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…and institutions. It has spread from China to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam and has aroused interest among Western scholars. Although Confucianism became the official ideology of the Chinese state, it has…

…” (Ellwood 469), is predominant in the northern tier of Buddhist countries such as China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, Mongolia, Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam, and corners of India and Russia. Mahayana Buddhism emphasizes the Bodhisattva, or the Buddha nature in all things…

…Crisis, the creation of the Berlin Wall and the United States entering the Vietnam War, it is characterized as a decade of political crisis, social upheaval and nearly continuous warfare. But in addition to all this turmoil, the Sixties should also…

…on the west is Communist Vietnam. Further west is Thailand. Immediately to the south of the Philippines is Indonesia and to the southwest are Malaysia and Singapore. The Philippines is separated from her nearby Asian neighbors by several bodies of water…

…The fall of the Sui in the early 17th century led to a new power, one that revolutionized the social and empirical structure. At its height, the Tang Empire stretched from what is now Manchuria in the northeast into what is now Vietnam…

…undiagnosed. Many of the systemic fevers they had contracted went undiagnosed. More importantly, the psychological scars they suffered were never recognized. It was not until years after the Vietnam War, the US government recognized "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder…

…a war that made people suffer. “I was drafted to fight a war I hated…American war in Vietnam seemed to me wrong. Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons” (O’Brien 40). O’Brien’s opinions showed hatred towards the war. The Vietnamese suffered…

…boomers cynicism about politics began at a very young age as many experienced the family and political breakdown of the 1960s. These changes, in the belief that the government was for the people, occurred during and after the Vietnam War. For the first time…

…Economies, the Vietnam war, the Korean war, the independence of India, the Iran Iraq war, the Gulf war,... to name just a few." Since economy plays the most important role or is the main criteria in a country's prestige and power; economically strong states…

…important. Like Robinson, Ali used his public visibility to help his people have a better life in America. He spoke out against the Vietnam War and he was a leader in Civil Rights Movement. Society responded more to the words of Ali than they did to the late…