Writing Assignment #2 INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Read question and readings listed. 2. Complete outline before coming to class. 3. You will write your essay in class. Q: Judging by the cultural standards of classical periods in China and India‚ were women better off in classical India or classical China? Background information: See attached reading and p. 50-57 in Stearns reader. OUTLINE I. Introduction A. Thesis B. Overview of position II. Position: Hint: India
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Confucian Values a. Ren: A sense of humanity‚ kindness‚ benevolence b. Li: A sense of propriety‚ courtesy‚ respect‚ deference to elders c. Xiao: Filial piety‚ familial obligation d. Develop personal ethics and Junzi for bringing order to China 4. Mencius (372-289 B.C.E.)‚ spokesman for the Confucian school a. Believed in the goodness of human nature (Ren) b. Supported government by generosity and humanity 5. Xunzi (298-238 B.C.E.) had a less positive view of human nature a. Believed that humans selfishly
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a period in which small feuding kingdoms or fiefdoms struggled for supremacy. It took place in the Zhou dynasty from 403 bc. to 221bc. The period was dominated by seven or more small feuding Chinese kingdoms. It was the age of Confucian thinkers Mencius and Xunzi‚ and the time when many of the government institutions and cultural patterns that would characterize China for the next 2‚000 years were established. Legalism achieved what all the other philosophies strove for‚ unification of China. The
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The differences between Classical Athens and Han China were major and distinctive. The background information‚ government‚ values of the individual‚ and art of each society show how differently each empire developed. Within the background information of both Athens and Han China you can automatically notice evident differences between the two. The first document shows the maps of both empires side by side. The Han Empire is isolated and much bigger than Athens’s city-state Attica‚ which is a mere
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KEY POINTS: Chapter 13 Essential Question: How much of an influence did Chinese culture have in the development of Japan‚ Korea and Vietnam? Identify: Taika reforms – attempt to remake Japanese monarch into absolute Chinese-style emperor & create pro bureaucracy & peasant army Bushi – regional warrior leaders; rule small kingdoms‚ administer laws‚ supervise public works‚ collect revenues‚ build private armies Samurai – mounted troops of bushi; loyal to local lords‚ not the emperor Seppuku
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Hermeneutics’ [1998]. Reception Study. From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies‚ ed. J.L. Machor & P. Goldstein‚ New York & London: Routledge‚ 39-60. Needham‚ Rodney. 1972. Belief‚ Language and Experience. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Richards‚ I.A. 1932. Mencius on the Mind. London: Kegan Paul‚ Trench‚ Trubnere & Co. Richards‚ I.A. 1955 Speculative Instruments. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Rorty‚ Richard. 1989. Contingency‚ Irony and Solidarity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sinn‚ Elisabeth. 1995
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Oracle - Oracle- Database Management System Data management is an extraordinarily old craft. Aristotle ’s scheme of interlocking classifications of knowledge in his work Physica is a data-management effort. In the early 1800s the Jacquard loom used holes punched in paper cards to represent instructions for controlling the action of a loom. These cards became the basis for Herman Hollerith’s card-sorting device‚ used for the 1890 U.S. census http://80-gme.grolier.com.ezproxy.apollolibrary.com. Many
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felt were the “basis of morality” were humanity‚ ritual propriety‚ and filial respect. Confucius said “humanity was the essential goodness and affection for others that makes us unique from other animal species. (Adler 1)” Following Confucius‚ Mencius put it‚ “To be human is to be humane.” Ritual propriety is the “necessary outward expression in behavior of that
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Multiple Choice: (C) - Mesopotamia comes from the Greek word “mesos” - meaning middle‚ and the Greek work “potamos” - meaning river. As such‚ Mesopotamia means “between rivers”‚ which is apt‚ considering it was build between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Mesopotamia had an arid climate that could facilitate the irrigation of crops. (B) - The first man to be considered an emperor was Sargon of Akkad‚ also known as Sargon the Great. His reign in Mesopotamia lasted from 2334 to 2779 BCE. He ruled
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Pound thought that in all times life has always presented fragments to the mind. This is the natural case…Since life presents fragments‚ it’s not surprising that our minds are inherently disposed to work with them. Though Pound’s fragments are perfectly definite‚ their implications are endless and contradictory (223-224). Pound also extracts from Greek mythology presenting the word in Greek. That is to say‚ Pound named H.D. “Dryad‚” the wood spirit muse of his earliest poems. “Dryad”‚ or “Δρυάς is
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