Hundred Flowers Campaign

included abolished arranged marriages. One of the most altered parts of the law was allowing women to divorce their husbands when they wanted to because they hadn’t had that right in the past. Both of these laws gave the power that he had promised to the peasants and he even went a step further to ask them their opinions on his leadership and what they wanted to improve. However, the people, to Mao’s surprise, weren’t completely happy with him and wanted to change some of his rules. When the power began to go to Mao’s head, he made many poor decisions like overproducing items and encouraging violence among the Chinese citizens. The Hundred Flowers Campaign was one of the first bad moves from Mao and one of the first ways Mao turned to be 70% bad. The Hundred Flowers Campaign was a movement from Mao that launched an anti-rightist campaign and sent tons more people to be re-educated by the peasants and eliminated intellectuals (Green 243) when he heard that not everybody loved what he was doing. In the Common Program of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, one article stated, “The People’s Republic…

The Hundred Flowers movement did effectively “coax the snakes out of their holes” and in June of 1957 Mao pivoted, editing his message and recasting it as a call to arms against all who dared speak against him and the party. Half a million individuals felt the wrath of “anti-rightist” movement. Once identified as “rightists”, people suffered punishment that varied from jail sentences to public executions and protracted death sentences by way of exile in forced labor reeducation camps. In…

By slaughtering over 2 million feudal landlords, Mao was able to reclaim, and equally redistribute land as people 's communes, vastly improving China’s overall living condition. However in the city’s, intellectuals opposed the revolution. Mao, sensing the disquiet, and in 1956, launched the "Hundred Flowers Campaign" inviting intellectuals to suggest criticism. “Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend” is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the…

“Son of the Revolution” is an autobiography written by Liang Heng. Heng shares his firsthand account of growing up in a very telling era in China. Not only does Heng take us through the milestone events of Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, but also through the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Anti-Rightist Campaign as well as the Socialist Education Campaign. Heng provides a look into these historical pillars in Chinese history in a way that the Golf and Overfield texts could…

cases bees have been labeled a nuisance. To some people, especially people who are allergic to bees, these flying insects are no help; yet, in most cases they are essential to the survival of flowering plants or angiosperms. They complete the reproduction cycle of these plants and without them some plants would not have a successful pollination. Besides beekeepers, and other jobs where work relates to bees, these important creatures go unnoticed. Including bees “insect pollinators merit our…

The number of hives in the United States is at the lowest point in the last 50 years and will only continue to diminish if nothing is done. Awareness must be raised to save these insects that contribute so much to our daily lives. There are many ways to help save the bees such as; plant bee friendly flowers and shrubs, stop the use of pesticides, and buy only local honey. Think about the Lourenso 6 sheer amount of plants and animals that rely on these under-appreciated insect, and you 'll…

My phage has the wonderful name of Lorge. This name is very special because it offers information about the phage right away. I also chose this name because the first word that Tracy said when she saw my phage was, “Wow, it’s huge!” To get this wonderful phage I collected the soil sample from the flower pots across the street outside of Bessey Hall. I got the sample at the start of class on September 11, 2017. It was a clear day that was 60 degrees, with a depth of about 4cm below the surface of…

Germination is the transition from mature embryos to an actual plant containing both a root and a shoot. This involves having a visible root and shoot as well as cotyledon elongation. (Attree 1990) Once the seed germinates, both a root and a shoot forms, and the seed capsule is pushed up, out of the dirt by the stem before it falls off. The different treatments used in this study affected the overall germination of the Picea mariana seeds. The seeds which were only treated with distilled water…

Isabella returns back wrapping the head of Lorenzo in a silk scarf, perfumes it with Arabian flowers, and place it in a garden pot with soil and seeds of basil of Salerno are sown. She feels relax after seeing the plants grow from the flesh of his beloved. She spends all of time caring for the basil and waters them with her tears. The basil grows beautifully and gives fragrance. In Keats’s poetry nature is always considered to be female and he describes it beautifully: And, furthermore, her…

Flora and Fauna – Crystal flowers – These crystal flowers were first stumbled upon in Warrett Forrest when a group of Crofters were searching for farming resources. They initially got the flowers with the intent to admire the beauty of it, not the intent of getting them useful abilities, until a man named Charlie Rosene noticed it’s strong, sweet scent. He was so captivated by the smell that he bit into it, and only moments later did he notice the change in atmosphere— this is the point in which…