginning of the 18th century, the Chinese people consumed Opium on an everyday basis mainly adding it into the cigarettes, and it took a long time till people understood that opium was very addictive. The demand increased with every purchase. Countries made huge amounts of money on opium trade, while many civilians died from addiction. Until 1839, opium was announced illegal in China, but later on, two very important wars were triggered over the drug. Wars have always been a symbol of unresolved issues, far from straightforward, and well worth pursuing to learn about the inconspicuous motives. ...

Global Drug Trade

The records of mankind's history demonstrate that Maryjane, opium, cocaine, and other toxicant medications have been utilized for treatment purposes by various countries. Be that as it may, the current world has seen through and through battle of common society against the medications as individuals have abused these medications, which consequently force hurtful effects on their wellbeing and life comprehensively. Drug exchange the world over has been a tremendous "covert" exchange that has added to the fluid capital of the countries. This is to say that medication exchange has its solid roots in present day human world, which is ...

Drugs are bad. So bad that they have shaped the course of human history for the worse and served to enable some of the worst waves of imperialism in human history. Large scale opium addiction in the United States was facilitated and to an extent created by early modern clinical medicine, or what we would now colloquially refer to as ‘real’ medicine. This situation came out of 19th and early 20th century conflicts between professional and practitioners of allopathic (again, ‘real) medicine and unlicensed purveyors of alternative medicines such as chiropractors, also known of as quacks or snake oil ...

Argument

At the dawn of the 19th century, Chinese immigrants were taken to America to work as agricultural labour and for the construction of railroads. Many of them came willingly in search of work and some of them were captured and brought on board. After completion of railroads, Americans believed that the newly unemployed Chinese workers would become their competition in the job market. In addition, with the lack of female Chinese immigrants, the Chinese males could entice white women. As a response, Americans started to develop stereotypes against the Chinese immigrants to ensure locals would learn to hate them. ...

The two authors bring out the effect of drugs on the society; the authors describe a society which was very positive at the initial introduction of the different drugs. At this time little was known about the aftermath drugs. Iain Gately in his work tells a narrative of a plant that holds a special place in the history of humanity. The plant is presented to the world as a gift, this is evident on the cover page of his book “ a culture history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization.” the crop is the main driving force behind colonization ...

Prescription Drugs

Abstract The given paper is devoted to the problem of drugs prescription as a medication. Here the general description of the issue is revealed and the literature sources which may be used for the studying of the given problem are presented. As well as the topicality of the problem of drugs prescription is very high nowadays, there must be certain criteria and circumstances in which the doctors or pharmacists should prescribe drug medication. Such situations require special attention and careful examining in order to prevent misusage of drugs prescription as its consequences are highly negative and dangerous for human ...

China has always been considered to be one of the strongest empires in the world, where a lot of military achievements took place due to a very fast development of new kinds of weapons and protection systems. China was impossible to defeat. Having the largest population in the world, it took care of all the people to get education. For the Western world, it wasn’t easy to understand the complex Chinese culture. While there was already presidency in Europe and women fought for the rights, the Chinese still had emperors and aimed on conquering more lands. Their women ...

Before starting propounding specific ideas and citing specific examples let us define exactly what the “Old World” and the “New World” is. This is especially important as there are different approaches to what these definitions mean. So for the purposes of this paper the Old World is not the part of the world that has had civilization and political entities in its territory chronologically earlier than other parts of the world, but the part of the world that in which concentrated political and social processes we as Europeans know them from history. That being said, the notion of the ...

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As we know, globalization is characterized as a powerful force, which can transform the world. This force is responsible for the evolution of societies and changes of the whole world. Nowadays the world is characterized by gradual adaptation of states and societies in the unstable interdependent world with its inevitable social and political changes. Globalization is associated with the new stratification of the world where some countries gradually enter into the center of global development, while other countries are hopelessly marginalized. Increased globalization processes are the basis for the expansion of international organizations and their influence zone. Globalization can ...

