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    NOT REAPING THE BENEFITS: The Gaps in the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law in Addressing the Discrimination Against Peasant Women in their Access to and Control of Resources --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Agrarian Reform and the Peasant Woman A. Introduction Despite the recognition of various laws on the roles and contributions of women in rural development‚ it seems that women in the Philippine

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    period 1925 – 1950 Chinese peasants‚ and Chinese created a bad relationship with each other. Peasants were stronger than the Chinese Communist party supported by documents one‚ five‚ and six‚ peasants were the prime target for attacks instead of the Chinese Communist party supported by documents four‚ eight‚ and nine‚ and the peasants were more willing to fight the Japanese while the Chinese Communist party was not so willing supported by documents two‚ and three. Peasants and the Chinese Communist

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    6th Period AP World History Chinese peasant and Communism DBQ: Between circa 1925 and circa 1950‚ the relations between the Chinese peasants and the Chinese Communist Party became out of hand due to the peasant rebellions/uprising groups present‚ the tension between Japan and the communist party‚ and most notable the mass reform during this time period. In 1927 the rising leader of the Chinese Communist party was acknowledging that soon the upsurge of peasant rebellion was soon‚ and that will soon

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    In China between 1925 and 1950‚ the Chinese Communist Party was growing and taking over China with the support of the peasant class. The CCP allowed peasants a better life and was supported by the lowest class while higher class people like the landlords were chastised by the Party‚ and even with Japan occupying some parts of China‚ Communist ideas kept the peasant class strong enough to push the Japanese out. In the time leading up to the Chinese Communist Party taking over‚ Japan held power over

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    The life of a peasant in the dark age was miserable. Peasant gave up their freedoms to powerful Lords for protection‚ but limited their freedoms and doomed them to a life of poverty. Peasants were so afraid of neighboring lords they voluntarily signed to became a tenant known as Manorial Agreements. As a tenant the life of such peasant belonged to the lord he had signed to. Peasants were not slaves because they were not sold and were entitled to hold property. Women could not make contracts by

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    Eighteenth century Russia‚ peasants made up the majority of Russia’s population. Peasants are accounted for the industrial lands owned by merchants and the nobility. The peasants in Russia have been treated as animals where they were bought and sold by the nobility. With the abundant of peasants in Russia‚ orders had been placed and enforced by the tsar and state officials to maintain this population. Some of these orders describes the purchases and regulations of peasants. In the online reading titled

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    often contradict himself in various speeches and written works and allow himself to appear as a hypocrite regarding his own beliefs. I argue that In Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants‚ Martin Luther unjustifiably takes on the responsibility of God himself‚ as he advocates against the peasants and proposes their murder as a solution; although Luther attempts to justify himself in both of the analyzed works‚ he is plagued by multiple self-induced paradoxes and contradictions within

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    As you read Wunderli’s Peasant Fires‚ please keep the following in mind. They will form the basis for our discussion of the book‚ and your writing assignment will cover the same material. Who was Hans Behem? What is his story‚ and why is it important? “Hans Behem lived in an enchanted world.” Explain this statement. What were the characteristics of this world? How did medieval peasants understand time? The supernatural? Why might they have thought this way? What was Carnival? What happened?

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    Revolution was necessary because it successfully solved France’s most pressing problem: the unfair treatment of peasants. The French Revolution was necessary because before the revolution‚ there was massive inequality between the peasants and the rest of the estates. In 18th century France‚ people were classified into a particular social class based on the family they were born into. Peasants were the lowest class‚ and were destined to work the land of the noble upon whose land they lived on. The realities

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    The lowest strata of society remained the peasant. The peasant supported all other estates of society not only through direct taxation but in the production of agriculture and the keeping of livestock. The peasant was the property of whomever he was subject to. Be it bishop‚ prince‚ a town or a noble‚ the peasant and all things associated with him were subject to any whim whatsoever. Countless taxes were exacted on the peasant‚ forcing more and more of his time to be spent working on his lord’s estate

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