KEY POINTS: Chapter 13 Essential Question: How much of an influence did Chinese culture have in the development of Japan‚ Korea and Vietnam? Identify: Taika reforms – attempt to remake Japanese monarch into absolute Chinese-style emperor & create pro bureaucracy & peasant army Bushi – regional warrior leaders; rule small kingdoms‚ administer laws‚ supervise public works‚ collect revenues‚ build private armies Samurai – mounted troops of bushi; loyal to local lords‚ not the emperor Seppuku
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Chapter 13. Pricing concepts for establishing value Price – the overall sacrifice a consumer is willing to make to acquire a specific product or service. This sacrifice necessarily includes the money that must be paid to the seller to acquire the item‚ but it also may involve other sacrifices‚ whether nonmonetary‚ like the value of the time necessary to acquire the product or service‚ or monetary‚ like travel costs‚ taxes‚ shipping costs‚ and so forth‚ all of which the buyer must give up to take
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A short story is a brief work of literature‚ usually written in narrative prose.[1] Emerging from earlier oral storytelling traditions in the 17th century‚ the short story has grown to encompass a body of work so diverse as to defy easy characterization. At its most prototypical the short story features a small cast of named characters‚ and focuses on a self-contained incident with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.[2] In so doing‚ short stories make use of plot‚ resonance‚ and other
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Short Poetry Paper Organic poetry generally seems to be the most common type of poetry. To me‚ they are the easiest to come by‚ but aren’t always the easiest to understand simply because they are taken straight from random thoughts of the poet and jotted down on paper‚ a napkin‚ or any kind of canvas available to that poet. Although they don’t have much planning and are difficult to decipher‚ it is possible. When Patricia Smith wrote “What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (for Those of You Who Aren’t)”
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times when we read a story we don’t realize all the different approaches a writer may use to make his or her story more interesting or complex. These approaches are considered critical approaches and they allow us to dig deeper into a story and discover a whole new meaning. Author‚ Salman Rushdie‚ uses several critical approaches in his novel “Haroun and The Sea of Stories.” Upon reading this story we can find there are several of these approaches to consider. However‚ what really stands out throughout
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A PERSONAL APPROACH TO COUNSELING USING A SHORT STORY A Personal Approach to Counseling Using a Short Story Being a counselor and working with people‚ things are not always as easy as they seem to be. People are not as simple as they seem. In one minute they are happy‚ then sad the next moment. This complexity of the human person made me realize that one form of solution will never be enough in achieving goals and self-actualization. And so‚ as a therapist‚ I created my personal style in counseling
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when I was young in life and everything was still new to me. It also reminds me of learning and experiencing new things for the first time yet makes me wonder what the future holds. Some of the situation in this poem somehow related to me. When I read this poem I feel motivated to do things better. There are so many lessons to be learned from this poem. ‘if’ By: Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you‚ If you can trust yourself
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Chapter 13 Worlds Entangled‚ 1600–1750 Chapter Summary From 1600 to 1750‚ trade continued to expand‚ tying all areas of the globe together. Demands for silver‚ sugar‚ spices‚ silks‚ cotton‚ and porcelain drove trade so that products from each major global region could be found virtually everywhere else. Silver allowed economies to become commercialized and began to strengthen the hand of European trade. Europeans began moving‚ and forcibly moving Africans‚ into new places while Europeans expanded
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Chapter 13 Vocab Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs): Synthetic organic compounds first created in the 1950s and used primarily as refrigerants and as propellants. The role of CFCs in the destruction of the ozone layer led to the signing of an international agreement (the Montreal Protocol). Anthropocene: Geological epoch defined by atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen to acknowledge the central role humans play in shaping the Earth’s environment. Pangaea: The primeval supercontinent‚ hypothesized
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a world in which every kid received a wand from the Gods themselves. One of these kids was a boy named David. Growing up‚ David had a great interest in the wand‚ however‚ he never really knew how to use it. He would spend days waving it around‚ sticking in the ground‚ and even going as far as naming it. "Hrad Wrok" he called it. He imagined all the problems that he could fix in the world if only he could harness the wand’s magical powers. Sadly‚ just like everyone in his community‚ the older he grew
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