The 1850s were marked by the crisis of the European colonialism is Asia related to the struggle for national independence, civil wars, military coups, popular uprisings. Primarily, the uprising in Java against the Dutch colonialists, Indian sepoys' uprising in 1857-1859 against British colonial rule and the Taiping peasant rebellion in China in 1850-1864, which took at least 20-30 million lives and led to the Second Opium War. Numerous mass protests in the peripheral countries showed a deep economic and socio-political crisis of the colonial government. As to “The Opening to Japan”, it was held without the Europeans' participation. Moreover, ...

James Walvin in his article “A taste of empire” examines the role colonization played in the localization of activities such as tea drinking, tobacco smoking, and chocolate consumption into British culture. “Yet, each and many more of these habits is only British by adoption. The peculiarly British customs associated with these traditions were developed in a relatively short period, and involved commodities imported from every edge of colonial settlement and trade” (Walvin 11). Walvin states that tea started out as a primarily luxurious commodity only meant for the elite but with time grew to form a core part of every Briton’s ...

Swire Pacific Ltd is a family business, publicly quoted and operating in China during the reversion from British to Chinese rule. The company has five operating divisions, aviation, property, marine services, industrial and trading. In 1997, the company was caught up in the Asian financial crisis as well as the world economic meltdown in 2001. Although China had tried to restrict trade with foreigners, they failed after opium wars and lost ownership of Hong Kong (John et al. 141). China gained back the areas under British rule after the 99-year lease was over and adopted a two government system after signing ...

Introduction

Quality care is one of the most important aspects in the healthcare industry. The United States government has its most important responsibility to care for the veterans of the nation including their families. During the inaugural speech of Abraham Lincoln, the former President of the United States, he commemorated that the obligation of the nation is to care for the veterans especially those who sacrificed their lives, bereaved families, and children. However, the world of the veterans in terms of their benefits and healthcare is intense and complicated. Currently, there are trends and changes in the processing system regarding ...

SLIDE 2

Opium is a strong drug, derived from the sun-dried milky juice extracted from the unripe pods of the opium poppy. Contains about 20 alkaloids. In traditional medicine, due to the high content of morphine alkaloids used as a strong painkiller. However, he quickly called drug addiction and is now used only as a raw material for medicines (morphine, codeine, papaverine, and others), as well as for the synthesis of the drug heroin.

SLIDE 3

The first mention of opium was fixed 300th year BC. Opium was used in ancient Greece, its analgesic properties were mentioned by Hippocrates. The use of opium was spread eastwards to India ...

There are many symbols is the short story by Leo Tolstoy The death of Ivan Ilyich. The most significant symbols are the black sack and the border around the death notice. In this essay, I will try to outline several other symbols in the short story and analyze them. The border is the first symbol that appears when reading the story. Ivan Ilyich’s friends notice an obituary in the newspaper, which was framed with a black border. The border symbolizes how small and insignificant a person’s life may be. Everything that a correspondent need was a black border. The point ...

Having an addiction of any kind is dangerous. However, one kind of addiction that involves the most amount of health risk is drug addiction. Drug addiction is an ill that can rear its ugly head no matter who you are, and that is reason enough to take notice of it. Sadly though, despite what many people would like to believe, addiction to drugs is still very much a part of modern society, and the numbers surrounding the addiction are mind boggling to say the least. According to figures provided by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, around 167 ...

During the seventeenth and eighteenth century, The Great Britain was trying to invade most lands in East Asia so that they could do trade commodities on their own terms and conditions, and without any barriers imposed by the local authorities. There were a significant amount of commodities found in East Asia that were demanded in Europe. First the British government established their company called ‘East India Company’ with the desire to do trade; however, later on they attempted to invade most parts of the East Asia. Opium Wars were the proof of invasion of China by the Great Britain. The ...

The nature of addiction can be debated on both social and biological perspectives. Most people view opiate addiction as a sign of irresponsibility among the users. Drug abuse generally has been accepted in most parts of the society due to the availability of corrective measures, such as treatment options. The American Medical Association prohibited the use of pharmacotherapy as a treatment to opiate addicts in 1920. The medical profession later renewed the policies on treatment of opiate addiction in the 1950’s when addiction was considered a medical disease (Barnett, Zaric, & Brandeau, 2001). Physicians began exercising short-term opiate substitution on addicts. Forcing ...

Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) In Iraq-Afghanistan Wars

Abstract Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are homemade bombs that are constructed and deployed in certain ways. Since October 2001, IEDs have been responsible for over 3000 combat deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. These devises are designed to specifically kill, harass, or injure people or groups of people. In Iraq and Afghanistan, IEDs have been widely used. They are hidden behind guardrails and signs, inside animal carcasses, and under roadside debris, these encounters are very dangerous as they are causing thousands of death in Iraq and Afghanistan annually (Tanielian, 2008, p. 11). This strategy has taken a different direction ...

History of the United States of America war on drugs began way back in the early 1900s. However, a number of drugs started becoming common in the late 1800s. The prevalent drugs were opium, cocaine, morphine and heroine. Cocaine was common after the Civil war in America. Cocaine was allegedly used in the manufacture of the popular beverage Coca-Cola; heroine was used to treat respiratory illnesses, and morphine was been used for other medicinal purposes but was abused from time to time (Count The Costs, 2012). It was realized that the psychotropic drugs had a great potential of addiction and the ...

History

America in the Great War The start of World War I (WWI) is most often marked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian Black Hand anarchist. The Archduke was to have been the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In fact, the circumstances that led to the war began many years before, due to forces of nationalism, imperialism, and militarism within the countries that would become involved. Schuman (1953, p.283) explains how throughout history nationalism grew from conflicts and wars against “alien groups.” Alien groups are groups of people ‘different’ from the majority population. The key to ...

Berman, Eli, et al. "Do working men rebel? Insurgency and unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines." Journal of Conflict Resolution 55.4 (2011): 496-528.A large part of the Afghan population is unemployed because of the war making any economic activity impossible. Unemployment is bad for the economy as it as wise men say, an idle mind is the devils work shop. People start thinking of illegal ways of making money. Clarke, Richard A. Against all enemies: Inside America's war on terror. Simon and Schuster, 2004.According to this book, there are cases of insider attacks, where American soldiers ...

Abstract

U.S. President Richard Nixon declares war on drugs June 17, 1971. Since then, the U.S. has spent on the war more than 1 trillion dollars, and produced more than 45 million arrests. Drug use remained the same. The U.S. population is 4.5 % of the world, and the number of people jailed in the U.S. - 25 % of the total number of prisoners around the world. Over 500,000 are jailed for drugs. 2.7 million Children have a parent behind bars. The probability that they will be behind bars are much higher than those whose parents escaped this fate. In this ...

The amount of Indian opium that was reaching Canton increased simultaneously right after the abolition of British east Indians company’s monopoly in China trade in the year 1834. It is estimated that over sixteen thousands chest of Malwa and Bengali opium with a dollar value of seventeen million three hundred and eighty eight thousands six hundred and twenty two in the early nineteenth century, were brought into China illegally through importation. Originally, opium was classified as a medicine qualities being stimulant. It was known to monitor over secretions and control harmful effects of noxious vapours. It was a necessity resorting ...

The state of war and peace in Afghanistan has had a significant impact on the distribution of the foreign aid. Afghanistan is among the developing countries, according to the ISI (International Statistical Institute). It is classified as a developing country on the criterion that it has a GNI (Gross National Income) of less than US $11, 905 per capita a year (ISI, 2014). In order to help Afghanistan (and other developing countries) get through the development process, developed countries and international organizations, channel funds to this country, in the form of foreign. However, given the state of war and peace within the country a ...

Problem Statement/Introduction:

Prescription pain medication abuse has become an epidemic. The statistics on this form of abuse are increasing and are fatal. Prescription opioid pain medicine are being abused and are leading to more deaths than all other street illicit drugs including cocaine and heroin. Over 86% of OxyContin abusers report that they had not been prescribed the drug for medical purposes. Health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for painkillers in 2012, enough for every American to have a bottle of pills. In 2012, of the 41,502 drug overdose deaths in the USA, 22,114 (53%) were related to pharmaceuticals. ...

