Using the excerpts of the Analects, what should a gentleman “revere?”
What will be an ideal response?
Be sure to include the earthly and the spiritual, the personal and the civic, in your answer. Engaging the concept of reverence, what did Confucius mean by a gentleman, and how that was distinguished from the “petty people?”
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Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because he feared that it would
a. lead to southern filibustering to take Cuba and other southern lands. b. bring the British into the war. c. surrender all of the western territories to the South. d. reunite the Democratic Party. e. cause war with Mexico.
Compare and contrast urban life for middle-class and working-class city dwellers. What role was played by the culture of mass consumption?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The real gender behavior of men and women is far more flexible, adaptable, and malleable than our beliefs would suggest. 2. Masculinity and femininity are fixed patterns of behavior related to gender. 3. The phrase “sex as a biological fact” means that sex is a very fluid, constantly changing, and culturally determined entity. 4. Gender is a human invention and allows people in societies to organize themselves and allocate resources. 5. Sex is more like a continuum than a dichotomy since all humans have estrogen, prolactin, and testosterone in varying and changing levels.
Most slaves in the Persian Empire were __________
A) debtors B) conquered Medes C) Greeks D) battle captives