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An Evaluation of the Chinese CollegeAdmission Examination System from the Standpoint of Equity in Public Policy
The provincial education examination institution mandate system for China’s college entrance examination was approved by the relevant national department or is implementing an independent proposition. It is uniformly dispatched by the Ministry of Education and implemented and managed by the provincial enrollment and examination committees. Its nature dictates that social justice must exist. The battle for college entrance exams has grown more intense as the number of exams for admission to colleges continues to rise. Then came the sociological phenomenon of immigrants taking college admission exams. This article will use the phenomenon of “college entrance examination immigration” as an illustration to explain the need for its public policy for the equitable distribution of social value through a thorough analysis of college entrance examination admissions. The fairness of the new college entrance exam system must be continually improved. To take into account the interests of all parties and maximize the overall efficacy of public policy, social values must be distributed fairly.
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Body Shame Twitter Movement Text Mining and Data Analysis by Applying MDCOR
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As one of the most heated-discussed movements on Twitter these years, tweets in #bodyshame has been complicated and debatable. To explore the alternation of attitudes toward #bodyshame and how it has changed in the past decade, the study analyzes the data collected from three-time frames: 2012, 2017, and 2022, respectively. The increasing popularity and awareness of #bodyshame of the public are shown in this work. By applying MDCOR, an open-ended responses classification framework to data analysis, this paper was able to conclude the gradually alternating trend of Twitter users' attitudes toward body shame. Social media data analysis helps the understanding of the general development trend of #bodyshame movement, which ultimately provides a comprehensive overview of people’s acceptance and opinions towards various body types. This study’s data-oriented research on attitudes towards body shame is profound in meaning.
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Hermeneutical Weakening
Hermeneutical injustice is an epistemic injustice that happens when a person's experience cannot be well understood or articulated because of the problem with the collective hermeneutical resource -- a collection of concepts and words that we use to understand one's experience and to communicate with one another about it. Previously, Miranda Fricker and Rebecca Mason have suggested two types of hermeneutical injustice: Hermeneutical Gap and Hermeneutical Distortion. Fricker believes that hermeneutical injustice is a gap between hermeneutical resources, whereas Mason suggests the collective hermeneutical resource can also be distorted when the words and concepts that comprise it are inferentially related in ways that are invalid or inductively weak. However, in this paper, I identify a novel type of hermeneutical injustice that I call Hermeneutical Weakening. In a case of HW, hermeneutical injustice is neither caused by the collective hermeneutical resource being deficient nor it being distorted, but due to it being weakened. I define Hermeneutical Weakening as the loss of word significance when the lexical effect of the word is weakened due to overuse. I then differentiate hermeneutical weakening from both hermeneutical gap and distortion. In particular, I analyze the subtle differences between weakening and distortion and argue the lexical effect can also be weakened through non-literal uses of words when the literal standard meaning of words to which distortion tied is suspended. Finally, I explain the generation of hermeneutical weakening and how it is also a form of oppression of the marginalized group generated systematically under the social system.
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The Lower Income Level of Chinese Females in Offices ---The Case of the Financial Industry in Beijing and Shanghai
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This paper elaborates on the intrinsic impacts of several factors on the gender treatment gap. We further announce that factors such as traditional culture, family, personal characteristics, and legislation make a difference in the gender wage gap. Moreover, time-honored Chinese culture, like patriarchy, plays a vital role in forming the gender gap. Also, our statistical results illustrate that the regional difference among the financial industries of Beijing and Shanghai determine the extent of the gender gap, and variations in the added value of economic drives and labor force are the most influential factors. Thus, we conclude that regional discrepancy exists in China, and the significant indicators vary in distinct geographical areas. Besides, it is still worthwhile to explore regional sexual inequality in developing regions, and the impacts of determinants exclude the economy and education.
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Utilize the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Short Video Platforms and User’s Self-conception to Guide Marketing Strategies
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Artificial intelligence is widely used in social media. When users use social media, AI has a positive or negative impact on users' self-perceptions. 2022 Jeff Hancock's crystal framework theory of algorithms indicates that short video platforms influence users' self-perceptions: know me well, real self, and community. The primary purpose of this study is to establish the relationship between artificial intelligence on social media and users' self-perceptions by drawing on Jeff Hancock's self-concept theory. The relationship between the two can be used to optimize the existing marketing strategy of advertising products on social media and to optimize the experience of social media users while effectively promoting the marketing products positively.
