Revolution

**Essential Questions:**
== **1. **Who should decide what is best for ‘the people’? ==
 * The people themselves should be the ones making the decisions for themselves. Now I am not saying that I feel like there should be Anarchy, I do see that there should be people on a more public standing should be present. However, I feel that these people should only be delivering the message that the public wants to be delivered and make sure that it is being known and make sure that it will be followed. **The people that have the power to change the ideas.**

 2. What makes people comply or reject?

 * Their own ideology. As a person is raised from being just a baby, many different ideas from many different people from many different walks of life will be expressing their thoughts on the person. Now the child can decide throughout its life if it will allow these ideas to take place in their mind, or if they will begin making their own decisions. However, through these thoughts and ideas that are made, the child will soon decide whether to reject to what the world is doing or it will allow it to happen. **The like or dislike of an idea**

 3. What makes a revolution successful?

 * Unity. Perseverance. Faith. Hope. When all people are ready to fight for the same cause and they do not allow for when things get hard to let them give up. The people must be able to look at all of the people standing right next to them and see them as their brothers and sisters in one cause. If they can give all of their trust and they can be prepared to never back down then the Revolution would be a success. ** When the reason for the revolution becomes is in action. ** ** Support of the people is very crucial to win. **

 4. Who are the winners in a political revolution?

 * The winners in a political revolution is the next government that rises from that revolution. When a political revolution happens it is because these people do not like the government that is occurring in their country and they desire for a government that they know exists and that is ready to rise to take charge in their country. So yes, the people win by taking down the old government, but the new one that raised can be said to be the one that pushed them so far to actually do that. **The person's side who is picked.**

 5. What causes change in a society?

 * What causes change is simply the people's push to want that change to happen. If the people just sit on a couch and watch the world outside and hope for it to change, the chances of the change they hope to see happen is very slim. It is there world, so it is their job to get up and bring people together to make a change. To become a leader and be ready to change everything that they see is mandatory. ** Debates. **

__** Revolution: **__
 * ** Define it in your own words: **
 * When people of a certain characteristic or area fight for a change in their life.**
 * ** Look up a definition of the term: **
 * a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.**
 * ** What are characteristics or acts you associate with Revolution? **
 * Large groups of people **
 * Violence **
 * Government **
 * Oppression **
 * Clear winner **
 * New Nation **
 * Splits in Nations **
 * Protesting **
 * Secret Organizations **
 * Boycotting **



Once you have completed the template: 1. Liberty 2. Equality 3. Justice I feel that liberty is the most important because it gives people the opportunity to live the life that they decide to live and do not need to be afraid that they may be killed just for thinking a certain way. It is our choice to fight for what we want to do and we have all of these rights to how we can live our life as long as we follow the law of the land that we reside in.
 * Rank, ** which of the three concepts discussed **
 * ** Which do you feel is the most important and why? **

The message of this picture is to show that when equality is made it still may mean that a certain few of people are still not going to be able to be in the right place. Justice is when everyone gets what the deserve.



[|Chinese Revolution Mark-Up]

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.


 * — From //Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan// **

This one says that Revolution is an act that can't just be refined to a simple and calm activity. There will be lives lost and that there will be people that suffer from the Revolution.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.


 * — From //Be Concerned with the Well-Being of the Masses, Pay Attention to Methods of Work// **

A Revolution cannot be successful unless the people of the country are all united and are all strong in how they operate. They must all be able to stand united and not back down when things get tough.

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.


 * <span style="background-color: #cde5d5; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">— From //Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War// **

Everybody has their own views and that it is going to change the way that they think and what they are willing to fight against.

<span style="background-color: #cde5d5; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."


 * <span style="background-color: #cde5d5; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">— From //Problems of War and Strategy// **

This is simply saying that power comes from killing people and instilling fear into those people.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">__**According to the quotes above how might Mao Zedong define revolution**__?

He would define it as an act that is strongly moved and acted by and with violence, and there is no way to go around that fact. That a revolution is not a peaceful and leisure activity that can just be done and started from whenever. For a revolution to be successful, the group must have a union with all of the people that want to fight against all of the people. He also will think that governments should run their lands by war.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">I agree with the first three quotes in that all of them have a true basis in a successful Revolution. However, the last quote to me is not true because that can just start a revolution all by itself.
 * __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">Do you agree with quotes of Mao? Why or why not? (use specific evidence from the quotes) **__

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[|What Led Up to the Tank Man?]

__**Chinese** **Video**__
 * Skyscrapers
 * Fountains
 * Beautifully constructed Olympic buildings
 * Busy Public Squares
 * Beijing Skyline
 * Lots and lots of lights
 * Big, high-tech Dams
 * Fastest train system
 * Huge Billboards
 * Very Clean

__**I didn't see**__
 * Government Officials
 * Life outside the city
 * Voices of the people

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