After reading your comments, I thought I should follow up. Many of you found it shocking how the government used children as pawns in the revolution. In class, let's discuss and research the use of children in civil wars. When has it happened in the past? Why does it happen? What effect does it have on the children and society as a whole? How can we stop it?
In the comments, share any articles you can find on this topic, as well as your thoughts and insights. Try to find sources that other students haven't looked at yet.
To start you out, you can take a look at this article: Beyond Kony 2012, Children are used in most civil wars
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Check This Out: An Online Museum About The Cultural Revolution
Online Museum Exhibit: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times
This is the description from the museum's home page:
"Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times is one of the few museum exhibits to examine the tumultuous Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which shook China from 1966 to 1976. Based upon a collection made by David J. Davies in 2001, the exhibit ran at the Burke Museum from January to March, 2002, and at the Maxey Museum at Whitman College from March to May. It is scheduled to run at the University of Oregon in November, 2002.
Ordinary Life is the first exhibit in the United States to show both the political paraphernalia of the time--Red Guard armbands, flags, and Mao badges--and the objects of everyday life, from rice bowls and a chopstick holder to utility bill receipts, a radio, and a cigarette lighter.
The physical exhibit is organized around 9 panels, each dealing with a different phase or aspect of the Cultural Revolution, and containing objects and pictures from that time. In this on-line exhibit, you can click to see each panel with its accompanying text, and within each panel section, you can click to see and read about some of the most interesting objects in that section. When you are finished, we invite you to share your thoughts in our discussion space."
Should one of your assignments be to pick one exhibit and present the material to your classmates?
This is the description from the museum's home page:
"Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times is one of the few museum exhibits to examine the tumultuous Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which shook China from 1966 to 1976. Based upon a collection made by David J. Davies in 2001, the exhibit ran at the Burke Museum from January to March, 2002, and at the Maxey Museum at Whitman College from March to May. It is scheduled to run at the University of Oregon in November, 2002.
Ordinary Life is the first exhibit in the United States to show both the political paraphernalia of the time--Red Guard armbands, flags, and Mao badges--and the objects of everyday life, from rice bowls and a chopstick holder to utility bill receipts, a radio, and a cigarette lighter.
The physical exhibit is organized around 9 panels, each dealing with a different phase or aspect of the Cultural Revolution, and containing objects and pictures from that time. In this on-line exhibit, you can click to see each panel with its accompanying text, and within each panel section, you can click to see and read about some of the most interesting objects in that section. When you are finished, we invite you to share your thoughts in our discussion space."
Should one of your assignments be to pick one exhibit and present the material to your classmates?
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