Keanu

1) Finish up Scholarship and knowledge “my words are very easy to understand and very easy to put into practice,”but Straight forward word seem paradoxical..

What does this mean? How does it come into play in the tao of pooh with regard to scholars. He says that his word or explanations are very easy to understand. He doesn’t use fancy or gigantic words, because of this it is easy for the listener to understand.

2) Read the poem on page 30. What does pooh seem to think about scholars? How does that relate to the Taoist view of knowledge.

Pooh thinks struggling like a scholar are unimportant matters and make one increasingly confused. Its related because scholar thinks they know everything so they become confident. Or for other people they think scholars are kind of like show off’s

//**Write a short reflection of what you learned from these readings. With the benefit of hind site and knowledge of China and Japan, would Korea had been better off if it had “opened up to the west.”**//

From my reading's I learned a lot of things about this topic. I found out that Koreans fought and refused to have peace for other country, because for them it's like giving up they're own country. Also they isolated them selves to western society, that is why they suffered foreign attacks because they are behind in technology. Koreans does not want to open themselves to other country. They do not want Western stuff's being mixed in their country. They only want their own thing's and beliefs. They do not even allowed tradings with other countries.

I think that Korea should have opened up to the West, so that they could get new stuffs to make their country more modernized. But because they wont open up to the West they could not be modernized, they could not get any new stuffs, like weapons. No wonder they always suffer from foreign attacks, because their weapons are really old school compared to the other nations that opened up to the West. They got much better guns and swords, but Korea sticked with their old weapons so they do not have enough power to beat the enemy.


 * //Chapter 1 Rape of Nanking//**

This event that has happened during the world war 2 is really horrifying. I wish that it has been remained forgotten. The Japanese attacked Nanking and continously stretching to //Hangchow//, the killing and slaughtering exceptionally good. So many Japanese people murdered or raped a lot of Chinese citizens. After reading the introduction and the Chapter one of the book, it made me think why such a horrible thing happen to our world? Why would Japan want to kill thousands of innocent people of China? It is really sad to think about this incident. So now in modern day we should educate everyone so that this horrible event would never occur again. For example Saddam tried to make a biological war fare but immediately prevented. So we must be careful, educate our selves and prevent everyone to do such a thing, because of what they always say "History repeats its self."


 * Why do you think the Japanese were so cruel? How can ordinary Japanese soldiers commit such atrocities(cruel acts)?**

I also have the same questions that is popping out in my mind. It is really sad that this kind of things happened. It is very cruel. What got in true their minds to do this kind of cruel act. didnt they feel sorry for all the innocent people or even a child that did not even know what is happening. Why would they molest a child who does not even what are they doing yet. They even raped an eighty year old women! I mean like shes too old didnt they feel sorry for her?!

The Chapters that we read is basically about Japanese going to China and attacking them for no reason. They have attacked Nanking first, since that is the Capital of China. They bombed the whole city, from the air you could see a lot of people running around like ants. They bombed the city continously, they didnt even feel sorry for the people that is beneat. After they have conquered Nanking no one survived. Every Chinese people that live's there has been killed or ran away. After taking ove the city, they continues their cruelty by moving forward, also by attacking every villige or towns that they go to. They kill Innocent people and rape's women.

This event is just horrible. They're cruelty is over to the max, they kill and rape people for no reason. I read from the part of the book that they did this act because they boasted that they can take over China. How could they do that, they killed a lot of people. Normal Japanese soldiers had fun with it... I guess. The reason is they have raped and molested a lot of women, but it is really sad that this happened in our world. Let's just hope that this event doesnt happen again, becase like what most people say's history repeat's.

//**Do countries have an obligation to compensate each other for injustices done in time of war?**//

I believe that countries does not have an obligation to compensate each other for injustices done in time of war. It is because that it has been done long time ago and I think that everyone should just forget about it and get on their lives. Lets just forget about it,because the mistake is been done by our ancestors. and we should just put it behind us and should learn from our mistakes. We could learn more and prevent this kind of things to happen again.

//**NOVEMBER 13-14 write a two paragraph reflection: Should Korea and China have a say in what Japan puts into its textbooks?**//

Korea and China could not say anything about Japanese textbooks. Even though Korea and Chinese might get offended about the information's on the Japanese text books, they cannot do anything about it because it is not their country. As a matter of fact the textbook from all three countries is based on its own. For example, in the Korean text books they only listed the facts about Japanese people doing their cruel acts to Korean people and did not list the fact about the incapability of Korean government to protect its own land. Korea and China refuses to to delete their own cruelness against Japanese in textbooks, so pushing Japanese people to change their text books is a mindless act. this will spark off another distort in the history book and false ideas. So I think that the other nation should accept the defect's on Japanese text books and should live them alone. Like giving their own rights to print their own text books and also teach theirs children about it.