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    CHATSWORTH HOUSE – ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND DECISION Chatsworth House‚ the home of the 12th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire‚ is one of the finest and most palatial houses in the UK‚ set in over 1000 acres of parkland in the Peak England. The original house was built over 400 years ago and rebuilt starting in the seventeenth century. The house is vast‚ with 175 room lit by over 2000 lights bulbs‚ and with a roof that covers 1.3 acres. Chatsworth’s many rooms are full of treasure including famous

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    the next‚ but the one before the following step continues to function throughout the process. This particular genocide‚ the “Great Leap Forward‚” was led by a Chinese Communist called Mao Zedong. The Great Leap Forward was a plan to modernize China‚ especially its economy. This attempt at modernization lasted for five years‚ from 1958 to 1963. To explain the Great Leap Forward‚ one need to define a genocide. Genocide is a deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ due to differences of ethnicity

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    How far were Mao’s agricultural policies responsible for the scale of the famine? Mao’s agricultural policies could certainly be seen as responsible for the scale of the famine or at least as a huge factor contributing towards it. Other factors‚ such as the conspiracy of silence‚ bad weather and withholding information by peasants and government officials were also partly responsible for the scale of the famine; however Mao’s policies played the biggest role in causing the scale of the famine

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    People ’s Republic of China‚ thorough and drastic changes began to take place in China. A country which had been founded on a mixture of Confucianism and a very spiritual lifestyle‚ with ancestor worship and even praying to the god of a particular object‚ which had went through various revolutions and changings of the guard‚ began to follow the influence of a Red Giant. The theories of Communism which were developed through a collaboration of Marx and Engels began to penetrate China through the Soviet

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    Hundred Flowers Campaign‚ also termed the Hundred Flowers Movement‚ (simplified Chinese: 百花运动; traditional Chinese: 百花運動; pinyin: Bǎihuā yùndòng) was a period in 1956 in the People’s Republic of China[1] during which the Communist Party of China (CPC) encouraged its citizens to openly express their opinions of the communist regime. Differing views and solutions to national policy were encouraged based on the famous expression by Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong: "The policy of letting a hundred

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    essay‚ I will investigate the reasons why the People’s Republic of China thought it was necessary to start a policy self-criticism and how this‚ in a matter of months‚ descended into a crack down of freedom and purge of intellectuals in the subsequent Anti-Rightist movement. I will focus less on the events themselves‚ but more on the reasons for these two movements. In 1956 Zhou Enlai‚ the first premier of the People’s Republic of China‚ celebrated the “high tide of socialist transformation” but acknowledged

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    which may require PS2 to look abroad in order to increase their business activities. These factors raise issues of constraints in PS2s existing markets (Canada and North America) which will cause assessment whether PS2 should internationalise into China. The second problem deals with which of the two opportunities should PS2 pursue. PS2 needs to weigh up the two options. Option one is a joint venture (JV) with Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences (NIES) in the remediation POP-contaminated

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    Mao travelled the length and breadth of China during the 1950’s. The massive amount of support that he got where ever he went convinced him that he was in touch with the people. He took this opportunity to give some greater freedom of expression to his people and he encouraged constructive criticism of how he and his party were transforming china into a proletarian state. He also gave intellectuals a greater say in debate which was unusual as Mao hated them. It was quite possible that Mao

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    The Great Leap Forward: Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster Wei Li University of Virginia‚ Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business‚ and Centre for Economic Policy Research Dennis Tao Yang Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The Great Leap Forward disaster‚ characterized by a collapse in grain production and a widespread famine in China between 1959 and 1961‚ is found attributable to a systemic failure in central planning. Wishfully expecting a great leap in agricultural

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    The Leap Forward It took only four short years to change the tactics‚ practices‚ and attitude on war entirely. The technology used in today’s warfare is in no doubt in direct correlation from the great advancements during the Civil War. All advancements are due largely to the industrial revolution that was taking full effect in England; this eventually grew roots in America. By the 1850s the industrial revolution had engulfed America allowing production on an enormous scale. However the northern

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