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Essay Instructions: Confucius
Read:
The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the Mean

Write a 600 word essay incorporating the following:

1) Choose 5 quotes from Confucius and give an example from your own life to show an understanding of his philosophical stance.

2) What can we learn about Chinese culture and history from reading Confucius?

Again, it is very important that you use quotes from the reading to support your response.

Essay Instructions: Confucius claimed to be a transmitter rather than an innovator (Analects 7.1), yet as we have discussed in class, Confucius introduced new--even revolutionary--changes to old ideas and practices in areas such as ritual, self-cultivation, and authority. In a two-page essay, analyze the innovative aspects of early Confucianism to show how those aspects differed from inherited traditions of the past and what impact they had on the philosophy of Confucius.

Essay Instructions: Paper topic is Confucius.

I need five double spaced pages of content. The paper must have the following three headings to organize the paper:

1. A Review of Literature (3 1/2 pages)
This is a historical review about the individual

2. Results/Conclusion (1 1/2 pages)
This section should list a set of competencies/traits that distinuish the leader with examples that help demonstrate this competency/trait. The following leader characteristics may be used: Established a Vision, Stimulate People to Gain New Competencies, Help People to Overcome Obstacles, Help People to Overcome Failure, Lead By Example, Include Others is Their Successes.

3. Bibliography
No more than two references can be internet

The following margins must be used: Top, bottom and right margins .6 inch. Left margin 1 inch. Header and footers .5 inch.

Essay Instructions: Write a five page THESIS driven essay about:

- Using only Confucius "Analects" and Plato's "philosopher King" (will be sent via fax), construct an argument on their ideas of virtues and societal roles. Based upon you analysis, argue that the responsibility for a "good society" rely upon the individual, the state, or a combination of the two? clearly support you position based solely upon the evidence found in the reading of "Analects" and "philosopher king".

Guidelines:
- Do NOT summarize the original documents. Construct your own thesis statement based upon the question. (Thesis statement should be clear about constructing the argument)
- Word count: 1500
- Font: 12 point Times New Roman
- Margins: 1 inch
- Use double spacing except for quotations requiring more than three lines of the text. For these block quotes, indent, single space, and use 10 point font.
- The total number of words in all the quotations used must NOT exceed 300 words
- No first person: Search the document for any place you use I, my, or me. For example, if you have written "I think that" change it to "This paper will argue." This shows you are using objective analysis rather than subjective opinion.
- Write in a formal style: avoid slang and colloquial phrases. Further, do not use contractions. In other words, "don't" should be "do not".
- No run-on sentences. A sentence should be long enough to make a single point, not two. One rule of thumb is to never use more than one "and" in any single sentence.
- Paragraphs should cover a single idea. Again, a rule of thumb is that paragraphs should have at least four sentences, but should not be longer than 3/4 a page. The first and last sentences of a paragraph should provide transitions from one paragraph to the next. These are sometimes called thesis and concluding sentences.



There are faxes for this order.