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What it Feels to be a Student During the Cultural Revolution

It was a sad rainy day; a sharp and very brief sound comes through the clouds like a giant drum along with a giant strike next to it. I am Li Ming, and I lived through the Cultural Revolution. The amounts of antique items I broke is worth more than your spending’s in your entire life. Let me explain what happened during this time period, read my journal.

Many things have changed throughout the revolution. For example, many peasants were able to have a greater choice on their jobs, before they could only choose some normal jobs like farming and factory labor. But now, you could create your own company or create a small industries and others. And with the revolution, the big amount of tourism to china can be observed easily, many places in China are linked with railroads and air. Also, the cities exploded, many cities dramatically increased its technology and wealth. However, although the Cultural Revolution is started to change China, but many also stayed the same. For example, with the start to the end of the revolution, China was still Chinese Communist party and that there is only one-party leader. As well as the people’s thinking on Mao, Chairman Mao in many Chinese people’s mind are still a great leader. Last but not least, many old things were destroyed by the Red Guards but the Four Olds still remained a lot in the world.

How the Chinese Cultural Revolution Caused a Historic Change

March 29, 2021 / Bryan Tang / 2 Comments

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The causes of the Chinese Cultural Revolution were because that in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government, Mao Zedong tried to use the Revolution to reassert his control over the Communist Party. Although millions of civilians died, tortured and suffered humiliation. The revolution was a big change for China, the revolution helped China made a sharp turn towards the international economy and market, peasants were able to have a greater choice, being able to choose different crops and creating other small industries and others. However, some continued to be the same, farmers are still farming and suffering from hunger, but for the long-term, it will impact China for a long time and help China developing.

If You Ever Get Lost in the Antarctic, Read this Book

January 21, 2021 / Bryan Tang / 0 Comments

The book i’m going to tell about is called “Lost in the Antarctic” by Tod Olson. This book is about an real event that happened during the World War I. In this book a very famous Antarctic explorer Shakleton and his crewmates were stuck in the Antarctic and they were trying to survive and return to their homes. Tod Olson believed that Hope often helps people to believe and trust.

You should definetly read this book as theres a lot of interesting areas in the book such as describing how harsh it was in the Antarctic for example how cold and terrible it was to be on the ice travelling and how much fun they had playing sports on the ice. It is like as if you were really stuck in the Antarctic with them. Also, in the book there is a lot of pictures that was tooken by the crews members, the pictures have cute animals such as puppies and penguins as well as the mountains in the Antarctic and the ship itself. Last but not least, the event that happened in the book actually happened in the real world so while you are enjoying the book you are also learning the history.

One thing I learned from this book is that no matter how little chances you have, it is always worth a try. Before, when there was only a little chance I would just stop but once after i fnished the book I know that even when theres only a little chance it is still worth a shot to try.

Is the Boxers Good or Bad

November 30, 2020 / Bryan Tang / 0 Comments

The Boxer Rebellion deserves a bad reputation. They killed innocent christian chinese as well as missionaries and many foreigners. The Boxers killed foreigners and christian chinese because they thought that they caused the flood. When the reinforcement comes, the boxers hid in the crowd and making sure not get found. However, this caused the reinforcements to have no idea who are the Boxers as they wanted revenge therefore executing innocent civilians that looks like the Boxers.

Helena’s Plan

November 17, 2020 / Bryan Tang / 0 Comments

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This is about A Midnight Summer’s Dream by William Shakespeare. I choosed the character Helena because she has a “bad” play but also has some interesting plans. I picked this image because it is not overly beautiful but also beautiful at the same time. I’m proud of the picture that i found .

What is Humanism

October 12, 2020 / Bryan Tang / 0 Comments

Overall, I would say that i am a 85% Humanist. I would say this because I like to discover artifacts and humanities. But however, I do not study a lot in science and culture.

Why Working Is Important

September 30, 2020 / Bryan Tang / 0 Comments

The little girl said to him: “Red Squirrel, you don’t have to work, do you? You may just play and eat nuts from morning till night. Isn’t that all?” “’Not work!’ chattered the Red Squirrel. ‘Why, I am working now, and I worked all day yesterday, and all of the day before. I have a family living in the old oak tree, and I must store away nuts for the winter. I have no time to stop and play.”’ The little girl’s mother wants the little girl to work, but the little girl doesn’t want to work instead she wants to find someone to play with her. But they all refuse the little girl and states that they have work to do. If you avoid working or tries to be lazy, then you will not be able to reach anything.

