Luol Deng Essays

things. In the 2011 draft the Chicago Bulls selected Jimmy Butler with the 30th overall pick in the first round. In his first year he didn’t get much playing time and only averaged about 3 points a game. In his second year on the bulls, his teammate Luol Deng suffered an injury giving Butler more playing time. His average went up to 8.6 points a game. In his 2013-2014 seasons Jimmy Butler set a Bulls franchise record playing 60 minutes in a triple overtime victory over the Orlando Magic. His average went

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written by Dai Sijie, is set in 1971 during the China’s Cultural Revolution. The book starts with two boys, unnamed narrator and his friend Luo being sent from their hometown Chengdu to a small village in Phoenix Mountain to be “re-educated”. The book continues with them skillfully living through the harsh village life with their talent of storytelling and their western knowledge gained from books. Throughout the novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

In the 1960’s, China was overrun by the idea that everybody must be equal, and those who are superior should be punished for their “wrongdoings”. Ji-li Jiang grew up in this unfortunate era, and her novel, Red Scarf Girl, describes the struggles that people in China faced every day of their lives during the Cultural Revolution. This unfair treatment of upper and middle class citizens is depicted by the author’s own memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Ji-li Jiang recounts childhood experiences

The Tiananmen Square protests, commonly known in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident (六四事件)[a] were student-led demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. More broadly, it refers to the popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests during that period, sometimes referred to as the '89 Democracy Movement (八九民运). The protests were forcibly suppressed after the government declared martial law. In what became widely known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, troops with assault rifles and tanks killed

The Ming Dynasty was established by peasant leader Zhu Yuanzhang (also known posthumously as Emperor Hongwu, who ruled from 1368-1398 ), in 1368 following the rebellion against the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, and ended in 1644. It is characterized by its orderly government and social stability, which may be attributed to the tribute system, a system that, according to David Kang, was a “set of unquestioned rules and institutions about the basic ways in which international relations worked”. Status hierarchy

With a long history in the world, China had been relying on traditional agriculture industry before 1949, which was the year of the formation of Socialist Era in China. Intensive human labour was deployed to farmlands with high productivity and Chinese agricultural technology used. Trade of crops in the markets began the society economy in China. During 19th Century, sea trades began between China and the West, mostly silk, tea leaves and porcelain products to Europe with an exchange of silver

failure of the Cultural Revolution, Mao successor Deng Xiaoping was facing the decision of what road to the People’s Republic should be led to. The Cultural Revolution leaves Deng the decision to seek a new path for China. New voices of seeing Mao in a negative light became inevitable if Deng chooses a different path. Of course, Deng would still want to respect Mao’s thought, as both leaders wanted the People’s Republic to become a stronger nation. Deng really opposed Mao’s idea of focusing on the proletariat

Anorexia in Hong Kong Watters starts his case studies with the rise of anorexia in Hong Kong, and how the Western form of anorexia “worms its way into the unconscious minds of a population” (p.48). In the 1990’s there were many political, cultural, and social changes occurring due to the transfer of sovereignty from Britain to China. During this apprehensive time, the story of a young girl named Charlene Hsu Chi-Ying and her struggle with self-starvation surfaced and gained attention. The reason

The Great Wall of Ancient China -Hailey Shipley More than 1 million people died while building the Great Wall of China! The Great Wall of ancient China was a huge wall that was build to keep out unwanted people (the Xiongnu). The Great Wall took many peoples lives because of the heights and suffering the people went through. The Wall took around 2,000 years to build. Did the benefits outweigh the costs? I believe that they did not because of documents F, E, B. There were to many people being tortured

I mostly agree to some extent that the ‘Reform and Revolution’ was a real reform and that there had been numerous successes. However, I realized that it was not a full reform and revolution due to a few minor obstacles that had not been settled during that period (1911-1937). In the book “New Horizons: History”, Wong points out, “After the establishment of the Nanjing government, a series of reforms were carried out in hopes of modernizing China politically, economically, militarily, and culturally

