Mao thought that by simply producing masses of steel China would be able to solve its economic problems, therefore he wanted as much steel produced as fast as possible and started the Backyard Steel Campaign. ... In the first five year plan the peasants joined together to make collectives, in the GLF Mao wanted to do the same but on a bigger scale and made communes and they called this process collectivisation. Between 1956 and 1958 directed that the existing 750,000 collectives be amalgamated into a number of large communes. ... Mao seemed to have organised the communes effectively, he divid...

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All public services were provided by the communes and all materials required for daily life is provided by the communes as well. However, as the Great Leap Forward carried on, at around 1959, people within the communes were faced with impossible tasks in labor ordered by the commune leaders. ... We started to live in big groups, called "communes", where food, daily supplies, entertainment and even 'education' or more like brain washing was provided by these communes. ... 'Rich girls' like me were bullied by the others in the communes. The commune leaders forced u...

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Then, to increase production even more, Mao created collective communities, dubbed communes. ... Each commune was a combination of smaller farm collectives. ... This action effectively suppressed all opposition when he implemented the communes. ... First off, he started the Cultural Revolution. ... For example, it started free enterprise. ...

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Starting in the 19th century anarchism saw a surge in its number of followers. ... He interacted personally with Proudhon, and was an avid supporter of the Paris Commune, a socialistic governing body started by followers of Proudhon that briefly ruled Paris in 1871 (Alistair 331-2). ... Each time anarchist seize power by force the end result is mass murder, and the reinstatement of government at great costs, such as the Paris Commune (SOURCE). On which the American ambassador at the time wrote, the Commune was guilty of "unparalleled atrocities", and the retaliation "awful venge...

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This signifies just a start of the bigotry represented in this film. ... When Billy and Wyatt stopped at a commune to drop a friend off. The commune members had built their own life. ... The commune was a way of life for lots of hippies in the 1960's. The commune members treated Wyatt and Billy like individuals and with kindness. ...

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The land on which they grew their food was not given to them individually but to a village commune. The peasants had to pay for the land given to the commune in yearly instalments, called redemption payments, for forty-nine years. ... They would work in the factories and mines until it was harvest season where they would go back to their communes. ... As society started to change in Russia, Nicholas' autocracy government became outdated. ... Lenin wanted to get back to Russia to start another revolution and became allied with the Germans who gave him safe transport into Russia. ...

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A Discussion and Analysis Of some of his Contributions As Well as their Social, Political and Economic Impacts. Since the Thirteen Colonies first united, the United States has had one of the strongest economies in the world. Over the years, many theorists have had varying opinions concerning the r...

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In October of 1835, he started attendance at the University of Bonn, enrolling in non-socialistic-related classes like Greek and Roman mythology and the history of art. ... Marx's distinction as a political figure really came in 1870 with the Paris Commune. He became an international figure and his name "became synonymous throughout Europe with the revolutionary spirit symbolized by the Paris Commune." ...

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In October of 1835, he started attendance at the University of Bonn, enrolling in non-socialistic-related classes like Greek and Roman mythology and the history of art. ... Marx's distinction as a political figure really came in 1870 with the Paris Commune. He became an international figure and his name "became synonymous throughout Europe with the revolutionary spirit symbolized by the Paris Commune." ...

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The beginning of Rock and roll started with The Twist. by Chubby Checker This song changed our dancing moves. ... The beatles started the British invasion in 1964, when they had there first television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. ... It was about doing their own thing, and communing with nature (bbhq 3). ...

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In 1953, with the start of the first Five Year Plan, the focus on a heavy-industry oriented development strategy began. ... China's Characteristics China's economic development started at a low level. ... In 1959, at the beginning of the Chinese Great Famine, a massive miscalculation in agricultural planning occurred, due to the combination of mismanagement of agriculture brought on by the commune system, and the acceptance of the inflated agricultural output figures. ... It was therefore illogical to remove the majority of capital away from what was China's main source of i...

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Dickens starts the story by describing the atmosphere in England by illustrating the poverty and the economic situation. ... This started the Reign of terror where anyone who was deemed an enemy of the revolution was thrown in jail and eventually killed. " "He is a traitor since the decree. ... It was the object of hatred to successive generations of French revolutionaries, and was eventually burnt down during the last days of the Commune in 1871 (Woodcock 407). ...

