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While researching and writing a current events paper for one of my other courses, I stumbled upon this article. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-to-leave-global-postal-union-next-month-barring-last-minute-action-exit-could-send-global-parcel-rates-soaring. This article is an interesting read about the United States (USPS) leaving the Universal Postal Union. There are a couple of reasons for why the USPS wants to leave the Union that has over 192 …

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After reading “A Tiger-fighter is Hard to Find” I began to wonder about whether or not the story of Wu Song Beats the Tiger was an actual story within Chinese culture, or if the author had created a second story, within “A Tiger -fighter”. I found that the Shen Yu performing arts performs this story …

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I found the short story ”After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town” to be an interesting story. It got me thinking about the different types of American food and how there are many different types of Chinese food as well. I began to wonder what Chinese people think of American food today. Do they have occasional …

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Hi guys! I have been keeping up with all of the things going on in Hong Kong since last year, because in my last GHS class I did my final presentation on the Umbrella Revolution! Before doing all of the research for the presentation I had no idea what was going on in Hong Kong, …

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Today during lunch, the topic of the recent protests in Hong Kong came up. Those of us were in the room were asked about our thoughts and I was forced to admit that I did not know too much about what was going on in Hong Kong. I blame a portion of this on the …

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Today during the lunch, one of the gentlemen who came and supplied the food was speaking about his journey to and in America. He was talking about how he came to America for a college education from Hong Kong. He spoke about how his family was not wealthy, so one of the only ways that …

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Being an International Studies/ Political Science major, I often find that almost all of my classes in a semester overlap in material or add upon each other. I am currently enrolled in an International Studies course that focuses on Global issues, today in this course we spent a significant amount of time talking about the …

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In the reading of “When Cowboy Chicken Came to Town” it talked about how the store was trying to do certain areas of business like it was here in America. We see this sometimes in todays world, with the US and China in talks about business or in trade. Each party thinks there way is …

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