Lin Biao

Previously he started with the “Great Leap Forward” which was started to modernize China. Mao began making factories to promote technology and collectivized farms. What he didn’t know was that the workers didn’t know how to use the factories and the equipment so the things that were produced were of very bad quality and not up to par (“China’s Cultural Revolution Begins: May 1966”). Because farmland was used to build factories on, the production of crops started to decline which resulted into the Great Chinese Famine. After the failure of that, Mao gathered a group of people including his wife Jiang Qing and defense minister Lin Biao in order to take back control and spread his ideologies. He then properly launched the Cultural Revolution at the Eleventh Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee in August 1966(Lieberthal). He then ordered to shut down all of China’s schools which resulted in the formation of the Red Guards. The Red guards comprised mostly of students with a main goal to get rid of any old culture or tradition…

murdering thousands, torturing family members, and destroying paintings. While the entire source is not opinionated, a primary source within this prominently secondary source describes Mao as a god, an opinionated view. The primary sources in the book provide insight into the propaganda and persuasion used by Mao. This book was found in the Unionville Library and was published in 1994. Despite the book being published in 1994, the information found in this book is still relevant today.…

The Chinese Cultural Revolution in the mid 19th century brought a forced wave of reverting to traditional values, resulting in “approximately 12 million” (Allen “Dai”) people to be forced into villages. Because of the repetition aspect of history, many writers have written about concepts and ideas that people who are currently suffering will relate to. When writing about issues, authors tend to allude to other literature works. Relying on other authors to help explain characters’ desires or…

Analyzing the Book War by Wang Ping No one knows how being controlled by the government feels like, until you experience it. In the Book War memoir, Wang Ping is a writer that grew up in China in the late 1960’s in which there was a chaotic “Cultural Revolution”. Ping didn 't grew up reading or even seen fairly tales. She didn 't know about them until she found her neighbor outside her house reading The Little Mermaid. A book she had always wanted to read completely, yet if the government found…

This paper is about the life and teachings of Lhamo Dondrub. Lhamo Dondrub was born in Takster, China on July 6th, 1935. His mother’s name is Diki Tsering and his father is Choekyong Tsering. Lhamo has five siblings, Jetsun Pema, Gyalo Thondup, Thubten Jigme Norbu,Lobsang Samten, and Dolma Tsering. When he was two years old he was picked as the rebirth of the 13th Dalai Lama. He was chosen because he was born the closest to the day the previous Dalai Lama died. They also put out toys owned by…

When Maya Lin was designing her memorial in Washington, D.C., she wanted to build it in a park but didn’t want to interfere with nature by destroying the park. So she cooperated with the surrounding environment by designing her memorial that would work with the land, not to “fight or dominate it” (Source G). Protesters also opposed the location of the Holocaust museum when it was first publicized that it would be built in the United States because they “did little to stop the Holocaust from…

for the most part all kids (John and Vincent 281). At no other time have lawbreakers looked so youthful: pre-pubescent, truth be told. The City of God resembles one endless, useless family, neighbors from damnation without any neighbors, without any guardians or concerned grown-ups. It is a hybrid of a halfway house and an abattoir. The movie relates the record of this ghetto, an alarming hotel wander for needy individuals, from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s; it tracks the story of both…

Maya Lin is an American designer, artist, and architect, most known for her historic memorials. One of her goals in design is to focus on elements and demonstrate naturally occurring phenomena’s in nature which can even be seen right here in Grand Rapids at Rosa Park Circle. Using water as her inspiration for the park, she demonstrates each form that it takes right here in Michigan. Her designs have an incredible ability to encourage people to gather together in open spaces while teaching them…

Introduction to Maya Deren Maya Deren is one of the prominent figures in American experimental filmmaking, who is celebrated as a ‘legend’ and the “Mother of Avant-Garde” (Hornung 2005, p. 280; Pramaggiore 1997, p. 17). Maya Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowsky into a family of prominent educated Russian Jews in 1917, in Kiev, during the birth of the Revolution (Doneson n.d., p. 327; Fabe 1996, p. 146; McPherson 2005, p. 8). She was the only child of Solomon David Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist…

Maya Lin is an American architect and sculptor best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Maya Lin was received her bachelor's degree from Yale, where she studied architecture and sculpture. During her senior year she won a nationwide competition to create a design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Her minimalist design aroused controversy but has become very popular with the public over the years. Born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio, Maya Lin is the…