During the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) art completely changed in style and purpose. More specifically when the Communist Party took over the minds and hearts of China in 1949, propaganda seen in art was used to influence them and further make Mao Zedong an icon and hero. This movement changed the art of China into a modernized art, an art that was no longer showing the spirit of the old China but a new spirit that sparked through Mao Zedong's teachings. Through the elimination of traditional-style

Keetae Kim Professor Larson East Asian Studies 14 April 2015 The Parallelism between the Revolution of 1911 and the Protest of 1989 China had experienced waves of instability from the numerous events from the 20th century. Countless revolutions and protests have forged China into what it is today. The 1911 revolution, also known as the Xinhai revolution, was one of the major revolutions in 20th century China that acted as a stopping force that cut the Qing dynasty short of its path. The Tiananmen

Dai Sijie is the Chinese author, who opposites side of the government of China during the Cultural Revolution, which is his childhood that he has to go to be re-educated by poor peasants. The setting of this book, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, is the re-education at that time, and the main characters of this book, Luo and Ma, are re-educated students like Sijie. He uses these literary elements to reveal political or social issues about the social class by the education difference, the

The idea of decolonization, or breaking away from the grips of imperialist nations and establishing one’s own national independence and ways of governing, is what sparked the revolutions and actions of many nations that were dominated by the Europeans or other imperialists. With that, the Chinese revolution occurred as a result of the increasing desire of Chinese communists to free China from colonialism. (754) Unfortunately, Chinese communists could not take any action because of Chiang Kai-shek’s

The Historical Criticism of Communism Ha Jin’s The “Saboteur” provides an insight of the injustice that the Communist government in China committed toward its citizens. In other words, the treatment of Mr. Chiu and the fear that the bride expressed was the direct emotions of those during the time of the rise of communism. This representation simply provides the argument that the communism is a route of sabotage of the people. With a historical criticism perspective, the reflection of the police and

Past Versus the Present People say that the past is nothing like the present, but is that entirely true? The 1960s were very eventful, composing of many different aspects. Some of these aspects include the way the government was run, the way the music sounded, and the cultural attitude of that time period. Relatively speaking, the 1960’s time period was very different than our time period. However, there are some similarities between our time period, and the 1960s. First of all, the way the government

Released in 2016, The Leap Manifesto is a provocative document designed to draw the attention of politicians, the media, and the masses to the current state of Canada’s environmental and economic climate. The Manifesto posits that Canada is facing extreme crises on many fronts, with the climate change crisis being the most urgent. It argues further, that without immediate and profound change to the Canadian economy, the effects of these crises will lead to irreversible damage to the environment and

Chairman Mao Zedong’s Great Proletarian Revolution created scarring effects on the Chinese youth of the time. Chairman Mao’s propaganda encouraged the young population to revolt against the old systems, to give up their education and to support and participate in his revolution. Finally, Mao’s policies stripped the youth of their identities and created a generation of mindless and uneducated adults. These actions taken by Mao and his communist government failed to achieve their goals and forced the

World History China DBQ Mao and Deng both transformed China in similar and different ways. Mao tended to be harsher, wanting everyone to conform to his idea of the cultural revolution of China. While Deng wanted people to have more capitalistic ideas, allowing people to run things themselves without harsh control from the government. This DBQ will discuss how China ran under the similar and different political, diplomatic, and economic rules of Mao and Deng. Political freedom was not something

The Cultural Revolution: Moying Li’s Evolution Moying Li's life was upended by a cataclysmic event that altered her life and perspective of the world. She can no longer go back to the way things were; she is forever scarred. Moying Li takes us through her hectic life as she combats the challenges the cultural revolution has imposed on her. She recalls many influential moments and experiences in her memoir as she reflects on her coming of age during the Cultural Revolution. A variety of explicit