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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?**

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What stood out the most to me in the reading was that how unequally women were treated in the society. Before confucianism was brought into Korea in Chosun dynasty, women were treated equally as men. But soon Confucianism was adapted to Korean society and government. Then women had became treated in bad ways. They lost most of their freedom and rights, it seems like they lived very unfair lives. Even though it is surprising to hear how badly women were discriminated, the facts in the reading seems to be true. The woman in the reading was telling a true story from her experience. Also I can still see some men having advantages over women these days.======

If rabbit is too smart for his own good, owl is the brain, and piglet, pooh?**
 * 2/22

Piglet can be descried as a man who is afraid to try something new. He always want to the way things that he have been doing. Piglet feels uncomfortable when he does something besides the traditional ways. Piglet is afraid to try something new and to make a mistake or to fail. For Pooh, he is describing an wise taoist man. He values knowledge as well as the other characters, but he values experience as much as knowledge. Pooh wishes to not to repeat the same mistakes and failures from gaining new experiences.

The Tao says that the ruler should "rule by inaction" How do you make sense of this? Is it at all possible?**
 * 2/26-2/27

"Rule by inaction refers to that ruler should not try or force to change the way people act and the environment of the country changes. Just react to how situations turns out to be like. For instance causing a war for the benefit of the country or making unnecessary laws are not a must. Leader of a society or a nation should just let the citizens to act the way they acting. Unless there are some situations that people are having hard times and can not take care of themselves.

Explain right mindfulness and right concentration. Do you see how you could apply this to your daily life? Why or why not?**
 * 3/11

Right mindfulness and right concentration are needed things to live. Right mindfulness helps one to behave in the good way, and right concentration is meditation and being aware of one's surrounding. They are the good concentrations and mindfulness to help one reach the stage of being enlightened. Sometimes concentration can help one to relax and find peace in themselves. It might not be the best thing to do in leisure time. But it is a good way to find yourselves and peace. Such as meditating before going to bed, it might help one going to bed in peace.

 **4/1 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.**

What the British professor said about Japanese development was referring to the event that how much things had happened during the time. Around 1873 a lot of changes had occurred in Japan. Society systems and government systems had both changed. Also the change happened very fast. Those might be the reasons why the British professor came up with the quote.

"Th question is not frequently asked... is not Japan going ahead too fast? In some respect we fear she is."**
 * 4/3

Japan is one of the world's most fast developing countries. Japan have always moved on and improved in fast pace through out the history. A country that is developing in a fast pace can be a threat to other countries, because they have to develop even faster if they have to catch up. In the quote the editor have an opinion that Japan is going too fast, just like how they developed their country  There were lots of material in the reading that i did not know. There were lots of horrible things happened during this historical event. The Japanese people treated Chinese and their own Japanese citizens.
 * 4/10, 4/13 What do you find most shocking about what you have read so far? How do make sense of such cruelty?**

**4/28 Do you think it was safer to be a communist or anti-communist during the Korean War?

4/30 Do countries have an obligation to c****ompensate each other for injustices done in time of war?** Yes, it will be necessary for both side to compensate. It is for sure that harms will be done to both countries.

If the U.S cross the Yalu river, China will be severely provoke China, which will result in China entering the war.
 * 5/7** **What did the U.S have to consider in regards to China and the Yalu River?**

According to the reading, America's constant aggravation towards China caused China to enter the war and fight on the side of the North Korea.
 * According to the reading, what was the reason China entered the war?**

Chinese had a very big affect on the war. China was a strong country that could fight against the U.S and UN troops. Chinese military could push UN and US troops down to South. They helped the North Korea to win the war and stay as a communist country.
 * What effect did it have on the US, ROK and UN troops?**

The Korean war that occurred between South and North Korea caused the distrust between the citizens of the South and North Korea. Before the war broke out Korea was united and the citizens were all together. As they fought they began to have more hatred towards each other. After the war both Koreans that had different ideas about their governments, began to have distrust towards each other.
 * 5/8 Explain the meaning of "Shattered Faith" how does it relate to the story? **

1) When was this document written and by whom?** The Chinese Communist Party Central Committee wrote the document on June 27, 1981.
 * Questions on Reflections on the Cultural Revolution pages 82-84

Lin Biao, Jiang Qing, and others who were placed in important positions by Mao were blamed for the mistakes and wrongs that occurred during the Cultural Revolution.
 * 2) According to the document, who was largely to blame for the excesses and mistakes of the Cultural Revolution?**

The CCP believes that the Mao is responsible for giving the wrong people the power and authority.
 * 3) What errors does the CCP believe Mao was responsible for?**

Through out the most of the document, the writing claims that Lin Biao Jiang Qing and the anti-communists were the most to be blamed for the result of the Cultural Revolution. It can be inferred that Mao blamed the other people and accused them for being guilty to give people good impressions of him.
 * 4) Who seems most responsible according to the document? How does this play into the memory of Mao as a leader and his Cult of Personality?**
 * 5) What does the CCP believe the consequences of the Cultural Revolution are? (4 of them) each person in your group read one, and explains it to others**
 * 4,The paragraph says that the Cultural Revolution did not bring anything development nor changes. It just was called a revolution, it did not change help China in Social and Economic ways. In fact it only brought disorder and damages.

It is like a type of Cult of Personality. The Chinese Communist Party did not wanted the Chinese people to lose faith in them. They wanted the people support. In order to do that they had to admit some of their faults, but at the same time they had to tell the people what they have achieved.
 * 6) Why do you think the document mentions achievements made by China during the Cultural Revolution?**

The tone at the end of the paragraph is used to keep the support from the Chinese citizens Also it is being nationalistic.
 * 7) Describe the tone at the end of the document. Why do you think it ends this way?**