A fourteen page paper looking at this groundbreaking book by Jasper Becker. It shows how Mao's 'Great Leap Forward' of the late 1950s and early 1960s affected the Chinese peasant farmer, and charges that thirty million people died as a result of his bizarre agricultural policies.
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The use of profanity in David Mamet's work is his calling card within the industry. Yet there are those who consider such use as overkill and think he utilizes obscenities merely for the shock value. The writer discusses reasons why Mamet does, in fact, incorporate so much profanity into his plays. Bibliography lists 3 sources. This 5 page essay analyzes this three-act play by Mamet which has the themes of sex, power and emotional warfare.