During the beginning of the 1900s, there were plenty of revolutions and violence that took place. The Chinese revolution in 1911 and Russian Revolution in 1917 shared similar goals, they wanted to end the power of their current leader and establish a new one. For Russia, it was Tsar Nicholas II and for China it was the Qing Dynasty, Russia wanting a functioning communist government and Chinese revolutionaries wanted a democratic government. The first outcome is different in that China relied on agriculture to maintain its economy and Russia relied on industry to fuel its economy. The second outcome of the revolutions was that the countries were dramatically changed, two great powers were stopped and communist leaders eventually took over in the two countries.
This party was led by SunYat-sen. In document three, “the three principles of the Guomindang” stating the points of how this nationalists party would run the country. The three principles stated “Nationalism: to get rid China of foreign influence, unite China and to regain its international respect, democracy: the people should be educated so that they could ultimately rule themselves democratically, and Social advance: this was essentially 'land reform,' the redistribution of land to the peasants and economic development.” At the same time the warlord era was happening affecting the Guomindang’s ruling of China. In 1921, the Guomindang allied with growing Chinese communist to defeat the warlords present in the country. In 1925, after Sun Yat-sen’s death, Chiang Kai-shek took over the nationalist and realized the communist were getting stronger.
Literature is a large portion in education filled with many relatable themes and symbols. The Monster finds portmanteau with novels he is able to read. The Monster reads “Sorrows of Werter” which lead him to relate to how his protectors have treated him. “The disquisitions upon death and suicide were calculated to fill me with wonder. “(168) This novel gave the idea of suicide to the Monster which was inflicted upon being denied by everyone and not knowing his spot in humanity.
Although Zinn argues that the conflicts caused by the differentiating social classes in order to dissolve the class divisions was the main cause of the American Revolution, the “other side of the story” is told by Schweikart and Allen, as they reason that it was actually the British who unknowingly burdened the colonies with oppression, which brought about the revolution itself. In Zinn’s fourth chapter of A People’s History of the United States, Tyranny is Tranny; he focuses more on the class differences in society that triggers the opposition against England, rather than the effects of British oppression. He states that the “American leadership was less in need of English rule, and the English more in need of the colonists’ wealth” (Zinn 60). With this said, the colonists then focused more on the pursuit of exploitation and profit, which would definitely spark rebellions of the poor against the rich especially because the poor had been overwhelmed by British taxes and the fact that only a small percentage of the wealthy controlled a huge majority of the city’s taxable assets. For this reason, the poor developed a hatred for the upper class that would
How does Douglass contrast the "free" North and the "slave" South at the end of his book? What had he been led to expect by his masters in the South? What kind of prosperity does he find in the North? The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of A Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston Open-Ended Reading Questions 1. Discuss the portrayal of Chinese Communists in the book and how they are woven into the narrative.
1) “You know, they just want to stop thinking about the past. They want to pretend it all didn’t happen.” How does Funder show that thinking about the past is necessary to move on with the future? The Stasi was a bureaucracy metastasised (excellent word) through East German society that administered the GDR’s communist regime and inflicted nefarious injustices on the citizens. In her narrative non-fiction text titled Stasiland (2002), a piece of literary journalism, Anna Funder exposes the repressed stories and traumatic corollaries of the regime’s victims in an attempt to determine whether its history should be remembered or forgotten. A lack of closure and resolution has meant that there is a lack of scope for victims such as Miriam, Julia and Sigrid Paul to recover from their
The Second Red Scare In1945 when world war two had ended due to Japan surrendering, the United States and soviets had become the two new superpowers. They were fighting so much that it created the cold war at the end of the war. During this war the soviets wanted to spread communism and the United States wanted to contain it. This time period was known as The Second Red Scare (ohiocentralhistory.org). Truman hastily enacted plans to contain communism in America after seeing that Communist in China had almost full control of country (slideshare.net).
Steinbeck portrays social ostracism happening to four characters - William, Frankie, Doc, and Mack - at different points in the novel; how does William and Frankie’s endings differ from Doc and Mack’s? Why do they differ? What is Steinbeck trying to say about personal choice in the midst of uncomfortable circumstances? 4. How does Steinbeck portray truth and lies in Cannery Row?
The writer of this article talks about how the basement isn’t just a hiding place for a Jew or a refuge to learn but it is a place to rebel against authority when Max transforms it into a setting for creative/political activity by painting over Hitler’s Mein Kampf erasing Hitler’s authority and becoming his own authority. Maslin, Janet. “Stealing to Settle a Score with Life.” New York Times, Published by Janet Maslin, Monday 27 March 2006. Wednesday 30 April 2014. This article is a review on the book itself; however the article also talks about important points involving the main character Liesel Meminger “the book thief” and how they dealt with life during the war.
Throughout this novel, Peter Silver justifies the actions of the early American colonies. This paper will illustrate how America has and still reacts to fear and horror. Peter Silver tries to clarify that the motives behind the war were based on fear instead of racism. He uses pictures, poems, maps, and other symbols throughout the story to help state his claim. The first photograph sets the tone of the book.