One Giant Leap

Movement was created to able freedom of speech to the Chinese people. They were given the right to speak of anything, even criticism, and would not be punished for it. The people of china were first skeptical about the Thousand Flowers Movement, but as one began to make comments, many followed. The people of china were using the thousand flowers movement to express themselves and their view of the leader, Mao. They mainly used the Hundred Flowers Movement to criticize Mao, said that he was a…

regimes during their period of growth. Now, the question is: How has authoritarianism helped these states in achieving economic growth? Political stability is one of the most significant authoritarian advantages to economic growth because it allows leaders to come up with long-term planning. In the case of democratic politicians, projects that one party considers to be important cannot be carried forward as soon as the opposing party wins office. On the other hand, authoritarian leaders have…

years ago was backwards and corrupt. Few would argue the fact that he dragged China into the 20th century. But at a cost in human lives that is staggering. Suspected enemies of the party were murdered by the millions, farming collectives and the Great Leap Forwards of industrialization that failed miserably and left millions more died from starvation. Mao left a system of oppression that continues to this day even as China moves forwards with economic reforms and towards the central position on…

techniques not seen before age of the internet. On the flip side, the internet has given the people, the ability to access information outside that was once tightly controlled by the domestic media enterprise. Osnos reveals that with a little knowhow, one is easily able to bypass the…

working in China due to China’s high ratio of people to resources and what first started off as Soviet aid had now turned into excessive loans and exploitation. Therefore, Mao modified the goals of the first 5 Year Plan and progressed towards the Great Leap Forward as his version of the second 5 Year Plan. While Stalin’s second and third 5 Year Plans set more realistic targets and focused on a greater production of machinery and arms for defence, they were considerably effective. Production of…

religion. After including the other two example, there is another example that helps provide details on how Mao Zedong did not make a better society socially. Communists destroyed old culture, art, music, and theatre. What this reveals is that this was one of the negative effects that happened. With destroying the old culture that meant freedom was taken away because if people were to keep any old culture secretly and the communists were to find out they would be seen as people that were…

for the story The Leap by author Louise Erdrich, which is about the tragic past of a former trapeze artist told in her daughter’s point of view and all the different obstacles that she overcame in life. With the use of clear and effective characterization, adding suspense that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat with the use of foreshadowing and by using effective literary devices used to make the story more engaging author Louise Erdrich has written a stunning story…

In the beginning, the brothers were inseparable from each other and the car, they went places together in that car throughout that one whole summer. But after at least three years, Henry comes back from the army, everything about their relationship, their brotherly bond changes dramatically. Lyman tries to recover their brotherly bond by beating up their car and “[making] it look just…

Unfair Balance of Power One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories from India, Persia, and Arabia and have been translated by various authors over hundreds of years. Even though it is a collection of different stories, they are all centered on the frame story of King Shahryar and his wife, Scheherazade, who narrates different stories for a thousand and one night in hopes that the King would stop killing innocent young women as punishment for his first wife’s adulterous act. The…

The mere mention of the word death evokes fear, anxiety and restlessness. It preys on the young and old alike, the poor and rich, the strong and weak, the brave and the cowards. Because of its nature that remains to be a mystery, men and women have turned to poetry to vividly describe it, seeking to shed a glimpse of light on this “might foe” Such thoughts are captured in the two poems by John Donne, “Death, Be Not proud” and “The Tyger” by William Blake. For sure death is just a temporal state.…