There has never been any saviour of the world, Nor deities, nor emperors on which to depend. To create Mankind’s happiness We must entirely depend on ourselves!
Very independent feel, very different from the song about Mao.
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The East is red, the sun is up. China has brought forth a Mao Zedong. He works for the happiness of the people, and He is the great savior to the Chinese nation.
The song portrays Mao in a very positive light, borderline god-like.
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gift of mangos
Seems like a very cheap gift to give. Is there any significance to the mangos? Why would he give them to the workers' propaganda team?
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poor peasants” or their children for support,
Preying on weaker members of society?
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“Politics in Command
Seems like a very appropriate slogan for them.
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By June, Mao was too feeble to receive foreign visitors, and both his voice and his handwriting had become very difficult to understand. When the Tangshan earthquake killed a quarter of a million residents of that North China city in July, the superstitious began to wonder about the loss of the traditional “mandate of heaven.”
Mao loses almost all of his power at this point.
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hina’s army was made up of peasant recruits, and the Ministry of Defense regarded itself in some measure as the political patron and even voice of millions of peasants.
Seems like an ineffective way to build an army. Also I'm sure many peasants were there because they HAD to be, not because they wanted to be. So why would the Ministry of Defense be considered their voice?
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The call to remember class struggle signaled Mao’s leftism at a time when his Party rivals were tolerating or encouraging much more eclectic economic policies.
Mao seems to constantly be stuck in the past.
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Expansion of higher education
Making progress, becoming more advanced, despite setbacks from a civil war.
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restored social order after a devastating civil war.
Impressive that they were able to make reparations after their civil war.
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Western protestors boasted of imagined or emotional links to China’s rebels.
People always have to be better than everyone else. These people "feel a connection" to the Chinese rebels and therefore must be such better people than the rest of us.
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China’s real modern history begins only with his death
Implies that China today is truly separated from Maoist China, when there still may be links to the past.
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avoid awkward discussions about their own youth, and they adhere to an unspoken understanding to discard recriminations from that period.
Reminds me of how Putin rules over Russia
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It is precisely this kind of hypermasculinity that wasattacked through VOINA’s bridge-penis erection (Russian art group VOINA2012), by representations of Putin as gay in protest placards, and by PussyRiot’s performance.
Intteresting way of attacking Putin
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hypermasculinist image of Putin as a‘real man, who leads bydoing’
This is why Putin does things like riding bears
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The naked masculine: Vladimir Putin
Interesting title
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Today most Russians still think of homosexuality as adisease.
Homosexuality was thought to be mental disorder in the U.S. until 1973
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feminismand Orthodoxy were incompatible
Pussy Riot challenges this statement simply by existing.
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This was certainly the case for Tatiana Mamonova, the iconic figure ofRussian feminism whose earliest activity began in the late 1960s, the first yearsof Brezhnev’s rule. Later, much influenced by Robin Morgan’s anthology,Sisterhood Is Powerful, and the work of Susan Brownmiller and Kate Millett.Mamonova aimed to reach out for support to the international feministmovement through herWoman and Russia: An Almanac for Women about Women,which first appeared in 1979, but her publically expressed attitudes towardssexuality brought her to the attention of the KGB
Some of the influences for Pussy Riot?
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he gendered citizen’s new status was underscored by theconstruction of communal apartments as the dominant form of public housing,which had the effect of making much private life public.
Prior to Stalin's death, the people of Russia had almost no privacy. While they have slightly more today, the conditions back then were far from what they are today. This history led to the current conditions in Russia.
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But the discovery that liberaldemocracies accommodate some social identities better than others raisesunsettling questions about the secondary violence involved in identifying thehuman body with the body politic: Is the body politic male or female? Is it straightor queer? Will it be‘docile’or‘resistant’(Mahmood2001)?
Pussy Riot uses their protests to try to change the body politic in Russia.
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The value of Pussy Riot’sperformance lies in its making visible, and thus available for public debate, the waysin which authoritarianism legitimates its exercise of power by exploiting socialdivisions through a network of institutionalized forces which civil society had come totake for granted.
Their videos of their protests show the brutality of police and the state of Russia. They display a lot of bravery and risk their own safety just to protest Putin.
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‘Punk Prayer’
It's interesting how they incorporate religion into their song, calling it "Punk Prayer".
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obscenity-laced song
It's curious that they're so vulgar in their protest of Putin. If they're protesting against people doing wrong in the world, they would refrain from using obscenities.
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Hull House Songs by Eleanor Smith: A Primary Source Examination
Overall structure of the article was fairly good. I personally believed the order of the information should have been changed but the idea of using subheadings or subparagraphs is a good format for this type of writing.
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Addams and Smith had great motivations to be honest in the publication of these songs. By choosing to be as honest as possible
I don't think that they need to emphasize "honest" so much. The fact that they're factually accurate would be expected and even if they weren't completely accurate, it wouldn't change the message very much. I think the repetition of "honest" is redundant and unnecessary.
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Not only did Smith’s music program influence musical taste, it was often reflective of the political movements and problems that existed in the United States. It therefore was a form of political activism and educated residents about political issues and human rights through the fundamental tools of music. While primarily focused on creating change within, Smith’s musical actions flowed beyond the walls of Hull House and spilled over into the lives of community members
The author does a good job of tying the topic back to the idea of "Music and Political Movements". We need to make sure to do the same and not get caught up just focusing on the source itself. Look at the impact and relation of the source as well.
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Jane Addams and Eleanor Smith: A Quick Bio
This, as well as other section titles, was not very well thought out. It seems like middle school writing, like if you were writing a personal narrative and you titled it "Personal Narrative". Obviously there's not a ton you could do with this particular title but they could have put in a bit more effort than just "A Quick Bio".
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Photo by Diana BooneSource: Smith, Eleanor. Hull House Songs. Chicago: Clayon F. Summy, 1915. Print.
Only included photos of the primary source. Not sure if they didn't have photos of secondary, or if they weren't relevant but maybe we should include photos of our secondary sources in the article for reference.
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Bibliography Addams, Jane. Photograph. Britannica Online for Kids. Web. 4 Elrod, Pamela Gail. “Vocal Music at Hull-House, 1889–1942: An Overview of Choral and Singing Class Events and a Study of the Life and Works of Eleanor Smith, Founder of the Hull-House Music School.” Order No. 3023050 University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 2001. Ann Arbor: ProQuest. Web. 4 Oct. 2015. Green, Shannon Louise. “”Art for Life’s Sake”: Music Schools and Activities in United States Social Settlements, 1892–1942.” Order No. 9826426 The University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1998. Ann Arbor: ProQuest. Web. 4 Oct. 2015. Hull House Interior. Outline Sketch Descriptive of Hull House. Pfeiffer University, n.d. Web. 4 Oct. 2015. Smith, Eleanor. Hull House Songs. Chicago: Clayon F. Summy, 1915. Print. Vaillant, Derek. Sounds of Reform: Progressivism & Music in Chicago, 1873-1935. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2003. Print.
Proper citation of all sources was included. We now see what sources were referenced by their in-text citations, but they should have made that clear in the article.
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“endeavored to connect the musical experiences of pupils in every way possible with the racial background of the family” (Vaillant 110).
The author used an in-text citation here, but it is unclear to what. They never name a book, article, etc. making the citations very confusing.
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