Category A

- The Atlantic slave trade occurred from the late 17th to early 19th centuries between the African west coast, the Caribbean, and New England. Through this process, hundreds of thousands of Africans were sold into slavery in the Americas in exchange for sugarcane and rum. Consequently, New England gained a vast amount of wealth and the American South and the Caribbean gained a relatively cheap source of labor for their agriculture. - Nationalism describes an ideology and movement in which the citizens of a particular valued and championed their country, often to the detriment of the political spectrum. This movement took ...

Drug addiction is a major public health issue in the United States, which affects the lives of several individuals across all races and ethnic groups. The abuse of drugs in various forms takes a tremendous toll on the society, which includes health care expenditures, lost earnings and costs associated with crime and accidents. With the virtually available unlimited sources, illegal drugs are readily available to the people. The United States is the biggest market of illegal drugs in the world, which makes huge profits through organized criminal groups, gangs and terrorists. Criminal investigations through conventional investigative techniques play a major role in ...

Question 1

Hong Kong films present unique characters who want to pursue love, adventure, wealth and vast exploration of different paces. The films portray characters who are majorly are youth. They are eager for compassionate love and fast accumulation of wealth. They dream of visiting different places all over the world. Their dream for wealth, love and adventure leads them to different places. The films portray the dramas of fantasy, love, and journey and self- discovery by different characters. They seem to harbor a big dream concerning the needs. They are passionate and attached themselves to “Hong Kong dream” “New York dream” ...

As recorded in the history of the Chinese people, in regards to political/economical development, it is apparent that events that worked to suppress the political and economic development of China do exist. By particularly focusing on these events, this paper will present the problems that retarded the Chinese political/economic development during the period of 1850 to1949. Political instability was more insightful and profound in the period 1850-1949. Though the Qing dynasty had established itself over the many years in power, China became internally inert and externally endangered by the western powers that were well established during the 19th ...

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Advertising channels.8 Perceptions8 Buyer process.8 Involvement level.9 Marketing mix.9 Product.10 Promotion.10 Placement.10 Critique and Recommendations10 Yves Saint Laurent Opium fragrance for women12 Target audience13 Offer details.13 Time of placement14 Advertising channels.14 Perceptions.14 Buyer process15 Involvement level..15 Marketing mix..15 Product..15 Promotion..15 Conclusion and Recommendations..16 CONCLUSION16

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Executive Summary The media advertisements are meant to be creative so as to meet the required needs in the market. The advertisements involving the sexual contents are increasingly ...

REPEALING THE OUTDATED AND INADEQUATE POLICY

Hong Kong Basic Law: Repealing the Outdated and Inadequate Policy The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China is considered nowadays as one of Asia’s major financial capitals after Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Many international agencies, institutions and business firms based in the country, allowing the economy and development of the country flourish to what is now seen today. However, since the country was returned to China by the British Empire in 1997, political movements started to develop within Hong Kong due to the desire of many Hong Kong Nationals to ...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Introduction "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" was Charles Dickens last novel. Unfortunately, by the time Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870 the novel was unfinished. Despite the fact, the story named after Edwin Drood, it focuses a lot on his uncle John Jasper. John Jasper is an opium addict, and a choirmaster who is in love with his nephew’s (Edwin Drood) fiancée Rosa Bud. Rosa bud is also a pupil to John Jasper, which quickly brings forth the conflict in the story. To make the conflict even more intriguing, Neville Landless also falls in love with Rosa Bud ...

The book

Chinas Taiping Rebellion occurred between 1845 to 1864 and, as a result, has created a huge interest in terms of research. Many novelists have written their own versions of how the story occurred with different stylistic methods. The author of "God" Chinese son: the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan is in no way different. The manner in which the story has been interpreted is in a holistic narrative approach whereby the author avoids s the use of the theoretical framework. The author narrates the tumulus beginnings of the port city of Canton in the early 1830s and then progressively adds the ...