In the book “The Little Girl Who Would Not Work” by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, an elementary school principal. The author believes that if you avoid work or try to be lazy, you will not reach anything. At the start of the story, the little girl’s mom wanted her to work but the little girl only wanted to play: “Oh, mother, I do not like to work. Please let me go to the woods and play just a little while before I do my tasks” (Bailey 3). This shows that the little girl does not want to work and tries to avoid working by playing in the woods. One connection to myself is when my mom wants me to help her do some work like doing dishes, I always would find an excuse to not do the work. As the story continues, the little girl asks the ant to play with her, but the ant said, “’ Oh, no, I couldn’t stop to play. Once someone stepped upon our house and crushed it.” […] “We Ants thought we would go and hunt for a ready-made house, but we travelled a very long way, and we were not able to find a house ready-made, and we were obliged to come home and build” (Bailey 11). This shows that even if you were working, but if you are being lazy your entire progress might be destroyed, and other people’s work might also be destroyed because of your laziness. I have a connection to myself, when I was working in a group, I was being lazy and didn’t want to work and because of my laziness, it caused my entire group to have a bad grade. Overall, if you try to avoid work or try to be lazy, you will not be able to reach anything.

The conflict on the road in “Thank You, M’am”

September 14, 2020 / Bryan Tang / 0 Comments

The found poem was found in “Thank You, M’am” by author Langston Hughes. It shows an external conflict between a women antagonis t Mrs. Jones and a boy named Roger. In the rising act of the story the boy runs behind Mrs. Jones and attempts to snatch her purse but he ended up failing. Roger comes across as a poor boy that wants to buy a pair of shoes, but he does not have enough money so he has to go steal people’s purse. However, while robbing, Mrs. Jones was able to catch him. Hopefully this conflict will not last long and the boy will be able to get his shoes and Mrs. Jones will be able to get her purse back.

Picture used in the poem: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/snatching-purse-12151998.jpg

Phones should be Banned in School

January 7, 2020 / Bryan Tang / 0 Comments

Phones should be Banned in school

By:Bryan T 7-5

Phones should be banned in school because it is a distraction to students. In addition, it allows chaeting which will affect grades and an unfair advantage. some say that phones should not be banned because students need to communicate, but there is more disadvantage than advantage.

One reason why phones should be banned in school is because it is a distraction. Forexample, an advanced chemistry teacher at Decatur said that she allowes students to use phones as a calculator, but they are more of a distraction because students might not be using their calculator app but games or social apps. Another example is that students can text during class instead of listening to the teacher. An experiment has ran with 118 Rutgers, phones did not lower their comprehension exam, but their end-of-term exam was lowered by atleast 5% percent or even have a grade. This shows that, phones will lower the grades and school’s job is to educate students to get a good grade, students’ grade will keep on lowering if school doesn’t ban phone. So, Phones should be banned in school

Another reason why phones should be banned in school is because it allows cheating. Forexample, students can search up the answer on their phone for the exam. In addition, students can send answers to other students and also students can send the test questions to other students and also send the test questions to student who didn’t ake the test which then the student will know what to study or what to remember. A survey by Pew Research Center has found that 35% percent of students have admit that they cheated in tests with their phone and the other 65% percent of students that took the same survey has said that they saw students cheating with their phone during tests. Tehrefore, students will have an unfair advantage. So, phones should be banned in school

Some say that phones should not be banned in school because students need a phone to communicate with their parents and incase of an emergency. In addition, Peter Brosnan auther of “Smart Phones, Smart Kids” said that “many parents and students rely on cellphones to keep in touch in case plans change after school.” However, schools will provide phones and some schools will even provide emails so as recieving messages, “if our game is cancelled due to weather or anything else changes in our schedule, our administrator sends a notice to all parents immediatly.” This shows that students does not need their own phone, but instead they can just find any staff to contact their parents . Therefore, phones should still be banned in school.

Overall, phones should be banned in school because it is a distraction and it allows cheating. Also, there is more of an unfair advantage and disadvantage than advatage. Also,

Work, Work Faster, Work!

April 11, 2019 / Bryan Tang / 0 Comments

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Do you realize almost all children are in child labor? Do you want to know what is child labor? Who is Iqbal Masih, Craig and Marc Kielburger? Almost all children are holding a tool, not a pen!

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