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In June of 1989, massive groups of university students gathered in Tiananmen Square to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang. He was powerful political leader that inspired his followers. The people in the square began demanding justice, freedom of speech, and more public…

find its way has to balance many factors when attempting to determine how to respond to a demonstration of it’s citizens. The use of military force to clear protesters from China’s historically and politically significant Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 was the result of a tumultuous debate about the direction China must follow in the post-Mao era among its’ political leaders who felt their hand was forced to ensure the progress and stability of China’s future by a student movement that voiced…

For possibly decades now, there has been fighting in the middle east and I am not sure it will ever stop. One particular story of fighting stuck out to me, however. A man named Emad Burnat filmed activist protest of Israel taking land from his small Palestinian village. The documentary he created is called Five Broken Cameras. He is a peasant farmer who lives off of the land he owned. He has a family consisting of his wife and his four sons. He films to show their side of the fighting and riots…

Tiananmen Square Protest 1989 People protest for a reason, there is a problem with something and they want a change, they want to be heard. They can last for a long time, days, months and years until they get what they want. During protest things can get out of hand and people become violent and that’s where everything gets too far. Today protesting isn’t as bad as it was before, we try to result to agreements and there aren’t as many deaths as there were as before. In 1989 Tiananmen Square was…

The Tiananmen square protests of 1989 quickly turned into The Tiananmen square massacre was the most gruesome historical event in Chinese history, killing hundreds. Tens of thousands are arrested, many are imprisoned, and an unknown number are executed. Chinese troops bombarded Tiananmen Square in Beijing, killing and arresting thousands of pro-democracy protesters. The brutal Chinese governments assault on the protesters shocked the West and brought denunciations and sanctions from the United…

In the novel, The Ascendant, by Drew Chapman, the United States was in a cyber war with China, where literary elements such as plot development, foreshadowing to create suspense, and point of view are skillfully used to drive the novel. Each of these elements help to convey the story’s central theme: when a war begins to break out, the military are not the only ones whose lives will change entirely. The team attempting to fight back in this covert war against the Chinese faced many struggles,…

Although a region may perceive their roots to be unwavering, powerful acts can crack even the most established ideals. From the suffragette who stepped on the tracks of a horse race for women’s rights, to the man who suffered a bullet wound fighting for civil rights, to the student protestors who risked the unknown for the chance at a better future, powerful and sacrificial acts have drastically altered the regions in which we live. These tactics may seem unconventional, but according to author…

The representation and consideration of the masses in China has always been a controversial theme to discuss. The corrupted power prefers to Vito the rise of social awareness than to push the privileged hierarchies of fascism within the political sectors. Many politicians seek to perpetuate an absolute throne above poverty by carefully constructing the destruction of stability through social resentment and polarization. The awarded documentary Free China: The Courage to Believe portrays a clear…

Jacob Palmer Ms. Hampel Modern Classics 4 April 2017 Throughout the world, there are different types of censorship whether that be through government and social media. What is censorship, well, censorship is the control of what people may say, hear, write, read, see, or do? So how would you feel if what you were able to view and see on the internet including news could possibly be fake? Well, that is a reality in China, not only do they censor the news and anything that goes against the…

and the system would be disabled. Because of this, Deng Xiaoping, a Chinese communist leader, declared martial law to clear the square of protestors (Stavis 56). Without a warning, military tanks opened fire on the protestors on the night of June 3, 1989. By the end of the day of June 4, it is said that thousands of civilians were killed (Ritli). This massacre can be read in history textbooks and searched generically and be found in articles with the gist of what happened on this day. The…