Natural disasters in China divine retribution: "tianzai" (天災), literally 'heavenly disaster'. In ancient beliefs, natural disasters were seen as Heaven’s response to immoral human behaviour, whereby the conduct of different individuals carried different weights. While the behaviour of common people ranked last, the actions of bureaucrats had a greater effect. Given that in Imperial China the emperor's behaviour was believed to be the most important, popular belief was that the emperor should attempt to prevent disasters by ensuring his conduct was in following with moral codes – and if a disaster should occur, he was responsible for addressing the consequences. According to the Overseas
Country School (1931 film) Country School (1931 film) Country School is a 1931 animated short film by Walter Lantz Productions and stars Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The soundtrack of the cartoon was missing for many years, until the discovery of a sound print in 2015. Oswald and his girlfriend Kitty were going to school, for which they were late. The teacher later played a song for all of the students, but a hippo student spat at the teacher and put a balloon in Oswald's pants, so the teacher smacked Oswald, at which the balloon burst. The teacher said that school was dismissed, then finally