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ten Buddhism temples in China and the symbol of Hangzhou. Nowadays, this Buddhist holy site attracts millions of tourists from home and aboard every year. The history of Lingyin Temple could be tracked back to AD 326 in ancient China, it was the Eastern Jin Dynasty period. Legend has it that an western Indian monk named Huili traveled around the China, came to Hangzhou and…

Criterion A: Rationale and Preliminary Research Being Born in South Korea, I've always found the eastern religions a fascinating subject to study. I suppose examining them provided me a link with my birth place. Despite Taoism not being one of the major religions of South Korea, I have always viewed it as the eastern religion with a strong connection to my birth nation. While the link may not be obvious to most people, it becomes clear when you examine the National flag. Displayed…

Ian Fessenden ARTH-1300 11/1/17 Annotated Bibliography for “Dog” Berthold Laufer, Chinese Pottery of the Han Dynasty (EJ Brill Ltd. 1909) X-11 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89057248973;view=1up;seq=21 Examines the techniques, skills, and crafts of the Han Dynasty Era pottery. Does so through an analysis of the history of pottery prior to the Han Dynasty, during it, and post Han Dynasty, therefore to present the changes and shifts in cultural,religious, and societal influences…

Chinese Geography/ Topography China has a great variety of climate. The vast land expanses of China include plateaus, plains, basins, foothills, and mountains. Defining rugged plateaus, foothills and mountains as mountainous, they occupy nearly two-thirds of the land. The south has some tropical rainforests covering the land. North-west China is covered in vast desert. China has the Himalayan Mountains. Melted snow from the mountains create water for the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.The…

Dynasty, there were many Spy agencies developed by different emperors. They are the Eastern Depot Factory, Western Depot Factory and the Jinyiwei (Emperors’ personal bodyguards). Each were created for its own purpose and to each agency. Eastern Depot was created by Zhu Yuan Zhang’s fourth son Zhu Di. Western Depot was created by Zhu Jian Shen, Ming Dynasty’s eighth emperor. The most famous Jinyiwei was created by Hong Wu Emperor Zhu Yuan Zhang himself, it functioned as secret polices to…

The Han dynasty was China’s first long lasting Dynasties. This dynasty lasted from 206 BCE to 220 CE. The Han Dynasty was built from the remains of the dynasty prior, the Qin Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty Is China’s imperial Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty was notorious for having a very harsh government. This led to many people either being killed or leaving. Adventurer Liu Bang took part in a rebellion against the Qin Dynasty. He would later become the emperor of the Han Dynasty and rule from 206 BCE to…

Eastern and western religions are very different in terms of their belief systems and character. Hinduism and Taoism are the religions I looked at among the eastern religions while Islam and Christianity are among the western religions I looked at. Western and Eastern religions have similarities within their regions but differ when the regions become divided into east and west. They have different beliefs in terms of religious nature, views of God and main concerns. The religious natures…

Enheduanna (~2300 BCE): Enheduanna was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad, the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire in Ancient Sumeria, approximately 2300 BCE. She is the largely credited as being the world’s first named author; she wrote numerous poems, psalms, and prayers which lay the foundation for later Hebrew psalms and the Homeric Hymns of Ancient Greece. Enheduanna served as High Priestess to the Akkadian Empire, and was charged with the responsibility to maintain the city’s temple complex…

Many studies have been done on legitimacy surveys asking questions about confidence and trust of the police and the public's willingness to follow the police orders. Tyler and Muo(2002) conducted a study to access these types of questions to learn people's sense of accepting police decisions. they found that people who viewed the police as legitimate were more likely to accept their orders. When police act fairly and used procedural justice they were more accepting of the police actions. In…

with patients and families with multiple sclerosis, cancer, human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis C, myocardial infarctions, and transplantation (Alligood, 2014; Brashers et al., 2003; Cypress, 2016; Giammanco et al., 2014; Steele, Aylward, Jensen, & Wu, 2009; Stewart, Lynn, & Mishel, 2010). Applying the theory in practice has grown beyond individuals living in the United States to various nations around the world (Iranmanesh, Tirgari, Tofighi, & Forouzi,…