Choose 1 of the following questions. Answer with a well-deve…
Choose 1 of the following questions. Answer with a well-developed paragraph of approximately 15–25 sentences, making specific references to the text. Be sure to write the question number next to your answer. 1. What do our class notes say about Caesar Augustus’s social plan for Rome? Identify the author and reading from which the following quote is taken. Referencing the passage, explain if it and the reading as a whole support or oppose Caesar Augustus’s social plan. She flees more swiftly than the lightest breeze,nor will she halt when he calls out to her: “Daughter of Peneus, I pray, hold still,hold still! I’m not a foe in grim pursuit!Thus lamb flees wolf, thus dove from eagle flieson trembling wing, thus deer from lioness,thus any creature flees its enemy,but I am stalking you because of love! Wretch that I am: I’m fearful that you’ll fall,brambles will tear your flesh because of me!the ground you’re racing over’s very rocky,slow down, I beg you, restrain your flight,and I will follow at a lesser speed. Just ask yourself who finds you so attractive!I’m not a caveman, not some shepherd boy,no shaggy guardian of flocks and herds –you’ve no idea, rash girl, you have no ideawhom you are fleeing, that is why you flee! Delphi, Claros, Tenedos are all mine,I’m worshiped in the city of Patara!Jove is my father, I alone revealwhat was, what is and what will come to be!” 2. Identify the author and the title of the poem below: I built my hut beside a traveled roadYet here no noise of passing carts and horses.You would like to know how it is done?With the mind detached, one’s place becomes remote.Picking chrysanthemums by the eastern hedgeI catch sight of the distant southern hills.The mountain air is lovely as the sun setsAnd flocks of flying birds return together.In these things is a fundamental truthI would like to share but lack the words. How does the poem reflect the author’s values and ideal life? Then contrast this ideal with the Confucian ideal of the junzi (gentleman). Which approach do you find more compelling and why? Support your argument with references to the texts. 3. Identify the title of the reading quoted below: Your concern should be with action,Never with action’s fruits;Those should never motivate you,Nor attachment to inaction. Explain the main character’s moral dilemma. Describe how that dilemma is resolved and how the mindset advocated in the quote helps resolve that dilemma. Finally, describe your stance on the values presented in the quote. 4. Identify the title of the reading quoted below: “Regard,” said […], as he held up the girdle,”the symbol of sin, for which my neck bears the scar;a sign of my fault and offense and failure,of the cowardice and covetousness I came to commit.I was tainted by untruth. This, its token,I will drape across my chest till the day I die.” What is the failure mentioned here? How does the character ultimately interpret this failure, and what lesson is learned from it?
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