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Please take a couple of minutes to respond to the reading. What stood out for you? What do you think of it, is it exaggerated?
Overall after reading the packet, the thing that stood out to me the most was how one single concept of belief or religion can have so much impact on the society. Because of the belief of patrilineage if affects the women's status until now. Although several or lots of year passed, this still impacts how women act or say in this society. It also shows how traditions can be so strict and be in people's mind for a long time and does not change.

If Rabbit is too smart for his own good, Owl is the Brain, and piglet...and Pooh...?
Basically, piglet is the question. He is always the one who always has the tendency to think of questions to different topics. He always tends to ask others like Pooh or Eeyore for clarification on all the matters. For instance, piglet was the one who created the letter with the 3 wood sticks on the ground and developed in to further about the whole topic of learning and experience. For Pooh, he is the logic, for example, when he is talking about the name of the days, he mentions how he prefers simplicity but also he still makes sense.

 The Tao says that the ruler should "rule by inaction" How do you make sense of this? Is it at all possible?
The Tao saying that a ruler should "rule by inaction" refers back to the whole principle or topic of how a ruler should not rule the country by force and shouldn't try to use the power to oppress the people and country. The Tao says that a ruler should rule without disrupting the nature and making changes for the one's own benefit. And I believe that this is not possible at all. Since the topic of inaction is all about making changes through natural ways, I believe that this doesn't make sense and that it without actions it won't be possible for the society having to go through all the changes.

Explain right mindfulness and right concentration. Do you see how you could apply this to your daily life? Why or why not?
The concept of right mindfulness and right concentration is all about how one having a clear mind and being able to fully focus on concentrate on one's present rather than their future. It's all about thinking and concentrating about your actions and what you do. I can see how this could apply to our daily lives because by having a full concetration on what you do and what you are doing now, one will be able to work or focus on their duties and responsibility better. But also I still do believe that it is important for one to actually be able to see or have a specific goal that is set for yourself and know what you want to do in the future.



In describing Japanese development, a British Professor in 1873 declared that he felt 400 years old by the end of the century. Explain the historical context behind this quote.
//"Japan had to Westernize or be destroyed." what does that quote mean?//

From the quote above, it clearly shows or represents how Japan was in big danger before their westernization. Japan also usually was controlled by western countries and was about to be taken over. But by westernizing, Japan was able to create the strength that allowed them to go against the western civilizations.

**What do you find most shocking about what you have read so far? How do make sense of such cruelty?** The whole event to me really a shocking event or history to me. But out of the whole things that I read so far the most shocking thing that I realized was that some of the cultures or actions that occurred back then still continue. For example of them can be the fact that the teachers used the quote that the beat you not because they hate you but because they care about you. It was really shocking and really amazed that the this quote originated from such history. Also I was shocked with the fact that these people would do anything to do what they want. The whole act of rape, and the whole brain wash the people did for under the name of their country.

Do you think it was safer to be a communist or a non-communist during Korean War?
Although being both communists and a non-communist were both dangerous in a sense that there really was no clear way to distinguish between one another, it would probably be a better thing to be a non-communists than a communist. In the South if you were a communists it is pretty 100% clear that if found out you would be captured and dead. But on the other hand even if you were a non-communist was accused of being one, you would still be dead. But by being a non-communists and lived quietly and safely it would be probably more safer for one to survive. Even if you were placed in the North side of Korea, as long as you can act like a communists and hid your identity it would probably be more safer and have an easier life compared to a communist in South.


 War was a actions done between countries with certain type of disagreement with each other. Once an act of war in initiated, the question of who caused, who's fault it is, who got most of the damage, and more starts to pop up every where. Although, one side of the war might be more powerful than the other and caused more damage, I really think that this still doesn't give one country an obligation to compensate each other for injustices done in time of war. War can only happen if both or multiple countries start an act of injustices, if only one side does, that really is not a war. In such action that was done in between multiple countries why would it be an obligation for one to compensate for the other? Both of the sides have caused equal amount of damage and injustice actions, for one country to compensate for the other is really unnecessary, if they were really worried about this whole concern both of the sides wouldn't have really started the war in the first place.

Explain the meaning of "Shattered Faith" how does it relate to the story?
Basically the title "Shattered Faith" is related to the story because of Hongyong's broken faith about how she believed that her son Yongwoon might be dead when she thought that he wasn't or at least wanted to believe that he was on his way. And from all the chaos and troubles that she went through, this also made her loose her faith in religion and blames her troubles to it.

Who is the subject? Describe what you see and how is the subject portrayed?
In the above painting we see a subject which is Mao but portrayed him in a very young and idealized way. He stands very strong and looks young. He also stands stiff and is located on the highest part of the ground. From these characteristics we can see that the painter wanted to portray him very idealized and as a powerful leader. Also with the scroll on his hand, it promotes or shows the idea of how Mao has the his way or certain things. It also shows how strong he is about his ideas and his standards that he tries to promote to people.

Write down our reaction to the 4 old and about the revolution. What do these pictures tell you about the Cultural Revolution?
As we can see, through the pictures we can see how the Cultural Revolution was a revolution that dealt with many people and their disagreement to the old traditions and following Mao's way. Many of the pictures shown in the pictures show the consequences of the Four Old. For example in the picture we see many different people burning Buddha's images and statues. This shows their denial towards religion and Confucianism. Also not only Buddhism but also many of the nuns were part of the public shame, due to the 4 Old how many of the people were against any of the old beliefs. We can see that the cultural revolution was not such a happy process and that many of the people who were against this had to suffer and were forced to do many different things.

Evaluating the Revolution 1. It was written by the central committee of CCP on June 27, 1981. 2. Lin Biao and Jian Qing was blamed for mistakes of the Cultural Revolution. 3. Mao is basically blamed for the fact that he initiated the Cultural revolution and created a severe setback and the heaviest losses. Also he believed that they had class disputes but when the people actually did not because they were actually communist nation. He also was the one who gave the power to Lin Biao and Jian Qing. He basically criticized a class that doesn't even exist. 4. The cultural revolution seems to be most blamed towards Lin Biao and Jian Qing, but also towards Mao for the reasons stated above. 5. Firstly one of the main consequences of the revolution was the fact that through the revolution many of the marxist and the Leninism principles and ideas that set up was contradicted. Even some of the ideas that he contributed and the party set up. Secondly due to the 6. 7.