The Forward

Western commentary appearing in circulation between 1953 and 1965 was cautiously declinist, predicting a loss of living standards gained during the initial land reform years. This opinion was largely based upon the notion that Mao’s FFYP was to be firmly rooted in the Soviet model of FFYP, the latter having caused a substantial decline in peasant living standards and conditions. In these terms, the ambitious FFYP, geared towards the rapid industrialisation of heavy and light industry, was…

the way they look at life. Pay it Forward, one of the many movies on the list, is a story about a young boy who tries to spread altruism by attempting to start a trend of passing on acts of kindness and compassion. By juxtaposing the rough details of Trevor’s personal life with his passion for spreading kindness, the storyteller forces the audience to feel the same emotions as Trevor does thus making “you yearn for a better world where there is a pay-it-forward scheme of kindness, and inspires…

Mao Zedong subscribed to the “Great Man” theory of history, a school that downplays the trends and forces that shape the world over time in favor of single actors that forcefully bring about punctuated changes. Counter to the rhetoric of the CCP, which touted collectivist uplift through cooperation, Mao’s scholarship led him to appraise the efforts of emperors and tyrants not by their atrocities, but in spite of them, choosing instead to praise their overarching designs to build strong empires.…

One Step Forward and Two Steps Back As the Civil War, one of the bloodiest conflicts in this nation’s history, came to a close the imminent changes developed a new environment socially, politically, and economically for Americans. The process of restoring the unity of the United States known as Reconstruction established a new way of life for freed slaves but also deprived them of several human rights as well, while the following advancement in manufacturing and transportation paved the way…

In a quote from Mao in the early 1980’s, he said, “All great men are seven parts good and three parts bad.” However he only fulfilled this a few times at the beginning of his career as the leader of China. Although Mao did live up to his words by first directing his focus to the people, he soon changed and became the opposite of what he had described a great man to be by ultimately focussing on himself. This caused there to be chaos to erupt later. Mao was, at one point, the great man he…

As one of the oldest civilizations with both a national and common cultural history that has lasted over 10,000 years and dynasties that span 4,000 years. China has a very long history that is very complex and its identity is not static, but ever changing. China can be identified as very protective of its people when it built the Great Wall of China in order to guard itself against nomads or isolationist when the country only traded selective commodities in limited exchanges with certain foreign…

“Think of an idea for world change and put it into action”(Ryan Hyde 43). This simple concept drives the entire plot of Catherine Ryan Hyde’s novel, Pay It Forward. Trevor McKinney is the protagonist, struggling to complete this extra credit assignment, prompted by his teacher Reuben Saint Clair. Trevor comes up with an idea that he calls Pay it Forward. He would help three individuals and ask them to help three others, and continue spreading this pattern exponentially. Theoretically, this…

needed for improving her serve. Chaining “various methods for linking specific sequences of stimuli and responses to form new performances” (Cooper et al, 2007, p.436). The three main components of chaining are forward, backward, and total task presentation (Cooper et al, 2007). Forward chaining according to our readings…

My experience with Teach Forward Houston is a bit different from most of my fellow TFH students. When my high school advisor told me about the program, I applied just to see if I could get it, that was the only reason I applied for the program I did not know all the benefits of being part of group at the time. I thought TFH was just going to offer me money and a job when I get graduate. I did not take it much serious, even at the day of my interview, I did not even know I had interview and a day…

PGFB1611 . Case: SELCO 2009: Determining a Path Forward ( RM Case Assignment) Question 1 .In 2009, SELCO was looking at several options for expanding its operations (i.e. geographical expansion, serving poorer segments of the population,…