DO NOW: The following selections are from the Thoughts of Chairman Mao. For many years, Chinese
peasants and workers learned to read by studying the "Little Red Book," the name given to Mao's sayings by
westerners. Read the selections carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture or doing embroidery it cannot
be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so.. kind, courteous, restrained, and generous. A revolution is an
insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture or doing embroidery it cannot  be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so.. kind, courteous, restrained, and generous. A revolution is an  insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Tse Tung was a Chinese statesman, he was born in the city of Hunan in 1893, he was born into a family of rural workers. Where his childhood lived, school education was only considered useful to the extent that it could be applied to tasks such as taking records and others proper to agricultural production. Therefore, Mao Tse Tung abandoned his studies at the age of thirteen to devote himself entirely to work on the family farm.

depends on the age of the teen, many believe by the age of 16 a person should know the strong difference between right and wrong along with the difference between risky and immediate death. swimming with sharks might be dangerous but swimming with sharks while bloody meat is attached to you is just insane. even more if you have no idea what you're doing. however, no matter the age, as long as the person is skilled enough and has the mental and physical capacity to control their actions doing whatever sport they put their mind to is all that matters.