Xinhai Revolution

The Fall of Ah-Q(ing) In The True Story of Ah-Q, Lu Xun uses satire to compare the misfortunes of Ah-Q, a poor handyman, to the intrinsic problems of the Qing Dynasty that led to the Xinhai Revolution in 1911. Lu argues that the Xinhai Revolution was unsuccessful in implementing any positive changes in China because it was an unorganized rebellion, without a clear plan. Lu also contends that the lack of defined leadership throughout the Revolutionary Alliance hurt the party’s chances of success and weakened the efficacy of the revolution. Additionally, Lu hints at the causes of the revolution and provides interesting historical context through the fictional accounts of Ah-Q’s daily misfortunes. The True Story of Ah-Q gives readers a simplified…

Industrialization, is a starting point for many of the technologies and factories around us today, the beneficial people absorbed from this revolution is indescribable, for example, because of the industrialization workers are more efficient producing goods and products, also industrialization helped many people walked out of the countryside, broaden their own view… For many countries, industrialization is a volunteer movement within the country, but as an exception, China’s industrialization is…

Experiencing both good and bad throughout the nation’s development, leading up to the current day, China’s development has been up and down, yet much of it has affected China negatively emphasized by the charters authors. The au-thors speak on notable events in the 19th century such The Self-Strengthening Movement [1861–1895], Hundred Days’ Reform [1898], and The Xinhai Revolution [1911], and other events where each of them would have temporary lasting effects, but ultimately ended up as…

The European domination happens all around the world. Especially in Asian places, European domination happens obviously. The European domination happens because of historical and modern factors. In the side of historical factors, the wars between Asian countries and European countries, the results of post-wars, and the different developments of societies in Asian and European countries directly caused the European domination in the world. On the other hand, in the side of modern factors, the…

Revolutions often bring major change to a country, including its government and it’s people. Revolutions are usually started by the people to rebel against the current powers and have the objective to replace it with a different kind of government. Today, I will be talking about the revolutions of Russia, Italy and China; I will compare all three revolutions in those countries and also show their differences. It’s 1917 in Russia, WWI is in its last couple years and has suffered The Russian…

Marinetti along with his futurist friends believed that their country Italy, has been living in the past for too long. Their solution was to free Italy from the “boring” past. Marinetti’s Futurism manifesto revolted against the old, considered museums as cemeteries, and pushed freedom upon themselves from professors, archaeologists, and antiquarians. It also condemned old moralities in favor of logic as well as feminism. The futurism revolution was composed of the positive appraisal of youth,…

To be successful in reaching goals a good strategy must be applied. Every person must have a goal in life to achieve. Once that goal is reached another is started. The only way to succeed is to keep making goals, and achieving them. The important strategy in planning how to successfully accomplish goals plays a huge role. As famous baseball and football play Bo Jackson would say “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there” (Jackson). Certainly, famous Bo Jackson set his goals high…

There are many things that have influenced my life over the past eighteen years such as family, friends, television shows, and video games. Yet the one thing that has influenced my life the most has been the sport of soccer. Soccer has had a great influence on the entire world each and every day. For many people around the world soccer is there whole life. Many people would say that soccer is the way to escape the hardships of the world. The sport also endures hardships on many people in the…

on people that appear to shape and frame the writings of Oates. Pamela Miller asserts in her article “Joyce Carol Oates” that Oates often uses violence in her fiction to depict the chaotic, unsettled aspects of twentieth century American life. She further claims that the violent situations in Oates’s fiction often include incidents of rape, incest, murder, or suicide and these violent conflicts drive many of her characters to the edge of madness. Hence, Miller maintains that Oates portrays the…

Life can become extremely busy and making time for family can become tough. Family time is not only extremely important, but it is vital for young ones to learn good character and morals. The Rumbold family doesn’t spend enough quality time together. They are a family of nine people, six biological children with an adopted brother from China who is deaf. It becomes very difficult for this family to spend time together because their ages range from the oldest being nineteen years old, all the way…