At the start of these Fall Semester months I decided to participate in various activities that would help to relieve me of the stress of schoolwork and the pressure that I assume that you all feel because of the bad way the economy is headed. These activities that I participate in are few but meaningful. Going to the library to read some books, doing research on Russian Literature and Chinese Philosophy, or just taking a pleasant stroll around the campus that I ... Read More

In response to: J. Vreeland, Download FULL PDF “Why Do Governments and the IMF Enter into Agreements? Statistically Selected Cases,” International Political Science Review, 24.3 (2003). Vreeland’s article, “Why Do Governments and the IMF Enter into Agreements? Statistically Selected Cases,” questions the reason why governments and the IMF enter into an agreement. He offers the conventional reason that governments need an IMF loan but he also offers an alternative reason: governments actually want IMF to impose economic sanctions that would otherwise be too ... Read More

BEIJING, CHINA - GOME is one of the biggest electronic super store in China, with SUNING, they are the best buy of China. Unfortunate news are coming from China stating that the president of GOME is under investigation. After this news, he seem to have disappear. "Trading in a Chinese electrical appliances company [GOME] was halted Monday after reports that its chairman -- the richest man in mainland China -- is under investigation on charges of stock market manipulation, the company said." - ... Read More

Are you Cambodian? Have Khmer heritage? Then what are you waiting for? Hop on over to KhmerMix.Com right now and join the new, up and coming next generation social networking site for Khmer all over the world. Why did I want to create a social network for Khmer? One reason: Because I believe I can do it better then any other Khmer social network on the internet now. Most online Khmer community have only one or two features. Some are Forum base, some ... Read More

In the twentieth century, a disease known as depression became widespread. It was in households all across the nation. This epidemic lead researchers to come up with drugs they called “anti-depressants.” They not only made people “anti” depressed, they also altered personalities. Is society better off or worse off with these mood-altering drugs? What differentiates it from other street drugs? How would it affect art and creativity? Anti-depressants really have no place in this world. More ... Read More

A sovereign state is one that governs independently from all foreign power. Globalization is eroding the developing countries’ ability to govern independently which ultimately leads to the erosion of the livelihood of its people. I will illustrate how globalization is eroding state sovereignty, specifically in developing countries, by using intellectual property law and the enforcement of the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement. In the following paper I will describe what the TRIPS Agreement is and how it ... Read More

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, ... Read More

The Ang Lee directed film Eat Drink Man Woman encompasses many Chinese Confucian thoughts within the film but the most important one is that the father knows what is right for their children. This film is another Chinese melodrama by Ang Lee, who also directed The Wedding Banquet; the film confronts many new modern ideas and clashes it with the old ones. Ang Lee brilliant story telling creates an atmosphere of brilliance in term of the dishes that were cooked and he ... Read More