Crystal Valencia Mr. Smock Language Arts 4‚ Period 2 11 March 2013 China’s One Child Policy Like Arthur Waley states "When a son is born‚ Let him sleep on the bed‚ Clothe him with fine clothes‚ And give him jade to play…When a daughter is born‚ Let her sleep on the ground‚ Wrap her in common wrappings‚ And give broken tiles to play…". Traditional Chinese Society value and worship boys rather than girls because they say boys are more beneficial since they are harder workers and they carry on
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rates and control the fast growing population. The solution the Chinese government came up with was the one child policy. They set up a number penalties and benefits in order to encourage the Chinese people to cooperate with this policy. The predicted outcome was to reduce the birth rates and reduce their population‚ which was ultimately affecting the Chinese economy. However‚ the one child policy created an unexpected crisis of its own‚ the creation of unequal demographics of gender and the start
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The one child policy‚ a good idea for the Chinese society‚ even though some families were greatly affected by this highly and new improved rule. World War II. Mao Zedong‚ a powerful leader won control over the Chinese society. China‚ a poor country slogged through years of war‚ disease‚ and natural disaster. Was this thought(suggestion) desired/ approved? The one child policy an effective idea which had a different effect with all families. This can go into further depth and greater detail on Document
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and the resulting famine in the early 1960’s‚ China was left with a starving‚ rapidly growing population. General Mao’s policy of encouraging large families had overwhelmed the limited food resources and resulted in an estimated 40 million deaths due to starvation. The One-Child policy‚ put into Chinese law in 1979‚ was intended to slow a growing population‚ but it resulted in one of the the greatest human rights violations in modern history. Beginning in 1958‚ the Great Leap Forward’s aim was to bring
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China’s one-child family policy has had a great effect on the lives of nearly a quarter of the world’s population for a quarter of a century. When the policy was introduced in 1979‚ the Chinese government claimed that it was a short-term measure and that the goal was to move toward a voluntary small-family culture.1 In this article‚ we examine to what extent this goal has been achieved and the implications for the future of the policy. First we explain why the policy was introduced and how it is
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Effects of the One-Child Policy China is the most populated country in the world with a total of 1.4 billion people‚ and the population is still growing. (WDI) Overpopulation is a current issue that many countries are dealing with and hope to gain control over. In China the previous leader Mao believed that a strong nation had a large population‚ but China has doubled its population since then. Now the country is being prevented from advancing due to the effects of a large population. The effects
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Chinas One-Child Policy In 1979 The Chinese government introduced a policy decreeing that each family could only have one child and any family that had more than one would be given an annual fine. In this essay I will answer weather the policy has done what it was made to do. The location of China is in the southeast part of Asia along the coastline of the Pacific Ocean. It has an area of 9.6 million square kilometres. Chinas population is currently 1.3 Billion. China is facing problems like
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INTRODUCTION: Our TOK presentation focuses on the one child policy in China and how various people apply themselves to the policy. We are also going to be exploring how reason‚ emotion and ethics play a role in justifying whether the one child policy is ethical. To start off‚ to understand the key factors of our presentation‚ we will start off with explaining the following: * Emotion‚ it is associated with mood‚ temperament‚ personality‚ deposition‚ motivation and how a person views a situation
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China One Child Policy State philosophy of the 1950s was that a large population gave a strong nation‚ so high birth rate was encouraged‚ as well as this during that time death rate fell due to better supply of food and medicine. In 1959‚ all attention was paid to improving industry leaving no attention on farming and as a result killing 20 million in a famine. After the famine‚ during the 1960s population was seen to be a problem with 55 million born every year. The result of this was the policy
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The one child policy has also weakened China’s workforce and it has caused this massive increase in the elderly population. The one child policy has left China’s working population looking very gray. Policy changes have aided in movement towards a solution to this problem. The One-Child policy has left three decades of problems for its citizens and government. The
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