User talk:Kairi p

Hello! I like your user page. Lostjack815 (talk) 19:09, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi, kairi. Great job collecting articles for the kotatsu article. I pretty much found the exact same sources through google scholar. How would you like to divide up the work? Have one or two people work on history and another on culture? --MochaSwirl (talk) 17:51, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah we can work on the "kotatsu" page right now if you'd like. call or text me so we can meet up. username:Bgg2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bgg2 (talk • contribs) 03:54, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Expanded the "Use" section and added some references and kanji. I also made small grammar corrections and switched around some of the sentences already there to improve organization. I went ahead and removed the last paragraph of the "history" section and incorporated it into the "Use" section since it started to talk about cultural uses. If this is not okay, please let me know. Great work on your part of the article. Nicely written and very informative.--MochaSwirl (talk) 02:20, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

List of Topics of Interest

 * Japanese (or any Asian)Culture
 * Places of Interest (Philz Coffee- Coffee Shop based in the bay area that brews coffee in the non-traditional "one cup at a time" - Does not yet have a page)
 * Marine Biology
 * Food!

Edits
I made a couple of edits. To the Florence and the Machine page I added the image under the section 2008-10:Lungs and linked the image description to the Lungs Tour. In the Lush (company) page, I added the product "Toothy Tabs" and cited it with a footnote.

Kairi p (talk) 20:55, 18 September 2011 (UTC)kairi

09/20/11 Practicum:
NPOV statement on Wikipedia Evolution page: "The synthesis became a major principle of biology as it provided a coherent and unifying explanation for the history and diversity of life on Earth.[14][15][16]"

This statement can be considered NPOV by the Five Pillars because the statement is not advocating that this view is the correct, best, or only explanation for life on earth. It simply states that it "provided a coherent" explanation, thus has become a major principle of biology. The statement is also referenced by three different footnotes and is not the author's own research. All three references are verifiable and authoritative sources on the topic of evolution including the Board of Directors, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Kairi p (talk) 19:47, 20 September 2011 (UTC)kairi

09/27/11 Practicum:
Citizendium is a free encyclopedia that was created by Wikipedia's co-founder Larry Sanger. The Citizendium differs from Wikipedia in that it would be a more reliable encyclopedia. This is done through more strict moderation of the information, users are required to use their real names and thus held more accountable, and articles are subject to expert and peer review where they may eventually be deemed as an "approved article."

Link to external site: Cat + Bird

Kairi p (talk) 22:08, 27 September 2011 (UTC)Kairi

Group Project
Kotatsu; a Japanese table used in the winter for heating. It is specific to the Japanese culture and this stub page is lacking the history and possible cultural significance of the Kotatsu. Our group plans to add a section for history and cultural significance and expand the already existing information.

User:Bgg2, user:MochaSwirl, user:kairi_p, Alex Greggory?

Articles to Reference
http://www.kt70.com/~jamesjpn/articles/heating-homes-japan.html http://thenonconsumeradvocate.com/2009/01/i-have-kotatsu-envy/ http://www.jpn-miyabi.com/Vol.40/kotatsu.html http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.vezproxy.stmarys-ca.edu:2048/hww/results/getResults.jhtml?_DARGS=/hww/results/results_common.jhtml.35 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0378778892900159 http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/199911/000019991199A0187774.php http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0378778892900159

picture: http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Harunobu+Beauty+at+Kotatsu&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1262&bih=638&tbm=isch&tbnid=UdTXbiEx3i94pM:&imgrefurl=http://www.fujiarts.com/cgi-bin/item.pl%3Fitem%3D178683&docid=DfxNUMDJjtgPvM&w=880&h=579&ei=RGGTTszRJYHWiAKqhansBA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=296&page=1&tbnh=140&tbnw=188&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=21&ty=78

Colors!
Kairi p (talk) 23:19, 29 September 2011 (UTC)kairi

Halloween Edit!
Kairi p (talk) 04:03, 31 October 2011 (UTC)kairi

Gender Assignment
Kairi p (talk) 18:21, 16 November 2011 (UTC)Kairi

China
China has been attempting to modernize ever since the Revolution of 1911 and the end on the Qing Dynasty, the last dynasty of China. Before the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, it attempted to reform from 1902 to 1908 to save itself and instigated reforms in infrastructure, transportation, and government. These reforms were based on Western models and even included aspects of democracy, which are often associated with the process of modernization. However, these reforms were largely unsuccessful and resulted in the Revolution of 1911. Following the Revolution of 1911, other movements such as the May 4th Movement of 1919 advocated for modernization, iconoclasm, and a rejection of foreign influence and imperialism. From the beginning of the 20th century until the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, China has been delayed in efforts to modernize due to an era of warlordism, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and civil war between the CCP and KMT.

When the communist party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong used the Soviet Union as China’s example for modernization. The Great Leap Forward from 1958-1961 was Mao’s version of the Soviet Union’s Five year Plan, and its goals were to create a modern communist society through industrialization and collectivization. Mao Zedong aimed to become a world power without foreign, mainly western, involvement, ideas, or capitalism and preached the idea of self-reliance. Mao did contribute to the modernization of China, however The Great Leap Forward is regarded as a failure and the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 further prohibited much progress.

The economic reforms of Chinese Supreme Leader Deng Xiaoping are attributed to China’s economic success in the 21st century. Deng focused on four modernizations: agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology. The West was used as an example for several of these modernizations, however their management was completely Chinese. Deng began de-collectivization and allowed Township and Village Enterprises (TVE), Special Economic Zones (SEZ), foreign investment, profit incentive, and even privatization. While Mao advocated self-reliance, Deng generated foreign exchange to finance modernization. His famous quote is, “It doesn’t matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice.” Post Deng Reforms continued on this path which is acknowledged as a shift from the iron rice bowl to the porcelain rice bowl, or government owned to privatized. Although China’s economy has shifted towards privatization and capitalism, the PRC remains an authoritative regime, which is contradictory in comparison to other examples of countries that have modernized. Democracy is the political characteristic that has defined modernized nations in the past and the modernization theory suggests democracy follows with the development of a modernized state. China was late in modernization and has thus had many other countries as examples to base its model of modernization off of.

The One-Child Policy has also been a technique to contribute or even force the modernization of China. Instigated in 1978, the one-child policy has created a generation known as “singletons” or “little emperors” (xiao huangdi). "The Chinese state enforced a rapid fertility transition designed to cultivate a generation of “high-quality” people with resources and ambition to join the global elite.” These little emperors are expected to compete with the first-world countries having no siblings to compete with for parental investment. Normally with modernization and urbanization smaller or nuclear families evolve as the result. China has switched this logic, hoping that creating the culture of the nuclear family with the one-child policy it will produce modernization.

At the beginning of the 21st century, China is still in the process of modernization. In 2010 it had the third greatest GDP and GDP (PPP) in the world with the world’s largest labor force, and is acknowledged as the world’s second largest economy. In 2010 its economy was still increasing in growth at 10.3%. China has also successfully joined the largely Western international arena with its membership of the UN in 1971, the WTO in 2001, and hosted the Olympics in 2008. China’s goal is to continue modernizing until it joins the first-world and becomes the core instead of the semi-periphery or periphery, from the core-periphery model.

The modernization of China through urbanization, industrialization, and economic policy has benefited the country economically as it rises as a world power in the 21st century. However it now is experiencing the problems associated the other modern countries and capitalism. These problems include the growing disparity between the rich and poor, urban vs. rural and migration, and ecological issues.