Essays Tagged: "Agrarian reform"

Why the communists won the Chinese Civil War.

support from the peasantry than did the Kuomintang. A chief reason for this would be the policy of agrarian reform that Mao advocated and instituted in areas that came under communist influence from ...

(6 pages) 132 1 4.4 Jun/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays

More harm than good

ommunist government was elected in Nicaragua. They had popular support based on elaborate plans for agrarian reform and an egalitarian distribution of wealth. Arguing that communism in any country was ... e. In the novel, Codi considers her beloved sister Hallie's move to Nicaragua to participate in the agrarian reform as helping to save the world. The perspective of the novel supports the cause of the ...

(5 pages) 32 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Agrarian Reform that Works: A Study of Brazilian Agrarian Reform

Agrarian Reform that WorksSince it's Proclamation of Independence in 1822, Brazil has had a wide and ... ation apart. One of Brazil's most pressing political and economic issues of today is the problem of agrarian reform. While the Brazilian government seems to be sitting back and turning a rather apathe ... After the French Revolution the people took the lands from the nobles by force and the precedent of agrarian reform was set. It was at this time that these estates were viewed as being some of the gre ...

(10 pages) 67 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

18 Years of CARP: Reclassification and Unfavorable Rulings Take Land Away from Tillers

While government boasts of having placed under the agrarian reform program millions of hectares of land, farmer-beneficiaries complain they lose the la ... to 1,907,309 farmer-beneficiaries. In a press conference at the Office of the Secretary on June 5, Agrarian Reform Secretary Nasser Pangandaman said he would ask Congress to legislate another five-ye ... ther five-year extension for the program that started in 1988. Former Pres. Corazon Aquino declared agrarian reform as her administration's centerpiece program. DAR Field Operations Undersecretary Na ...

(14 pages) 21 0 4.6 Sep/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Pancho Villa's Leadership

Pancho Villa was a Mexican revolutionary leader who advocated on behalf of the poor and wanted agrarian reform. Born Doroteo Arango in San Juan del Río, Durango, in 1877, was the man most ...

(6 pages) 15 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

Hungarian Immigration to Canada

colonies on the prairies by peasant settlers; their motives fuelled by discontent with the lack of agrarian reform in Hungary and hopes for economic prosperity in the West. The second phase of immigr ... ngary was still chiefly predial land. Economic and social questions and quandaries were those of an agrarian society undergoing steady industrialization. Hungary's burgeoning industrial sector did not ...

(9 pages) 0 0 0.0 Sep/2013

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Returning to the Southern Tradition: Thomas Wolfe and the Southern Agrarians

Returning to the Southern Tradition:Thomas Wolfe and the Southern AgrariansSachin GuptaCapitalism has always and forever will be linked with the value of individualis ... is merely an excuse for the rich to hastily oppress the poor. Far from being Marxists, the Southern Agrarians of Nashville, Tennessee expressed this anti-capitalist sentiment in their 1930 collection, ... s in the post-antebellum South, this collection of biographical essays advocates the restoration of Agrarianism and condemns the progressive ideals of the North. Several of these prominent individuals ...

(8 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing