Recently the Authoritarian State surpassed Japan in economy. With the government's censoring on media, western countries are unaware of the real China. While it appears that the Chinese economy is doing well and the country seems to be prospering, there are many internal problems within China. All these problems are addressed in the book From the Dragon’s Mouth written by Ana Fuentes. The book features ten stories about real people that each address a different complication.…
Abigail Jane Scott was born on a frontier farm in Illinois. One of twelve children, she endured the Oregon Trail (age 17), as her family moved west, and experienced the seven painful months of great migration, in 1852. Abigail would see illness and death, as the route was unforgiving. Her mother Anne, would die of cholera, and it kindled an anger, as she realized the treatment of women in America. Her father would bring the family to live in Oregon, and Abigail would attend an academy for 5 months.…
Justice for the 96 A cliché often heard in history classes is that “history is written by the victors.” This notion that the truth behind historical events is influenced by those left to record them is one that is emphasized on events in the more distant past. Events that occurred more recently are less often given this scrutiny, and many times the first version of the truth, the “winner’s” version, becomes widely accepted. Furthermore, because this truth is distributed by people in positions of power, often through an official mainstream media channel, the story that is immediately told is trusted and accepted by the masses. Unfortunately, this lack of scrutiny can lead to the spread of incorrect information being passed off as facts.…
Who is the speaker? I believe the speaker of this article is a high-powered government official. I believe this because the speaker continuously uses persuasive techniques to make each reader believe that no one died in Tiananmen Square. Based on the evidence from the reading, I would infer that someone probably died in Tiananmen Square that day. The choice is up to you, as you will believe what you want to believe.…
The violent bombing of the Chinese embassy turned the issue into a national one. Both sources B and C saying that the bombing was a “gross violation of China’s sovereignty”. The violence used simply added for fuel to the…
The inauguration of the 45th presidency is coming up pretty soon as this paper is being written and many people in the United States are mad about who the president elect is and there are also people who are happy about it. There have been recent news reports about how people in America are going to march and protest during the president elect's inauguration on how they want to stop the inauguration and not have the president elect officially become president. However, does people protesting during the inauguration will stop the president elect from becoming president? In the ardent and fervent article, “Protesting 101”, the author claims that some protests are not very effective due to the people not procuring action that will actually cause…
The Boxers gained so much power that they could not be stopped by the authority figures in China; many innocent Chinese were murdered and people deserted their their belonging, leaving everything behind to run for their lives. Liu Mengyang was an anti-boxer who felt threatened by the violence and wrote detailed eye-witness accounts of the events. A careful analysis of Liu's written accounts in light of its historical context demonstrates that due to his well-educated and elitist culture, the events that occurred around him shaped his anti-boxer ideals. Liu's perspective is colored by his skepticism and background, causing the audience…
She then examines how the PRC was able to mobilize the people by creating municipal Party committees in order to clean out the counterrevolutionaries, and the dramatic public performances of punishing counterrevolutionaries as a means of rallying…
Freedom and safety are two luxuries humans value immensely. Of the two, Freedom is more important than safety. Tiananmen Square, “The Hunger games” and The Ukrainian Revolution validate why is it better to be free than safe. Tiananmen Square was an event that happened June of 1989 in Beijing, China. Students gathered at Tiananmen Square to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang and to protest an array of problems such as political corruption and the lack of civil liberties.…
It was not until the postwar Tokyo Trial that the truth of the Nanking Massacre was first revealed to the Japanese civilians. The atrocities revealed during the Trial shocked the Japanese Society at the time,” (Basic Facts on the Nanking Massacre and the Tokyo War Crimes Trial 18). As more scholars look into what really happened in Nanking, it becomes…
It is generally remembered for the invading forces ' barbaric treatment of Chinese women. Many thousands of them were killed after gang rape, and tens of thousands of others brutally injured and traumatized.” About a quarter million defenseless men and women were tortured and killed. In article 3 it says “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.” which makes it a human rights violation because people were seen as pigs to make it easier for them to kill them .…
SARS, which stands for severe acute respiratory syndrome, is an epidemic that affected people worldwide. Of the 8,098 people that became infected, more than seven hundred died (CDC). The outbreak of SARS initially broke out in Guangdong Province in November of 2002 and was contained in June of 2003. The symptoms of SARS include high fever, headaches, and cough, and is spread by respiratory droplets (Thompson 2014). At the time, leading laboratories could not find an antiviral or antibiotic drug that could successfully respond to the illness.…
Catch: From 1956-1992 Canada was the the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Force largest and single contributor,but dramatically decreased after 1992. Canada in 2011, was 57th of the 193 UN member states. Background Information: A peacekeeping nation, is a country that strives on helping developing countries, and countries in crisis. Also, a peacekeeping nation is one that doesn’t discriminate, maintains peace in its own country, and helps the United Nations (UN) by contributing money and soldiers that maintain peace without any use of violence.…
Human rights are universally grounded on the values of respect and fundamental freedoms; the central notion is that each individual is an ethical and balanced being who deserves to be treated with dignity. We are all equal, “born free and equal in dignity and rights,” and we are wholly entitled to human rights by virtue of being human. One’s gender, nationality, domestic or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status does not alter an individuals’ eligibility to human rights, which are devoid of discrimination. The following text will address the violations of human rights amidst social concerns including: organ harvesting, social cleansing and asylum seekers.…
Around 100,000 lamented its death when Chinese government…