Even though China was in a rapidly changing time, it still tried to stay to its roots. One important part of Chinese life was agriculture; almost 70% of the people were farmers in 1500 because of the large population. While Europe, India, and Japan industrialized sometime from 1450 to 1914, China never did. Even after China’s self-imposed isolation ended, several periods of widespread famine, and the disaster known as the Opium Wars in the 19th century, which allowed the Europeans and their ships to travel anywhere in China, and made the Chinese pay tribute. After all of this, China still did not industrialize until the 1960’s.
Every customer has a value to an organization and every customer has a price to that organization. Customers are the lifeblood and source of revenue to a business (O’Rourke, p.275). Dr. Wallace’s family had a genuinely unpleasant experience in an Olive Garden restaurant with the customer service. On a Tuesday evening in Mishawaka, IN, Mr. Wallace, his two young daughters, and his disabled father arrived at the establishment at 8:15 p.m. for supper. The restaurant is usually open until 10 p.m. during the week and 11 p.m. on the weekend, so 8:15 p.m. was a fairly decent time to arrive at the restaurant for supper.
With the majority of the men gone that usually worked the factories and welding plants the United States needed to keep producing arms, ammunition, and other various equipment for the troops to continue they efforts. Thus women were encouraged by posters such as these showing that they too could help the country in this time of need. Needless to say, a great deal of women stepped up, were trained, and filled jobs that had, until this time, only been filled by men. Rosie the Riveter has made a mark on the American people and most of all the way in which the American woman is seen. Women were once only seen in homes cleaning and cooking and the era of Rosie was the first step in women’s rights.
“The Chinese worked very hard, eleven hours a day, six days a week. They were third on the pay schedule behind whites and Hindus earning a fraction of their pay. Yet the Chinese only grateful to have any work at all were not complainers.” (Page 59). The above example describes the circumstances that many immigrants might have gone through during that time. She also gave examples from her own family background so that she can trace the mixture of different cultures in her writings.
The sew-in has excelled from the traditional techniques; new techniques such as the braid less sew-in, versatile sew-in, and the vixen sew in have made its way to the hair-sewing world. Stylists no longer have to use a net while sewing hair; stylists today use different braiding patterns so the hair would be flat on the woman’s head and not noticeable. The sew-in method continues to transition over the years, stylists would like for their customers to feel as if they weren’t wearing extensions at all. The trend with sew-ins today is to look as if the sew-in was your natural hair. Women may wash
Similar to the Joad family in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath", about 40% of migrant farmers wound up in the San Joaquin Valley, picking fruit and cotton. Life for migrant workers was hard. They were paid by the amount of fruit and cotton picked, with earnings ranging from seventy-five cents to $1.25 a day. Out of these low wages they had to payment rent on their leaky and rough shack that usually had only a dirt floor and no plumbing. Oftentimes the migrants had to buy their supplies
Those peasants had easy access to ships to go to the United States and other places. The Chinese learned about the Gam Saan “Gold Mountains” in which migrants hope to make money and return to buy land or help their families out of debt. Many of the migrants were not coolies. They used the credit ticket system; they borrowed money from a broker to buy a ticket. Many of them were illiterate with wives back in China.
[[1]] Moreover, Chinese thought that sons worth more than daughters and there is a saying in Chinese that “Ten fine girls are not equal to one crippled boy.” There is another notorious saying of daughters as “a loss of money”. From these, we could see that the unequal social status of gender is prevalent. Even in Hong Kong, Chinese woman are treated unequally generally during the 1950s and 1960s. For example in the film, when Suzie first met Robert, she told him that she had a fiancé who she had never met before, and the marriage was clearly decided by her father. Although she was telling lies about this, this
In 1979, when the One Child Policy was introduced, the purpose was for the Chinese population to decrease. With the policy in place, it has stopped 400 million births happening. This is a huge amount for only 35 years of being in place, so isn’t China happy with the results it has obtained? China, still believes that it needs to carry on the policy even though it has prevented so many births already; however if the policy is to be continued, it is essential for the Chinese government to work on the issue of gender equality. Due to the policy, China has too many men and not enough women, there are 120 men to every 100 girls.
If a family ignores the policy, and has more than one child, they will have to pay a large fine; can lose their job, and any bonuses at work. The policy has a few exceptions, for example people with no siblings are allowed more than one child, along with rural families, ethnic minorities, and foreigners living in china. In rural areas, families can apply for a second child if their first child is a girl, disabled or has a mental illness. The policy caused a drop in fertility rate, from 3 children per woman in 1980, to 1.54 children per woman in 2011. Chinese authorities consider the policy, a great success, as it was estimated that China had three to four hundred million less people in 2008 than it would have done, had the policy not been introduced.