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    For as long as it has existed, the Chinese government has been power hungry, They have limited the freedom of citizens so that they can make the decisions themselves, such as not allowing citizens to vote for government officials. Instead, officials are simply appointed by others in government. Citizens want reform, protests have occurred across the country for change to a democratic system so that citizens can finally elect the people that represent them. This would give citizens more power, but

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    History Internal Assessment Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 Alexander Brooking Candidate Number: 001829-0003 Research Question: To what extent did the photographs taken by Jeff Widner of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 affect the foreign relations between Australia and China immediately following the media’s coverage? Word Count: 1958 Table of contents  To what extent did the photographs taken by Jeff Widner of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 affect the foreign relations between

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    The Tiananmen Square protests were characterised by student led demonstrations, which were a greater part of a question being asked at that time regarding how far China should reform. The protests began as a result of the death a Hu Yaobang, a Communist party general, who advocated for greater political and economic reform (Naughton, 2007). This had both short term and longer-term consequences. In the immediate, the government responded by declaring martial law and opening fire on civilians.

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    Protesters in Beijing China, 1989, took a stand against a communist government in many protest in Tiananmen Square in the spring and summer months. College students in the area called for the change in early mourning for the death of Hu Yaobang, who died on April 15th, 1989, who wanted to help make more democratic changes to the government of China. Soon more people joined in, leading to the peak of 1.2 million people who came not only for protest but to see General Secretary of the Chinese Communist

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    According to Chinese bureau of statistics, some 70% of student who come to the United States from 1978 to 2010 stayed in The United States. The hard choice of whether stay in The United States or come back to China makes more and more Chinese people concentrate on a basic question: what is the difference between The United States and China. Although both The United States and China are world’s major economies, in terms of living and working, The United States has advantages over China in relationship

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    Government Internet Censorship of China The Internet is also called “Information superhighway” because of the limitless amount of data that one person can access from it. The fact is not all of us can access the Internet like what it is. There are many roadblocks on the superhighway in form of “Internet Censorship”. There are several kinds of motivations for censorship. It ranges from keeping children away from undesirable content to a government control of nation’s access of information. In

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    Since initiating market reforms in 1978, China has experienced enormous and rapid economic growth, become one of the world’s largest economies. The seeds of this rapid economic growth were planted in 1978 when the Chinese Communist Party started to introduce capitalist market principles. This was done by moving from a centrally planned to a market based economy. The shift away from traditional Marxist policy created a scarcely concealed capitalist culture in China masked by a communist facade. One

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    On April 17, 1989, thousands of student protesters flooded Tiananmen Square, Beijing, to mourn Hu Yaobang’s death. Yaobang was the former General Secretary of the Communist Party and also served as a symbol of political reform and anti-corruption. The students asked the government to end corruption and to give political and economic reform. Demonstrations spread to different cities, with workers joining in. They complained about money and housing issues. The spread of the demonstrations concerned

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    Restriction of expression in the film industry is in the form of censorship, which in the UK was set up in 1912 as the British Board of Film Censorship (BBFC) by the film industry as a self-regulatory body charging the film industry for the service. The local councils in the UK usually accepted these classifications. This is a view of the censorship laws and in particular the era of the ‘video nasty’ and how it slipped through the film censorship net. Looking back to the 1930’s, an early example

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