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Vuong Chi Sinh is the King of the H'Mong people.  The H'Mong is one of the minority ethnics living around the border of Vietnam and China.  The Vuong’s Palace is located in a valley in Sa Phin Commune, Dong Van District, Ha Giang Province, Vietnam, backed by cliffs and topped by a mass of clouds. The palace was used as a residence and fortress during the Vuong Dynasty -  Vuong Duc Chinh and his son Vuong Chi Sinh. Vuong Duc Chinh was a mandarin under The Nguyen Dynasty. Sa Phin is the middle point of opium from the Golden Triangle region of Myanmar Yunnan China to Indochina. Vuong Chinh Duc became rich from dealing goods, especially opium.  The palace is built from stone, fir wood and terra-cotta tiles in the Chinese architectural style of the Man Qing era.  The palace were built with 4 horizontal and 6 vertical rows, 2 stories and 64 rooms for the king’s wives, children and soldiers and  is divided into many areas such as dining room, bed room, kitchen, marijua

In most societies, from West to East, then and now, men have had conducted a traditionally dominant role over female one. Social life has been established based on male values. In asserting that dominant role, a man has been expected to be first a pillar of the family. Once getting married, he is in charge of providing his family's needs. Being hard-working and finacially successful are man's norms. His obligations to secure the well-being and protection for his wife and children are considered a matter of course. In oder to affirm his dominant role, a man has to learn form his childhood to be assertive and competitive, the qualities required for going ahead; to conceal feelings of weakness such as emotions; to deny signs of failure such as doubt or compromise. He also is expected to be aggressive in his heterosexual activity. Finally, he needs to be in control of any situation and circumstance. The responsibilities assigned to the male role can be a source of stress and an

I remember climbing several times to the top of the Great Pyramid. To the West is the vastness of the Sahara Desert. To the East is the Nile Valley, dominated by the huge city of Cairo. All around are the ruins of the Giza Plateau and the Sphinx. Up there on the summit, many blocks bear the carvings of past climbers. There are the names of Napoleon’s soldiers, perhaps written after their victory at the Battle of the Pyramids. Young General Napoleon said to his men, “Soldiers of France, forty centuries look down upon you.” Then, the Mamluks, the Turkish military caste which ruled Egypt at the time, charged on their horses, gorgeous in their brocades, with scimitars flashing. However, snappy fashions didn’t do much good against massed French musketry. The French fleet didn’t do so well against the British, and with his supply line cut Napoleon left his army in Egypt and slipped back to France to become Emperor after a few years. Later on, he repeated this abandoning