Summary Of Scattered Sand By Deng Xiaoping

In 1976 Mao died and Deng Xiaoping took over as China’s leader. Like Mao, Deng focused first on the countryside and gave out land to farmers and paid the farmers how much they grew a year this lead to farmers being able to pick which crops they wanted to farm and Deng have the farmers to pay taxes instead of handing over a third of their crops. Since the majority of China’s population was farmers this gave a boost to their economic standing and an opportunity for a better

This is driving some farmers out of business. This also leads to a lower social class with no silver to survive (Doc. 3). Document 5 tells us how the lower class in China is suffering because of the dominance of silver. They used to be able to buy things by making “in-kind” purchases (trading goods for goods). Now they must pay with silver.

Subsequently, they would not sell the crops that they produced, which was not a lot because along with the Great Depression the Dust Bowl was also taking place. The Dust Bowl was a massive drought in the middle portion of the country, while it did not affect Alabama where the story took place, it was a detriment to many families. As a consequence of the Dust Bowl many farms produced a small amount of crop, and it contributed to the money deflation of Great

It also included widespread fighting among warlords. A quote that represents how hard the Great Depression was for industrial business owners is, “but it was the time of widespread fighting among warlords, who all levied heavy taxes. This, combined with the effects of the Great Depression, made it an extremely difficult time to run a textile factory” (Chang 104). Also, prior to the establishment of the Renminbi becoming the national currency in 1935, there were many different forms of payment. For example, in the book, it is mentioned that the only way to get her brother out of prison was to raise, “1,000 pieces of silver” (Chang

This quote shows how upper class citizen had very little advantage over the plague just like everybody else. The Bubonic Plague had a grip on the Elizabethan time period and even though the upper class had very little advantage to the plague, it was the lower classes huge disadvantage. “Only the wealthy would receive the ministrations of an Elizabethan Physician”(Alchin). The lower class didn't have simple access to seeing a “physician”.

If the villagers are hiding their grain, the only plausible reason for that is the lack of food. Yet, the kolkhoz failed to realize the peasants undergoing starvation as they only care about meeting their grain quotas. The people of Russia were treated inhumanely as they were left to starve and face cruel conditions. Bubyr says, “Time to shut up, you rotten meat! Right now!

Burgis exposes that the BEE since its inception it has self-enriched few political connected elites of the African National Congress (ANC) yet leaving many of black majority in extreme poverty with nothing but labour to offer for survival. These economic imbalances led to demonstrations for better wages and better housing in the Lonmin mines in Marikana that accounted the death of 35 miners at the hands of the national

According to Lalvani, the British built the Indian mining industry which started “producing nearly 16 million tons of coal a year.” While they may have created a new industry, they ended up destroying one of the biggest, the weaving industry. In Bengal, weaving was flourishing, so to promote their own cloth the British placed taxes on Indian made fabric causing weavers to no longer be able to sell and make their creations in the city (Doc. 5). This is significant because Bengalis were driven into poverty and “weavers became beggars (Doc. 5).” Indians were forced to leave the city because the British made it impossible to compete with.

They gave them no say in their taxation at all. Britain rule was bad because it made the Indians extremely poor and left them with no money for food. It also impacted India in a negative way because all their soil for farming was destroyed and they also built railroads right in the middle of the towns. These railroads were used to benefit Britain because it made shipping materials and trade easier for them. Lastly, British rule caused lots of deaths from famine.

The Arawak population drastically decreased until there was none of the original Arawaks or their descendants left on the island. Columbus was not only cruel to the Indians, but also to his crewmen. He ignored their cries of hunger and sickness and pushed them to work. He hanged the colonists even for petty crimes such as stealing a fruit.

The immigrants of China avoided all cultures of the whites and keep their culture alive and kept themselves health as much as possible. The working conditions of the laborers were dangerous and difficult for they built roadbed,bridges and tunnels and used dynamite that caused accidents of death and with tunnels collapsing on them as others fell to their death for many had to climb mountains without the correction saftey gear. Discriminations was another thing that was dealt with as white and chinese were separated from one another and were not allowed to share tents or be in the same area. Also the payment rate are lower than the caucasian workers. The pay for the chinese was $1.00 or less ,but that is not enough to survive for food or anything.

Some have suggested that the Black Death killed up to 60% of the European population (Byrne, Joseph P. "economic effects of the Black Death.”) but what is generally agreed upon is that a major percentage of the common laborers in many fields in which left Europe distraught and in dire need of a healthy, high percentage peasant population in order for the agricultural and societal labor demands of the years prior to 1346 to be met again without revision. In many parts of Europe what began to occur was that the laborers in which were in good health refused to work aside from when being compensated sometimes five fold more than the original pre-plague price value of the labor. During this period of time what began to occur was a redistribution of wealth and a ultimate beneficial period for those of the peasantry in which survived in that by comparison to their former lives they had gained land, higher wages and in many cases rights not previously held in relations to their lords as serfdom was beginning to become a relic of the former (Friedrich 136). This dilemma became increasingly unsettling for the lords in which provided compensation for the inflated work and led ultimately to legislation being passed in several countries and city states to return pricing order