I would like to point out that the following documents may or may not represent my current opinions and that I sometimes had to follow strict guidelines, so please keep that in mind if you strongly disagree. In addition, if you plan on citing anything from my papers, please be sure to give credit where it is due. Thanks for your consideration! Any questions or comments about the papers can be emailed to me directly.

Graduate Essays from the University of California at San Diego in La Jolla CA (2004-2006):

Ideology and Elite Politics in China (footnotes only)
	An argumentative paper about how China has been ruled from the Mao Era through the Reform Era.

Persian Gulf War (footnotes only)
	An analysis into the causes that led to war between Iraq, Kuwait, and the United States.

Undergraduate Essays from The George Washington University in Washington DC (2000-2004):

Burakumin Discrimination (Works Cited)
	A look into Japanese discrimination on the Burakumin from the Tokugawa Period through World War II.

China-Taiwan (parentheticals only)
	A look into the China-Taiwan split via a political geographical outlook and my solution to the problem.

Chinese and American Relations on Taiwan (footnotes only)
	Past relations between the US and China on Taiwan and how globalization is helping to end this wedge.

Necessity? (footnotes only)
	An argumentative essay that Western Imperialism on late Imperial China was not necessary for its growth into a modern nation.

Peasantry (Works Cited)
	A look into the power of the peasants in ancient South East Asia to colonialism.

Should China Accept Taiwan's Independence? (Works Cited)
	A policy memo about the One-China Principle if I was a member of the CCP.

The Tiananmen Papers (Works Cited)
	American hopefulness for an open China from the 1900s to 1989.