Taipei Essays

One aspect that's great about Seattle is its quirky, fun-loving culture. Which is why date night in this Pacific Northwest city is never boring! Who says Seattle's best date spots are just fancy restaurants and movie theaters? Not real Seattleites, that's for sure. From old-school arcades to outdoor adventures and live music, Seattle has some of the most interesting date spots you can imagine. Great for your first date or your 101st date, this list of the six best date spots in Seattle is one you

annual data from 14 countries in Asia which have already established capital market in their countries in 8 year period times between 2005 and 2012. The countries are Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, China, South Korea, Taipei, Mongolia Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Sri Lanka. All data is cover countries at East Asia, South East Asia, and South Asia which is taken from Asian Development Bank publication: Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2013. Most of countries included

Being a future first generation college student and a second generation Taiwanese immigrant, I find my ethnic identity to have played a crucial role in my life. Having grown up in a household where nobody spoke English, I believe it would be an understatement to say that my ethnic identity has defined me, for it is much more complex than what people perceive it to be. Rather, it has shaped me to become an individual who values education above all else. In Taiwan, education represents the pinnacle

reflects on her feelings toward other cities. “This is her homeland: a city-confederacy of Taipei, Milan, Paris, London, Tokyo, and New York” (Zhu 457). The cities named are widely considered to be the fashion capitals of the world, with the exception of Taipei. Fashion connects these cities to each other, and creates Mia’s connection to them. Mia has probably never been to any of the cities except for Taipei, but fashion connects her with the world beyond Taiwan. Mia’s connection with the world at

When I was 15, I always dreamed I could take a trip outside the city Taipei where we lived in. Being the top student at the school, I was rewarded by my parents for a real travel to go to the Sun Moon Lake in the summer of 1954. It was the top tourist attraction in Taiwan and about 250 miles from Taipei. But, I have to go with an escort, Uncle Chen who was a fellow officer of my father to accompany me for the whole trip. Interestingly

try to live like a Taiwanese during the exchange program by having Taiwanese friends, listening Taiwanese music or reading Taiwanese book. The last time I live in Taiwan, I spend a year in Taipei. However, this time will be in Taichung, so I am also very curious about the difference between lifestyle in Taipei and Taichung. Because I like Taiwan and characteristic of Taiwanese people, I am sure that I can spend fruitful year like the last time before during this exchange

Thanks to the Tianjin Municipal Government for its outstanding contributions to education, medical care, and public construction, which makes my life, in Tianjin, is comfortable and enjoyable. However, one problem still affects my life which is water pollution. Tianjin is an industrial city, and many plants are built in Tianjin. Each plant produces a large amount of industrial sewage every day, but not every plant has a sewage treatment system. Although the economy has been developing, the quality

language to be English. Eventually, my family moved to Finland where I learned Finnish, this became my mother tongue. Just about 8 years later my family once again moved aboard. This time to Taiwan, where I spoke English all the time. Over the time at Taipei, I even learned the basics of Chinese, so I could understand and speak it. During my life, the variety of cultures really helped mold my language to what it is today. An accent is generally described as the way someone pronounces words. My accent

As a bosom friend being with me for over ten years, I could say that I am familiar with Jirachi more than everyone is. Therefore, it is virtually impossible to use simply a few words to describe her. When I first saw her at the Pokémon Center in Taipei eleven years ago, I could not believe how a stuffed toy could be so exquisite to capture my sight. She has some common features like other toys, a pair of watery eyes composed of black and white droplets, a beam of a smile that could unfreeze the

6. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao Hsen, 1989) The script describes the life of Lin family, during the turbulent period from 1945, when the Japanese army withdrew from Taiwan after 51 years, to 1949 and the secession from China. The eldest brother Wen Heung returns from the war and opens a restaurant that names “Little Shanghai” to honor the reunification with China. The second brother, Wen Leung became insane during his tour of duty, and is being treated at the local hospital. Eventually he is released

brainpower byiformulating an incredibly complex thriller plot. The movie is about a woman empowered and threatened by the explosion of powerful drug in her nervous system. Lucy, played by Scarlett Johansson, is an American student living a unruly life in Taipei which became a heroine whose rapidly expanding abilities makes her the most awesome weapon. The movie begins with a vision of the first hominid also named Lucy, discovered in Ethiopia, then bombards you with expressive montages and the

The director Luc Besson released the movie “Lucy” on July 25, 2014. In this movie, Lucy, played by Scarlett Johansson, gets tricked by her new boyfriend into delivering a brief filled with a new experimental drug by the name of CPH4 (this is found only during pregnancy at 6 weeks). After Lucy was turned into a drug mule, the package that was placed in her stomach with the drugs broke, making her overdose and changing completely who she was. No human is able to function more than 10-15 percent of

Lee Teng-hui: The Man Who Devoted Himself to Taiwan Lee Teng-hui, born in 1923 in Sanzhi, Taiwan during the Japanese Colonial Era, grew up to soar the ranks of politics, eventually becoming the President of the Republic of China. He attended Japan’s Kyoto Imperial University, then came back to Taiwan, attending the National Taiwan University, then travelled to the United States and attended Iowa State University and Cornell University. In 1961, he took on the religion of Christianity, which he

are Afghanistan, Australia, Bahrain, Brunei, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore,Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Uzbekistan. there are 22 countries are IIHF members; Australia, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, North Korea

one of them Steve Chen. Steve Chen is a very significant figure whose technological creations are used internationally. He helped innovate technology by creating numerous advances in technology. Steven Shih Chen was born on August, 18th, 1978 in Taipei, Taiwan. As a child, Steve always found computer science intriguing. He took computer science as a major at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign. In 2002, Steve graduated and started working at PayPal. At his time, the internet was beginning

Participants and Procedure Purposeful and convenience sampling was used in the actual study. Elementary school from five regions (New Taipei City, Hsinchu, Tainan, ZhangHua, and YunLin) in Taiwan were randomly sampled from a list of all elementary schools. Thirty-six classes in Grades 4 to 6 were selected from six elementary schools. One hundred and forty five students (boys, N = 84; girls, N = 96) were participated in the actual study. All participants came from families with two children

Glen Race lived a decent life all the way until entering adulthood. Starting his second year in university, his mental health was clearly plummeting. After a trip Race took to Taipei, reports suggested that drug consumption was evident and active in Race’s life. It is common knowledge that drug consumption can trigger mental illness such as schizophrenia in certain individuals. The years that followed this tragic event involved mysterious behaviour with Rice’s daily life, and the eventual assassination

these natural phenomena alone. Experts have found that the only way to explain these trends is to include the impacts made by humans. Seattle, London, New York City, Taipei, Chicago, Seoul and New Orleans, all have something in common. While these places all have popular tourist attractions ranging from the Space Needle to the Taipei 101 to the French Quarter, they also have something else in common. These locations are all at high risk due to climate change. New Orleans is arguably one of the most

people. Wong Kar-Wai’s The Fallen Angles (1995) and Tsai Ming-liang’s Vive L’Amour (1994) was shot in Hong Kong and Taipei respectively and turn their attention to the loneliness among citizens, but the films generate opposite city texture owing to the use of different cinematic techniques. Wong shows Hong Kong in a passionate and romance way while Tsai emphasizes the coldness around Taipei, his movies are more natural and literal with black humor filled in occasionally. Wong and Tsai’s difference in

In conclusion, for the Japanese and the United States relationship, the atomic bomb was a reset button for the two. Although it was a total reconstruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki it put an end to pointless civilian deaths, a society that was once willing to take their own lives and many of their allies just to kill a single American. It was a war of hate where the Japanese military would stop at nothing to kill an American or do anything to make their live’s hell. The dropping of the atomic bomb