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2. The main scripture in Daoism is the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching). What is the history and importance of this text for the tradition?

    

    

3. How are Daoist ideals expressed through art? Offer several examples.

    

    

4. What challenges does Daoism face in the modern world?

    

    

5. Explain a situation to which following the Daoist principle of wu wei might be beneficial to you or others. In what situation might following the principle of wu wei be harmful in some way?

    

 

 

 

Complete the following questions in detail. Answer each question with a 1- or 2-paragraph response that includes a reference citation. Make use of Experiencing the World’s Religions and other sources in your research as you complete the questions.

 

 

 

1. Describe the principles of yang and yin.

    

    

2. The main scripture in Daoism is the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching). What is the history and importance of this text for the tradition?

    

    

3. How are Daoist ideals expressed through art? Offer several examples.

    

    

4. What challenges does Daoism face in the modern world?

    

    

5. Explain a situation to which following the Daoist principle of wu wei might be beneficial to you or others. In what situation might following the principle of wu wei be harmful in some way?

   
   

   Cite References
   

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      X.     Directions for Annotated Bibliography Project

1. Students will choose FOUR topics from the following research list below:

Askia Muhammad, The Middle Passage, John Newton, Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker, Crispus Attucks, Toussaint L’Ouverture, The Haitian Revolution for Independence, David Walker, Richard Allen, Paul Cuffe, The America Colonization Society, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, The Underground Railroad, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, The Anti-Slavery/Abolitionist Movement, Frederick Douglass, The Dred Scott Decision, Jim Crow and Segregation, Maria W. Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, Martin R. Delany, Henry Highland Garnet, The Amistad Mutiny, John Q. Adams and the Amistad Case, The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, John Brown’s Raid, The Emancipation Proclamation, The 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Lincoln and Slavery, Reconstruction, Sharecropping, Ida B. Wells, and Booker T. Washington.

 2. Find two articles for each topic chosen. In one large paragraph, take topic #1 and (a) summarize each of the two articles; (b) compare the two articles to each other; and (3) give a personal statement as to why this topic is important to African American history and culture in your eyes.

Do the same for topics #2–#4 in three additional large paragraphs.

 

3.  Minimum size for each of the four paragraphs is one full half page, single-spaced.

4. The articles you select are to come from professional/scholarly journals and periodicals only – not popular magazines and newspapers.

5. You are required to use the APA format for this project.

      ( Be sure to refer to the APA citation instructions available in reference books, Google or other Internet sites.)

6.  Paper must be single-spaced, typed and stapled. Use no larger than a 12 font.

 

2 pages

You will submit reading reflections for the following book:

 

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E.Baptist (Due Monday, March 6, 2017) 8 am

 

 

  

Reading Reflection Must Include the following:

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In 1-4 paragraphs, summarize the book. 1 page (50 points):

Your summary should include the main argument/thesis of the book.

Your summary should talk about the evidence that the author uses to support the thesis of the book.

Your summary should include the book title and period.

Your summary should include the main subjects of this book.

Your summary should include the context/setting of the book.

Your summary should how the author traces change overtime—what changed from the beginning of this period to the end of this period.

Your summary should include what the author argues are continuities the book.

Identify and Interpret one (1) Illustrative Fact (25 points): An illustrative fact is the information that the author uses to support the argument, or tell the story. Information that you find important that you did not already know. Look for statistics, laws, facts, etc. Here is an example from Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow (2010):

• Fact:“The impact of the drug war has been astounding. In less than thirty years, the U.S penal population exploded from around 300,000 to more than 2 million, with drug convictions accounting for the majority of the increase.

• Interpretation: Drug arrest are one of the causal factors for mass incarceration.

Create three (3) hashtags with annotations (25 points): What is an annotation? An annotation is an explanation; therefore, your annotation should explain the hashtag.

• Three (3) hashtags that answer this question: How does this book address the course description: “We will explore how the system and institution of slavery shaped America’s economy, politics, culture, and fundamental principles. Additionally, this course will grapple with the gendered aspects of slavery, the communal practices of enslaved folks, and the resistances to slavery in the United States.”

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 Response on other question In addition, post a short (5-7 dense, useful sentence) 

2. Are we Civilized yet?

Instead of using the term “civilization” the textbook uses the word or term “society.” Specifically, the text uses the term “complex society” to refer to “a form of large-scale social organization that emerged in several parts of the ancient world.” According to the authors, complex societies depended on robust agricultural economies. In these economies more food was produced than was needed for subsistence. Because of the excess food, people were able to specialize on other tasks and people became political authorities, government official, military experts, etc.

The use of the term “complex society” has a different connotation or meaning than the term “civilization.” Historians today might be reluctant to use the term “civilization” or “civilized” because according to the Dictoniary.com, the term originated in the mid-18thcentury with one meaning being “the act or process of bringing out of a savage or uneducated state.” The term, therefore, implies that a group of people have reached or developed to a particular stage, while others need to reach a certain stage to be considered “civilized.” The term establishes a hierarchy for looking at different cultures or settlements. This hierarchal frame is unhelpful for the study of history because it may lead the student to dismiss or undervalue different social structures or cultures that don’t necessarily fit within our current understanding of the word “civilized.”

A course with a title like “World Civilizations” may imply that only particular groups of people or particular cultures will be studied. Societies that may not be considered complex in our text or “civilized”, such as early hunters and gathers, were societies with complex social structures and settlements that had important implications for world history.

(http://www.dictionary.com/browse/civilization?s=t)

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