... -plots were redistributed to each family member regardless of age or sex; and land reform provisions stipulated that property would be equally divided in the case of divorce. Nonetheless, their husbands effectively controlled land allotted to women. Patriarchal familial relationships in the Confucian tradition seemed to remain intact. The Marriage Law of 1950 legalized marriage, denounced patriarchal authority in the household ... their cultural bonds on women. Arranged marriages offered nothing for women in as far as emotional release. The more estranged a husband and wife were, the mor...

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... . Life was very different for a concubine and for a wife. The concubines would have to obey and respect the wife as their mistress. Both wives and concubines were property of their husbands, and he was able to use them when and how he wished. Some very important men had as many as twenty concubines Peasant women didn't usually have to be put ... abolished the murder of unwanted baby girls, the sale of women, and prostitution. A Women's Association was set up, for any class of women, so they could get help about abusive husbands or father-in-laws. While all this was going on, most of the ...

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... the income of American's has been rising. In 1950 the average income of each person per year in the United States was $9729 and in 2002 the average income was $39,271 . One can see that the average income of people in the United States has been rising. If capitalism wasn't an effective government would the average income of people living ... , immense population, and abundance of natural resources should make it a world superpower. Instead the average income is less than $850 per person a year while the United State's average income is $39,271 per person a year. China is thousands of yea...

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... "top espionage agent." Senator McCarthy said Lattimore helped deliver China to the Communists, and claimed he had a secret witness along with a letter written by Lattimore to support his case. Yet, McCarthy wouldn't let the letter be seen. Later on, the letter was obtained and found only to discuss events happening in China and did not prove Lattimore a Soviet agent. The witness, Louis Budenz ... , which depicted Stevens talking to a group of people that Schine was a part of (Zeinert 101-102). Yet, McCarthy maintained the photo had never been tampered with. McCarthy's next trick was a le...

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... and the United States there came many hardships, such as unemployment and high inflation. These hardships produced a restless society. The society then looked for something or someone to blame (Fried, 39). They found someone to blame. Communists. Throughout the country there was a witch hunt known as the Red Scare. A basic idea was formed: Communism was evil. Anyone who participated in such ... ...

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... , Stalin had eliminated his viable competition , yet he "proceeded to purge the party and terrorize the entire country with widespread arrests and executions." The Great Terror that lasted from 1934-39 had no rationale other than guaranteeing Stalin's complete dominance. He "placed the entire population of nearly two hundred million people wholly in the power of the police," who were in ... ...

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... , Stalin had eliminated his viable competition , yet he "proceeded to purge the party and terrorize the entire country with widespread arrests and executions." The Great Terror that lasted from 1934-39 had no rationale other than guaranteeing Stalin's complete dominance. He "placed the entire population of nearly two hundred million people wholly in the power of the police," who were in ... ...

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... , 2002 http://www.hopeforafricanchildren.org Hou, Annemarie. International Organizations Join unprecedented Collaboration to Assist Africa's Children Orphaned by AIDS. Retrieved November 7, 2002 Kelso, B.J. (1994). Orphans of the Storm. Africa Report, 39(1). 50. Moszynski, Peter (2002). UNICEF sets up programme to prevent sex abuse by aid workers. British Medical Journal, 325(7367). 732. Moszynski, Peter (2002). NGOs in sex for food scandal ... ...

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... as common as it used to be. Before the industrial revolution women were not considered liable for running businesses. This meant they could not even take over the businesses their husbands left them when they died. This is a thing that changed with the industrial revolution. Women proved to be perfectly able to run businesses and were now, for the first time ... ...

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... before the Red Guard affected his life. The false accusations, driven confessions, and aftermath of what these confessions prompted drove Chinese families apart. It led children to resent their parents, husbands to resent their wives, and friends to turn on friends. "That summer things got even worse in Changsha: The Rebels began to fight among themselves. Those who had once been ... ...

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... , and 1984 In George Orwell's, "1984", no individual freedoms are present. It mirrors mid twentieth century Europe during World War II and its affects. Winston the main character who is a 39-year-old man, was neither remarkable in intelligence nor character, but is disgusted with the world he lives in. He works in the Ministry of Truth, where history and the ... ...

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... the world sizeable elements were seriously considering the virtues of communism, for few wanted a return to the failed capitalism of the pre-war era." (Isaacs & Downing, Transworld Publishers, 1998. Pg. 39) As the great depression was classed as a cause of World War II and as the depression was caused by capitalism, people thought capitalism may be a cause of a possible next World ... ...

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... -, 1999). Although Karl Marx was very intolerant of his father, the elder Marx made quite an impression upon Karl before his death. His father wrote a letter, which laid the foundation for the Communist Manifesto. In this letter, his father is concerned with Marx's happiness, wondering if he will ever know happiness and family joys, or even be able to render happiness to ... ...

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... ... capable of organizing the movement and leading it... It is necessary to prepare men that devote to the Revolution not just their free evening, but their entire lives- (Pipes Concise 39). This is the sort of fanaticism that propelled the Bolsheviks to power. Their party (more of an ideological order) had very strict ideological criteria and every member must have been ... ...

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... brutality towards almost all members of society. The party openly endorsed "class warfare" against the middle classes and they were treated very harshly in what seemed to be acts of revenge. Ironically, the party which claimed itself the liberators of the workers began to exploit them and working conditions and management seemed to revert to pre-revolutionary practices. Arguing for a form ... ...

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... and fear because no one told them that the war had ended. After that conversation, the grandson called the grandfather but he did not answer. After a few days, he gets a letter which the grandpa wrote before dying in which he says to the grandson to be thankful for what he have, to fight for the fights that matter and he also ... ...

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... his father was proud of him getting combat medals, despite him not liking the idea. He says, "If I could have one wish, I'd wish for my dad to write me a letter and say it's okay if I don't win any medals'' (O'Brien 34). This war changed a man into something different. This war, in particular, was very unique. The battlefield saw more death ... ...

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... of the freedom of speech, which they claim to have. A good example of lack of freedom of speech would be Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who was imprisoned from1945 to 1953 for writing a letter critical of Stalin, and then was exiled to Siberia from 1953 to 1956 (Leone Bruno 94). Under a communist state there is no opinion of the public. It also makes no ... ...

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... ). Eventually Russia, the only example of communism failed, their economy collapsed, and they were forced to revert to a capitalistic economy. This failed attempt at communism followed Marx's theory to the letter. The society was not ready for communism; it had not gone through the stages of capitalism or socialism. In this way there was no way for it to prosper, it ... ...

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... stop him from writing. He suffered painful boils while he was writing Capital. He even took it upon himself to remove some of the boils with a razor. He commented in a letter to Engels about the boils, "There is only one consolation: it is truly a proletarian disease" (Gumbrell 76). In Capital, Marx elaborated on his version of the labor theory value and ... ...

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