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The theory of self-government and religious tolerance made the French public start questioning the actual authority of the French monarchy. ... The King started placed heavy taxes on the third estate leaving the poverty stricken peasants even further into debt and poverty. ... After they took power in the Hotel de Ville they formed a new city government called the Commune De Paris. ...

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He saw "socialism- as being a pacific term veering more towards Utopian ideas, while "communism- was a more militant word, implying the revolutionary concept of the abolition of private property, echoed by the Parisian Commune back in 1793. ... Human society started with a tribal communist system (savagery and barbarism, each being the lower and higher forms). ... When the primeval communist system in the barbarism period ended with a patriarchal society, with private allotments for private families, conflict started. ...

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His school days started out with him not really giving a care about school. ... However during his college years Steve started experimenting with something called Eastern mysticism. ... The last thing he started doing in college was occasionally used LSD, and became something of a laggard hippie. Then he later in 1973 moved to a hippie commune (Moisescot)2. ... He started his "Think Different " campaign to restore its damaged image. ...

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These factors really disheartened the peasants and with no immediate improvements on the horizons, many decided to leave and start a new life in a foreign country. ... Wheat was largely unavailable; in fact, "a study of 1903 suggested it was unknown in over one-fifth of all Italian communes". ...

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They had to start from nothing and build a government strong enough to govern a volatile, changing nation. ... The new government set up in Paris was weak and was overthrown within four months by counter revolution and the Revolutionary Commune was formed.3 The American and French Revolutions both resulted in Declarations of Independence and Bills of Rights. ...

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While he enjoys good health, he is closer to death than the people he communes with on a nightly basis. ... Fincher proves that he is a master visual expert by fascinating us with some stunning shots, starting with the opening credits sequence which takes place in the Narrator's brain. ...

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After the attack on 9-11 and the war with Iraq this nation has started to turn towards God again, but honestly they are still to impatient because they don't understand why things happen or for what reason. ... For example in the Protestant religion they communed with God in their daily lives, either through their own understanding of the Bible or through experience with the Holy Spirit, and therefore needed no special rituals to secure or strengthen their faith. ...

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In the 1830s Isabella moved to a commune in Ossining, New York, remaining there for five years. ... (from source # 3 of bibliography) The year soon came when Sojourner would start to get a lot of recognition with her speeches and selling her secret autobiography. ...

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She wants to take revenge on everyone that has passed judgment on her by giving them a "disdainful smile" (Hawthorne 53), but she is fearful that she might start feeling guilty for doing such a thing. ... Dimmesdale thus communed with himself, and struck his forehead with his hand" (Hawthorne 217). ...

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He goes on with warning of the Soviet interests to takeover West Germany and to "communize the whole of Germany". ... Thus they started to cut off every connection from Western Germany to West Berlin. ... The only option was to reach the city by plane and so on June 25th started an eleven months campaign in which American and English pilots provided food, coal and other provision in over 277.000 flights.10 Important in this campaign is that there was no Soviet attack on each of the flights. They did not dare to start a war over the fact that their blockade did not cut off West Berlin completel...

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In his Hind Swaraj, Gandhi points out that the British were able to further establish their presence in India as they would buy raw materials such as cotton from India, use cheap machine intensive production methods to produce goods which would then be brought back to India and sold for prices cheaper than locally produced Indian goods, thereby ruining the Indian indigenous industry and draining India's wealth.17 This belief and opposition to British exploitation lead to the influential Gandhi starting the Khadi movement, which aimed to make India self-sufficient. ... He pointed out the ...

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She was in much pain, and she was starting to lose her sight and hearing. ... Later, with the French defeated and Paris held by the Commune, she entered the starving city to distribute food and clothing. ...

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Indeed, we need go no further than the title of Kant's most important book on religion, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, to see that he assumes right from the start that religion can and ought to be viewed only within a narrow set of rational limits. ... While modern research has discovered many tribes living in what resembles Marx's primitive communes, none of them seem to be any less religious than modern capitalist societies (147). ...

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