Writing Homework Help

Student will submit a summary (150-200 words in length each) of two document excerpt, listed in the week 2 assignments section, and your personal comments/reaction (150-200 words) for each document summary. Please read the instructions on how to complete the document summary assignment BEFORE posting the assignment so that you submit a complete assignment.

Select two of these documents to complete the weekly document summary assignment.

“The Laws of Manu” (Excerpt):

http://web.archive.org/web/20000511162550/http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/manu.htm (Links to an external site.)http://www.indicstudies.us/Hinduism/SelectSacredTexts/purusha_sukta.htm (Links to an external site.)

“The Creation of the World” from The Upanishands”

http://www.mircea-eliade.com/from-primitives-to-zen/058.html (Links to an external site.)

“The Mandate of Heaven,” Selections from the Shu Jing (The Classic of History):

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/classic_of_odes_king_wen.pdf (Links to an external site.)

“Introduction to the I Ching,” by Carl Gustav Jung: http://www.iging.com/intro/foreword.htm (Links to an external site.)

Text of Cyrus Cylinder: http://cyrusgreat.com/content/view/16/2 (Links to an external site.)

Herodotus, The Persian Wars: The Battle of Marathon, http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/Sources/Herodotus-Marathon.html (Links to an external site.)

Early Israel https://christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a015.html (Links to an external site.) Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE): Pericles’ Funeral Oration from the Peloponnesian War (Book 2.34-46), http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.asp