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Analysis of the Causes for the Sino-US Trade War
In 2018, the US government launched a trade war against China, and later it became a tit-for-tat competition between these two economies. It brought more uncertainties and challenges to bilateral and global trade. The economic conflict was a long-term issue between the two countries, while the Section 301 investigations provided rationales for the Trump administration to launch the trade war. This paper aims to reveal the reasons that contributed to the Sino-US trade war in order to better understand the whole economic conflict. There are some data collected by the US government and some official organizations are used in this paper to introduce the background. The writer mainly uses the literature analysis to discuss the possibilities that cause the trade war and applies one theory – the Hegemonic Stability Theory to analyze the situation. At last, different perspectives of the deep-seated causes were applied to understand the trade war. This paper discovers that the trade war between the two countries was not only caused by economic conflicts, but also technological disputes, and other deep-seated issues, including national security and political concerns. All these causes should be addressed to understand and smooth the tensions.
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Family Cultural Capital Influence on Educational Expectations and Class Differences
This paper explores the impact of cultural capital on family educational expectations based on data from the CFPS(China Family Panel Studies). After controlling for control variables such as gender and household registration, it was found that: objectified cultural capital, institutionalized cultural capital and embodied cultural capital all have a significant positive effect on family educational expectations. In addition, there is no significant class difference in the effect of cultural capital on family educational aspirations, but objective and specific cultural capital have a more significant effect on the educational aspirations of the upper class than those of the lower class, and objective and specific cultural capital are more influential within the upper class. In the context of education for upward class mobility, identifying the cultural capital shortcomings of the disadvantaged class that are inferior to those of the upper class and enhancing the educational expectations of families are key to promoting class mobility. Therefore, families, schools and society need to provide support in many ways to compensate for the cultural capital disadvantage of families.
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Lessons to the DSU from the US-China Trade War and Proposal of Reforms
In the context of globalization, people pay more attention to the role of international economic organizations in managing transnational trade relations. The US-China trade war has critically impacted the global economy and significantly influenced the international trade pattern. The Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU), an essential section under the World Trade Organization(WTO), failed to function during the US-China trade war. Using the US-China trade war as the entry point to review the US-China trade relations under the WTO, this paper first evaluates the deficiencies of the DSU. Then it raises some reform suggestions in relatively practical aspects. The main intention of reforms is to provide a more concise and complete negotiation platform for solving transnational trade disputes.
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The Development of Steel Construction with the Innovation Brought by High-Tech Architecture
Steel is arguably one of the most popular materials in the world today, with a strong, reliable, flexible and sustainable structure that is used as the primary structural material in most of the world's infrastructure and buildings today. As a highly malleable and growing structure, the way architects and structural engineers have used steel has evolved over the centuries and, as technology evolves, the use of steel in the architectural world is likely to evolve in the future. The article wants to take the famous cases of steel buildings as an entry point to develop the impact of steel application on modern architectural design and innovation. Three case studies are used to illustrate how steel structures can meet the needs of modern architecture and achieve creative breakthroughs in architectural and structural design. The three cases are the Chicago Home Insurance Building, the HSBC Building in Hong Kong and the Centre Pompidou in France. This paper deeply elucidates and systematically summarizes how structural designers break through tradition and seek innovation when existing structural technology cannot meet the demands of architectural design. How designers break through traditions, seek, and create new techniques that help turn architects' imaginations into reality. It also provides an important basis for future cooperation and innovation in architectural and structural design.
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Would the Conservative Aspect of Asian Culture Help People Bounce Back?: An Investigation into the Correlation Between Defensive Pessimism and Resilience
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The rising interest in resilience as a desired mental health counselling outcome has prompted increased research into its predictors. In addition to genetic factors and excellent social ties, previous researchers argued that people's coping approach toward environmental dangers might be a significant element. Defensive pessimism, a prominent cognitive strategy among conservative civilizations such as Asian culture and persons with a propensity for mental illness, functions as a strategy that protects individuals from failure and misery by decreasing their expectations and anxiety. The author did qualitative research on Asian volunteers to examine the relationship between defensive pessimism and resilience. The results of this paper contradict the authors' hypothesis that adopting defensive pessimism would increase individuals' resilience. And the findings reveal a significant negative correlation between the two. Additionally, the significant linear regression indicated that defensive pessimism might be a weak negative predictor of resilience. The results may contribute to the early identification of harmful coping strategies in psychological assessment and help with treatment plan development in mental health counselling.
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