Assessment of Chinese Energy Policy

Introduction and History Launched in 2013, the One Belt One Road Initiative (OBOR or BRI) is a Chinese foreign policy of a transnational economic belt. The scale of the initiative is astonishing for it is so far the largest of its kind launched by one single country. The OBOR consists of two [...]

Yunnan Lucky Air is a Chinese airline headquartered in Kunming City District (Yunnan Province, PRC) operating in the field of domestic passenger traffic. Subsidiary of the conglomerate HNA Group. The carrier's home registry and its main transit hub is Kunming Changshui International Airport. As [...]

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” These are the words of the 19th century writer and poet Oscar Wilde, and they perfectly illustrate the oft-contentious dispute between individualism and conformity to the community. Indeed, this dispute has [...]

In our country today, we are a nation of diverse cultures. Our society has now become African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American. "When the Western world forced its way upon us, the result was a struggle between out traditional education and attempts by the outside [...]

Ethnocentrism can be seen most clearly in the policies of the late 1800’s. Specifically, we can see it in the boarding school system where Native Americans were forbidden to speak their own languages or wear their hair in traditional ways. The design of US policy early on was always to exterminate [...]

My cultural identity is made up of a lot of numerous factors. I was born and raised in the San Antonio area. Both of parents are from Mexico, my mother moved here when she was nineteen and my father moved here when he was five. When they first moved to the San Antonio area they were of the lower [...]

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. contends "race" is not itself a natural entity, rather a synthetic construct used to degrade certain peoples. He implores society to move forward free from the shackles of categorization, liberating itself from a false reality. While this commentary holds significant merit [...]

The Mexican-American War, one of many controversial wars in U.S history. In a debate over where the Mexican-American border was, and the ownership of none other than Texas. A war like this you never talk or hear much about it compared to wars such as the Civil War. The Mexican-American War may [...]

In Laguna culture, stories are as central as the language that tells them. Stories weave the world together and are constantly being reinvented and recreated over time. In Storyteller, Leslie Marmon Silko layers short stories, pictures, and poems to portray the common theme that stories and having [...]