CCCH9009 Reflective Essay

Though the books assigned to read in junior high are meant to get students informed about both literature and social issues, unfortunately reading these books is often pushed aside to focus on more interesting hobbies, and students are left to pray that sparknotes has a summary. In ninth grade, however, a new year’s resolution committed me to reading The Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang. The book is a memoir about the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and the book quickly became one of my favorites. After finishing the book for the first time, I decided to research the politics behind the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and that led into researching the political history of more countries. I have been deeply interested in politics since then, and along with politics, I have been deeply interested in the law. The ability that people have to use the law to make a difference is both inspiring and terrifying, exciting in a way that you can protect people, and terrifying in a way that, like Chairman Mao discovered, it can be used to control an entire population. My interest in the law and in serving others began with this

For example, in Confucianism, the government is designed around a ridged hierarchy. For a Confucian society to function properly, everyone must understand their rank and act accordingly. Citizens were required to put blind faith in and pledge unwavering loyalty to their superiors and government. In the same way, in an effort to improve the overall strength of society, the Communist Party of China (CPC) ranks their interests above the interests of their citizens. Given this superior mindset, the government feels duty bound and even righteous in their punishment of journalists whose writings may endangers the party’s continuation. Recently, French journalist, Ursula Gauthier, was forced to leave China after writing an investigative piece about a Muslim region in western China. From a western perspective, this banishment seems completely unjustified as openness to new and old knowledge is celebrated as is dissent, investigation, and inquiry. But, considering the CPC’s singular focus on their notion of societal good, this decision is understandable, if not valid. In

I am attending GCU to improve my education and myself and to achieve my goals for the future.

As a new immigrant, I took the accuplacer test and went straight to 111 English level. So, English 111 course became my first college English class. It seems like a great achievement for a French speaker. Nonetheless, this performance linked to significant challenges. Even though I am a fighter and an optimist, I was frightened about my academic achievement for this semester. The problems became bigger when I took my first practice test on sentence structure (fragments and run-ons) and got a D. I was frightened and felt that I will have to drop the class. However, I decided not to give up. I started working hard and had a V+ on the next test. This positive grade energized me until now. During this semester, I have much homework and practices which allow me to identify some strengths, weaknesses, and gave me lots of skills for my English 112 class and the future.

In the course ENC 1101 I learned how to organize my thoughts, how to do good essays and also I improved my writing. Having a different first language I feel like I give my best in this class because is kind of hard. Although I get grades that I wasn’t expecting I feel good because through those not too bad grades, I learned what kind of grammar errors I was doing. The content of this class was a good one because the paper that we wrote talked about now day not like in others classes that we have to write about things that we don’t know anything about it. To realize these projects there were clear directions that most of the time were helpful to complete the projects. It was beneficial to get feedbacks about our projects because in that way

“There is danger0from all men.0The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man0living with power to endanger the0public liberty.” says Ayn Rand. The novel Forbidden City by William Bell tells us a real story about students and civilians democracy in0Beijing, China in 1989. The government no0longer works for people when the movement0becomes violent and a power struggle between the government and people appears. In a word, power0can take over0freedom when a certain0group of people controls it all, but it can’t control people’s0thoughts forever. Firstly, the setting shows the background0which is thousands of students were doing hunger strike in Tian An0Men Square because of freedom. The Character Lao Xu is one of the leaders in the activity of hunger strike Lao Xu sacrificed because saving students. Finally the conflict between China0and citizen shows that government cannot ignore any citizens and controls their thoughts.

Reflecting on this course over this semester, there have been many lessons learned that will be valuable, as we enter the business world. Our first lesson was to learn to work together, as a team, to prepare a short memo, long memo, letter, and email for use in the business world. This is a lesson that will experience many times as we do our daily work. Punctuation and grammar are so important to present to the client and other organizations that we are professionals. It could mean the loss of a sale or acquiring new business. It’s like dressing for work; looking professional or unprofessional.

The Chinese officials in Mao’s Last Dancer are depicted to be people of power, but using that power incorrectly. When Li was detained by the Consulate-General it showed how

China's national legislature, the National Party Congress, began its annual meeting last week, and voting on several measures, including changes to a state secrecy law that been under revision for 14 years. The legislative body passing laws, albeit largely by rubber-stamp, stands in stark contrast to the deadlock that can be found on the other side of the world, where U.S. politicians seem incapable of moving any sort of legislation through Congress.

In the article, “Flawed Humans, Flawed Justice” by adam Benforado, he talks about how the system is corrupt, he and some people may be unlucky and not receive the equal treatment.

I applied the knowledge of what I had experienced growing up in China in comparison to what I learned in the U.S, and in the declaration I wrote, “We won’t stop until rural children have the same educational rights as the children of the cities; we won’t stop until rural residents are no longer being treated as second-class citizens.” I will dedicate my life for the democracy of China, to fight for the rights people deserve, the freedom they thirst for, and the country they want to love. I hope I can use my knowledge as a law school student to help China rebuild its judicial and political system. I hope one day I can see China become a land of freedom, equality, and patriotism. Then millions of rural residents and their children wouldn’t be treated as second-class citizens. Instead, there would be no discrimination of rural or urban, poor or rich, because people are all equal before the law when the law is equal to

The thesis of the editorial is chinese security agents tried to stop a 25 year old torontonian from advocating for freedom of religion and expression. Another quotation used,”Silence will not protect my father… I know he is safer in the light of international attention than in the shadows sought by the authoritarians.”

This shows that the Chinese government can control a person’s personal decision. Mrs.Dong a woman who was discovered to be pregnant with twins had “Without the agreement or signature of Mrs. Dong or her family” she was “injected Ethacridine Lactate”. Another example is “The brave pregnant woman who refuses to give in is usually detained and beaten…” (Chinese Twins Aborted) this shows that Legalism is still in China due to the fact that the government enforces laws harshly and unnecessarily brutally also having a huge influence on it’s people without consulting them.

Nonetheless, the popularization of the internet enables the Chinese to get in touch with the Western values. Thus, activism for human rights has appeared online. This essay will argue how online activism has influenced Chinese understandings of human rights; formed the attitude toward the authoritarian regime; and shaped the Chinese society. Two cases are selected namely 1) Shanxi black brick kiln slave scandal; 2) Lei Yang incident. At the same time, I will illustrate how the authority response to the two incidents which are positive and negative respectively. The positive is that the social welfare has been improved, while the negative is that the government tightened the cyber control.

The People’s Republic of China with a population 1.3 billion, is the third largest country in the world and has a land size of 960,000 square kilometres. It is a rapidly growing economy, with living standards being raised every year. However, human rights violations are still a part of daily life in some part of China and can still be seen in the present time. The most controversial issues include discrimination, right to live and not to be subject to torture, freedom of religion, opinion, to fair public hearing, rights to family and the right of movement. (The Consulate General of The People's Republic of China, 2003),(Infoplease, 2009)