Boxer Rebellion

George Orwell’s book, Animal Farm, symbolically describes his views on some of the most important themes in humanity. Orwell tells the story of a rebellion on a farm that leads to the humans running away and the animals running the farm. Although they try to become a farm with equality, it doesn’t end that way. It ends with the pigs taking full control and changing all the rules. They learn that it is a lot harder to run a farm than what they originally thought. Amongst the many themes that are…

In Animal Farm, one of George Orwell’s main goals was to portray the Russian Revolution of 1917 in his writing through character’s, events, and concepts. His goal was clearly shown in his text because many important people of the Russian Revolution were seen through animals, events that took place in the Russian Revolution were reflected in his writing, and many concepts of the time were shown in a different form. He accomplished his goal by using simpler characters and an easier concept to…

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Animal farm is taken over by overworked and tiresome animals. Thus attempting the idea of a perfect utopian world with equality at its roots. Unfortunately, the dictatorship community comes back and the animals are forced to work while the rulers, the pigs, sit back and watch. The simple-minded animals live in fear, but do not take matters into…

Even though Mao Zedong’s communist party (the CCP) had far less men than his opponents; rejected aid from the Soviet Union at the same time as his opponents received it in massive quantities from the West, he was able to take control of the country in 1949 and establish what is now a regime on the verge of superpower status. Whether this triumph is a testimony to the genius of communist methods, or whether it was rather the result of wider social, economic, political and military conditions, can…

Celebrating Mark Twain by Alex Lee Today we take a trip back into time to commemorate Samuel Clemens, moralist and humorist who rose up from his small town roots to become one of America’s most beloved and influential writers of the 1800s. Better known as Mark Twain, he acquired fame through his travel narratives like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Samuel Clemens was born on November 30‚ 1835 on the banks of the Mississippi River in the mysterious and new Missouri. At the time, Missouri was a…

Throughout history, sports have grown tremendously. Sports have been able to get points across whether that be through the sport itself, the athletes or the media. It is seen as an outlet for athletes to speak on agendas they feel are necessarily to shed light on. Sports has allowed businesses to form and give individuals something to bond over. Sports has also influenced our society and what we make of it. Generally, the physical culture of sports is seen as a form of domination and empowerment…

Just as other good men who died or sacrificed for a cause greater than their own lives, such as civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. (advocated for equality in the Jim-Crow Era) and heavy-weight boxer Muhammed Ali (refusal to fight in the Vietnam war), Socrates has proved why he is the father of Western Philosophy and among the good men of human history. It’s because of his defiance to compromise even if meant…

Chase Justus Modern China Dr. Gao February 23, 2017 The Westernization of China Modernization in China began back in the 1700s. In the 1800s, China not only encounters internal pressures within their own governing body, but they also experience major Western imperialist pressure. This pressure was enforced by militant power that China could not combat. Within a century, China went from a prominent civilization that governed itself to being subject to western power. A complete 180-degree flip…

't know what to expect. I seen a lot of people hate me and I didn 't know what to feel about that so I guess I didn 't like you much none either,” a line uttered by Rocky Balboa to an audience full of Soviets after defeating the powerhouse Russian boxer, Ivan Drago. Films of the 1980’s relating to the Cold War era influenced culture in the United States more clearly than any other historical era depicted on the silver screen. It is important to know the background of the Cold War so that people…

toward the West particularly in the period before the Opium Wars? British officials were able to, in essence, graft themselves onto an existing social pyramid at its while incurring a minimum of social disruption What were the motives of the Boxer Rebellion? It was a spread from china against the western influences of japan Which development prompted Chinese nationalists and communists to suspend civil war and form a shaky common cause? Japan in invasion in…